04 May 2020: Home learning
Hello everyone!
I hope you had a great weekend. It would be great to hear what you’ve been up to.
On a Monday, as you come into school, you usually write one sentence about something you did over the weekend. It would be great if you could do this today and send me a picture of it.
Onto today’s main tasks…
Maths
Reading
For today’s reading task, follow this link to the Department of Education’s letters and sounds YouTube page. Everday, at 10.30am, there is a live phonics lesson. Please take part in today’s lesson – lesson 6. If you are unable to watch it at 10.30am, the session will still be available after.
Science
In our first Science topic of the year, we learnt about materials. Follow this link and complete the BBC lesson to recap some of the knowledge learnt in that topic.
04 May 2020: Home learning
Morning, everyone! Hope you had a great weekend – thank you for the photos and videos! Stay tuned for another episode of the Hall of Home Learning Fame…
Y5 Maths Friday Answers
- a) -3°C
- b) 2°C
- c) 6:15pm
- d) 7°C
- e) -1.3°C
- f) 8:45pm
- g) 3 hours 45 minutes
- h) 4pm and 5pm
Y5 Maths – LO: read and interpret line graphs
Following on from Friday’s learning, today’s task is all about interpreting line graphs. However, this time, there will be some problem solving questions.
These types of questions require you to complete more than one step in order to find the answer – we looked at this on the screencast lesson last Wednesday.
Click here for today’s task.
Then, click here for today’s task!
Y5&Y6 Geography – LO: I know some world-wide countries and some of their major cities.
- Population
- Size (area)
- Location (within the country)
- Main River (if there is one)
- Distinguishable features (e.g. a mountain or national park nearby)
- Climate
- An interesting fact!
- complete it in your home learning book
- on a computer/tablet eg powerpoint or keynote
- on a piece of paper to then stick in your home learning book
- record yourself talking about the country and its major cities
Whichever way you decide to present your work, I would love to see it. So, please do send them over to oliwain@spherefederation.org or jenwilson@spherefederation.org.
04 May 2020: Home Learning
Hello all,
Here’s Monday’s learning tasks…
Reading
This week, all of our reading tasks are about a polar explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. You’ll be learning about his amazing and tragic (bit of a clue there) expedition to the South Pole.
Maths
We’re continuing with shape in maths this week. Click here for the video lesson.
Here’s the worksheet link if the video doesn’t work: Y4 – Maths – Shape – Lesson 5
Science
Finally, here’s your science lesson.
04 May 2020: Home learning
Happy Monday Year 2!
We hope that you have all enjoyed your weekend.
Mrs Freeman and Mrs Taylor are alternating (weekly) setting the home learning. Please contact either of us through the week. However, it is likely to be whoever has set the work that will respond. Thank you
Here are some messages from Mrs Freeman. Hope they work! 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MDTQ2ijowEhiBDsZzdUBWV5RB7cVjL8E
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MLe4DnJzla2h_3dCf9PytLmG5i2qTjU-
It is remarkable how well the children have adjusted to the current situation. It has been great to see so much learning going on at home.
Please stay in touch. jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org
First of all here are the answers to the Venus Fly Trap activity.
Today’s tasks are spellings, reading and maths.
Task 1
Spelling
Here are your spellings for the week.
All the words are homophones or near homophones. A homophone is a word which sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning. They are often, but not always, spelt differently.
Please copy the words into your home learning book using a staircase.
here hear
quite quiet
one won
hole whole
blue blew
night knight
break brake
our hour
I am giving you two extra words to spell this week. These are words that are misspelt a lot in class.
- because
- with
Task 2
Reading fluency In class, we often have mindfulness sessions. These activities can boost the quality of our lives in many ways. In today’s rush, we all think too much—seek too much—want too much—and forget about the joy of just being.
During these unsettled times, we all have more time to just sit and think.
Why Do We Need Mindfulness?
Being mindful helps you:
- pay attention better
- be less distractible
- learn more
- stay calm under stress
- avoid getting too upset about things
- slow down instead of rush
- listen better to others
- be more patient
- get along better
- feel happier and enjoy things more
Read the poem below. Make a note of any new words or phrases.
Breathe and Be
I breathe slowly in,
I breathe slowly out. My breath
is a river of peace.
I am here in the world.
Each moment I can breathe and be.
I watch the stream.
Each thought is a floating leaf.
One leaf is worry,
another leaf is sadness.
The leaves drift softly away.
I breathe slowly in,
I breathe slowly out. My breath
is a pathway of peace
moving softly through me.
Each day I can breathe and be.
Please read this poem every day. Try sitting or lying down in different positions or places.
I would like you to send some pictures, or films, of yourselves reading your fluency text out loud. Towards the end of the week, I will put them together for a class news post.
Get reading!
Mrs Freeman
Optional activity
Safari
The Safari exercise is a great way to help kids learn mindfulness. This activity turns an average, everyday walk into an exciting new adventure.
Tell your children that you will be going on a safari: their goal is to notice as many birds, bugs, creepy-crawlies, and any other animals as they can. Anything that walks, crawls, swims, or flies is of interest, and they’ll need to focus all of their senses to find them, especially the little ones.
Adults can do this too! A similar exercise for adults is the mindfulness walk. This exercise provokes the same response in children that a mindful walk elicits in adults: a state of awareness and grounding in the present.
Task 3
Maths
Starter
Write these numbers as words. 99 37 12 54 8 76
LO: Fact families addition and subtraction bonds to 20
Complete this lesson.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Challenges
Chapter Twelve Part 2
01 May 2020: Home learning
Answers for Thursday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths answers
Click here.
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: interpret line graphs
Following our Autumn term based recap of our learning, today’s work involves interpreting line graphs.
There are 7 questions followed by a challenge – give it your best shot. If you need a little bit of help, you know where to find me!
Click here to start.
Y6 Maths – LO: decimals
Write a story that goes with these calculations:
8 – 5.3
guide to remind you of the difference between facts and opinions.
Y5&Y6 Geography – LO: I know some European countries and their capital cities.
Today’s learning follows closely from yesterdays. Yesterday you were asked to pick six new countries in Europe and find out and remember their capital cities.
Here are six that I learnt!
- Latvia – Riga
- Moldova – Chisinau
- Slovenia – Ljubljana
- Estonia – Tallinn
- Montenegro – Podgorica
- Lichtenstein – Vaduz
Using four out of the six new capital cities you have learnt, you are to create a fact file for each one! In your fact file, I would like you to provide the following information:
- Population
- Size (area)
- Location (within the country)
- Flag
- Language
- Currency
- Main River (if there is one)
- Distinguishable features (e.g. a mountain or national park nearby)
- Climate
- An interesting fact!
Remember, when researching your capital cities, be safe online and think about how we kept safe online whilst in school!
If you have any questions about this learning or are stuck at all, please email me – I’m always willing to help!
Keep smiling!
01 May 2020: Home Learning
Hi all,
I can’t believe it’s the end of another week. Well done! I hope it’s been a good one for you. Fingers crossed for better weather next week.
Here are the answers from yesterday’s learning:
Y4 – Maths – shape – Lesson 4 – ANSWERS
5. Geography ANSWERS compass points
Today’s learning:
As always, Friday’s are our Love of Reading session. Sit down and enjoy a good book. Read with an adult, discuss what you’re reading. Discuss what your adult is reading.
Maths is a break from the lessons today and a nod towards the really good resources on BBC Daily Lessons. Each Friday, they post some challenges. Choose from the activities and have a go at them by clicking here.
Our third lesson is a music lesson. Again, it’s on the BBC Daily Lessons site. There’s some reading, a video and some activities all around pulse and rhythm. I found this tricky! Pulse and rhythm are two musical elements – there are many more: pitch, dynamics, timbre, etc (see the age-related expectations on the school website for more information). Click here for the link to the lesson.
01 May: Home learning
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.
01 May 2020: Home learning
Hello Year 1!
Here is today’s learning…
Maths
Reading
Art
Today I would like you to get creative. Draw a circle on a piece of paper. Then turn that circle into a picture. Here are some examples. You could take it in turns to complete a circle picture with someone in your house. I would love to see what designs you come up with.
Have a great weekend, Year One!
30 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi everyone!
Here are the answers from yesterday’s learning:
Y4 – Maths – Shape – Lesson 3 – ANSWERS
Here’s today’s learning:
Click here for the maths lesson.