Chapter Eleven Part 2
27 April: Home learning
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.
27 April 2020
Hi all,
Hope you had a nice weekend!
This week, your maths lessons are a little different. Each day there’s a link to a video. Watch the video, listen to me teaching and modelling and then do the activities on the video. You’ll need to pause the video to do the activities. The good thing is that you can rewind and watch the teaching and modelling again if you don’t understand anything.
The maths slides are colour coded and will be the same each day:
green = teach
This is me teaching and explaining things. You just need to listen carefully. Rewind and watch again as many times as you need to.
pink = model/examples
This is me modelling how to complete the activity that you will be doing. Again, all you need to do is listen carefully.
grey = activity
Listen to me explain and then pause the video and complete the task in your books. Check your answers. If you get stuck, rewind and watch the green or pink.
blue = challenge
These are reasoning and problem solving challenges. It’s your opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in the previous activities. Some of these can be tricky so do your best. If you’re finding one of these particularly difficult, just leave it.
If, for whatever reason, you can’t watch the video, the worksheet link is there as well. Don’t worry about printing them unless you want to.
Okay….
4. Geography Mountains and hills UK
27 April 2020: Home learning
Hello, Year 1
I hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed the sunshine as much as possible.
There is a slight change to how the tasks are presented. I will now post a link to some of the tasks so that those who want to, can print them off. Obviously, there is no expectation to print off the sheets but I feel it’s an easier way to view the learning.
I hope that makes sense.
Here is today’s learning:
Good luck with today’s tasks. Let me know if you have any problems.
27 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Monday, everybody!
As you may know, there have been changes to the home learning (such as the time it is posted and the amount of writing tasks) as we have gone along and this is thanks to your feedback – we greatly appreciate any feedback you may have so please don’t hesitate to let us know!
Moving forward, there will be instances of lessons from BBC bitesize and other similar websites. Also, there will be lessons which simply feature a video of your teacher teaching some of the different home learning subjects, too!
Before we crack on with today’s learning, here are the answers for the learning that took place on Friday.
Y5 Maths
The BBC maths challenge, which was the task for Friday, will contain the answers from Monday and can be found by clicking here.
Y5/6 Geography
The six-figure grid references answers can be found here.
Today’s learning…
Y5 Maths – LO: multiplication and division
Following on from our addition and subtraction learning on Thursday, today’s learning looks at multiplication and division. Click here for today’s task.
Look at Q9. Write your own clues for a number of your choice. Send them in via email and we can challenge the rest of the class!
Chapter Eleven Part 1
24 April 2020: Home learning
Hello
How did you get on yesterday?
Today, your tasks are reading, maths and writing/spelling.
Task 1
Reading
LO: I understand what I have read.
You will need this week’s fluency text in front of you. There are 4 questions to answer.
Welcome aboard this tour of London, the capital city of England. Below us, over eight million people are living and working in one of the most exciting cities in the world. The famous River Thames flows through the city and it is full of slimy eels and oysters. Would you like to try some? Beside the Thames, you can see the tower of London, where the crown jewels are kept, and over in the distance is Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and the rest of the royal family live. Underneath the ground, in London, is a railway network known as the ‘tube’. What a fantastic city this this!
Task 2
Maths
There are two activities for your times tables test. Please complete them by yourself and then ask an adult to mark them for you.
LO: I can recognise a quarter.
This lesson (4) is on the link below.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Challenges
Show your working out.
Well done!
Take a break.
Task 3
Writing
Spelling – Drop the y for an i.
Please test the children on the coloured words. It often helps to put the word into a sentence.
Lots of babies were in the park.
| lorry | family | party | cherry | city | baby | lady | worry |
| lorries | families | parties | cherries | cities | babies | ladies | worries |
LO: adjectives
You have done a lot of writing this week – well done!
Today, you are going to need your adjective head on!
We are going to think about where bog baby lives.
I wonder what it is like?
Choose one of the settings below and list adjectives to describe it. If you are feeling artistic, then draw the setting into your book and put your adjectives all around it.
Remember to write the noun you are describing.
dripping water
buzzing bees
soft breeze
drifting clouds
Think about using your 5 senses.
- hear
- smell
- see
- taste
- touch
Close your eyes and listen to these woodland sounds.
Well done!
You have worked hard this week. Mrs Freeman and Mrs Taylor are very proud of you all!
Enjoy the sunshine!
24 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday, everyone!
We have been listening to your feedback so today’s tasks are again made up of maths, reading and geography! We will be setting much, much less writing tasks. Check out the post from Mr Roundtree. Feedback, comments and concerns are always welcome and greatly appreciated.
(Remember to tune in on Monday for the movie premiere of Y6 #HoHLF!)
Y6 Maths – yesterday’s answers.
Y6 Maths – LO: rounding decimals
Good news! Lots of companies/TV channels/other educational groups are coming together in these strange times! As you may know, one of these is BBC Bitesize (who have even enlisted some well-known names to help them teach a variety of subjects, so keep your eyes peeled in future for those!). I thought we’d give one of these BBC Bitesize sessions a go today! Let me know your thoughts!
Your task today is about rounding decimals. There are three videos to watch (one is a recap of tenths, first) and then there are two activities underneath that I’d like you to complete. I would like you to do activity two – Jerry and Albert’s shopping list – and activity three – the dinosaur decimal challenge.
You could email me with a screen shot of your best scores, a photo of you completing the activities, or your top tips for someone else.
Challenge
Complete activity one – move & learn. It does require some resources but if you haven’t got them, you could make your own! The important thing is this challenge is that you’re practising this maths skill but doing it in a very active way!
Your reading today is a little bit different! As you all know, we’re living through something that will go down in history for our children and children’s children to learn about!
Today’s task is to create a time capsule to record a snapshot of what is happening at the minute, how people are feeling and what we’re all getting up to in these strange times. The idea is that you bury or keep your time capsule somewhere hidden and then dig it up or look through it again in a number of years eg 2030, a decade after this famous year.
First, you must read this Time Capsule ‘How To’ guide.
Finally, click here to see what the time capsule could look like. Feel free to print this one (don’t worry if you can’t), copy some of the things down into your home learning book, or change or adapt it to create your own. It’d be great to complete this with your family so everybody’s feelings and thoughts are captured!
Challenge
Improve your time capsule by adding in other objects such as photos, games or a newspaper! You could even make your own box (although an old shoe box works just fine).
A grid of squares helps the map-reader to locate a place. The vertical lines are called eastings. They are numbered – the numbers increase to the east. The horizontal lines are called northings as the numbers increase in an northerly direction.
Things to remember:
When you give a grid reference, always give the easting first: “Along the corridor and up the stairs“.
If you need a little bit of extra help, then you can click on this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z6j6fg8/revision/4 and it will refresh your mind back to class in December!
Today’s task:
1) Click here to access today’s first task. If you need any help at all or simply just have a question, please email me.
2) Click here for the map symbols for your story. Your task is to create a short story (a paragraph at the most) which substitutes some words and replaces them with map symbols.
Here is an example to help you.
24 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year One!
Before we move on to today’s task, I want to say well done for settling back into home learning so well after the Easter break. I’ve had some fantastic reports from your parents! Keep it up 🙂
Now, onto today’s tasks…
Reading
Today’s reading task is phonics.
The list of words below all contain the ‘ai’ phoneme. However, ‘ai’ is represented in many different graphemes.
Your task is to read the words and sort them into the correct grapheme.
Maths
Today’s maths task is ordering numbers within 50.
In today’s task we will be ordering numbers using the language, ‘largest’, ‘smallest’, ‘more than’, ‘less than’, ‘least’, ‘most’ and ‘equal to’.
I’m going to order the numbers below from largest to smallest using inequality symbols.
> largest to smallest
25 36 41 40
I’m going to look for which number has the most tens. That’s 41 and 40 as they both have 4 tens. Because they both have the same amount, I’m going to look at the ones column. 41 has one one and 40 has zero ones. Therefore, 41 is the larger number. Then I look at the next two numbers. 36 has more tens than 25 so that must be the next biggest. Finally, 25 is the last number I have and it has the least tens.
41 > 40 > 36 > 25
Have a go at the ones below, ordering them from greatest to smallest using the inequality sign.
49 32 23 12
28 21 36 47
26 11 31 40
20 30 45 25
Now, I’m going to order the numbers below from smallest to largest using equality symbols
< smallest to largest
19 29 31 17
I’m going to do the opposite of what I did last time. I’m going to look for which number has the least tens. That is 19 and 17. They both have the same tens so I’m going to look to see which one has less ones. 7 is less than 9 so 17 must be the smallest number. Then, I look at the next two numbers. 29 has less tens than 31 so that is the next smallest number. 31 is the number that is left. It is also the largest because it has the most tens.
17 < 19 < 29 < 31
Have a go at the ones below, ordering them from greatest to smallest using the inequality sign.
13 31 45 21
41 34 29 19
17 18 28 10
49 39 24 42
Challenge:
Fill in the missing numbers.
34 > __ > 12 > 4
__ > 31 > __ > 22
12 < 24 < __ < 45
__ < 23 < __ < 31
Music
I’m sure you’re all missing music lessons on a Wednesday afternoon!
To keep your singing voices in tune (just like mine), follow the link below and complete the music lesson.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4fgrj6
It would be great to see some of your singing efforts.
Good luck, Year One!
24 April 2020: Home Learning
Hello,
Another week is nearly done. Can’t believe how quickly and slowly the weeks are passing. Thanks for all your support this week. I hope you’ve got on okay.
Here are the answers from yesterday’s learning:
4. Reading – Tree booklet non-fiction ANSWERS
Here’s today’s learning:
The reading learning is our usual Love of Reading session. Grab a book and enjoy reading (if possible with or alongside an adult). Chat about what you’re reading.