Author: Mr Wain

30 March 2020: Home learning

Morning, everyone! Hope you’ve had a good weekend!
Week two already – let’s do this!
Your first task of Home Learning Week Two is to email your teacher! We want to know what you’ve been getting up to, how you are and if you’ve been doing anything fun or one of these crazy challenges floating around!
This week, you could win a chance to feature in the Hall of (Home Learning) Fame – #HoHLF – over on our class news page.
All you have to do is simply send in progress of what you’ve been doing and how you’re keeping happy and healthy! Plus, it really brightens our day – thanks, guys, and good luck!
Right, let’s get down to the three tasks…

Y5 Maths – LO: equivalent fractions

Today we are venturing back to the start of this half term and looking at equivalent fractions – fractions that have the same value but look different.(e.g. 1/2 = 2/4)

Challenge:

Year 6 Maths – LO: compare and order fractions

Challenge:

Year 5 & 6 Reading – LO: comprehension

Your learning today is a comprehension task.

You should read the FirstNews task by clicking on this link: FirstNews comprehension – Monday (it will open as a separate page in your browser when you click the link). Once you’ve read it, answer the questions on page 2 – these questions will help you practice a range of reading skills.

Challenge 1: create your own questions for someone else to answer.

Challenge 2: ask someone in your house to help – they’ll need to be able to read so maybe not your pet dog or your favourite teddy bear. One of you is going to play the role of a ‘journalist’. The other person will play the role of an ‘expert’. The journalist should ask the expert questions that they can answer using the text. The expert uses the text to answer them. You could swap roles, too. Why not go BIG and put on a different voice, dress up or use a hairbrush as a microphone. You could even film it and send it in to us!

Year 5 & 6 Science – LO: materials and their properties

Task 2:

Email a picture of yourself to your teacher with your chosen object.

The more obscure the object (with correctly identified properties), the better your chance of possibly featuring on our #HoHLF – good luck!

28 March 2020: Home learning

Maths answers

1) 2456 x 21 = 51,576
2) 3341 x 32 = 106,912
3) 4010 x 45 = 180,450
4) 6381 x 16 = 102,096
5) 6872 x 58 = 398,576
6) 9022 x 32 = 288,704
7) 4632 x 89 = 412,248
8) 2978 x 77 = 299,306
9) 9898 x 89 = 880,922
10) 8677 x 57 = 494,589
Challenge – (Use the same method for these, too.)
a) 3412 x 232 = 791,584
b) 4302 x 354 = 1,522,908
c) 6487 x 492 = 3,191,604

23 March 2020: Home learning

Hi everybody and welcome to the first Home Learning tasks for Y5!

I hope you’re all doing well and feeling happy and healthy. During this time away from school, let’s continue to be a great team! With that being said, if you have any questions about home learning, please don’t hesitate email me at: oliwain@spherefederation.org.

Remember, your mental health is just as important as your physical health – exercise when/where you can, talk about what’s on your mind and know that we’re all in this together.

This week’s spellings are:

  1. interfere
  2. interchangeable
  3. international
  4. supernatural
  5. superimpose
  6. autograph
  7. automatically
  8. television
  9. telescopic
  10. teleport

Children and parents are reminded to practise little but often and test weekly alongside practising a mixture of times tables and related facts (60 x 7 = 420).

Today, we have maths, reading and writing. Each task should take 30-40 minutes and answers (where appropriate) will be ‘live’ tomorrow morning for you to mark your learning with.

Maths – LO: add more than four digits

Reading – LO: explore and evaluate

Today’s reading task is all about the Viking saga: Odin creates the world. Your task is to watch the video clip (link below). Next, read the transcript that goes with it at least two times. After that, answer these questions in your home learning book and complete the activity that follows.

  1. What did you like about the clip?
  2. What did you dislike about the clip?
  3. Is this similar to anything you have read or watched before?
  4. Are there any words or phrases you liked?
  5. Are there any words or phrases you didn’t understand? If so, find out what they mean and record them in your home learning book.
  6. Could Odin have created any of the homes differently? What would you change about them?

Finally, whilst reading the transcript you have two options:

Option A: read the transcript alone and be as expressive as possible – changing voices for the different characters.

Option B: read the transcript with someone else at home being as expressive as possible, too.

Challenge
Whilst reading the transcript, try acting it out as well in the style of a play!

Writing – LO: audience and purpose

Today’s writing task is to write up your newspaper report that we planned in class last week. All children have been given their plan so they should reference this frequently whilst writing.

Structure R2s:

  • headline
  • paragraphs
  • image
  • caption
  • quote

Grammar R2s:

  • passive voice
  • formal language
  • speech to convey character
  • parenthesis
  • relative clauses

It’s important that you reread each paragraph after writing it and check it’s followed your plan, makes sense, includes R2s and is spelled correctly. If you need to edit, use your purple pen.

Challenge
Record yourself reading your newspaper as if you’re a real newsreader or perform it to someone else!

Remember, you can email me if you need help with any of the learning by using my email address at the top of this post. Thank you for working so hard – you’ve got this!

Mr Wain

Living and Learning: Manners

In this weeks’ Living and Learning session we looked at manners.

In particular, we learnt about manners with a link to hygiene.

We looked at an experiment where children in a class touched different pieces of bread after having washed their hands with soap, after having washed their hands with sanitiser and after having not washed their hands at all.

Also, we explored the vampire method when coughing or sneezing.

Ask your child to explain the outcome of the experiment and what the vampire method is!

Here are some of the spider diagrams the children created that illustrate different manners:

Internet Safety

Technology is becoming increasingly apparent in all of our lives. Because of this, we know that it is of vital importance to stay safe online.

This Tuesday (Safer Internet Day), we talked about different ways to stay safe online – we even thought of our own tips and tricks, too!

Rayn made his own useful mnemonic:

T – Tell people you trust
A – Always check for a padlock
R – Remember you can block
B – Be safe!