11 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week six of our home learning tasks! Well done if you have done some home learning, even if it is not everything. We hope you are still enjoying the videos from teachers. It is strange not having anyone answering us but we know you like seeing your teachers talking about the learning. As time goes on, some of you may be struggling to keep up with all the tasks. Don’t worry, any learning that is missed we will catch up on once we get back to school. The most important thing at the moment is to stay safe and look after your emotional well-being. If you need any help or support, please email your class teacher.
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. If you have run out of your own books to read there is a fab online library of eBooks to read on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
There is new content on BBC Bitesize, with three lessons each day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and Oak National Academy (ONA), also with three lessons each day: https://www.thenational.academy/ There’s also White Rose: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. Then on Friday, see if you can write them out without looking at them. Someone could test you if you want.
Y2s will also have times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : soon food look book card dark fork short
Y2 : change badge edge race ice city knock know knee knit
Times tables : If you ready, start learning ÷4 (half and half again, link to ÷2) OR keep going with times 2, 3, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 5 or 10
Maths
More fractions learning this week. We are focusing on quarters. Watch the slideshow by Miss Lowry all about quarters : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh1ltg1e8
Reading
This week, the text we are using is ‘The boy who cried wolf’.
You can watch and join in with teachers reading it below.
Miss Parling : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhjQMg02z
Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhhXEB9oP
Miss Lowry : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh1l6ghRv
Mrs Lake : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhQlxgvjZ
Read the text along with a teacher. Look for the key vocabulary in the text. All the words have the suffix ed .
Challenge : Write a list of words that also have the suffix ed.
Topic
We want to make a Year 1 and 2 slideshow so everyone can see each other. It could be a photo of you smiling, doing something that makes you happy or a drawing (if you don’t want to use your photo). You could photograph a message you have written. Please send your picture/photo for the slideshow to natalielake@spherefederation.org with Slideshow as the email subject by the end of Thursday 14 May. Thank you.
08 May 2020 : Home learning
Happy VE Day! You might be busy with your family today or enjoying the bank holiday as a day off. If not, here are a few things you can do.
Maths
Complete the halves and doubles fluency :
Reading – karaoke/sing-a-long
This is a famous song sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the war. Join in, read the words and sing along!
Topic – VE Day
Write down any facts you can remember about VE Day, draw a picture or make a poster.
If you can, you could also have your own VE Day celebration. You could display your flags that you made on Tuesday. You could decorate your house or dress up in red, white and blue. You might be able to bake or make something to eat at the party. You could make a flag to wave. Try to have a fun day, but stay safe.
07 May 2020 : Home learning
Good morning everyone. We hope you are all still doing a bit of reading and times tables each day.
Maths
Watch Mrs Lake talking about half turns : https://vimeo.com/414833985
Reading – Phonics
Read the real and alien words aloud to yourself, a grown up, a pet or a teddy. Add sound buttons to any unfamiliar words and then blend the sounds together. Copy the real words into your home learning book with lead-in lines (Y1) or with joined handwriting (Y2).
Challenge : Put each real word into a sentence.
Topic – History
Read about VE day.
06 May 2020 : Home learning
Wednesday already! Here is the learning for today.
Maths
Mrs Latham has made a video all about half past :
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfU2UBl0G
Challenge : Draw some clocks showing some half past times.
Reading
Today’s reading is a Phase 3 phonics review by Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYftlYA7sQ
Topic
Make a map showing a route or journey you know well. It might be your journey to school, if you can remember it! It might be a local walk that you have been doing or it could even be an imaginary journey. Make sure you give your map a title, a key and clear symbols.
05 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning. Here are the tasks for today.
Maths
Draw some 2D shapes/draw round objects – cut/fold/draw a line showing half (the line is called a line of symmetry).
Reading – Words of week
These words are from the Owl and Pussycat poem from yesterday. Re-read the poem.
Read the three words.
Additional challenges : 1. Put each word into a sentence. 2. Find out what some of the other words in the poem mean (eg tarried, quince). 3. Re-write the poem in your very best handwriting.
Topic – Geography
Draw a map of your bedroom. Make a key to go with it to explain what you have drawn. Try to draw it from a ‘bird’s eye view’, as if you are looking down from above.
Challenge : Draw a map of another room in your house or of your garden.
04 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week five of our home learning tasks already! We hope you are enjoying the videos from teachers. It is strange not having anyone answering us but we know you like seeing your teachers talking about the learning. As time goes on, some of you may be struggling to keep up with all the tasks. Don’t worry, any learning that is missed we will catch up on once we get back to school. The most important thing at the moment is to stay safe and look after your emotional well-being. If you need any help or support, please email your class teacher.
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. If you have run out of your own books to read there is a fab online library of eBooks to read on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
There is extra content on BBC Bitesize, with three lessons each day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and Oak National Academy (ONA), also with three lessons each day: https://www.thenational.academy/ There’s also White Rose: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. Then on Friday, see if you can write them out without looking at them. Someone could test you if you want.
Y2s will also have times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 – song bring train paint seen free coat soap
Y2 – who whole when where what why wild would could should
Times tables : If you ready, start learning 4x (double and double again, link to 2x tables) OR times 2, 3, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 5 or 10
Maths
We are going to look at fractions this week. Watch Miss Lowry talk about halves. There are activities to do too, if you can.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfODaAEbB
Reading
Poem – Owl and Pussycat
We have chosen a poem to focus on for a couple of days this week. Each teacher reads it here. Join in and read along with us.
Miss Parling : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhVluBUyo
Miss Lowry : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfUiEBQS2
Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/content/#/video/cYfulkBViK
Mrs Lake : https://vimeo.com/413721507
Topic – Geography
Have a go at drawing or making the individual flags of the UK.
Challenge : Draw a Union Flag or make some bunting. Save your flags to display on VE Day on Friday.
01 May 2020 : Friday extra maths challenges
BBC Bitesize and White Rose Maths have teamed up to create some challenges that will be published every Friday.
Here are today’s :
Year 1 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhmbrj6
Year 2 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh23gwx
01 May 2020 : Home learning
Happy Friday everyone and Happy May Day too.
See if you can write all your spellings from memory today? You could do the same for times tables too. Remember to read as well.
Maths
Count how much is in each purse. Use your knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help.
Challenges : 1. Write the calculations to match (eg 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 or Y2s could write the multiplication 4 x 2 = 8).
2. Draw some purses of your own and work out how much is in each.
Reading
Watch this video from Miss Lowry all about nouns.
You might want to get ready to pause it at some points to do the activities in your home learning books.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYf3XNAXUE
Topic – Geography
Draw a compass in your home learning book. Add the points of the compass: north, east, south and west.
Challenge: Can you think of a silly rhyme to help you remember the points of the compass? Miss Parling uses ‘never eat shredded wheat!’ (north, east, south and west).
30 April 2020 : Home learning
The last day of April already. Here is the learning for today but remember to read and work on spellings/times tables too.
Maths
Watch the video from BBC Bitesize. There is an activity too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/articles/zcrq2p3
Choose 2 toys at a time and write the calculations of how much they would cost altogether. Remember to write p after the numerals eg 2p + 10p = 12p
Challenge: Choose 3 or more toys, write the calculation and find out how much they cost altogether. Draw part whole models to match the calculations.
Reading
Watch the BBC Bitesize about commands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/z8strwx
Command sentences are used when you are telling someone to do something.
Commands usually start with an imperative verb, also known as a ‘bossy verb’, because they tell someone to do something. You should also use commands when you are writing instructions telling someone how to do something.
Read the commands below.
Fetch me some biscuits.
Tidy your bedroom.
Run as fast as you can.
Challenge : Write three (or more) commands of your own.
Topic – Geography
Watch the video from Miss Parling all about oceans : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfuX4BcGU
There is also a catchy song all about the oceans too!
29 April 2020 : Home learning
Good morning everyone!
Remember to read and work on spellings/times tables today.
Maths
Play shops at home by making some of your own price tags (just using scraps of paper or cardboard from your recycling). Write a different amount on each price tag all the way up to 20p (or more if you want a challenge). You could buy and sell fruit, vegetables, clothes or toys (just pretending, of course, and remember to put everything back once you’ve used it).
How many different ways can you make the amount on the price tag? Your parents, brother, sister, pets or teddies might like to join in with playing shops too?
Challenge : Make a price list, signs and write receipts for your shop.
Reading – Statements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp7mn39/articles/zdmjjhv
Statements are the most common type of sentence. They tell the reader a fact or idea about a single topic. They must always end in punctuation, usually a full stop.
Read the statements below.
I go to Scholes Primary School.
My favourite thing to do is learn new things.
The sun was shining all through the month of April.
Challenge : Write three (or more) statements of your own.
Topic – Geography
Follow the link to watch a selection of Go Jetters videos all about some of the UK’s most significant landmarks. What is a landmark? Can you think of any landmarks in Leeds?
After watching, can you locate all the landmarks on a map?
Challenges : 1. Choose one of the four landmarks. 2. Sketch or paint and label the landmark. 3. Write sentences describing the landmarks.