Author: Mr Wain

12 June 2020: Home learning

Friday’s here Y5 and I hope you’ve all had a fun and productive week!

We at school are doing the same learning as you guys at home!

The final home learning tasks for this week are maths, reading and science.

Maths – LO: equivalent fractions, percentages and decimals

Click here to watch the video and answer the questions as we go along.

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 oliwain@spherefederation.org!

 

11 June 2020: Home learning

Hello everybody!

I’m really proud of all the hard work you have been doing at home. Please remember to keep sending in your work or if you haven’t already, that would be great!

oliwain@spherefederation.org

Maths answers from Wednesday:

Challenge 1:

  1. 0.03
  2. 0.9
  3. 0.25
  4. 0.5
  5. 0.76 – I’m aware I wrote this as 75% on the video. Thanks to Felix for spotting my ‘deliberate’ mistake!
  6. 0.10

Challenge 2:

It could be 50%

It must be 25%

It can’t be 75%

Onto today’s learning…

We have maths, reading and writing.

Maths – LO: percentages as fractions and decimals

Click here for your video! As always, answer the questions as we go along.

Reading – LO: inference

Your task today is to create a feelings graph for Hrungnir throughout the story ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’. This is the story that we read as part of yesterday’s reading task.

Click here to start!

Writing – LO: writing a story
 
Join me, by clicking here, for today’s writing lesson where we go through some R2s for story writing and have a look at a section I’ve written for mine.
Once you’ve finished the video, start writing your own (any order is fine)!
Send in your story to your teacher once it’s finished for some feedback!

 

 

11 June 2020: Home learning

Hello everybody!

I’m really proud of all the hard work you have been doing at home. Please remember to keep sending in your work or if you haven’t already, that would be great!

jenwilson@spherefederation.org

Maths – LO: algebra

Join me as we continue our quest to defend Mathematica! Click here to start our adventure.
When you’re done, click here to resume your own adventure – can you get to shield level four in the Ancient City of Algebra?
Send me an email with your character’s progress!

Reading – LO: inference

Your task today is to create a feelings graph for Hrungnir throughout the story ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’. This is the story that we read as part of yesterday’s reading task.

Click here to start!

Writing – LO: writing a story
 
Join me, by clicking here, for today’s writing lesson where we go through some R2s for story writing and have a look at a section I’ve written for mine.
Once you’ve finished the video, start writing your own (any order is fine)!
Send in your story to your teacher once it’s finished for some feedback!

 

Celebrating Home Learning

I am still ever so proud of the sheer effort and determination you lot are putting into your home learning. It seems like it has been ages but you guys have shown me just how dedicated to your learning you are – it’s wonderful!

Below are some pictures of learning that have been sent to me.

See if you can find your own learning or work out who the other pieces of learning belong to!

Remember, keep sending me your work so I can send you stars and steps and well done again.

10 June 2020: Home learning

It’s the middle of the week already! How time flies…

Today’s learning consists of reading, maths and writing.

Maths – LO: percentages

Today we’re diverging from decimals to percentages.

You know the drill by now – here is the video!

Writing – LO: planning a story
 
Today’s writing lesson uses BBC Bitesize as we learn about the planning process for a story.
You need to read the article, watch the videos and complete activity one. Make sure to check out David Walliams reading a short story for inspiration!
Once you’ve finished, click here to download a plan for a story about travelling to a new world, click here to download a plan for a 500 word dilemma (a problem) story or click here to download a more general plan where you can decide every aspect.
 
You can decide which one you’re going to write!
Tomorrow, we will begin to actually write our story so just focus on the planning today – using the website and writing your plan should take around 40 minutes.

Reading – LO: retrieval

Your task today is to read the following extract from ‘Illustrated Norse Myths’ and complete the task that follows. This can be found at the bottom of the document.

Start the task here.

Please send in your work to oliwain@spherefederation.org

Good luck!

10 June 2020: Home learning

It’s the middle of the week already! How time flies…

Today’s learning consists of reading, maths and writing.

Maths – LO: algebra

We’re continuing our recap of algebra this week. Click here to start today’s video.
Once you’re done, click here for your task.
Remember to start with the letter D, work out the next letter and then work from top to bottom each time to piece together the puzzle. This is quite tricky so don’t worry if you need a break in between completing it but it is very satisfying when you beat the challenge!
Writing – LO: planning a story
 
Today’s writing lesson uses BBC Bitesize as we learn about the planning process for a story.
You need to read the article, watch the videos and complete activity one. Make sure to check out David Walliams reading a short story for inspiration!
Once you’ve finished, click here to download a plan for a story about travelling to a new world, click here to download a plan for a 500 word dilemma (a problem) story or click here to download a more general plan where you can decide every aspect.
 
You can decide which one you’re going to write!
Tomorrow, we will begin to actually write our story so just focus on the planning today – using the website and writing your plan should take around 40 minutes.

Reading – LO: retrieval

Your task today is to read the following extract from ‘Illustrated Norse Myths’ and complete the task that follows. This can be found at the bottom of the document.

Start the task here.

Please send in your work to jenwilson@spherefederation.org

Good luck!

09 June 2020: Home learning

Good morning, everybody!

We hope you are all keeping well and have had a positive start to the week!

Today’s tasks are reading, maths and music.

Y5 Maths – LO: order and compare decimals

Your task is to watch this video and answer the questions as we go along!

Y6 Maths – LO: substitution
Continuing our recap of algebra, here is today’s video (hyperlink: http://somup.com/cY1jQLQQWg). Get your pencil and paper out – be ready to pause the video!

Y5&6 Reading – LO: crossword

Today we’d like you to read this article and complete the accompanying crossword. Page 1 of the puzzle has the keywords underlined in the text. So, use this page if you’re stuck but we’d like you to have a go at the crossword on page 2, first!

Here is a copy of the latest FirstNews.

Good luck! Remember to send an email if you have any questions.

Y5&6 Music – LO: found sounds
 
Today, we’d like you to make music! You need to read this BBC Bitesize lesson (hyperlink: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdh8jhv) and complete activities one and two. Activity three is an optional challenge or you could decide to recreate your favourite song instead!
We would LOVE to hear your fantastic pieces of music so send in a video!

08 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Monday, everyone!

We hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend and are looking forward to a new week of learning.

Today we have maths, reading and french.

Y5 Maths – LO: rounding decimals

Your task is to watch this video and answer the accompanying questions.

Y6 Maths – Friday’s answers
 
Y6 Maths – LO: finding a rule
 
Last week, we recapped percentages! This week, we will recap algebra. I’m always here if you need me – just send me a quick email.
Today, I’d like you to use this BBC Bitesize lesson https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm6296f and complete both activities one and two.

Y5&6 Reading – LO: RIC

Your task is to read this extract from ‘Illustrated Norse Myths’ and answer the accompanying RIC.

Challenge:
Find out the definitions of any words/phrases that are unfamiliar and write them in your home learning book.

Y5&6 French – LO: schools and hobbies
 
Today, we’d like you to learn how to talk about your school and hobbies in French! Use this BBC Bitesize lesson https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z93n7yc and then have a go at activity two. If you’ve got all the materials, also have a go at activity one and make your very own Eiffel Tower!
As always, send in your photos or maybe even an email in French!

Year 5 class photo

Hi everybody!

A parent of a Y5 pupil has organised a class photo for us all via Zoom. This Zoom call will take place at 4 pm on Tuesday 02 June and the details have been emailed out – ask school is you’re not sure. Some of the teaching team and I will be attending and we hope that you can make it, too!