Author: Mr Wain

Knowledgeable Kahooters!

Recently, within our Y5/6 reading lessons, we have been completing Kahoot’s based on texts that we have read.

Our first Kahoot was about the story: Gaby to the Rescue.

Out of 49 of us who played, there could only be three places on the podium.

These have gone to… (drum roll)

Congratulations to Eliza, Daisy and F (whoever you are)!

Keep up the good work, everybody!

 

26 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Friday, everyone.

Hope you’ve managed to enjoy the sun safely and have some lovely plans for the weekend!

 

Maths – LO: find missing angles

Today, we put this week’s learning into action and find missing angles in triangles. Click here to begin.
Challenge
1 and 2
Reading  – LO: summarise a text
Today, we would like you to attempt the infamous ERM challenge! Your task is to read this text, and then summarise it without saying ERM!
Your options are:
to either summarise it to someone in your household whilst trying your best not saying ERM. Members of your household could also give it a go, too!
OR
If it is feasible, you could send a video to your teacher with your attempt(s)!
In books: summarise the text in 20, 10, 5 and 1 word!
Have fun!

Science – LO: Earth Squad

After the success of Defenders of Mathematica, I thought I’d do an investigation into what other games we could play.
Introducing Earth Squad! This game is similar to DoM but instead of maths, you must test your scientific knowledge of animals, plants and the human body as you explore some of the world’s most interesting habitats.
Your task is to reach at least level Ace on two habitats. Go for Pro if you like! Go for all three if you’re up for it!!
Send me a picture of your character and any special items you have accrued.

26 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Friday, everyone.

Hope you’ve all had a wonderful week and have managed to spend some time, safely, in the sun! I’m hoping this weather holds out so that I can have a barbecue this weekend!

Maths – LO: measuring with a protractor 

You know the drill, click here for today’s video.
Challenge
Reading  – LO: summarise a text
Today, we would like you to attempt the infamous ERM challenge! Your task is to read this text, and then summarise it without saying ERM!
Your options are:
to either summarise it to someone in your household whilst trying your best not saying ERM. Members of your household could also give it a go, too!
OR
If it is feasible, you could send a video to your teacher with your attempt(s)!
In books: summarise the text in 20, 10, 5 and 1 word!
Have fun!

Science – LO: Earth Squad

After the success of Defenders of Mathematica, I thought I’d do an investigation into what other games we could play.
Introducing Earth Squad! This game is similar to DoM but instead of maths, you must test your scientific knowledge of animals, plants and the human body as you explore some of the world’s most interesting habitats.
Your task is to reach at least level Ace on two habitats. Go for Pro if you like! Go for all three if you’re up for it!!
Send me a picture of your character and any special items you have accrued

25 June 2020: Home learning

Maths – LO: measuring angles in degrees
Click here for today’s video! You know the drill…
Reading – LO: understand and draw a setting description
Click here for your task! We will be reading a setting description and seeing if we can draw it! There are challenges that lie within…
Spanish – LO: introducing yourself
 
Today, we return to learning Spanish and how to greet people, plus how to say your name and age.
Click here to begin.
Challenge
Draw a comic strip or write a play script for two people speaking in Spanish about their name, age, the alphabet and numbers to ten!

25 June 2020: Home learning

Maths – LO: classifying quadrilaterals

 
Today’s task is similar to yesterday’s apart from using quadrilaterals – shapes with four sides. Click here to begin.

 

Once you’ve finished, have a go at a times tables challenge on this section of the website. Send me your score /60 or how long it took you to complete!
Reading – LO: understand and draw a setting description
Click here for your task! We will be reading a setting description and seeing if we can draw it! There are challenges that lie within…
Spanish – LO: introducing yourself
 
Today, we return to learning Spanish and how to greet people, plus how to say your name and age.
Click here to begin.
Challenge
Draw a comic strip or write a play script for two people speaking in Spanish about their name, age, the alphabet and numbers to ten!

23 June 2020: Home learning

Maths – LO: converting units

Guardians of Mathmatica – lesson 2! Click here for the video! Answer the questions in your home learning book as we go along.

Reading – LO: FirstNews

Today’s task is to read FirstNews!

Send a quick email to show a fact or piece of information you’ve learnt.

Science – LO: animal kingdoms
 
I know how much you guys love learning about animals so click here to start today’s lesson about different animal kingdoms.
 Send a quick email to show a fact or piece of information you’ve learnt.

23 June 2020: Home learning

Maths – LO: angles

Back by popular demand, click here to access today’s Oak National Academy maths lesson.
We will use algebra and bar models to calculate missing angles.
As always, send in a quick email to let me know how you did.

Reading – LO: FirstNews

Today’s task is to read FirstNews!

Send a quick email to show a fact or piece of information you’ve learnt.

Science – LO: animal kingdoms
 
I know how much you guys love learning about animals so click here to start today’s lesson about different animal kingdoms.
Send a quick email to show a fact or piece of information you’ve learnt.

22 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Monday, Y6!
I hope your weekend was relaxing and enjoyable. I can’t believe how quickly time is flying by. You’re nearly at high school – whaaaaat!! 😱
Today’s tasks are maths, reading and Spanish!
 

Maths – LO: scale factors

You guys know what to do! Click here!
Then, click here for your main activity. Use your home learning book to draw and record your answers.
Challenge
x 3

Reading – LO: give a personal point of view

We would love to know what book you are reading at the minute! With that being said, your task today is to give a personal point of view about the book you are currently reading.

We would like you to tell us:

  • what the book is about
  • what has happened so far
  • your opinion of the book and why you have this opinion
  • is it comparable to any other books you’ve read/know about

When describing your opinion about the book, it’s really important that you give reasons for your point of view, too!

When giving your reasons, remember to use words such as: additionally, furthermore, moreover etc when making your points!

Good luck!

Spanish – LO: numbers
 
Click here to access today’s Spanish lesson where we learn about where Spanish is spoken in the world, the Spanish alphabet as well as numbers 1-10.
Grab your home learning books and a pluma o lápiz!

22 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Monday, Y5!

Here are today’s tasks…

Maths – LO: converting units of time

Click here for today’s video!

Reading – LO: give a personal point of view

We would love to know what book you are reading at the minute! With that being said, your task today is to give a personal point of view about the book you are currently reading.

We would like you to tell us:

  • what the book is about
  • what has happened so far
  • your opinion of the book and why you have this opinion
  • is it comparable to any other books you’ve read/know about

When describing your opinion about the book, it’s really important that you give reasons for your point of view, too!

When giving your reasons, remember to use words such as: additionally, furthermore, moreover etc when making your points!

Good luck!

Spanish – LO: numbers
 
Click here to access today’s Spanish lesson where we learn about where Spanish is spoken in the world, the Spanish alphabet as well as numbers 1-10.
Grab your home learning books and a pluma o lápiz!

12 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Friday, Y6!

At school, we’ve enjoyed doing exactly the same lessons that you’ve been doing at home. It’s been great to show some of your photos and videos to the guys at school – keep sending them in!

Maths – answers from 10.06.20

Maths – LO: algebra
Join me for today’s maths lesson where we read some story problems and work out/solve algebraic expressions.
If you need any help, don’t hesitate to email me – jenwilson@spherefederation.org

Reading – LO: summarising a text

Your task today continues our learning about ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’. I would like you to create a book cover for this short story. Think about what happens in the story when creating your book cover.

You could use your feelings graph to help you show what the characters may look like, too.

When you’ve finished, I’d like you to summarise the story of ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’ in the following ways:

20 words
10 words
5 words
1 word

Good luck!

Science – LO: life cycles of animals and humans
Today’s learning is courtesy of Finlay – thanks for suggesting this idea, Fin! – and I found the perfect BBC Bitesize lesson.
Click here to start learning about the life cycles of animals and humans. Watch the two videos and complete the mini activities – there are six in total. Everyone must email me with how you did on the tasks!
If you have any ideas for what we could learn about next, please let me know at jenwilson@spherefederation.org!