Author: Mrs Taylor

It’s Friday, the first day of May and the last learning day of the week.

Today, why not combine your physical activity with your mindfulness activity by doing one of the Cosmic Yoga sessions.

Here are your new learning tasks for today.

Task 1 reading

Firstly, here are the answers to the Captain Tom questions from yesterday.

Today’s learning

We’ll start today’s learning with the spelling test. Here’s a reminder of this week’s words. What was the spelling rule? Yes – drop the y for an i. This week, I have recorded the test so get your pencil and paper ready. Click here when you are ready. Remember your neatest handwriting. You could warm up by drawing lazy eight shapes around your eyes, on your hand or on your adult’s back.

For our reading task today, it’s back to the Venus flytrap fluency text to check your understanding.

1.Reread the fluency text – hopefully this time you will be a bit more fluent. Remember to pause at the punctuation like in my reading.

2. Complete the activity here.

Task 2 maths

It’s times table test day and it would be good to start to include some division questions in the test if your child is ready for that. Start the division questions based on the ten times table first of all such as 100 shared by 10, 20 divided by 10.

Today’s learning

The lesson today is all about measuring longer lengths and heights using metres. This follows on from yesterday’s learning (White Rose home learning – Summer Term Week 1 lesson 3) so if you didn’t complete it yesterday, do that lesson first.

1.Start your maths learning by joining in with this length and height Super Movers song.

2. Complete the White Rose lesson and activity sheet – Summer Term Week 1 lesson 4 and check your answers.

Challenge: At the moment, if you do have to go out, the current social distancing recommendation is two metres. Can you measure this out? If you can, what does it compare to in your house? This video gives some suggestions.

Task 3: RE – Ramadan

Our final task of the week is an RE task. Some of our friends in school are one week into the month of Ramadan but what is Ramadan?

1. Look at the information and watch the videos on this Newsround page.

2.What did you learn about Ramadan?

3.What surprised you about Ramadan?

4.Why is Ramadan different this year?

5. Finally, think of a question you would like to ask someone taking part in Ramadan.

If you are taking part in Ramadan at home at the moment, we would love to hear what this involves for you and your family.

Optional extra activity

Finally, we know we’ve got some budding artists in the class so why not try a draw along session led by children’s illustrator, Rob Biddulph.

Have a great weekend – stay safe and stay connected! We’ll be back on Monday.

 

 

Hope everyone is ok and staying safe at home. Don’t forget to have a look at the class news page to see some of the learning and photos we’ve been sent.

Here are some ideas for a daily physical and mindfulness activity for you to try.

Physical activity: The Davies Sports 60 Second Personal Challenge is a weekly challenge you can set yourself to help improve your fitness. These challenges only take 60 seconds to complete and require little-to-no equipment. Each day of the week complete the challenge, note down how many you can do and try to beat your score the next day. At the end of the week, track your scores to see how well you have done.

Mindfulness activity: Why not turn your daily walk in a mindful walk focusing on all your senses to notice as many new things as possible – sounds, patterns, colours, textures.

Here are your new learning tasks for today.

Task 1 reading

Firstly, here are the answers to the questions from yesterday.

2. What is the title of the song? The Funny Tummy Song

3. How many verses are there in the song? three

4.Find and copy a word that means  a.unsure worried  b.on your own alone c.upset sad

5.Find two sets of rhyming words from the song. alone and phone, uh-oh and know, dad and sad, must and trust, OK and away

6.Which part of the song is repeated? ‘They’ll help to make it go away’ is repeated twice at the end of the song and ‘If it makes you feel funny in your tummy’ is repeated at the start of verse two and verse three.

Today’s learning

Today, 30th April, is somebody’s very special birthday who you may have heard about in the news. Captain Tom Moore is 100 years old.

1.Read the First News article of his amazing fundraising achievement (story number 3 – Moore and more and more money raised!).

2.Answer the questions (that follow the text).

Challenge: This story is just one of the many positive stories about how people can make a difference at this time. Can you think of any other examples? For example, a friend of mine has made 1,300 plastic visors to give to hospitals and care homes.

Task 2 maths

Yesterday’s challenge answer is below.

Tomorrow will be your times table test so spend sometime, if possible, on Times Tables Rock Stars today.

Today’s learning

We’re beginning some new learning about measuring length and height starting with using cm. These are the objectives, related to measurement, that the children should be aiming to achieve by the end of Year 2.

• choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g);
  temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
• compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

1.Start your maths learning by playing this Topmarks measuring in cm game.

2. Complete the White Rose lesson and activity sheet – Summer Term Week 1 lesson 3 and check your answers.

Challenge: Find some objects at home that are < 10cm and > 10cm. How can you check?

Task 3: Geography

Today, we are going to recap some learning from our earlier geography topic, Where in the world am I?

I can devise a simple map, using and constructing basic symbols in a key.

1. Draw a map of your local area, maybe this could show the route of a walk you’ve been on while you have been at home. Think about the main features you want to show on your map. This might include landmarks such as trees, a park, shops, roads, a church or traffic lights. If you can’t go out walking at the moment, maybe your map could be of school or around your house?

2.It is hard to put lots of information on maps that can easily be read. Therefore maps often have symbols to show important features. The map would have a key to help you read it showing what your symbols mean. Include a key on your map. Here’s some example maps from our learning earlier in the year.

3. Finally, give your map a title.

Challenge: Can you remember the four points of the compass from our previous learning (and a rhyme to help to remember them)? Have a go at one of these compass direction challenges.

Optional extra activity

Finally, we’ve seen how many of you are doing some cooking and baking while you are at home so todays’ alternative activity is to practise one of the cutting skills we learn at school, the bridge hold. Watch this video to remind yourself and then demonstrate this method to an adult at home.

 

Hello, Year 2. We hope you’ve all enjoyed the mostly sunny weekend and you are ready for a new week of learning.

Firstly, here’s a reminder, from one of Mr Roundtree’s daily whole school news posts, with some tips to support this current home learning:

• try to develop a timetable for the tasks and stick to it – children benefit from the routine and it becomes easier
• build in practical tasks like cooking or planning an online shop so your child can use and apply the skills they have (with this in mind we will be posting some suggestions for this each day this week)
• use different devices to access the tasks if you’ve more than one child, or let them have a go at the same task, but provide extra support for the younger, or additional challenge for the older
• if a task looks too complicated for your child, be flexible – they could access the task set by a teacher in one of the other Sphere schools, or they could access some learning from our menu of home learning resources.
• let your child’s teacher know how they’re doing – it’ll help them to stay engaged if they get some feedback (and our teachers are loving seeing all the great learning that’s coming in – check out their Class News pages!)
• equally, feel free to ask your child’s teacher any questions about the learning
• importantly – be kind to yourself and your child: this is a difficult time for us all, so if they’ve done just two of the tasks, plus some reading (20 minutes would be great), some exercise and some other learning from our menu, then that’s a really productive day!

We really do enjoy seeing what you have been doing at home whether it is home learning or other skills that you are all developing so please share this with us to celebrate on our class news page.

Contact us (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) if there is something you are unsure of or if we can provide any other support for you or your child at this time.

Lexia: We’ve got a few children to congratulate for moving to the next level in Lexia – Betsy, Amelia, Olivia, Saif and Sunny. Well done to you all!

Physical activity: Do you want to practise your gymnastics skills or learn some new skills, as demonstrated here by one of our flexible class gymnasts. Why not have a go at #GymnasticsWithMax. It’s not every day that Max Whitlock, an Olympic gold medalist, can be your teacher!

Mindfulness activity: Here’s the chance to explore many different mindfulness activities in the Mindfulness for Children Challenge. Do let us know which ones you find beneficial.

Here are today’s tasks.

Task 1 reading

First of all, here are the answers to the fluency text questions from Friday.

Here’s the fluency text for this week linked to our new science theme, plants. Aim to read this daily so that by the end of the week you will become more fluent when reading it.

You can listen to me reading the text here.

1.Read the fluency text.

2.Underline or copy out the words you are not sure of. Try to find out their meanings using a dictionary or online.

3.Tell someone three facts about Venus flytraps.

4.Watch the first part of this video to find out more about this special plant.

Challenge: Can you use your online searching skills to find out another fact about this plant?

Task 2 maths

Warm your maths brain up by playing Karate Cats Maths. There are lots of maths games to choose from but today select the Fractions game.

We’ll continue our learning about fractions today.

White Rose Maths – Week 1 Lesson 5 Find a quarter

1. Watch the video and complete the activity sheet (on a printed copy or write the answers in your learning book).

2.Check your answers – how did you do?

3.Using some objects at home, follow the examples on the video to sort the objects into four equal groups to find a quarter of the total.

4.Think about which numbers this will, and will not, work with to get four equal groups.

Challenge: 

Task 3 writing/spelling

Hopefully you were successful with your spelling test last week.

This week, all the spellings are adverbs where the y has been dropped for an i before adding the suffix ly. In the left column, are the words as adjectives and in the right column are the words after they have been changed to an adverb. On Friday, please test your child on either word.

These spellings have also been added to your child’s Spelling Shed account. Spelling Frame also has spelling games as an alternative online resource (Spelling tiles has some good suffix based activities).

1.As the spellings this week focus on adverbs (words that add more detail to verbs), here’s a BBC Bitesize lesson all about adverbs for you to complete.

Challenge: Can you act out some of the adverbs from your spellings (or any other adverbs) and send us a photo for us to guess the adverb?

Other skills

We know lots of you are learning other skills while you are at home – gardening, cooking, household jobs and much more so here’s a suggestion for doing something a bit different today. How about starting singing?

Have a great day of learning and keep look at our class news page to see some of your fantastic home learning work.

 

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.

Look what appeared in our garden yesterday morning!

Luckily, this wasn’t real but it was our April fool based on Google 3D animals. Have you tried it?

Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities plus today’s learning tasks.

Physical activity: The new #ThisisPE video is all about footwork patterns.

Mindfulness activity: Today, why not try this secret treehouse guided meditation.

Lexia

Today’s Lexia stars are Penelope, Zhuokai and Sunny who have achieved their next level.

Spellings

Just one more day until your spelling test. Here’s a reminder of this week’s words.

grinned, dropped, stumbled, confused, hurried, tidied, groaned, splashed

Why not try some word shapes with your spellings today. The tall boxes are needed for letters that have ascenders (b, d, h, k, l and t) and if there is a letter with a descender (f, g, j, p, q and y), then the box needs to be lower than the other boxes.

Task 1 reading

***** Apologies  – here are the answers from yesterday’s Mystery Key comic comprehension. ******

We’ve had a query from a parent about whether answers for a reading comprehension should be recorded as a sentence or not. We tell the children that, in this instance, they do not need to answer in a full sentence but simply to record the answer as show below. Sometimes, this type of learning might be timed so the children are advised to use their time effectively and record simple answers. Hope that makes sense!

a.Why were the pirates following the map? to find the treasure/to use the key

b.Why did the pirates not want to go down the cliff? because ospreys might be there and they have sharp beaks

c.What did the pirates use a pulley for? to pull up the chest

d.Find and copy two words to describe the donkey. nosey and grey

e.Find and copy a word that means a box. chest

f.Put these places, that the pirates visited, in order.

4  Osprey Cliff      2   smoky volcano      3   stony valley    1    grey boulder beach

The adjectives used in the poem were mystery, grey, boulder, smokey, stony, nosey, grey and sharp.

1.Read through the fluency text again (below) and this time try to use some expression as you read.

Table Manners         

The Goops they lick their fingers,

And the Goops they lick their knives,

They spill their broth on the table-cloth,

Oh, they live disgusting lives.

The Goops they talk while eating,

And loud and fast they chew,

So that is why I am glad that

I’m not a Goop. Are you?

By Gelett Burgess

2. Answer the following questions about the text.

a. What kind of text is this?

Choose one               story              instructions             poem            recount

b.Find and copy a word that means not very nice.

c.Find and copy a word that is an antonym (opposite) of quiet.

d.Find and copy a word that rhymes with new. What other words rhyme with new?

e.What does the word broth mean?

f.Find three things that the Goops do that are not good table manners.

3. This week our Living and Learning statement is I use good table manners.

Discuss with someone the different table manners that we should use (not based on what the Goops do!).

Challenge: What do you think a Goop looks like? Draw and label a picture of one.

Task 2 maths

Here are your answers from yesterday.

1.

2. 

The first and second patterns use two shapes.  The colours of the shapes are different. In the 3rd pattern, one shape is used in different orientations. In the 2nd pattern, the shape is used twice each time.

Today’s learning

Start by listening to this counting song from Super Movers.

Today’s learning is based on a problem from nrich maths website.

Challenge: Are there any other totals that would work?

Task 3 Toys now and then

Think back to the story, PEEPO!, from yesterday.

1.Discuss with someone if the things in PEEPO! are the same as now or different. How do you know?

2.Using the picture of ‘porridge’ from the book, find three similarities (the things which are the same) to now and three things that are different.

3. Look at the diagram below. Can you add more facts to it?