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Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 28th January 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 4:57pm
Thursday 28th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Thursday. I hope you have had a fun and productive week.
Thank you to all who have started or completed the Sumdog challenges so far – you have no idea how this regular practice will make a huge difference week on week.
Also, I would like to say a huge thank you to all your Seesaw messages, whether they are questions, comments or work, keep them coming.
Today’s tasks are:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Write a memory or experience of your own that is similar to something you have read in your book.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).
Round and Round
Round and round the playground,
Marching in a line,
I’ll hold your hand.
You hold mine.
Round and round the playground,
Skipping in a ring
Everybody loves it
When we all sing.
Round and round the playground,
That’s what we like:
Climbing on the climbing frame,
Riding on the bike.
Round and round the playground,
All together friends.
We’re sad, sad, sad
When the school day ends.
Spellings
This week’s spellings is homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).
- Create a poem, either an acrostic one with a few of the spellings or one that includes them all.
e.g. On the isle, I walk down the aisle,
Allowed, but not aloud
Passed the sea, but not venturing into the past
On a coarse road, but not on any course
Will I reign upon this land whilst it rains on me?
On my voyage as a knight, during the night.
Writing task
Can I write the next chapter in third person using a mixture of writing techniques?
Do not read chapter 18 (143 – 152) yet. Please wait to watch the video where I explain how you have two writing choices.
Once the video is over, I have a success criteria for you. Now this success criteria has 6 bullet points. Your challenge is to complete as many as you can:
- Third person
- Dialogue between the characters (which we have practised in a previous lesson)
- Description of the action (think about choice of verbs)
- Description of the scene (think adjectives)
- Paragraphs
- Verb / Adjective openers
One important note:
If you do too much of any of these (apart from third person) it will become boring for the reader. You are the writer so you decide how much of each you want – that will define your writing style.
Maths – Addition Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 90s.
125, 750, 1420, 500, 335
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
- Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I solve addition reasoning questions?
Watch today’s video to see the tasks and how to solve the challenges.
- Maths Reasoning questions
- Arithmetic quiz (19 - 36 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the sheet (so you can print it or simply write the answers – with workings out – in your HOME LEARNING BOOK). I have also attached the answers (for after the quiz so no peeking!)
History
Can I identify key facts about the Maya writing system?
From the first week of research into the Mayans, we have learnt that they developed their own writing system. This was an amazing find by historians as at the same time, across the world, the Celts were living in Britain with no writing ability. Open the Mayan Writing PowerPoint.
- Attached at the bottom of this blog are Mayan Writing Fact cards. Use these and this video, Maya Writing to try to complete the Maya Writing Fact Hunt Activity Sheet.
- Write down which are your favourite facts.
- Look through the PowerPoint at slides 3 – 6 where codices and hieroglyphs are explained. The final task is to copy any of the hieroglyphs form slide 6 into your Home Learning book.
(Once completed, send it me via Seesaw.)
Art
Following on from the History lesson into the Mayan writing system, we learnt that the Maya people wrote syllables and words with one or a mixture of hieroglyphs. Look at the same attached PowerPoint for pictures of the hieroglyphs.
Today’s lesson will be split into 2 parts:
- Watch this video, How Maya Hieroglyphs are written, which shows an expert calligrapher Dr Mark Van Stone drawing hieroglyphs of someone he knows. You will notice that the Mayan sounds are not the same as in English. He then combines the sounds of the name together, just like in the PowerPoint slide 3.
- This is where you will become a calligrapher and design your own hieroglyphs by using the Mayan alphabet, attached at the bottom of this blog. Just like the video of the calligrapher, you will have to convert your name into Mayan phonetics (sounds) which is quite tricky as we are not fluent with the Mayan language. Therefore, I want you to find what you think is the nearest possible sounds to your name and then piece them together.
E.g. For my name, Mr Mears, I found:
For MR, I decided to change it to Mister and picked MI-TZI as there wasn’t the sound ‘is’ or ‘er’
For MEARS, I picked ME-A-TZE, which I think is the nearest I can find (plus there are four ‘A’ options so I picked my favourite).
For DANIEL, we struggled as there is no D or N sound so we chose K’A-MI-LE
(If this was too much work for today then you could move this activity to Friday)
Year 2 Home Learning - 28th January 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 4:04pm
Good morning Year 2.
We hope you have a brilliant day of home learning today.
Why not have try a more relaxing start to your morning with some Yoga. Watch cosmic yoga on YouTube (see link below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JI01thiHYI
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
Riddle of the day
How many letters are there in ‘the English alphabet’?
Talk to an adult and send us your answers on Seesaw.
Wednesday’s riddle answer - Congratulations to those children who said A map. We will also accept Sat Nav and model village
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 10’s – Can you start at 100 and count forwards in 10’s? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 200?
10 Times Tables – Listen to this 10 times table song: 10 times table song
Play hit the button and select 10 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 10 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 10 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
Today’s Maths lesson can be found under the family notifications section on Seesaw.
We would like you to have a go at the arithmetic quiz. Watch the video first to remind yourself about all the different strategies we use when completing missing number questions.
You will need:
Pencil
Exercise book or scrap piece of paper to show your working
A quiet space
Arithmetic questions
Arithmetic answers to check your work
Be careful not to view the answers before you start the quiz. Try to complete this activity independently and once you have completed the quiz, go through the questions with an older sibling or adult (if they are available).
Let us know how you did by posting your score on Seesaw.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Multiplication and division
Spellings – Adjectives with the suffix -ful and -less
English
Your English Lesson today will be a recorded Power Point attachment.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adjectives with the suffix -full and -less.
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives describe nouns.
You can make your own adjectives, by adding suffixes onto nouns or verbs.
A suffix is a group of letters that we can add onto the end of another word.
The suffix then changes the meaning of the word.
In this worksheet, you are going to add the suffix -ful and the suffix -less.
-ful means full of.
Tom's thumb gave him a lot of pain.
Tom had a painful thumb.
-less means without.
The painter didn't care.
The painter was careless.
Use the adjectives below and have a go at writing you own sentences.
helpless
colourless
painful
beautiful
wonderful
RE
Readings during Mass are read from a lectern. There are readings from the Old Testament and from parts of the New Testament. These are read by people from a book called the Lectionary.
The Gospel readings for each Sunday are on a 3 Year cycle. (A, B, C). The Book of the Gospels is
honoured in a special way because Jesus is God’s Son bringing the Good News of God’s love to
everyone (Gospel means Good News. The priest or deacon reads a gospel story from the Book of
Gospels.
During the rest of Mass, the priest will read from the Altar Missal. This book contains the prayers the priest uses during Mass. Other books used in church at Mass are hymn books, Mass books and prayer books. These are all used by the congregation to help them to take part. Talk about these books which are used in church.
How is the Book of the Gospels is treated?
How do people at Mass greet the Gospel?
Why do you think people make the sign of the Cross three times on themselves before they listen to the Gospel?
What does the priest say before and after he reads the Gospel?
Activities to choose from:
- Design a simple information leaflet about the books we use at church and describe how and why these books are used.
- Make a bookmark to keep in a prayer book. Decorate it with the names of all the books you have learned about.
Additional activities – Calm Art Project
This project offers space to notice and explore these feelings. The four creative activities encourage children to spot, settle, soothe and share their worries so these feelings do not become overwhelming. By doing this children can be helped to feel calm. Please see the attached document and send us any work on Seesaw.
We can’t wait to see what you get up to today.
Year 2 team
HOME LEARNING Thursday 28th January 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 2:54pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 28th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are well and keeping positive. Well done for all the work you have completed at home so far – I am always impressed by what I see on Seesaw.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Can you predict what you think will happen next? Make sure you use reasons from the text to back up why you think this will happen.
Spelling
This week’s spellings all have the prefix ‘inter’. Children in school will be tested on these words today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Write the date in your book - Thursday 28th January 2021 and the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath. Once you’ve completed the test, check any words that you got wrong. Good luck! The words are:
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
If you wish, either re-read or listen again to Chapter 2 and part of Chapter 3, upto page 29. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio for Chapter 2 is below. Please see yesterday’s Seesaw for an audio of Chapter 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Write the long date Thursday 28th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write an informal letter?
Today you are going to be writing your letter from Michael to Eddie. Please read over the document attached to the blog called ‘Example formal letter’ again. This shows how to set out your letter and explains the features of an informal letter.
Use the date and address on at the bottom of the page for your letter.
Read over your planning from yesterday to refresh your memory.
In your writing today, please focus on:
- Capital letters
- Correct spellings
- Beautiful handwriting
- Using paragraphs
- Correct punctuation
- Ambitious vocabulary
- Using subordinating conjunctions (see ‘Conjunctions’ sheet attached to the blog)
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Children in school will be tested on their tables today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on your individual target or ÷9 if you are on ‘free’ tables. Ask them to call out your tables in a mixed up order. This is how I do it in school - ask the question twice, count to 8, then ask the next question.
Write the short date 28.01.21
Write the title Times table test
Check your answers carefully.
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 100’s from 800 to 2200 and back again. Count in 100’s from 50 to 1250 and back again. Write the numbers down if this helps! Think about what you found tricky. What patterns did you notice?
Please count in 12’s from 12 to 144 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 2 onto your last number if counting up, or subtract 10 then 2 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 12 24 36 36 + 10 = 46 + 2 = 48 60 etc
Maths
Use the link below to play ‘Fruit splat group counting’
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/group-count-game/
Choose a number eg 5. Choose whether to play in relaxed mode (without being timed) or timed mode. You will be shown arrays, all connected to the multiple 5. See how quickly you can work out what the array represents and click on the answer. Play the game various times, using different multiples (choosing different numbers).
Watch the video which will be sent on Seesaw on Thursday morning. This video will explain a mental multiplication strategy to use when multiplying a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.
After watching the video, complete the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Mental multiplication – partitioning’.
MAKE SURE YOU PRACTISE USING THE STRATEGY GIVEN and SHOW YOUR WORKING OUT.
Then, use the answer sheet to check your answers.
Please upload your work to seesaw.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
Science
Write the long date Thursday 28th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I investigate how quickly water evaporates from different containers?
Read through the slides, paying careful attention to the scientific vocabulary. Please make sure you understand the words on slide 9 so that you can use them when you write about your investigation.
Click on the link to find today’s lesson.
You can choose either Can I investigate how quickly water evaporates from different containers? using the powerpoint resource to help….
Or a different investigation you could do involves wetting tea towels and timing how long they take to dry. This one is quicker than waiting for bowls of water to evaporate.
You could use 3 tea towels made from different fabrics, or you could use 3 of the same tea towel and change a different variable. Think about what you will need to keep the same to make sure it is a fair test. For example, would it be fair if you screwed one up in a ball and spread another one out flat? Remember you should only change one variable and keep all the other variables the same.
- Write the title of your investigation as a question in this format:
How does ……………………………………..affect the time a tea towel takes to dry?
The one thing you are changing goes in the gap eg How does the type of fabric affect the time a tea towel takes to dry? Or How does the amount of water on the tea towel affect the time it takes to dry? Or How does the place affect the time a tea towel takes to dry?
- Draw your results table. You can use the same table as on slide 6 but change the headings to match the variable you are changing
- Set up your investigation.
- Record the time you start. Check them every say 30 minutes and record the amount of water left. Is it still soaking or beginning to dry or almost dry? Then complete the final time for tea towels to dry table.
- Draw a bar chart of the 3 total times to display your results.
- After your table and graph, put a heading: What I found out and answer these questions:
Which tea towel dried first? Why do you think this was? Could your investigation be improved?
Good words to use: evaporated, temperature, surface area, wind, material.
An example of good work is given on slide 10.
Whilst you are waiting for your tea towels to dry, can you design a machine to speed up evaporation? Be creative! We know we use hair dryers to speed up drying our hair and tumble driers for our clothes and hand driers for our hands. What they all have in common is that they use warm air to speed up evaporation. Can you invent a machine to dry a wet dog or to dry wet wellies after a walk? What other machine can you think of that maybe hasn’t been invented yet? I’m sure you’ll have some great ideas. Draw a large, labelled diagram of your machine, showing where the warm air comes from to speed up evaporation. You could make this diagram part of an advertisement to sell your machine if you like!
Please post your pictures on Seesaw. I look forward to seeing your work!
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
- A maths challenge based on ‘arrays’ and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
- A grammar challenge ‘capital letters’ (this is something which I am having to correct in writing every day, therefore I am setting it as a challenge this week)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 1st February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 3 Home Learning 28th January 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 2:02pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you have had a nice day today. The maths work you have sent me on Seesaw is super!
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
If you are finding any of your work tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Write down your working out.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your writing, I will be looking out for some funny and imaginative ideas.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. 25 of you have been on the grammar and spelling challenge, and still just 1 person has completed it. 19 of you have been on the related facts challenge and 3 of you have already completed it. Well done.
Things that made me smile on Wednesday (you could write your own list too)
- The thought of Mr Stink wearing makeup and a butterfly clip.
- Your great maths work on Seesaw.
- A loud singalong in my car.
Thursday 28th January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Choose 3 words that you don’t know the meaning of. Try to figure out their meaning from the sentence and then use a dictionary to check if you were correct.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings. Some are near homophones which means they have slightly different pronunciation.
quiet, quite, bare, bear, sun, son, new, knew, night, knight
Write the long date: Thursday 28th January 2021
Write the title: Homophone Pairs
Write out the homophone pairs next to each other.
quiet quite
bare bear
sun son
new knew
night knight
Add pictures or decorations to some of the words to help you remember what the different spellings mean. For example, you might turn the k in knight into a sword, or you might turn the t at the end of quiet into a finger over lips to show sssh.
Writing:
Read pages 216 – 226 of Mr Stink attached to this blog. I wonder if you notice a change in Chloe in this chapter.
This chapter uses a lot of similes, similes compare things to other things to help describe them. Here are the similes from this chapter.
Mother’s bouffant danced around her head like candyfloss on a windy day at the seafront as she attempted to hold it down.
She shot across the garden like a furry cannonball and into the pond.
The postal districts were packed below her like squares on a chessboard.
Gosh, he does smell like a toilet.
Long date: Thursday 28th January 2021
Title – Can I write similes?
Write your own similes about:
Mother’s hair
The cat being blown across the garden
What the town looked like from up above in the helicopter
Mr Stink’s smell
You can start your sentences like this if you want to, or some of you might come up with your own ideas:
Mother’s bouffant danced around her head like…
She shot across the garden like…
The postal districts were packed below her like…
Gosh, he does smell like…
For an extra challenge, you could also make up some more similes about:
The Prime Minister
Ten Downing Street
Chloe sticking up for Mr Stink
Anything you like
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops
Beautiful handwriting
Please send me your similes on Seesaw – I will be looking out for great handwriting, perfect spelling, capital letters and good ideas.
Times tables
Listen to the 8x tables rap – dance and sing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=3SwaOvWD-PY&safe=active
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Related Facts Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
- Grammar and Spelling Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
Counting
Count out loud in 10s:
From 32 to 142.
From 705 to 815.
From 988 to 1018.
Maths
Today you are going to do some arithmetic questions. Please watch two videos on Seesaw before starting.
Remember the number line method we looked at last week, use this to help you with question 19. Watch the video on Seesaw again if you need a reminder.
I have also posted two new videos on Seesaw to help you with questions 20 and 25.
After you have watched the videos, set a timer for 20 minutes.
Before using the answer sheet, read through your answers to make sure you haven’t made any silly mistakes – we had lots of these last week in class!
After 20 minutes and after you have checked yourself, use the answer sheet to check your answers.
PE
Watch the video:
Complete the activity called – Feeling Flexible
French
We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc
Now click this link and download Lesson 10 with audio.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y3_French/Yr3AutumnFr.php
First, it recaps the pencil case items that you should be quite familiar with by now. On slide 5, you are going to use a negative sentence – Example, there is no ruler = il n’y a pas de règle. Slide 7 – 9 are spot the difference slides. Again you need a negative – il n’y a pas de … there is no ….Notice you need the word de (duh) after a negative.
On slide 11, you are going to have a conversation with someone else if possible, or with your teddy if not! Tu as un …..? Do you have a ….? The reply is either Oui, j’ai un ….. Yes I have a ….. or Non, je n’ai pas de …… No, I don’t have a …..
In your book, write the date en francais – mardi vingt-six fevrier and the title
Can I write a conversation including a negative sentence?
Using slide 11 as a model, can you write a conversation like this using one ‘Yes I have’ reply and one ‘No I don’t have’ reply?
Here’s my favourite song to finish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns92r5TQH3k
Très bien! I’d really like to see your work on Seesaw! A la semaine prochaine.
Year 1 Home Learning Monday 1st February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 11:56am
Welcome to a new month and a new week of home learning ,Year 1.
We hope you all had a great pirate day and a restful weekend.
Reading
Read every day. It is so important. For your reading challenge today we would like you to do some predicting before you read a new book. Look at the book cover and the blurb on the back of the book – What do you think this book will be about? What do you think will happen next? What makes you think this? Record some of your ideas to Seesaw.
Phonics
This week we are learning all our different or sounds. OR, AW, AU.
Watch Geraldine's videos below and write out your words in 3 lists.
Then visit Seesaw for today's sounds challenge.
English
Our new story is Little Red Riding Hood. Listen to and watch the story here. Little Red Riding Hood
Talk about the story.
- Who are the characters ?
- Why is Little Red Riding Hood going to see her grandma?
- How does the wolf trick Little Red Riding Hood?
- If you were Little Red Riding Hood what would you have done when you met the wolf?
- How does the story end?
- Can you think of a different ending?
Draw one of the characters on the sheet and think about words to describe them. Write the words around your picture. Talk about your picture and words. Upload to Seesaw.
Sing this Little Red Riding Hood song.
Maths
Watch the counting videos below and sing along. Mute the video and keep counting. Can you keep in time with the song?
This week we are looking at numbers to 50 and place value. Watch our Numbers to 50 lesson here and complete the worksheet attached.
66% of you had a go at our Maths challenge on Sumdog. Well Done! Keep practising your number facts regularly to maintain the progress made in your number learning.
R.E.
Our new topic in R.E. is Meals. Think about a special meal you have had and answer these questions. Draw a picture of the meal on the sheet.
- When might you have a special meal?
- What makes a meal special?
- Who was there?
- Who prepared the meal?
- What did you share?
- How did you help?
- What did you like best about it?
- How did it make you feel?
Science
Today we are exploring how some materials are waterproof and some are absorbent. Below you will find a video of an experiment investigating materials and how waterproof or absorbent they are.
Materials experiment - How waterproof are different materials?
Watch the video and follow the instructions. Can you create your own investigation with materilas around your home? Record your findings on the sheet attached.
PSHE
We are supporting Children's Mental Health Week.
You are going to make a special book called a journal.Have a talk about all the things that make you happy. On the sheet draw a picture of yourself in the box and draw things that make you happy around your picture.
This video has two parts which are both about 6 minutes long.The first one is about developing a positive mindset and the second one is to help to calm your mind. Do one or both.Relaxation and meditation video. Click Here
Year 1 Home Learning Friday 29th January
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 11:10am
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to...
Read for at least 10 minutes.
There is a great selection of Pirate Stories in Oxford Owl. Search for 'Pirates' and you will find some great stories and Non-Fiction books all about pirates.
Yo ho ho me hearties today is our pirate day!
Dress up as a pirate and share your costumes on Seesaw. We will look at these in class.
(You could wear a stripy top wrap and cloth or scarf around your head)
Let's start the day with some pirate yoga.
Pirate Maths
Below you will find a Maths Treasure Map.
Answer the questions to move through the island.
You can take turns, colour them in or write out your number sentences. Maybe roll a dice and jump along the number trail. If you get an answer right you can stay, if not, go back to where you started from. Try and count on and count back to solve your number sentences. You can even make your own for someone else in your house to do.
Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for us to see
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
ADVANCE NOTICE You will need a cardboard box for your learning on Tuesday. A cereal box or a shoe box will be great. Thanks.
Have a lovely weekend
Reception 28th January Home Learning
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 11:01am
Thursday 28th January 2021
Have a lovely day reception. Remember, have a go at the different activities, 10mins then have a little break and repeat this throughout the day. Little and often is best way for Reception to learn.
Online Resources
- Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games, try some of the Phase 3 games for our new digraph sounds. 😊
- . Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
- Topmarks have some good online maths games if you wanted to have a go at any of these.
Phonics –
Please revisit all our new digraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh
Can I read the words attached? (ch, sh, th, ng words)
Can I sort the words into piles of the same sounds?
Encourage your child to use sound buttons to read the words.
Encourage your child to stretch out the words to hear the sounds needed to spell the words.
Please feel free to print these words and chop them into flashcards.
(We will revisit these quite a lot, as with everything in Reception, it is all about revisiting and practising over and over again.)
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Oo.
The Humpty Words of the week are: my, her, are, me –
Can I say them?
Can I write them?
Can I write them without looking?
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
Our story this week is Supertato! Have a watch of the story here.
We need to stop Evil pea from trapping anymore vegetables.
Let’s make a wanted a poster and stick it up in your windows, so people know who to look out for! (You can use the template attached or make your own.)
See Seesaw video for an example.
Reading – Can I write out one of the sentences from any of my story books at home?
Chop it up and try to put it back in the right order. (See the seesaw video from yesterday for an example of this.)
Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional).
Maths – Can I practise my counting to 20? (click writing)
Have a look at the doubling machine PowerPoint attached (view it as a slideshow).
When we double it has to be the SAME number we are adding together.
Can I complete the doubling dominoes sheet attached, by drawing on the same amount of spots and adding them together?
Today’s learning is all about days of the week.
- You will need to watch the story of Jasper's Beanstalk – See the seesaw video of the story.J
- Then you can watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached below.
Topic Time
Understanding the World – How humans react to hot and cold weather. Have a watch of lesson 2 of the Oak National Academy lesson.
- Do you prefer a hot or cold holiday?
- Have a think about the differences between the two?
Music – Me and My family – Lesson 4
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/me-and-my-family-part-2-6hk36t
Reception Story Time
Today's story is ‘Jasper and the beanstalk’ By Nick Butterworth (see Seesaw).
Fabulous Friday 5th February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:40am
Fabulous Friday 5th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
‘Dress to Express’
Read – grab a drink and a biscuit/fruit and curl up with a good book.
Complete this number activity – Maths Hangman (documents below).
Finish off - anything that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see. I always thoroughly enjoy seeing the work you are proud of.
I have included some ideas for non-screen activities if you are interested (documents below).
Next week is dance week. Mr Mears has been busy putting a dance together for you to work on each day and perform on Thursday (11.02.21).
Look in the - Gallery section (Year 5 Class page) and click on 'Dance Week'.
Happy dancing!
The rest of the day is yours; you’ve earned it!
Have a ‘Fabulous Friday’ and even more ‘Fabulous Weekend’.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:40am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, well done for writing such excellent stories. I have enjoyed reading them all. There are definitely some great young authors in Year 5. One day, you might be as famous as Roald Dahl or Katherine Rundell! I have included a PowerPoint presentation for you today (documents below) to explain a little bit more about ‘Express Yourself’ for Children’s Mental Health Week because tomorrow, in school and at home we are going to ‘Dress to Express’. It’s a chance for you to dress up in the clothes that show who you are. It might be clothes that show your interests (football/dancing/horse-riding/martial arts) or colours that show your personality (yellow/red/blue/green/black/pink). The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and feel good.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Draw a diagram of something mentioned in your book and label it. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix- ent. Please learn these spellings for Monday (08.02.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
English
Today you are going to edit your story. We have done this in school before so you will be familiar with the process.
Get a different coloured pen or pencil (in school we use purple).
Read through your work and correct any spelling, punctuation or grammar mistakes you come across. Have a dictionary ready to help you here.
Change any sentences that don’t make sense or you have repeated.
Add any better vocabulary, information or sentences that would improve your story. A thesaurus will help you here.
Read through it again to make sure it is the best it can be.
Re-write your story in your best handwriting or you might want to type it up. If you want to, you could illustrate it as well.
The date and title are:
Thursday 4th February 2021
Can I edit my story by correcting errors and adding improvements?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Guardians Defenders of Mathematica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
04.02.21
Can I multiply by 10, 100 and 1000?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Presents
Gurmit paid £21 for five presents.
For A and B, he paid a total of £6.
For B and C, he paid a total of £10.
For C and D, he paid a total of £7.
For D and E, he paid a total of £9.
How much did Gurmit pay for each present?
Focus:
Solve a given problem by organising information.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Make five numbers – Answers:
For example:
a. 12, 39, 45, 60, 78.
b. 7, 42, 63, 98, 105.
c. 5, 23, 67, 89, 401.
There are other solutions.
History
Click on the link below for your next lesson – What jobs did the Shang people do? Watch the clip and do the little activity.
Read through - Which job might you have done during the Shang Dynasty?
Decide on a job for yourself.
Write a short paragraph to say, why you would have done that job and what you had to do. Also, think about how you would have felt doing the job.
Draw a picture of yourself doing the work.
The date and title are:
Thursday 4th February 2021
Can I describe what it was like for workers during the Shang Dynasty?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/articles/zx8dcj6
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Music
Click on this link for your Music lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/improvising-in-a-samba-style-70tp4t
Here are some activities linked to Children’s Mental Health Week - ‘Express Yourself’.
Watch this short video by Classical MPR with your group and discuss the different ways in which music can change how we feel and express ourselves: https://bit.ly/2GjLRMW
Research shows that people feel more positive after singing to music, than they do just listening to music.
Try this activity:
choose a song from the list below (or one of your own), learn the words and sing it together (some children might prefer to join in by clapping, clicking their fingers, using percussion instruments, miming or dancing).
Have a go using these songs: ‘If you want to sing out, sing out’ by Cat Stevens https://bit.ly/3iesKBg ‘Express yourself’ by Labrinth https://bit.ly/3kSm8tS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Finally, let's light a candle and say a prayer for Captain Sir Tom Moore who passed away on Tuesday. What an inspirational man! Have a look at the picture of him and think about the question that goes with it (documents below).
Take care and look after yourselves.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:39am
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are all well. On the way to school yesterday morning, I noticed that it’s getting lighter earlier in the mornings and the sun is setting later at night. It’s not so dark and wintery, a little sign that Spring is on its way! Take a look around and see what you can find to be grateful or hopeful for. You could write a little list or draw some pictures. I have just bought a book called, ‘The Book of Hopes’. It’s really very good and something you can pick up and read when you have a spare minute or two. If you follow the link you can read the book for free on the Literacy Trust website. My favourite is…A Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo
https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Write a few sentences to say who else would enjoy this book…why? Is there someone who wouldn’t enjoy this book and why? Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix- ent. Please learn these spellings for Monday (08.02.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
English
Today, I would like you to write the last three paragraphs of your faraway story.
To do this, use the last three boxes of your storyboard planning sheet from Monday’s lesson. This is the structure of your story so keep to your plan, it really helps when writing.
You will write your problem, resolution and conclusion paragraphs.
- Introduction
- Build-up
- Build-up
- Problem
- Resolution
- Conclusion
Focus: Good punctuation - capital letters, full stops, commas and speech marks.
No need to write the date and title. Continue your story after the first three paragraphs you wrote yesterday.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Coconut Multiples (Multiples of 12). Do mixed 2-12 today.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiply by 100 (Recap).
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
03.02.21
Can I multiply by 100?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Make five numbers
Take ten cards numbered 0 to 9.
Each time use all ten cards.
Arrange the cards to make:
a. five numbers that are multiples of 3
b. five numbers that are multiples of 7
c. five prime numbers
Make up more problems to use all ten cards
to make five special numbers.
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Know 3- and 7-times tables.
Recognise prime numbers.
Jack’s book – Answers:
The book has 221 pages.
42 of the digits are a 5.
Science
Last week’s lesson was about making mixtures of soluble and insoluble solids and separating them again. These are called reversible changes – you can get back the solids you mixed. We used 3 methods to separate the mixtures:
Sieving to separate different sized particles eg rice and flour;
Filtering to separate insoluble particles from a liquid eg sand from water;
Evaporation to separate a soluble solid after it had dissolved in water eg salt in water.
Confession time – in school, we didn’t manage very well! We found out what didn’t work, but we weren’t so great at trying a new method that would work. It’s absolutely fine – mistakes help us learn. So, in school, we are going to try again with some new mixtures. If you’d like to have another go at home to reinforce your learning, I think it will help you too.
Click this link and remind yourself how to do each of the 3 processes.
Year 5a Lesson 4 separating mixtures.pptx - Microsoft PowerPoint Online (live.com)
Here are some new mixtures to make and separate. Use about a teaspoonful of each in a little water and stir it. Think about which of the 3 methods above will help you to separate the mixtures.
If it doesn’t work, try a different one.
- Flour and lentils/rice/similar
- Tea leaves in water
- Sugar in water
- Soil in water – how clear can you get the water?
- Gravel or similar, flour and salt – the ultimate challenge!
Use the table on slide 7 to record your observations. Remember to write in as much detail as possible to show what great scientists you are! Look at slide 10 for what a good one looks like.
Evaporation obviously takes time so you will need to wait for this to happen. How could you speed it up? (Clue: how do you dry your hair when it’s wet? What about drying your clothes? Or your hands when you are out or at school? These machines that are used to speed up evaporation all use warm wind. How could you speed up the evaporation of your water?)
Good luck! I hope you now feel more confident about separating mixtures. I’d love to see some photos on Seesaw of Y5 chemists at work!
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
French
First, let’s recap the phonics sounds from last week by watching the video again. This week, you are going to try and write down the number and colour words that contain the sounds.
Before you start, write the date and learning objective in your book:
mercredi quatre février
Can I use phonics to help me spell French words?
Then write each of the phonic sounds, leaving space underneath each to write down the words that have the sound in. Spread them out on your page. The sounds are:
Ou eu an oi in/un i on
Now listen to Emilie again, pausing the video when she asks you to think of the numbers and colours that have that sound in.
Have a go at writing the words under the right sound, then start the video again to check your spelling. Please correct it if you make a mistake. Mistakes are fine! They help us to learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc&safe=active
Now we are going to try to write some sentences of our own about the planets using the PowerPoint to help us. All the instructions are on the slides.
Next week, we will redraft our sentences onto a special piece of paper and you will be really proud of your work!
There’s a treat activity on the last slide! You must ask an adult for help though!
Très bien! A bientôt!
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Add/Subtract Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix - ent/ment. These words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Finally, if any of you would like to learn a ‘Hip-Hop Dance Routine’ please follow the link below. There is a video clip and written notes to help you remember the routine…Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1owp3NAZeWVdtwHE-_oEPpq-n_7M2AqBo
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:39am
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are all well and feeling positive and happy this week. I have included some nice activities to go with our ‘Express Yourself’ theme (documents below – Monday and Tuesday). They are to get you thinking constructively and should be fun and not take too long. Hopefully you will enjoy them, you might want to post these on Seesaw for me to see. Thank you again for all the other amazing work you are posting on Seesaw. What a fantastic class I have, I’m a very lucky teacher! Keep working hard and trying your best.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment, or one you have just read. Make a timeline of the important parts of the story. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix- ent. Please learn these spellings for Monday (08.02.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
English
Today, I would like you to write the first three paragraphs of your faraway story in your exercise book. We will write the last three paragraphs tomorrow.
Think about the two stories we have just read; ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ and ‘Mysterious Traveller’ and write your story in a similar way. Use imagery if you can and lots of description.
To do this, use the first three boxes of your storyboard planning sheet from yesterday. This is the structure of your story so keep to your plan, it really helps when writing.
You will write your introduction paragraph and two build-up paragraphs.
- Introduction
- Build-up
- Build-up
- Problem
- Resolution
- Conclusion
Focus: Use adjectives, similes and sentences with relative clauses.
The date and title are:
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Can I write a faraway story?
Then write the name of your story - you chose this yesterday on your plan.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the multiples game – Coconut Multiples (Multiples of 12).
Start with mixed 2-5, then move on to mixed 6 to 12.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiply by 10 (Recap).
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
02.02.21
Can I multiply by 10?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Jack’s book
The pages of Jack’s book are numbered from 1.
The page numbers have a total of 555 digits.
How many pages has the book?
How many of the digits are a 5?
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Know what each digit represents.
Slick Jim – Answers:
Jim won £540 000.
PE
Follow the links to read the instruction cards and watch the video clips:
Games Skills - Bowling:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Bowling.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhXbrMPRYGk&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=2&t=4s
Gymnastics – Ship Shape:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Ship%20Shape.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LJw_i5wo94&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=16&t=0s
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org.
Please work through the lessons in order.
https://studio.code.org/sections/ZGVGHS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Add/Subtract Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix - ent/ment. These words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Monday 1st February 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 10:39am
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 1st February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you enjoyed ‘Fabulous Friday’ and had a good weekend with your families. Hopefully, you are ready for another week of Home Learning. As I always say, try your best, do what you can and enjoy your learning. Please have a look at the Picture News and Resources 1 and 2 (documents below). It is Children’s Mental Health Week - ‘Express Yourself’. The resources below are a chance to talk and think about challenges and how to succeed. I hope you will find them interesting and you might think of some of your own challenges for now or the future!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Find any ten words in your book and write them down in alphabetical order. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
Last week we were investigating the suffix - ence. As we have introduced ‘Fabulous Friday’, Mondays will now be your test and new spellings day. Please ask someone at home to test you on these spellings. Remember to put a mark out of fifteen.
patience intelligence consequence influence evidence
essence reference audience circumference excellence
sequence silence obedience absence commence
This week we are investigating the suffix- ent. Please learn these spellings for Monday (08.02.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
English
Today, you will be planning your faraway story on the Storyboard Planning Worksheet (documents below). Write about each part of your story and draw a picture to go with it. Trim the worksheet down and stick it into your exercise book or write straight into your book.
The date and title are:
Monday 1st February 2021
Can I plan my faraway story?
Remember to use your setting picture and notes that you worked on last week. This will also help when you come to write your story tomorrow.
Have a look at the video clip on Seesaw – Storyboard Planning Ideas. I will show you what you need to do and give you some ideas for planning your story.
You will also find those ideas in the documents below – Storyboard Planning Ideas/Storyboard Planning Miss Gravili.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the time game – Find the Start Time. Click on the link, scroll down and choose level 4 or 5.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/119/find_the_start_time#
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Add and Subtract Fractions.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
01.02.21
Can I add and subtract fractions?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Flash Harry
In April Flash Harry bought a saddle for £100.
In May he sold it for £200.
In June he was sorry he had sold it.
So, he bought it back for £300.
In July he got tired of it.
So, he sold it for £400.
Overall, did Flash Harry make or lose money?
How much did he make or lose?
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Use negative numbers.
Age old problems – Answers:
1. I am 48 years old (or possibly 104).
2. I am now 26 years old. In 38 years’
time, when I am 64, my age will be both
a square number and a cube.
3. I am 9 years old now.
Art
Click on the link below and watch Shoo Rayner (author and illustrator) talk about drawing in - How to Start Drawing part 1 and 2. You will have to scroll down to find part 2!
Then, choose a picture you would like to draw yourself from the many other tutorials. You could draw it on some paper and stick it into your exercise book, or pin it up at home for everyone to see.
Shoo Rayner actually visited our school a few years ago!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQOnL-tNULRYma5nRDy1QA
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
RE
Today we will finish the topic – Mission.
Please read through - RE Work – Christian Unity (documents below).
There is a small research activity and collage you can design (Collage Worksheet below).
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Add/Subtract Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix - ent/ment. These words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 27th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 4:11pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 27th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all safe and well, and have got yourselves into a routine with your Home Learning. Keep working hard and doing your best and make sure you thank anyone at home who helps you too. Thank you for posting your super learning on Seesaw, it is fantastic to see what you have been doing at home and some of your posts really bring a smile to my face.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Can you describe a setting in your book? Describe it in detail to someone else, or draw a picture of what it looks like.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Use look, cover, write, check to practise your spellings. Write each word out three times using this strategy.
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please re-read / listen again to Chapter 2 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Then, please listen to the start of Chapter 3. A video / audio will be uploaded to Seesaw on Wednesday morning. If you wish to read the story instead, please read Chapter 3 up to the end of the October 11th log on pg 29, and no further.
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I plan an informal letter?
Tomorrow you are going to write a letter, as Michael, to your best friend Eddie. Today, you are going to plan the letter. You will need to use information from Chapter 2, as well as the first part of Chapter 3 (which you should have read or listened to).
An example of an informal letter (called Example informal letter) has been attached to the blog to help you recognise the features. You may want to print it out and underline or highlight the features. Informal letters are written to people we know well, like friends and family.
Use the planning sheet (called Letter planning sheet) attached to the blog to help you organise your letter into paragraphs. Either print the sheet off and fill it in, or write a plan straight into your Home Learning Book. Just make bullet points or notes to help you with your ideas as you will write full sentences in your letter tomorrow.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 2850 to 3500 and back again. Count in 50’s from 40 to 890 and back again. Write the numbers down if this helps! Think about what you found tricky. What patterns did you notice?
Please count in 12’s from 12 to 144 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 2 onto your last number if counting up, or subtract 10 then 2 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 12 24 36 36 + 10 = 46 + 2 = 48 60 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Repeat the addition games you played yesterday but choose a shorter time between the questions. For example, if you chose 10 seconds between each question yesterday, choose 7 seconds today etc.
Click on play game. Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + ones. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + tens, choose a time interval and play again.
This week, we are going to revise and learn new mental multiplication strategies.
- You need to be able to multiply accurately by 10 and 100 and understand what happens to the digits and why.
Please click on the video below and watch the explanation carefully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0zSnhiShc
Write the short date 27.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I accurately multiply by 10 and 100?
Complete the maths sheet attached to the blog called ‘Multiply by 10 and 100’. If you find this tricky, draw a place value grid like Amber did in the video and use this to help you work out the answers.
Once you have completed your sheet check your answers which are attached to the blog.
- For this lesson, you will be sent a video in the morning (through Seesaw). It explains how to use related facts to multiply multiples of 10 and 100 (for example numbers like 30, 60, 200, 800 etc).
Use the strategy from the video to answer the questions on the sheet attached to the blog called ‘Related facts’.
Write the short date 27.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I use related facts to multiply a multiple of 10 or 100?
PLEASE DRAW THE TRIANGLES EACH TIME TO HELP WITH YOUR WORKING OUT AND TO SHOW YOUR UNDERSTANDING. An example is given on the work sheet.
Once you have completed your sheet check your answers which are attached to the blog.
Please upload your work to seesaw.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
RE
A parish is a Christian community in a local area. Our families and the school community are part of that parish community.
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe the parish community?
Answer the following questions in your books or answer them verbally – you may want to send me a video of you answering the questions.
- What is the name of the local parish?
- Where is the parish church?
- What is the name of the parish priest?
- What does the local parish do to spread the Good News? (What activities are happening in the church?)
- How does the school and parish link up? (What activities is school directly involved in with the church?
- Why is the local parish community important?
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Dance – Space adventure
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Space%20Adventure.pdf
Games – Blast off
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Blast%20Off.pdf
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
- A maths challenge based on ‘arrays’ and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
- A grammar challenge ‘capital letters’ (this is something which I am having to correct in writing every day, therefore I am setting it as a challenge this week)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 1st February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 27th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 3:40pm
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. We are half way through the week – well done! Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please don’t be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today.
Here are the tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- What do other characters think or say about the main character? Why do they feel this way?
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).
Summer
Apple – dapple summer
apple – dapple time
poppies red as ribbons
daisies white as lime.
Apples, plums and peaches
songbirds in the trees
summer suns are glowing
picnics, ices, teas.
Apple – dapple summer
pollen in the breeze
thistles pricking fingers
nettles on the knees.
Noses sore with sneezes
eyes as red as wine
summer suns are glowing
and it’s called
Ahhhhh Tiiiiiisuuuueeee
time.
Spellings
The spellings for this week are homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).
- Try to complete the Sumdog spelling challenge before Friday so you can practise hearing the words in the sentences to help you know which spelling it is.
Writing task
Can I experiment with verb and adjective openers?
Read chapter 17
Watch the video sent through Seesaw.
You will need the Verb and Adjective sheet at the bottom of this blog.
Maths – Addition Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 9s.
125, 750, 1420, 500, 335
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
- Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use the column method for adding decimals?
- Challenge
*Please see the video for both the main lesson and the challenge*
Music
Follow this link Body Percussion - Part 2, to Oak National Academy.
French
We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
This week, we are learning weather vocabulary. Here’s a song to start.
Quel temps fait-il? means what’s the weather like? Aujourd’hui means today.
Hopefully by the end of the lesson you will remember the phrases in the song.
Click on this link and download Lesson 3 with audio – describing the weather.
To describe a variety of weather phrases in the present tense
You will find it easier to do slide 4 before slide 3.
Slide 5 is true or false: Vrai ou faux (vray oo fau, silent x)
Now write the date in your book and the learning objective:
Can I describe the weather in French?
Choose 8 of the weather phrases from slide 3 and draw a weather symbol to go with it.
Then write this question and answer it.
Quel temps fait-il aujourd’hui? Aujourd’hui, ………
Here’s another song to finish.
Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine.
RE
Can I describe what life would be like if we followed St Paul’s words?
The Bible contains different styles of writing. The New Testament contains lots of letters.
St Paul was a prolific letter writer. He wrote letters to many of the early Christian communities before, and sometimes after, he visited them e.g. Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi and Colossae. He wrote to explain his understanding of the Christian faith.
One of them was from ‘1 Corinthians 13: 4-7’ where Paul writes about the power of love:
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud. Love is not rude, is not selfish, and does not become angry easily. Love does not remember wrongs done against it. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices over the truth. Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always continues strong.
This video may help in understanding this letter from St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 – it actually begins at 3.00 minutes
If this passage was taken seriously by world leaders, or people in your town/village, or in your class, what would life be like?
Your task: To write a paragraph or two of the answers to these questions:
- What would you class be like if this was taken seriously? Would things change? Give me an example.
- What would your village/town be like if this was taken seriously? Give me an example. How would that change make you feel?
- What if world leaders took this seriously? What would the world be like? How would everyone feel?
Year 3 Home Learning 27th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 3:33pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you have had a nice day today, in school we really enjoyed describing the Prime Minister’s house and we enjoyed our Art and Geography this afternoon. We are getting really good with our 8x tables as we practise every day!
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
If you are finding any of your work tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Write down your working out.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your maths work including your working out (the grids).
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. 22 of you have been on the grammar and spelling challenge, still only one person has completed it so far, well done to you. 17 of you have been on the related facts challenge and 3 of you have already completed it. Well done.
Things that made me smile on Tuesday (you could write your own list too)
- We listened to beach waves sounds and a song called Copacabana while we did our art work – I enjoyed that.
- I watched a TV programme with my breakfast called Countdown. You get 9 letters and have to make words out of them, I managed to make a word which was 8 letters long so was very pleased with myself.
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Predict what you think is going to happen next and talk to somebody at home about it.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings. Some are near homophones which means they have slightly different pronunciation.
quiet, quite, bare, bear, sun, son, new, knew, night, knight
Write the long date: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the title: Spelling Sentences
Choose 3 of the spelling words and write your own sentences using them. It is probably a good idea to choose the spellings you find most tricky.
Writing:
Read pages 208 – 216 of Mr Stink which are attached to this blog. This chapter is a nice one as Chloe and Annabelle spend some time together.
Mrs Winter has recorded some of the pages and put them on Seesaw for you to listen to – what a treat!
Long date: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Title – Can I use conjunctions and exciting vocabulary?
I would like you to write some sentences about this chapter using conjunctions. Also, try to use some of the good words from the book like zoomed, honoured, announced, vagrant, hissed, fantasies, unexpectedly, nervously, slowly.
Please write at least 3 sentences with the conjunction in the middle, like this:
Mr Stink sat on an upturned plant pot while the girls put pink glittery blusher on his cheeks.
Please write at least 3 sentences starting with a conjunction, you will need a comma for these ones where you pause.
After the vagrant had given his speech, he rolled up the grubby toilet roll and put it back in his pocket.
Conjunctions: because, after, when, while, before, even though, despite, though, so, if.
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops
Beautiful handwriting
Times tables
Play on Hit The Button three times.
Practise the 8x tables.
Try to improve your score each time – my record is 36/36.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Related Facts Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
- Grammar and Spelling Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
Counting
Count out loud in 8s from 0 up to 96:
Whilst doing star jumps
Whilst clapping your hands
Whilst doing a crazy dance
Maths
Watch the video sent on Seesaw to help you with your maths. The video will remind you of the method we use in school to multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number. We have done it before.
After watching the video, have a go at the questions on the worksheet – using the grid method from the video.
There are some challenge questions on the worksheet – you don’t have to do these but you can if you would like, the work you did on Tuesday might also help you.
Finally, use the answer sheet to check your answers.
Please send me a picture of your answers and working out on Seesaw.
RE
In RE we have been looking at journeys and the church’s year – the Liturgical Calendar.
The Liturgical Calendar helps people to be close to God and Jesus as everyone celebrates the same things throughout the year, such as the birth of Jesus at Christmas and Jesus’ sacrifices for us at Lent and Easter. These celebrations remind us to love and serve God.
Write the long date: Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the title: Can I describe ways I love and serve God?
Make a list and draw pictures of ways that you love and serve God. Think about how you live in a way that God would want and things you do that make you a good person.
Here are some examples:
- I make sure that I am kind to everybody I meet, even if it is just by giving them a smile.
- I say a prayer at lunch time to thank God that I have food, water and shelter. I know that I am lucky as there are people in the world without food and water.
Music
Follow the link and complete the lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/developing-reading-rhythm-cnj34c
Year 2 Home Learning - 27th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 3:18pm
Hello Year 2.
Why not help mum and dad with some chores around the house. Make your bed or cook a meal (with supervision). Get creative at some point today and draw a picture that makes you smile.
Start your day with a fun game! Keep a balloon up in the air together, taking turns to hit it back and forwards using hands, feet or heads. Set up an obstacle course in the garden/sitting room/hallway.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
Riddle of the day
Where can you find cities, towns, shops, and streets but no people?
Talk to an adult and send us your answers on Seesaw.
Tuesday’s riddle answer - Congratulations to those children who said a towel.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 10’s – Can you start on 7 and count forwards in 10’s ? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 127?
10 Times Tables – Listen to this 10 times table song: 10 times table song
Play hit the button and select 10 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 10 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 10 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will be doing a re-cap on Multiplication and Division. We have already covered this area in class so you should be able to use certain strategies such as grouping, repeated addition and drawing arrays to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of multiplication and division too.
Can I make equal groups by grouping?
Today we are going to look at making equal groups by grouping objects together.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Multiplication and Division
Spellings – Adjectives with the suffix -ful and -less
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adjectives with the suffix -full and -less.
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives describe nouns.
You can make your own adjectives, by adding suffixes onto nouns or verbs.
A suffix is a group of letters that we can add onto the end of another word.
The suffix then changes the meaning of the word.
In this worksheet, you are going to add the suffix -ful and the suffix -less.
-ful means full of.
Tom's thumb gave him a lot of pain.
Tom had a painful thumb.
-less means without.
The painter didn't care.
The painter was careless.
Please see attached worksheet. Someone has removed all of the adjectives ending with the suffixes -ful and -less from the sentences. Read each sentence and decide if the missing word ends in -ful or
-less. Write the missing word in the space.
Computing
This term we are looking at coding in Computing. On the additional documents you will find your child’s individual login for the programme we use. The website is called Code.org. It should work on your tablets. If you do not have one, school will be happy to loan one out to you whilst you are off. Once your child has their unique login, they will be able to access the programme on code.org by following the instructions on the document.
- Each child will have the same 6 letter section code – FMSQGM, they will then search for their name, choose their secret picture and then press the sign in button.
Today, please complete the following lesson:
- Course B (2020)
- Complete Lesson 6 – Getting Loopy
As we start to write longer and more interesting programs, our code often contains a lot of repetition. In this lesson, students will learn about how loops can be used to more easily communicate instructions that have a lot of repetition by looking at the repeated patterns of movement in a dance.
Please only complete the lessons stated above.
Additional activities – Calm Art Project
This project offers space to notice and explore these feelings. The four creative activities encourage children to spot, settle, soothe and share their worries so these feelings do not become overwhelming. By doing this children can be helped to feel calm. Please see the attached document and send us any work on Seesaw.
We are already halfway through the week. Keep up the hard work.
Year 2 team
Year 1 Home Learning Thursday 28th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 11:31am
Happy Thursday Year 1 and welcome to your home learning for today. We are looking forward to Golden Assembly tomorrow as we are going to include some super learners from home as well as in school to celebrate all your great learning.
Reading
Please keep reading everyday, it really is the key to all your learning. We changed lots of your reading books last week - just pop in if you need some new ones.
For your reading challenge today think about some of the vocabulary in your reading book. Pick out some words and explain them, think of some other words which mean the same.
Phonics
Today we are looking at the long U in uniform. Open the Acorn adventures game here (Login - Jan21, Password - Home) and listen for the long and short U sounds. Split your page in half, Long/Short vowel sounds, and write the words on each side, just like in the game.
Can you use the long U words you have found to write 3 sentences? Try not to start your sentence with I.
eg. Instead of I wore my school uniform, try, Yesterday, The little girl put on her school uniform.
English
Today we are thinking about a treasure island. Have a look at some examples on the sheet.Talk about all the features of an island.What will be on your island?
You are going to draw a map of a treasure island showing where the treasure is buried. X marks the spot. Draw your map on the sheet and label all the features.
Upload your island to Seesaw.
Maths
Today we are ordering numbers. To begin, play the Counting Catepillars - Ordering Numbers game here. How do you know how some numbers are more than others? Remember to look at your 10s and 1s.
Watch the video on Ordering numbers here and complete the sheet attached below.
Well done to everyone who has started our Related Facts Sumdog challenge. REMEMBER, you can continue your practise by clicking on the Maths Traning area. All number practice will improve fluency and accuracy. Keep it up!
Art/D.T.
We are getting ready for our pirate day by making a pirate hat.Watch the video to find out how to make a pirate hat.Click here
Code
Today in code we are going to have a dance party. Visit Seesaw for a short introduction to your lesson. Login to our class page and you should be directed straight to dance party. Instead of giving directions, today we will be giving dance instructions. We can't wait to see your creations.
Well done for completing your Thursday home learning.
Reception 27th January Home Learning
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 10:51am
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Here is your learning for today !
Online Resources
- Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games, try some of the Phase 3 games for our new digraph sounds. 😊
- . Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
- Topmarks have some good online maths games if you wanted to have a go at any of these.
Phonics –
Please revisit all our new digraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh
Using the sounds on paper – Turn them all over in the middle of the carpet/table – write the numbers 1 – 6 on the back of them.
Then roll a dice, find the number and have a go at saying the sound.
Can I sort the pictures to match the ai, ee, igh, oa sounds? (See sheet attached.)
Can I play the read and roll ‘igh’ game? (The sheet is attached.)
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Ll.
The Humpty Words of the week are: my, her, are, me
Amazing to see some of you writing in the snow yesterday
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
Our story this week is Supertato! Have a watch of the story here.
Can I design my own superhero character that is based on a different type of fruit or vegetable?
What would your superhero look like?
Can I draw a picture?
What would my super powers be?
Can I write a sentence about my super powers?
Remember to say your sentence out loud, say it and tap your knees, head, cheeks, count how many words are in the sentence. Stretch each word to help you hear the sounds you need.
Try to use your sound mat. 😊
You might want to make your superhero a fruit or a vegetable. (Optional)
Reading – Can I write out one of the sentences from any of my story books at home?
Chop it up and try to put it back in the right order. (See the seesaw video for an example of this)
Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional).
Maths – Can I count in 2s?
Can I have a go at doubling my numbers?
When we double something, we add together the same amounts
Using any practical equipment have a go at finding out the answers to these doubles.
Double 1 (1 + 1) =
Double 2 (2 + 2) =
Double 3 (3 + 3) =
Double 4 (4 + 4) =
Double 5 (5 + 5) =
Today’s learning is all about comparing lengths.
Watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached below. (You will need some playdough to make snakes.)
Topic Time
Understanding the World – Understanding the difference between hot and cold.
Have a watch of lesson 1 of the Oak National Academy lesson. Try out the experiment with a grown up. What did you notice?
French - Can I name some vegetables in French?
These are the actions to help you.
The vegetables are having fun in the fields at night! The potato is jumping up and down (so we jump!), the salsify is making himself small (crouch down), a gherkin is spinning round (turn round) and the cauliflowers are having a good shimmy (give it your best!)
Can I remember the vegetable words? - Please repeat the words as they are given.
French Game
Attached are 6 vegetable pictures. Print and cut them up (or draw them) and hide them round the room.
When your child finds one, they should try to give the word in French.
Then hide them for you!
The idea is just to keep saying the words over and over again.
Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine! See you next week.
Reception Story Time (see the video below attachments)
Today's story is ‘The Train Ride' By June Crebbin.
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 26th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 4:48pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 26th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you managed to complete your Home Learning yesterday. Try not to worry if you don’t manage to finish everything in one day, sometimes things may take a bit longer.
It is important that you continue to work hard, both recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things. Keep posting all your fabulous work on Seesaw, I’ve enjoyed seeing the little messages you have sent too – thank you, they really brighten my day.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Summarise what you have read in no more than 100 spoken words. Get someone to count the words as you speak.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Tuesday 26th January 2021
Write each of the words in your book in different coloured shapes like you did yesterday. Can you remember which shape and colour you used for which word?
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 2 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Whilst reading or listening to the story, look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning. Write the word and the definition in your Home Learning book.
Open the document called ‘Character description instructions’. This will give you the information you need to carry out today’s lesson.
Write the long date Tuesday 26th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write a character description of Michael?
- Read the document called ‘Character description instructions’ attached to the blog.
- Print page 2 and label the picture with a description of Michael’s character using information from Chapters 1 and 2. (Alternatively, draw a picture of Michael in the middle of your page). Remember to use evidence from the text, his personality may be clearly stated or may be hinted at from what is written.
- Piece these ideas together and write a character description of Michael explaining what his personality is like and how you know this. Remember to use different sentence openers! You should aim to write at least 2 excellent paragraphs about Michael’s character.
Focus on capital letters, punctuation, beautiful handwriting and using different sentence openers.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 900 to 2100 and back again. Count in 50’s from 6550 to 7850 and back again. Think about what you found tricky
Please count in 11’s from 111 to 232 and back again – can you go any further? (If you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 111 222 222 add 10 = 232 + 1 = 233 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + ones. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + tens, choose a time interval and play again.
In order to keep practising our mental maths strategies, our lesson today will involve completing an Arithmetic test – you will be familiar with these from class. Please make sure you have everything you need before your start:
- A pencil and a ruler
- Your Home Learning book OR a printed copy of the Arithmetic test (attached to the blog)
- A 20 minute timer
- The arithmetic answers (to check your answers afterwards! These are attached to the blog)
Please make sure you make jottings / show your working out – this is so important and the most confident mathematicians do this. Try and complete the test independently and go through the answers carefully when you have finished. It doesn’t matter if you get an answer wrong, the most important thing is to work out why you made that mistake. If you’ve made jottings this may help in finding out where you made the error.
Before you start the test, please watch the video on Seesaw which will explain a few strategies. This will be uploaded on Tuesday morning.
Good luck!
Post your answers on Seesaw so I can see how you got on!
Check your answers from yesterday’s arrays lesson in the document ‘Answers Using arrays’ attached to the blog.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
French
We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc
Now click this link and download lesson 14 with audio.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y4_French/Yr4SpringFr.php
We will recap the shapes and colours that we learnt last week and move on to look at the work of a French artist called Matisse. Click on the sound buttons to hear the teacher say the phrases and repeat after her. A key phrase today is’ Il y a…’ there is …. And there are new words for different kinds of lines. Work through the PowerPoint. The instructions are underneath each slide.
In your book, write the date mardi vingt-six fevrier
Write the learning objective Can I research some facts about Henri Matisse?
Using these two websites, can you write some interesting facts about Henri Matisse and his work? You might like to copy a part of one of his works.
https://www.ducksters.com/biography/artists/henri_matisse.php - good for facts
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-henri-matisse - good for pictures.
Well done year 4. Soon we will be doing a piece of art inspired by Matisse and describing it in French!
Music
Please click on the link below for Lesson 4
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/developing-body-percussion-part-2-6cw6cr
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
- A maths challenge based on ‘arrays’ and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
- A grammar challenge ‘capital letters’ (this is something which I am having to correct in writing every day, therefore I am setting it as a challenge this week)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 1st February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 26th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:25pm
Tuesday 26th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. I hope you are all well and safe and into a good routine with the tasks you need to complete each day. I have kept every Monday the same as Monday, Tuesday the same as Tuesday, and so on, which should help you in structuring your day for when you read, complete the Maths and English and any other after lunch tasks. Keep sending me your work through Seesaw: you have no idea how much it brings a smile to my face.
Here are the final tasks of the week:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that stamina. It is so important that you keep this your number one priority.
Reading activity for today:
- Draw a picture of your favourite part of the book and write a sentence about what is happening.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
Every day this week we are going to focus on our number 1 class target, Handwriting, which must be joined. Each day, I will give you a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on having clear spaces between your words.
Skip
One skip
Two skip
Three skip
Four.
Five skip
Six skip
Seven skip
More.
Eight skip
Nine skip
Ten skip
Hop.
Skip skip
skip skip
skip skip
STOP.
Spellings
There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -homophones (words with same sound but different spelling).
- For each ‘pair’ of words (aloud and allowed) write a sentence to include them both.
Writing task
Can I write a recount of Hatty’s fall, as Abel?
See the Seesaw video which explains how to complete this task. Make sure you use the notes from yesterday’s lesson to piece together a recount following these bullet points and write:
- The backstory of what you (Abel) know about Tom
- The event of Hatty’s fall
- You (Abel) cross with Tom and speaking to him for the first time
(I will explain this in detail in the video)
Maths – Addition Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 15s.
125, 750, 1420, 500, 335
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
- Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use the column method to add up to 5 digit to 5 digit numbers?
See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson. Complete the Column addition questions and answers sheet.
- Maths challenge – is attached to the same sheet which I explain in the video.
Science
Can I research the characteristics that make a plant adapted to its environment?
We have learnt so far that adaptations are characteristics that help living things survive. Plants live in all kind of habitats in the world from the Arctic to the desert and everywhere in between. A plant from the rainforest would not survive in the desert – each is adapted to the environment in which it lives.
Look at the image of a cactus attached below, or a real cactus if you have one at home.
Copy the labelled diagram of a cactus into your book or print out the Labelled Cactus sheet
How do these adaptations enable it to live in a desert? Read this text to find out:
Adaptations
An adaptation is anything that helps a living thing survive and make more of its own kind. Cacti have many adaptations for living in places that are sometimes dry for a long time. At other times these places can get lots of rain.
Cacti can have many small, thin roots near the top of the soil. These roots take in water quickly after a rain. The same cactus may have one long, thick root called a taproot. The taproot grows deep in the soil. It can reach water when the soil on top is dry.
Cacti store water in thick stems. The stems are covered with tough skin, and the skin is covered with wax. The pleats help the skin expand to store water after it has rained. The thick waxy skin slows down loss of water by evaporation in the hot, dry climate. The leaves of cacti are sharp spines (thorns or needles). Many animals want the water inside the cactus, but the sharp spines and thick skin protect the cactus and stop animals from damaging the plant.
Now explain in your own words how each of the cacti’s adaptations help it survive in the desert.
Next, watch this video about a Sundew plant.
Draw and label a Sundew plant using the vocabulary in the video.
Now use the words below to explain its adaptations. You will need to put them into sentences!
Sundew carnivorous habitat bog poor soil secrete sticky substance Digestive enzymes prey dissolve nutrients unfurl exoskeleton
You have researched two very different types of plants which live in very different habitats.
Put the subheading What I have learnt
Can you summarise your learning today by explaining how adaptations help plants survive and what would happen to those species that are not well adapted?
Well done! I would love to see your work on seesaw!
Year 3 Home Learning 26th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:25pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a happy Monday and enjoyed some snow as well as your learning.
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
We enjoyed the beautiful weather in school and played in the snow at play time and lunch time. We found the maths quite tricky, it was much easier when we wrote out our times tables and remembered to write our answers above each part of the question. Rushing did not work.
If you are finding any of your work tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Write down your working out.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your Geography and Art, please put the two pieces of Art from Monday and Tuesday next to each other so I can see how different they are.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. 7 of you have been on the grammar and spelling challenge, one of you has already completed it, wow. 6 of you have been on the related facts challenge and 1 of you has already completed it. Well done.
Things that made me smile on Monday (you could write your own list too)
- The beautiful weather.
- The snowmen the children in school made at play time.
- Your amazing art work that you sent me on Seesaw – so bright and colourful.
Tuesday 26th January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody at home everything you know about one of the characters.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings. Some are near homophones which means they have slightly different pronunciation.
quiet, quite, bare, bear, sun, son, new, knew, night, knight
Write the long date: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Write the title: Homophones Sentences
Copy the sentences and fill in the gap with the correct spelling.
- The library was very … (quiet, quite)
- The brown … growled at the man. (bear, bare)
- The … was so bright I needed sunglasses. (sun, son)
- The brave … rescued the princess (night, knight)
- I wore my … dress to the party. (new, knew)
Answers
- The library was very quiet.
- The brown bear growled at the man.
- The sun was so bright I needed sunglasses.
- The brave knight rescued the princess
- I wore my new dress to the party.
Handwriting
Follow the video on Seesaw to practise your handwriting.
Writing:
Read pages 201 - 208 of Mr Stink. They are attached to this blog. Some parts are written in capital letters. This is because the characters are shouting, see if somebody at home can read this bit out loud with you.
Long date: Tuesday 26th January 2021
Title – Can I use adjectives?
Today you are going to write a description of the Prime Minister’s house, Number Ten Downing Street. Try to use lots of adjectives to describe the house. I have attached some photos and good words on the same PowerPoint as the Mr Stink pages. Some of these are not really Ten Downing Street, but might help you to come up with some ideas.
Paragraph 1 – Talk about the outside.
You could start with:
As Mr Stink and Chloe stepped out of the limousine, they looked in front of them at Number Ten Downing Street.
Paragraph 2 – Talk about the room where they have tea.
You could start with:
They were led through a never-ending corridor and taken into a huge dining room with shiny golden walls.
Paragraph 3 – Talk about the bathroom.
You could start with:
Mr Stink had eaten egg sandwiches before setting off, you know what that means. He needed to go to the toilet. It was just as fancy as he expected it to be.
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops
Beautiful handwriting
Make it even better by:
Adding a simile
Adding a question
Adding an exclamation mark
Starting a sentence with a conjunction
Times tables
Play on Hit The Button three times.
Practise the 8x tables.
Try to improve your score each time – my record is 36/36.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Related Facts Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
- Grammar and Spelling Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
Counting
Count out loud in 5s:
From 0 to 60.
From 60 to 0.
Maths
Watch this video about related facts. Pause the video where you need to.
Complete the worksheet and use the answer sheet to check when you have finished.
Write out your times tables to help you with any tricky questions.
Geography and Art
Below is the link to a video about a favela in Rocinha, Brazil. A favela is a slum on the outskirts of a large city. Normally lots of people who don’t have a lot of money live in a favela.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zgp4d2p
I have attached some pictures to this blog of the favela. I would like you to create your own piece of art showing the favela. This time, you are not going to use colour – it is going to be black and white. This is to show how different life is for the people who live by Copacabana Beach compared to the people who live in the favela. They live in the same city but have very different lives.
- Draw your buildings, remember there are lots of them close together and they are on a hill.
- Draw the trees and hills.
- Use newspaper scraps to fill in the picture. Tear strips off and use them to fill in the buildings.
- Or if you would prefer, colour in black and white. You can do patterns like Romero Britto if you want to, but only in black, grey and white this time.
Year 2 Home Learning - 26th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:13pm
Good morning Year 2,
We hope yesterday went well. Hopefully you are all in good spirits and working hard for your parents/carers. The weather doesn’t look great this week but you still need to make sure you are staying active and get at least 60 minutes of physical activity in per day. We love to do the Daily Mile at school. Is there anywhere you can go for a run at home?
Have a challenge to see who can do the funniest balance on one leg/scrunch up to be the smallest/stretch out to be the tallest.
Join Joe Wicks for one of his daily workouts - https://www.youtube.com/thebodycoachtv
Oti Mabuse is holding dance lessons on her Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGs-r4G-XmI
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
Riddle of the day
What becomes wetter the more it dries?
Talk to an adult and send us your answers on Seesaw.
Monday’s riddle answer - Congratulations to those children who gave the answer sponge. We will also accept watering can. Well done for thinking outside the box!
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 10’s – Can you count forwards starting at 1? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 121?
10 Times Tables – Listen to this 10 times table song: 10 times table song
Play hit the button and select 10 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 10 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 10 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will be doing a re-cap on Multiplication and Division. We have already covered this area in class so you should be able to use certain strategies such as grouping, repeated addition and drawing arrays to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of multiplication and division too.
Can I make equal groups by sharing?
Today we are going to look at making equal groups through sharing different objects.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Multiplication and Division
Spellings – Adjectives with the suffix -ful and -less
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adjectives with the suffix -full and -less.
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives describe nouns.
You can make your own adjectives, by adding suffixes onto nouns or verbs.
A suffix is a group of letters that we can add onto the end of another word.
The suffix then changes the meaning of the word.
In this worksheet, you are going to add the suffix -ful and the suffix -less.
-ful means full of.
Tom's thumb gave him a lot of pain.
Tom had a painful thumb.
-less means without.
The painter didn't care.
The painter was careless.
Watch this introduction to suffixes to help you – suffix video
When the word ends in y, we change the y to an i then add -ful or -less.
Using the Adding -ful or -ness Word Search, add the correct suffix to each word, then find the new adjective within the word search. Please see attached worksheet.
Music
Mrs Winter has kindly sent us a music lesson that we can try our at home.
In this lesson, we will be exploring how to make different sounds using instruments around the house.
Please click on the link for this week’s music lesson.
Exploring different ways to use instruments
French
We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc
Now we are going to move on to learning the names of some farm animals. Watch this video and repeat the words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pba8564WZ4M
Attached is a sheet with 7 farm animals. Print out the sheet (or do 7 drawings). Hide the pictures round the room. When your child finds one, s/he should give the word in French. Then it’s their turn to hide them!
Here is a song to finish – Old MacDonald had a farm in French. It’s a bit fast so may be better played on 0.75 speed. See if you can pick up the sounds the animals make in French. They’re not all the same! The word used for sheep is une brebis (oon brubee) – a ewe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcgM_U22XU
Merci beaucoup. A bientot!
Additional activities – Calm Art Project
This project offers space to notice and explore your feelings. The four creative activities encourage children to spot, settle, soothe and share their worries so these feelings do not become overwhelming. By doing this children can be helped to feel calm. Please see the attached document and send us any work on Seesaw.
We hope you have a brilliant Tuesday,
Year 2 team.
Reception 26th January Home Learning
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 11:40am
Tuesday 26th January 2021
It is amazing how many of you are sending your work on seesaw, we would like to say a big WELL DONE. You and your grown ups are doing amazing!
Online Resources
Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games, try some of the Phase 3 games for our new digraph sounds. 😊
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
Phonics –
Please revisit all our new digraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa
Using the sounds on paper – Can I put them on the floor, close my eyes and tell my grown up which one they have taken away?
Can I think of a word for each of these digraphs?
Can I practise writing the sounds?
Revisit the sound ‘igh’
Can I play buried treasure on Phonics Play, Phase 3, focusing on the ‘igh’ sound?
Can I have a go at writing the words attached?
Can I read these captions? Can I make up my own caption?
It is night.
The coat is big.
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Nn.
The Humpty Words of the week are: my, her, are, me
Can I write them with chalks outside?
Can I paint them?
Can I use different colours to write them?
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
Our story this week is Supertato! Have a watch of the story here.
After thinking about the characters yesterday,
Choose your favourite character either Supertato or Evil Pea. (see seesaw for Miss Collinson's Example)
Can I draw the character in my book?
Can I write a sentence describing what my character is like?
Remember to say your sentence out loud, say it and tap your knees, head, cheeks, count how many words are in the sentence. Stretch each word to help you hear the sounds you need.
Try to use your sound mat and have a go at writing without your grown ups help this week. 😊
Reading – It is great that so many of you are ringing the office to collect new books weekly.
It has been lovely to hear some of your reading on seesaw, well done.
Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional).
Maths – Can I count out loud backwards from 20 to 0?
Can I remember my number bonds to 10? (see seesaw video for example)
Can I use my ten frames to colour in different ways of making 10? (see maths activity attached for ten frames)
Today’s learning is all about comparing heights.
Watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached below, if you do not have any cubes at home, you can use Lego.
Topic Time
Technology – Can I make my own Supertato adventure, using your Supertato you made yesterday?
Watch this video for inspiration. Have a go at recording your own.
Reception Story Time (see video below attachments)
Today's story is ‘Jolly Snow‘ by Jane Hissey
Year 1 Home Learning Wednesday 27th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 11:39am
Good morning Year 1 and a big welcome to all your Wednesday learning. We are loving all your pirate stories and we are impressed with all your ideas and pirate vocabulary. It is lovely seeing you all having a good go at your home learning, keep it up.
Reading
It's brilliant that so many of you are collecting new reading books from school. Keep reading every single day. Today, after reading one of your books have a think and a talk about what happened in the story and when it happened. What happened after …….? What was the first thing that happened in the story? Can you say in a sentence the opening/middle/end of the story?
Phonics
To warm up, play a game of buried treasure here. Username - Jan21 and Password - Home
Choose Phase 3 (+oo sound) and Phase 5 (ew or ue sounds)
Visit Seesaw for your Phonics learning today. We will be looking at our split u_e sound and looking carefully to build our words. Watch the video below to remind yourselves of the u_e sound.
English
Sometimes when pirates get stranded on an island the only way they can communicate is by writing a message in a bottle, throw it into the sea and hope that someone finds it.
Watch this video Message in a Bottle
Imagine you are stranded on an island.
- Who are you going to write your message to?
- What will you tell them?
- Describe where you are, what can you see?
- How are you feeling?
- What are you eating and drinking?
- Is there anyone else there ?
Talk about what you are going to write then write your message. Remember your Think Pinks.
Maths
Have a look back at the counting videos we've shared (you can find these on view all blogs)
Yesterday we found our comparing number sentences a little tricky so today we are going to look back at comparing numbers and using our maths vocabulary.
More than, Fewer than, Greater than, Less than, Greatest and Smallest.
Watch the video on comparing numbers here and complete the worksheet attached.
Play our Counting caterpillars - Ordering numbers game here to get ready for our learning tomorrow. Start with numbers up to 20, then 50 and 100)
French
This week we are moving on to FARM ANIMALS. Can I name some farm animals in French?
Here’s a song to sing along to start: On the Farm
Here is a video with farm animal words. Repeat the words with the speaker.
Attached is a sheet with 7 farm animals. Print out the sheet (or do 7 drawings). Hide the pictures round the room. When your child finds one, s/he should give the word in French. Then it’s their turn to hide them!
Here is a song to finish – Old MacDonald had a farm in French. It’s a bit fast so may be better played on 0.75 speed. See if you can pick up the sounds the animals make in French. They’re not all the same! The word used for sheep is une brebis (oon brubee) – a ewe.
Merci beaucoup. A bientot!
Music
Last week we really enjoyed exploring pulse and creating our own rhythm patterns. Today we are looking at creating movements to physicalise pulse. Watch the video below and join in with Miss Glover at the Oak Academy.
Click here for your Music lesson
Well done on completing all your Wednesday home learning.
Year 2 Home Learning - 25th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 7:36am
Good morning Year 2,
We hope you all had a brilliant weekend. We have loved reading all your posts. You have done some amazing work so far and we are very proud. Now it is time to start our home learning again and I’m sure you are all ready to go.
Remember, some work will be set on Seesaw this week so please read this post carefully. This can be accessed by logging in and navigating to the family announcements section. We know home learning is very different to school but try your best to stick with it. Try to remain resilient and persevere with all the tasks set. Little and often is always the best policy.
Keep going, we are so proud of you all!
Hopefully the snow sticks around today. If it does, we have attached a couple of snow experiments to the end of this post for you to try. Enjoy!
Why not try a more relaxing start to your morning. 50 minute compilation of yoga adventures, mindfulness and guided relaxations - with themes around courage, thinking positive and staying peaceful. 🌈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JI01thiHYI
Or you could carry on doing the Joe Wicks daily session 😊 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
Riddle of the day
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Talk to an adult and send us your answers on Seesaw.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 10’s – Can you count forwards to 120? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 120?
10 Times Tables – Listen to this 10 times table song: 10 times table song
Play hit the button and select 10 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 10 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 10 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will be doing a re-cap on Multiplication and Division. We have already covered this area in class so you should be able to use certain strategies such as grouping, repeated addition and drawing arrays to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of multiplication and division too.
Can I use an array?
Today we are going to look at using arrays.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Multiplication and division
Spellings – adjectives with the suffix -ful and -less
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adjectives with the suffix -full and -less.
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives describe nouns.
You can make your own adjectives, by adding suffixes onto nouns or verbs.
A suffix is a group of letters that we can add onto the end of another word.
The suffix then changes the meaning of the word.
This week, you are going to add the suffix -ful and the suffix -less.
-ful means full of.
Tom's thumb gave him a lot of pain.
Tom had a painful thumb.
-less means without.
The painter didn't care.
The painter was careless.
Watch this introduction to suffixes to help you – suffix video
Please see attached PowerPoint presentation and worksheet for you to have a go at.
Science
Resources
Collection of manmade and natural objects.
Paint and a pencil
Study with an adult a collection of objects. Have a go at sorting the objects into two groups. Give them clues (think about what the object was before it became what you see in front of you, etc.) and only tell them the groups should be 'manmade' and 'natural' after they have had plenty of time to think and discuss the grouping options.
Discuss the meaning of 'manmade' and 'natural'. Now try to regroup your objects accordingly.
When you look at objects from the manmade group and compare them to the natural objects, what are the differences? Are there any similarities? Is there anything that surprises you about the objects in these two groups?
Can you write words to describe the objects you see (cold, hard, metal, etc.) and the properties they have (flexible, strong, waterproof, etc.).
Can you draw your objects as a repeating pattern? (manmade, natural, manmade, natural, etc.) If you have paint you could try printing paint using some objects from the manmade group and some from the natural group. As they do so, encourage them to talk about the different effects the objects make with the paint. Ask them if they notice any difference in printing between manmade and natural objects. Allow them to be free with their designs but if you need the paintings to be small, the chn will need to use small objects to print (the end of a twig, a tiny piece of sponge, a screw, etc.)
Additional activities – Snow Science
If there is still some snow outside you could have a go at one of the snow science experiments attached to this post.
We can’t wait to see what you get up to this week!
Year 2 team