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Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 1st February 2021

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 3:42pm

Monday 1^st February 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you had a super relaxing weekend and are well rested to begin this week's learning. Our Fabulous Friday will continue this week meaning that you do not have to feel pressured into completing everything on the day that it is set: you can either spread it out into Friday or complete everything before Friday; it is your choice. 

Here are the tasks for the day:

 

Children’s Mental Health Week – ‘Express Yourself’

This is a special week where you can take part in activities to explore different ways to express yourself and the creative ways you can share your thoughts, feelings and ideas. Each day’s activity will be under the heading PSHE.

PSHE

Set yourself a target just for today (finish all the work by a certain time / complete the extra Maths challenge / help around the house, etc) and when you complete it, think about how that makes you feel and reward yourself with something (TV, a good book, favourite game).

I have attached mindfulness sheets if you wish to colour them in during a quiet time at home.

At 9am there is an assembly hosted by Blue Peter’s Lindsey Russell and CBBC Presenter and Place2Be Champion Rhys Stephenson for you to watch which is available to all children, schools and families. The link for it can be found here, Children’s Mental Health Assembly.

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Building up your reading stamina and speed will help for when you return.

Reading activity for today:

• Do you like the title of the story? Do you think it is appropriate for the plot? Think of 5 better titles.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’)

Sunday in the Yarm Fard

The mat keowed

The mow cooed

The bog darked

The kigeon pooed

The squicken chaked

The surds bang

The kwuck dacked

The burch rells chang

And then, after all the dacking and changing

The chalking and the banging

The darking and the pooing

The keowing and the kooing

There was a mewtiful beaumont

Of queace and pie-ate.

 

Spellings

There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -gue / -que

• All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this so you can have your own spelling quiz at home).

 

Writing task

Monday 1^st February 2021

Can I analyse the author’s description of a scene and write my own?

 

Read chapter 19 and chapter 20 and watch the video sent through Seesaw. I will be referring to the BBC website on personification so click the link here, Personification , to learn more about it.

I have attached a picture of the scene I refer to in the video at the bottom of this blog, English - describing a scene.

 

 

Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting backwards in 25s.

725, 950, 1620, 700, 237

2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
   1. Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables
   2. Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (the more you practise with multiplying by fractions, the easier Thursday’s lesson will be)
3. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I add mixed numbers together?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, ‘Adding Mixed numbers with same denominator’

4. Maths mixed numbers challenge – is the White Rose Maths. Watch this video Adding mixed numbers video as well which will give you extra information on how to solve mixed numbers with different denominators.

 

PE

Once again, I cannot stress enough how important it is to be active every day, whether you follow Joe Wicks, go for a walk, head out on your bike, scoot, hop, dance, just make sure you move.

For our PE learning, we still have it split into two: gymnastics and games.

• Warm up – let’s continue to up the warm up time with:
  • 40 star jumps, 10 second rest
  • 40 squats, 10 second rest
  • 40 seconds running on the spot, 10 seconds rest
  • Rest for a whole minute before repeating a second time
• For this week’s gymnastics, have a look at Ship Shape, which asks you to create different shapes (wide, curled and narrow).
• There are a few challenges on there, such as using small and larger body parts, creating a sequence on your own or with a partner.
• Can you add your shapes to the rolls from last week to create one final sequence? The video for Ship Shape is here, Video for Ship Shape.

Games:

• Click on the link here, Circuit - Feeling Flexible , with the video here, Video for Feeling Flexible
• Don’t forget to be warm for any PE activity you do. Copy the same as gymnastics if you are not warm already.
• Click on the link to see the 5 stations to follow. This type of training might get you a bit sweaty but not too much. The purpose of these exercises is to help you become flexible which help to prevent any future injuries. I actually do these every day, sometimes morning and night.
• Let me know how you get on through Seesaw.

 

Reception 1st February Home Learning

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 3:29pm

Monday 1^st February 2021

We hope you have had a lovely weekend with your families.

Here is your learning for today.😊

Remember to do as much as you can with lots of little breaks in between jobs, if it gets too much, then just read, read, READ! 😊

 

This week we are celebrating 'Children's Mental Health Week' . There will be activities throughout the week to have a go at.

First of all, can you draw three things that you are good at?

What do you enjoy doing the most of all?  

How do these things make you feel?

Online Resources

1. 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. 😊

 

2. . 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. 

 

3. Topmarks have some good online maths games if you want to have a go at any of these.

 

Phonics – 

Please revisit all our new digraph & trigraph sounds. 😊 

ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh

Can I remember all my new sounds? 

Can I think of a word for each sound? 

Can I read the words attached? (ai, ee, igh, oa 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 up 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 Pp. 

The Humpty Words of the week are - be, were, was, said

Amazing to see some of you making humpty words with magnetic letters, writing outside with water, writing in chalk, writing on the back of wallpaper rolls. Keep it creative and fun. 😊

(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)

 

Literacy –

This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen.’

There are lots of different versions to this story, have a listen to the story on Seesaw.

Can I join in and learn the ‘Little Red Hen’ song and have a go at drawing my own story map? (Click on the writing.)

 

Reading – Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊

See the reading question prompts attached to help your discussion about your stories. 

Maths – Using the number cards in my pack,

Can I count out different objects to match the amounts? (From 1 to 20 – see the examples on the maths activity.)

Can I count backwards out loud from 10 to 0?, then 20 to 0?

 

Today’s learning is all about Measuring Time.

Watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached below. (Measuring time – The fifth video)

For today's activity you will need a 1-minute timer. (See activity attached.)

 

Topic Time

RE – Our new topic is ‘GATHERING’

Talk about the activities that are better done together. (Eating tea together, going for a walk together, people coming to a party together, playing with our friends, going to church together, celebrating Christmas and birthdays.)

What sort of things do we do together?

What makes it better?

Choose one or two of the activities below to have a go at.

1. Make a chart of all the things that you have done together as a family for the last week or so and talk about the activities that are better done together. What makes them better?
2. Look through family photos of family gatherings. Talk about the times you shared and how you all felt and what you did.
3. Make a card for your friend at school to tell them you are missing them and are looking forward to seeing them again soon.

 

PE – Have a go at the second lesson – Footwork Patterns 😊

 

Cosmic Kids Yoga – Handwashing

 

HOME LEARNING Monday 1st February 2021

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 1:42pm

Year 4

Home Learning Monday 1^st February 2021

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you had a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend.  Welcome to another week of Home Learning - keep doing your best and trying to work as independently as you can.  Remember to post your learning on Seesaw – I have been so impressed with the learning I have seen so far and have enjoyed seeing your videos and pictures too!

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.

How would you describe this story or text? What genre is it (this means the type of story, for example, adventure, horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction etc) and how do you know?

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Monday 8^th February 2021. They are all homophones.  Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently. 

tide     tied      knight       night          break       brake         fought           fort

waist   waste    guest        guessed     feet         feat                  

Write the long date Monday 1^st February 2021

Copy the homophones carefully into your book.  Find out the meanings of any words you don’t know.  Can you add any pictures or symbols to some of the words to help you remember what the different spellings mean?

 

English

Today, please read / listen to Chapter 3 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=i_PDiOvipfc&safe=active

Make sure you look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning.

1. As you are reading, write down the date and names of places the family sailed to. See the document ‘Dates and places’ attached to the blog – print this out and complete it as you are reading or copy the table into your book.  Extend your retrieval skills by adding some details about the sea conditions (was it stormy, gale force winds, no wind at all etc). The date and learning objective are on the ‘Dates and places’ document.

 

2. After you have read the chapter, use an atlas to find the places in your table and label them on the map of the world (see page 2 of the ‘Dates and places’ document.) If you click on the link below it will take you to an interactive map of the world and you can zoom in on different areas / countries.  Alternatively, you could use an atlas if you have one at home.

https://24timezones.com/worldmap#gref

 

3. In your own words, write a paragraph to describe one of the incidents with Stella Artois. You can write about the first incident on February 7^th OR the second incident on pages 42-44.

Write the long date Monday 8^th February 2021

Write the learning objective Can I explain part of the text in my own words?

 

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables.

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 this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 4^th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷11.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Counting

Count in 25’s from 0 to 350 and back again.  Count in 25’s from 500 to 775 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what do 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

Click on play game. Choose level 3, Doubles/halves, Upto 100.  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.

Remember make jottings to help!

Eg double 57                  Partition into 50 and 7

            Double 50 = 100          Double 7 = 14             100 + 14 = 114

Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and more accurately each time.

 

Today, we are going to learn what factors and factor pairs are.

Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Factor pairs’ attached to the blog.

Please click on the link below for the video.

https://vimeo.com/491282075

Write the short date 01.02.21

Write the learning objective Can I show an understanding of factors and factor pairs?

Complete the worksheet and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.

 

Check your answers in the document ‘Answers Factor pairs’.  Look carefully at any questions you got wrong.

 

History

Write the long date Monday 1^st February 2021

Write the learning objective Can I explain what the Romans believed?

Follow the link below to take you to “What did the Romans believe?”

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-did-the-romans-believe-60tp2r

Watch the video and answers the questions in full sentences in your book, when prompted.

 

You can find more information by clicking on the link below.  Look on the left-hand side of the page and click on Roman Gods

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

You should either:

• write down the names of some of the different gods and provide some information about them

OR

• choose two of the gods listed. Draw a picture of them and research them in more detail.

 

Please share your work on Seesaw.

 

Computing

Use the link below to log into code.org. Carry on where you left off.

https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH

 

PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education)

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week - the theme is 'Express Yourself'.

Mental health is about our feelings, our thinking, our emotions, and our moods.  Looking after our mental health is important. We have small feelings every day – they may be happy or sad, but they go away before too long.  Sometimes we experience big feelings, these may feel strong or overwhelming for a longer time.

Each day you will be asked to write a ‘Well-being journal’ which will be attached to the blog.  In addition, there will be 2 other activities to have a go at.

Today, please:

• Complete the Well-being journal attached to the blog
• Have a go at the ‘rectangular breathing’ activity on the second page of the journal
• Choose one of the mindfulness activities on the third page of the journal to have a go at

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
• A maths challenge to practise subtracting 1’s, 10’s and 100’s from numbers within 1000 (a lot of you find this tricky)
• A spelling challenge based on this week’s homophone spellings

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

New challenges will start on Monday 8^th February 2021

Year 2 Home Learning - 1st February 2021

Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 10:01am

We hope you had a lovely, relaxing weekend.

 

This week we are celebrating ‘Children’s Mental Health week’. There will be activities daily, throughout the week so please take a look under the PSHE section at the end of the blog.

 

Why not give yourself a target to achieve by the end of the week? Maybe use lead-ins to every letter, have a go at a Maths challenge or do 60 minutes of physical activity every day.  Let us know on Friday if you achieved your target.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Joke of the day

Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?

Because she was stuffed.

 

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

Corner Stones

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading

VIPERS

Maths

Counting and Times Tables

Counting in 2’s – Can you count forwards to 30? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 30?

2 Times Tables – Listen to this 2 times table song: 2 times table song

Play hit the button and select 2 times tables – hit the button

Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 2 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10

Can you write out all your 2 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?

 

This week we will looking at statistics and data handling. From pictograms to line graphs, children learn a lot about collecting, organising and presenting data in primary school maths. This week we will look at how you can help your child get to grips with basic statistics at home. Data handling at primary school means gathering and recording information and then presenting it in a way that is meaningful to others. It is now referred to as ‘statistics’ under the 2014 curriculum.

 

In Year 2, children are shown pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and tables. 

For example, they might be shown this pictogram which shows the favourite fruits of a group of children:



They might be shown a tally chart like the following, used to record the favourite parts of Christmas:

This block diagram or graph shows what kinds of vehicles were seen on a road by one child in the course of half an hour:


They may be shown a table like the following which shows the favourite sports of 50 children across a year group:
 

SPORT	PREFERENCES
Football	20
Rugby	7
Cricket	10
Golf	5
Hockey	8

 

 

Can I use a tally chart?

Today’s maths lesson can be found on Seesaw. Please watch the video carefully pausing to attempt certain tasks when prompted by the teacher.

 

Worksheet – Go on a shape hunt around your house and see what different shapes you can find. Make a note of this in a tally chart.

Once you have completed this, have a go at the answering the following questions.

How many different shapes did you try to find?

How many objects did you find altogether?

Which is the most popular shape?

Which is the least popular shape?

 

Optional activities – Help the RSPB keep track of what birds are around during Big Schools' Birdwatch with the attached survey sheet. Go for a walk in your local area or look around your garden. How many birds can you spot? Make a tally chart on the survey sheet.

 

Tally chart game - https://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/tally_chart/

 

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 – Statistics

Spellings – adjectives with the suffix -er and -est

 

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 -er and -est.

Adding -er/-est

We make the comparative or superlative forms of short adjectives by adding -er or -est, for example: hard, harder, hardest

Spelling Rule
Just add -er or -est to the end of the adjective, for example:

• quick, quicker, quickest
• great, greater, greatest
• full, fuller, fullest

Exceptions
(note: C=consonant; V=vowel)

If adj. ends in	do this	and add	Examples
C + y	change y to i	er est	happy happier happiest
C + e	remove e		late later latest
C + V + C	double last letter		hot hotter hottest
Note: adjectives ending in -l are regular, except: cruel, crueller, cruellest

 

Please view today’s PowerPoint presentation and complete the comparative adjectives worksheet attached to this post.

 

Science

Resources

Watercolour paint or thinned poster paint

Paint brushes

Pieces of card

Wax crayons

Variation of experiment

Tinfoil

Vaseline

 

Cast you minds back to lesson 3 and the effect of rubbing wax on a piece of paper.

Can you make a list of reasons why some materials need to be waterproof?

 

We now know that wax is waterproof and so it doesn't absorb water. When the paint touches the wax, it rolls off and gets absorbed by the surrounding paper. So the lines of your painting will be waxy with no paint, because the paint can't be absorbed there.

 

Practise on a scrap of card or paper to explore the resisting and absorbing qualities of the wax crayon and paint. You will need to draw lines with the wax crayon and then paint over and around those lines, watching the paint being absorbed into the paper but not where the crayon lines are.

 

Then give use a larger sheet of card or paper to do your design. There are many variations of wax resist painting, some more complex than others.

 

Useful website - Create an Easy Watercolor Wax Resist Painting (craftsy.com)

 

Another variation of this experiment

Have a go at resist printing by spreading a layer of Vaseline onto a sheet of tin foil (as if to make an ink pad), carefully pressing a small object (leaf, for example) into the Vaseline and then printing it onto the paper. The Vaseline on the paper should act like wax when paint is applied. This is more advanced than the printing with paint because it requires care when applying both the Vaseline to the object, and then the paint around the Vaseline.

 

PSHE – ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’

Please find attached documents each day all about promoting children’s mental health and wellbeing.

 

Today’s activity includes looking through the Assembly powerpoint introducing the week. Then start your Wellbeing journal and have a go at the colouring sheet.

 

 

We hope you have a fantastic week of home learning,

 

Year 2 team.

Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 11:28am

Good morning Year 1 and welcome to your Tuesday learning.

We loved seeing your pictures of the characters from Little Red Riding Hood and listening to you reading all your brilliant words. We were impressed with your Science investigations and your amazing ideas. 

Reading

Continue to read for at least 10 minutes everyday. Little and often is the key. Remember, you can request new books at the school office at any time. 

You can also post a short video of your child reading. We'd love to hear some stories and give some feedback and support. 

Phonics

Visit Seesaw for your Phonics lesson today

English

Start the day with a song from Little Red Riding Hood I Love Red song

Today you are going to make a story box. Look at the sheet to get some ideas. You will need to think about the characters, the setting of the story. Where does it take place? Who are the main characters? Use paper and card to make your characters, decorate the inside of your box and then use the characters to tell the story.

Upload photos to Seesaw.

Maths

Sing along with the counting videos below. Can you sing without the music? 

Play a game of Whack a Mole here, Practise counting forwards and backwards

Today we wil be exploring numbers to 50 and counting forward and back. Watch the Counting forwards and backwards within 50 video and complete the worksheet attached. 

We have opened a new Number and Place Value challenge on Sumdog. Only 100 questions this week! 

R.E.

Think about the special meals you talked about yesterday. Today you are going to make a place mat which you can use when you have a special meal. Decorate your place mat with words and pictures. Some of the words you could include are share, family, love. together, special, meal, care. Can you think of any more?

P.E.

Today we are learning some rolling movements and exploring linking rolls and balances. Watch the video and follow along. Remember to give yourself lots of room to do your gymnastics and be safe, using controlled movements. 

                                                                                      P.S.H.E

Day 2 of your journal.Think about all the ways you can keep active. On the sheet draw three ways you keep active at home.

Guided meditation.

Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 29th January 2021

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 4:07pm

It’s Fabulous Friday!

 

Good morning Year 6. I hope you have had a great week so far.

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 a minimum of 30 minutes.

• This could be great opportunity to finish that book you love or begin a new exciting story

 

Complete the number activity – Speed Shooting

• Speed Shooting – in this game you need another player
• Turn your hands into ‘shooters’ and holster them (we have played this in class before)
• Your partner gives you times tables questions (you pick the tables and they pick the questions)
• How many can you answer in 30 seconds / 1 minute?
• ‘Shoot them’ with the answer (can you beat your score?)
• Challenge – Shout Out – where each person asks one question alternatively

 

Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see (like the spellings quiz).

 

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!

 

Do not forget to see my Friday Catch Up video.

Have a super weekend!

 

 

HOME LEARNING Friday 29th January 2021

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 3:29pm

Year 4

Fabulous Friday 29^th January 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 :

• Read

Snuggle up in your favourite place and enjoying reading for pleasure

• Complete the number activity, Nice and Nasty (see attached document)
• Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!

Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.

Reception 29th January Home Learning

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 3:23pm

It’s Fabulous Friday!

 

Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your family the chance to catch up and switch off!

Today you just need to :

· Make a comfy space and read a lovely story to your grown up or sibling. 

 

· Practise your doubles and counting in 2s.

 

· Finish anything off that you want to from the week and upload to Seesaw :)

 

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it! 

 

You have all worked so incredibly hard over the past few weeks. We are so impressed with the amount of work you are completing each day, it makes us smile seeing all of your learning. Well done Reception! 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and feel refreshed for another super week of trying your best :) 

 

 

 

Year 3 Home Learning 29th January 2021- Fun Friday

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 2:34pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day, the children in school really enjoyed writing similes. Here are my favourite examples:

Mother’s bouffant danced around her head like a jaguar running around in circles after eating the world’s hottest chilli, the Carolina Reaper.

The postal districts were packed below her like an unsolved Rubik Cube.

 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your families and find lots of reasons to smile. I am looking forward to getting a curry on Friday, with lots of chillies mmm. Ms Hodson is excited to bake some cookies. 

 

Friday 29^th January 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:

• Read

      Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

Try to use lots of expression and different voices for the different characters.

 

• Complete the number activity.

There is a video on Seesaw.

 

• Listen to the 8x tables rap.

Do silly dances and call out the numbers in silly voices.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwaOvWD-PY

 

 

• Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see.

 

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it! 

Why don’t you put on something that makes you feel happy? A bright top, your comfiest jumper, something fancy, or whatever makes you happy.

Fabulous Friday - 29th January 2021

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 11:39am

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

•          Complete the number activity

•          Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for your teacher to see

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it! 

Well done for completing another week of home learning. Time is flying by! You have all been so amazing over the past 5 weeks and we couldn’t wish for a more enthusiastic group of children with supportive parents. You are all doing an incredible job and we are extremely proud of you.

 

We will post our ‘Friday catch up’ on Seesaw after school, where we discuss all of your amazing achievements throughout the week. 

 

Riddle of the day

Thursday’s riddle answer - There are 18 letters in ‘the English alphabet’.

The =  3, English = 7, alphabet = 8.     3 + 7 + 8 = 18 😊

 

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.

 

Maths game

Multiplication Bingo

Need:

12 sided dice – please see link to online 12 sided dice – 12 sided dice

Bingo sheets

Pencils

• Each child has a different bingo sheet with answers to the multiplication table being practised on (2, 5 or 10.

• The dice is rolled and whoever has the answer to the number on the dice multiplied by the table being practised can cross it off their bingo sheet.

For example:

• Multiplication table is 2.
• Number rolled is 6.
• Any child with the number 12 on their sheet can cross it off.

 

We hope you all have a relaxing and restful weekend.

 

Year 2 team.

Fabulous Friday 29th January 2021

Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 8:53am

Fabulous Friday 29^th January 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:

Read – grab a drink and a biscuit/fruit and curl up with a good book.

Complete this number activity – Odds and Evens Game (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.

The rest of the day is yours; you’ve earned it! 

Have a ‘Fabulous Friday’ and even more ‘Fabulous Weekend’.

Miss Gravili 

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

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 90s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

2. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
   1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
   2. 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).
3. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I solve addition reasoning questions?

Watch today’s video to see the tasks and how to solve the challenges.

4. Maths Reasoning questions
5. 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.

1. 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.
2. Write down which are your favourite facts.
3. 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:

1. 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.
2. 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

Corner Stones

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading

VIPERS

 

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 28^th 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 28^th 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 28^th 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 28^th 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.

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=54CF08BDFC25132B!24309&ithint=file%2cpptx&authkey=!AL_LTsGy7ruy-9M

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.

1. 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?

1. 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
2. Set up your investigation.
3. 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.
4. Draw a bar chart of the 3 total times to display your results.
5. 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 1^st 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 28^th 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 28^th 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 28^th 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: 25^th January – 31^st January
• Grammar and Spelling Challenge: 25^th January – 31^st 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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ymsKEgKtw&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=36&t=0s&safe=active

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 28^th 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

1. 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. 😊

 

2. . 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. 

 

3. 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.

1. You will need to watch the story of Jasper's Beanstalk – See the seesaw video of the story.J
2. 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 5^th 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 4^th 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 4^th 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?

https://vimeo.com/474985075

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 4^th 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 3^rd 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.

1. Introduction
2. Build-up
3. Build-up
4. Problem
5. Resolution
6. 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?

https://vimeo.com/474984809

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.

1. Flour and lentils/rice/similar
2. Tea leaves in water
3. Sugar in water
4. Soil in water – how clear can you get the water?
5. 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 2^nd 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.

1. Introduction
2. Build-up
3. Build-up
4. Problem
5. Resolution
6. Conclusion

Focus: Use adjectives, similes and sentences with relative clauses.

The date and title are:

Tuesday 2^nd 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?

https://vimeo.com/474984652

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 1^st 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 1^st 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?

https://vimeo.com/503132995

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 27^th 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 28^th 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 27^th 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 11^th log on pg 29, and no further.

Write the long date Wednesday 27^th 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 28^th 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.

1. 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.

2. 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 27^th 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.

1. What is the name of the local parish?
2. Where is the parish church?
3. What is the name of the parish priest?
4. What does the local parish do to spread the Good News? (What activities are happening in the church?)
5. How does the school and parish link up? (What activities is school directly involved in with the church?
6. 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3DA6CIyNk&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=29&t=0s&safe=active

Games – Blast off

https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Blast%20Off.pdf   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLBI5KvarD8&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=24&t=0s&safe=active

 

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 1^st 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

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 9s.

125, 750, 1420, 500, 335

1. Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
   1. Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
   2. 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).
2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use the column method for adding decimals?
3. 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.

Key French sounds

This week, we are learning weather vocabulary. Here’s a song to start.

Weather vocabulary song

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.

Quel temps fait il?

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?