Good morning, everyone. Today is the last day of daily home learning as we break for two weeks for the Easter holiday. Other optional learning activities will be available for this break.
Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities plus today’s learning tasks.
Physical activity: This video from the cricket themed website, Chance to Shine, focuses on the skill of catching.
Mindfulness activity: Today, why not try some back to back breathing with someone at home. This is something we have tried in class.
1.Begin sitting up as tall as possible and back to back with a partner. You can place your legs however is most comfortable for you.
2. Take a few deep breaths on your own and feel the support of your partner behind you, doing the same thing. You may close your eyes, or keep them focused on one point.
3. After a few rounds of calming breath on your own, notice if you can feel the breath of your partner.
5. You may then begin to breathe together.
Lexia
Today’s Lexia stars are Evan and Inaaya who have achieved their next level.
Spellings
It’s Friday so it is spelling test day. Ask your adult to test you on the spellings for this week (grinned, dropped, stumbled, confused, hurried, tidied, groaned, splashed) by putting the word in a sentence so you understand the meaning and maybe mixing up the order of the words. There won’t be any new spellings for the Easter break.
Have a focus on your handwriting when writing your spellings following our handwriting guidelines.
Task 1 reading
Here are the answers from yesterday.
a. What kind of text is this?
Choose one story instructions poem recount
b.Find and copy a word that means not very nice. disgusting
c.Find and copy a word that is an antonym (opposite) of quiet. loud
d.Find and copy a word that rhymes with new. chew What other words rhyme with new? few, you, who, shoe, dew, blue plus others
e.What does the word broth mean? a type of soup
f.Find three things that the Goops do that are not good table manners.
Any three of the following…licking their fingers, licking their knives, spilling their food, talking while eating and chewing loud and fast.
Here are some other table manners to remember.
Today’s learning
1. Reread the Table Manners fluency text for a final time and if you can, read it to someone that is not in your house maybe over a video call. Remember to use your expression as you read.
2. First News is a weekly child friendly news paper. Here are some articles from this week’s paper to read with some questions to complete. Choose to complete one, two or all three.
Challenge: Here’s a link to the full newspaper. Choose and read another article and tell someone what it is about.
Task 2 maths
Here’s one possible set of answers from yesterday. There are also other possibilities. This problem solving challenge took a lot of resilience!
Today’s learning
1.It’s times table day today so to start with, if you are able to access this at home, spend ten minutes on Times Tables Rock Stars.
Following a couple of requests from parents, we have amended the Rock Stars times tables so that you will now be able to practise x10, x5 and x2. If you would prefer to continue with a single times table, just let us know.
Therefore, for today’s times table test, you should be tested with eight questions. Let your adult know the times table you would like to be tested on.
2. Listen to one of the times tables songs from Super Movers.
3. Complete the following activities based on the 5 times table. Activities based on other times tables can be found here.
Colour in or copy out all of the numbers that are the solutions of the five time table.
Complete the circle by multiplying the number in the centre by the middle ring to get the outer numbers.
Challenge: Using a fact from the five times table, come up with a number story to match the fact. For example, there are six children in a group. Each child has five balls. How many balls are there altogether?
Task 3 Science
Inspired by the fantastic rainbows we have been sent here’s a science experiment for you to try at home. Hopefully you can access the things you need.
If you are unable to do this at home, you could investigate colour mixing and research the primary and secondary colours.
Well done for such a great effort with the learning we have set so far. We hope you all have a safe and healthy Easter break and we will be back with our daily home learning activities in two weeks time.