29 April 2020: Home learning
Hi Y1!
I hope you’re all well.
I’ve had a go at video teaching for a couple of today’s tasks. As you could probably tell, I was a bit nervous!
I hope you enjoy them.
Maths
Learn how to count in 10s Learn how to count in 10s sheet
Reading
Make predictions video Make predictions sheet
Science
Parts of a plant video Parts of a plant sheet
29 April 2020: Home Learning
Hello!
Hope you got on well with yesterday’s learning. Don’t forget to look at the Class News page to see some of the learning that you’ve been doing.
Answers
Maths – Y4 – Shape – Lesson 2 – ANSWERS
Today’s learning
Maths video here.
Maths worksheet Y4 – Maths – Shape – Lesson 3
Today’s third lesson is an art lesson Sketching and shading
Hall of Home Learning Fame
Drum roll, please!
Here is the first ever Hall of Home Learning Fame MOVIE!
Keep sending in your (very fun to watch) entries – videos are ideal – and keep your eyes peeled for a special challenge from me and Mr Wain!
Thanks for working so hard, guys.
Enjoy!
28 April: Home learning
We hope you’ve had your breakfast and you are ready for today’s learning.
Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities for you to try.
Physical activity: Today’s skills are based around cricket (although these skills could be also used in other games). Chance to Shine have now produced five skills based sessions to follow at home.
Mindfulness activity: Try a different activity from Mindfulness for Children Challenge. These activities can support our Living and Learning statement for this week, I recognise mental health is important.
Task 1 reading
Firstly, spend ten minutes on Lexia (if you can access this at home).
Today, we are looking at another image from Pobble365.
She turned in the saddle and looked behind her. Emma could see the others gaining on her.
Digging in her heels, she whispered some words of encouragement in the ostrich’s ears as it burst into full speed. They were making good time, but there was so far still to go…
1. Look closely at the picture and read the text. Then, answer the questions below.
2. What thoughts do you think are going through Emma’s mind?
3.Where do you think Emma is?
4.What do you think it would feel like to ride an ostrich?
5.How do you think the ostrich feels about being ridden?
6.What might be the title for this image?
Challenge: Imagine you can see through Emma’s eyes. What can she see behind her? Draw/describe what you have imagined.
Task 2 maths
Start your maths learning by joining in with this fractions based Super Movers song.
In our fractions learning today, we move onto learning about thirds.
White Rose Maths – Week 2 Lesson 1 Recognise a third
1. Watch the video and complete the activity sheet (on a printed copy or write the answers in your learning book).
2.Check and mark your answers – how did you do?
Challenge:
Task 3: science
Our new science topic is all about plants.
1.Watch the following video as an introduction to this learning.
2.Today you are going to be plant detectives. If you have a garden or when you have your daily walk, we want you to have a plant hunt. Look out for different plants and notice where they are. Remember trees are plants too.
3.Record some of your findings – you could even get some photos of the species you spot. Here’s an example plant identification guide to help you to name the plants you find.
Challenge: Can you name the plants we saw on our walk at the weekend?
Finally, todays’ alternative activity, that you might want to try out at home, is touch typing. Keyboard skills are important to develop and Dance Mat Typing teaches this in a fun way.
28 April 2020: Home learning
Hi!
How did you get on with yesterday’s task? I’m sure you did great!
Here’s today’s tasks:
Reading: Follow this link to watch a short video. Then, click on this link to answers questions about the video.
Good luck! Let know if there is anything I can help with.
28 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi all,
Hope yesterday’s learning was okay for you!
Answers from yesterday:
Today’s learning:
Click here for today’s maths lesson. Here’s the worksheet if you can’t access the video 28th Y4 Maths Shape lesson 2
28 April 2020: Home learning
Answers to Monday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths – yesterday’s answers
Click here.
Y6 Maths – yesterday’s answers
Click here.
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: multiplication
Today’s learning continues with multiplication. There are three sections. Complete the questions starting from the left and working your way to the challenge on the right. Click here to start!
The second part of your learning is to log on to TimesTables Rockstars and challenge me in the ‘Rockslam’ section. Have a few practises in the studio first if you like!
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….
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