Homework

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.

Venus flytrap answers (1)

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

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!

1. Latvia – Riga
2. Moldova – Chisinau
3. Slovenia – Ljubljana
4. Estonia – Tallinn
5. Montenegro – Podgorica
6. 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:

1. Population
2. Size (area)
3. Location (within the country)
4. Flag
5. Language
6. Currency
7. Main River (if there is one)
8. Distinguishable features (e.g. a mountain or national park nearby)
9. Climate
10. 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:

Reading 30.04.20 ANSWERS

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

Problem solving video

Problem solving sheet

Reading

Re-tell main events video

Main events sheet

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: 

Reading 30.04.20

Click here for the maths lesson.

Y4 – Maths – shape – Lesson 4

5. Geography Eight compass points

30 April 2020: Home learning

Hello everyone!

It was great to hear that lots of you enjoyed watching the videos.  I hope you got on well with the learning!

Thanks to those who continue to send photos. Keep an eye out on the Class News page tomorrow for some of the learning you’ve been doing.

Now, onto today’s tasks.

Maths

 Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s video

Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s sheet

Reading

Make predictions video (2)

Make predictions (2)

Living and Learning

Follow this link to the ‘News’ page of the school website.  Once you’re there, scroll down to find the Living and Learning activity.

Enjoy watching the story and thinking of  ways to be kind to yourself. Let me know your ideas!

30 April: Home learning

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.

30 April 2020: Home learning

Answers to Wednesday’s home learning.

Y5 Maths answers

1. 35,441
2. £1,798 left over
3. 663 x 80 = 53,040

Y6 Maths answers

Today’s learning:

Y5 Maths – LO: area and perimeter

I hope yesterday’s video was OK! Moving forward, there will be more videos and I’m sure they will become more streamline during this time!

Today’s learning is about area and perimeter. We did some work on this last week but please do let me know if you have any questions!

Click here for today’s learning.

Y5&Y6 Geography –LO: I know some European countries and their capital cities.

Today’s task is a quiz! Click here to have a go. Have more than one go, can you beat your first score? How many can you get by the end of the day?

Your task is to learn 6 countries and their capital cities in Europe.

These countries must be outside of the UK – so you can’t have England (London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) or Northern Ireland (Belfast).

If you come across a country that you don’t know the capital for, then have a look online, in an atlas or ask someone in your home!

Good luck!