Homework

22 April 2020: Home learning

Good morning everyone!

Here are the answers to the Cats activity.

1.  How fast can a cat run? up to 30 miles per hour
2.  True or false? Cats that live indoors are safer than cats that go outside? True
3.  True or false? A Sphynx cat has lots of fur? False
4.  What might a cat do if it feels scared? hiss
5.  A long time ago, who were cats were very special to?  ancient people in China and Egypt

Your tasks today are maths, writing and reading.

Task 1

Maths

Use your hundred square if you need to. Do you notice any patterns when you cross 100?

Count in 10s from 30 – 170

Count in tens from 190 – 60

Play ping pong tennis using your 5 times tables. (each person takes it in turns) How fast can you go?

Lesson 2 and 3

LO: To recognise and find a half.

There are 2 lessons on the White Rose site that cover halves. This is the scheme we use in school and the children are very used to it. Over the rest of this week, the children need to complete these two lessons – they don’t have to both be done today.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Following those lessons, I have provided some challenges to further the children’s understanding of equal parts and halves. Again, spread these out over the week.

Equal or unequal?

True or false?

All of these are split into equal parts.

Can you draw them and make sure the parts are equal?

Task 2a

Reread the fluency text for this week. There will be some questions to answer on Friday.

A Helicopter Tour Over London

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 is! 

Task 2b

Our Living and Learning statement this week is:

I recognise emotions in myself and others.

Recognising emotions is an important first step in helping us manage our feelings. For example, it’s ok to feel angry, as long as we try to manage it in a way that doesn’t negatively affect other people. It’s great to feel proud as long as it doesn’t lead to showing off.

Read the poem below.

 There are two activities linked to the poem. 

1. Talk about favourite words and phrases.
2.  Can you find a word, in the poem, that follows this week’s spelling rule?

Challenge

Make a list of things that make you feel cheerful, sad, angry, frightened and calm. Why do you think I have coloured some of the emotions? What colours would you choose for frightened and calm?

TAKE A BREAK 

Task 3

Writing

Did you enjoy the beginning of the story?

I wonder if your predictions were correct?

Would you like to hear the rest?

Follow the story using yesterday’s link.

Sit back, relax and listen.

This is what she saw!

Lots of bog babies!

Yesterday, you wrote lots of adjectives about the bog baby.

Today, you are going to write a character description using some of those describing words.

Let’s remember some MUST DOs!

•  capital letters
•  punctuation at the end of a sentence
•  spaces between words
•  clear and neat handwriting

I have written a couple of sentences to help you .

The bog baby is light blue. 

The creature has small wings. 

Challenge

Join two sentences together by using a conjunction.

The bog baby is light blue and he has small wings.

Good work everyone!

21 April 2020: answers

Y6 Maths – LO: solving problems

1)3 Zids and 4 Zods
2) The 5 possible ways of making 140 are:
28 Zids
21 Zids and 5 Zods
14 Zids and 10 Zods
7 Zids and 15 Zods
20 Zods

Reading – LO: retrieval

Click here for the answers.

22 April 2020: Home learning

Howdy!

Here are the answers from yesterday’s learning:

2. Reading – tree poem RIC ANSWERS

Maths Tuesday answers

2. ANSWERS Counties

Here’s today’s learning:

3. Reading – Beautiful Blossom non-fiction

Maths Wednesday

Writing – recap

Writing – adverbial activity

Chapter Ten Part 2

Hello all,

That Uncle Quentin, eh?! Can’t believe he’s going to sell George’s island.

21 April 2020: Home learning update

Hi everyone!

Here are the photos for today’s learning – for some reason they didn’t show up on the original post; apologies.

Maths – Monday answers

Y5 Maths – LO: area of rectangles

Building on from yesterday’s work on perimeter, today we are going to be finding the area of rectangles.

How do we find the area?

Recap: To find the area of a shape, we need to multiply the length by the width

eg:

8cm x 2cm = 16cm

However, with area, we are looking at the number of squares that cover the whole shape.

Like this:

As we can see, there are 16 squares.

Therefore, when writing down what the area is, we say: 16cm squared.

We write it this like: 16cm²

Today’s task:

1)

How many rectangles can you draw with an area of 30cm² ?

2)

3)

4)

Y5&6 Writing – LO: ENPs

 

Building from our ENPs at a sentence level yesterday, your task today is to write a paragraph describing the setting you are currently in.

Before you start, have a look at this picture below.

This is a picture of a place called Kotor. It’s in Montenegro.

 

Below is a setting description for Kotor which contains ENPs.

Your task is to describe your current setting.

Tips:

-Use your sentences from yesterday in your writing – these will help you!

-Use my example to help you with your work, too. Can you magpie any bits you like from mine and make them relevant to your setting? I’m sure if there are some clouds in the sky today you could alter this one.

 

R2s:

-Different sentence starters (light and fluffy, several buildings…, casting shadows etc)

 

–ENPs

-Relative clauses (, which is substantial in the area,)

 

–Ambitious vocabulary (colossal, embellished…)

Please feel free to email over your setting descriptions when you have finished them. Equally, if you need any extra help, please do not hesitate to email me!

Best of luck and keep up the good work – you’re smashing it!

21 April 2020: Home learning

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

Check out the latest edition of the most prestigious awards of 2020 (Y6 Hall of Home Learning Fame) to see if you’ve made the cut!

Today’s tasks are maths, reading and writing.

Y6 Maths  – LO: solving puzzles

Today’s maths is a problem solving task that uses times table facts and mental addition.

Click here for the puzzle to get your brain buzzing!

Challenge
How many different solutions can you find?

Y5 Maths – LO: area of rectangles

Building on from yesterday’s work on perimeter, today we are going to be finding the area of rectangles.

How do we find the area?

Recap: To find the area of a shape, we need to multiply the length by the width

eg:

8cm x 2cm = 16cm

However, with area, we are looking at the number of squares that cover the whole shape.

Like this:

As we can see, there are 16 squares.

Therefore, when writing down what the area is, we say: 16cm squared.

We write it this like: 16cm²

Today’s task:

 

1)

How many rectangles can you draw with an area of 30cm² ?

2)

3)

4)

Y5&6 Reading – LO: retrieval

Today’s learning is all about retrieval.

R2s:

• Identify the key words in the question
• Read the text at least once so you understand
• Scan the text
• Check your answer makes sense

1) Look at paragraph 1. (1 mark)
What two things have been waking Mary recently?

2) According to the text, the previous day had been long and tiring. Why?
Give three reasons. (3 marks)

3) At the end of paragraph 2, Mary mentions two people that she might usually ring for advice. However, she is unable to ring either person. Complete the table below.

4) Look at the third paragraph which begins: As she awoke…
What scratched Mary’s cheek? (1 mark)

5) According to the text, after she hit her head, Mary looked for a landmark in the darkness. She then crouched over and began to move. Is the statement below true or false? Explain your answer. (1 mark)

Mary moved further back into the cave.

6) As she moved, what did Mary choose to do to stay in control and not panic?
Tell me her strategy and one specific example from the text. (2 marks)

7) What injuries did Mary collect on her journey along the cave? (1 mark)

8) Look at the first paragraph of page 2. In the text, it says there was no escape to the left of the cave entrance. Why? Give two reasons. (2 marks)

9) Why were Mary’s hopes dashed? (Tick one) (1 mark)

a) The roof had collapsed and blocked the way.
b) She was exhausted and could not carry on.
c) She did not know which tunnel to choose to escape from the cave.
d) She could see no way out.

10) Look towards the end of the text. When Mary poked her head out into the abyss, she… (1 mark)
a. wondered how high up she was;
b. tried to think of a new plan to get home;
c. thought about which of the many choices for escape she would pick;
d. once more thought about her small number of possible option;
e. day-dreamed about who had won Strictly this week.

21 April 2020: Home learning

Good morning!

I hope you all had a successful first day back of learning tasks.

Here are today’s tasks…

Writing

In yesterday’s task, I asked you to write sentences about what you could see from the picture below.

I also had a go at writing some sentences.  However, I think a few of my sentences are squashed!

Remember, a squashed sentence is two sentences together that are missing a full stop, question mark,  exclamation mark or ‘and’.

Look at my sentences below and help me find where the squash is. When you see a squash, use a full stop or ‘and’.

I can see a man in a fish tank he is all alone.

He is under water there are lots of fish swimming around him.

The man is sitting outside his house he is sat by a fire.

The water is clear I can see the sun shining through.

Remember, if you use a full stop, change the next letter to a capital letter as it will be the start of a new sentence.

Reading

Read one of your favourite stories and choose your favourite character from the story.

I want you to tell me about that character.

Draw a picture of the character in the middle of your page and write words around it.

Think about these questions:

What does the character look like?

What is the character’s personality?

E.g.

Maths

In today’s task you will be counting forwards and backwards.

Count forwards from:

12 to 19

21 to 27

29 to 37

35 to 46

E.g. If I was counting forwards from 7 to 15, I would write:

7   8   9   10   11   12    13   14  15

Count backwards from:

18 to 10

27 to 19

35 to 26

49 to 38

E.g. If I was counting backwards from 15 to 7, I would write:

15    14     13    12    11     10     9     8     7

Challenge:

Answer yes or no to the questions below:

If I counted forwards from 15 to 22, would I count the number 14?

If I counted forwards from 23 to 31, would I count the number 30?

I hope you enjoy today’s tasks!

21 April 2020: Home Learning

Hello there!

Hope that everything went well with yesterday’s learning.

Here are your tasks for today. 

Writing
Lesson objective: To predict events in a story and infer what might happen next.
The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis

This is the text we are going to be reading.

Discuss the children’s first thoughts about what the story/ characters / setting could be.

Have you heard of a bog before? (Clarify what a
bog is using images and an online / dictionary definition)

What might a bog baby be?       What does the front cover lead you to imagine will be inside the book?

What other characters could be involved in this story?

What makes you think this?
Share some ideas about potential plot, setting and characters.

Challenge children to explain the reasons for their ideas.

Listen to and read the first seven pages (2.12 minutes, up to the page where it describes the bog baby). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuH4BdVQOQ   

What do you think will happen next?

What kind of character is the bog baby?

Therefore,what might it do?

What could happen if the children pick it up?

Make a list of the adjectives the author has used to describe the bog baby.

Now, use your prediction skills based on what you have read up to page 7. 
Copy and complete these sentence stems using your predicting skills.
If the children pick up the bog baby ……………………………..
I think that …………………………………………..
The bog baby is …………………………………………….

Challenge 1

Draw a picture of the bog baby and add ten new adjectives to describe the creature.

Challenge 2

Put your adjectives into sentences like this one. Remember the comma if you are using more than one adjective in a list. We have done this in class before.

The blue creature has sharp, pointy toenails.                

Task 2                                                                                                                                                Reading  

LO: I can retrieve.

Read the text below and answer the fact finding questions.

All about cats
There are so many different breeds of cats from very long-haired cats to the hairless Sphinx cat. They were domesticated, or tamed, to be friendly with humans in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago! They are fun pets to have and will soon become a part of the family.

Sphynx cat, a hairless breed

Persian cat – a very furry breed

Cat Facts!
• Cats can run up to 30 miles per hour for short distances.

• Cats were considered sacred to the ancient people in China and Egypt.

• Cats do not have a rigid collarbone like many mammals. This is why they    are able to squeeze through small spaces.

• Cats can see much better than people in low light.

How long do cats live?
Cats who live indoors are much safer than cats who are allowed to go outside as well. If a cat is well looked after and has regular check-ups then it can live to be 20 years or even older.

How do cats communicate?
Cats communicate in lots of different ways. They purr when they are feeling happy and content and hiss when they are feeling scared or threatened. Cats meow to tell us if they are hungry or want to go out and to communicate with other cats.

Questions

1.  How fast can a cat run?
2.  True or false? Cats that live indoors are safer than cats that go outside?
3.  True or false? A Sphynx cat has lots of fur?
4.  What might a cat do if it feels scared?
5.  A long time ago, who were cats were very special to?

Challenge                                                                                                                                          Can you write two of your own fact finding questions? You can research more about cats if you like.

Task 3                                                                                                                                                 Science

LO: Why is handwashing so important?    

The advice being by health authorities is to wash your hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, roughly the same amount of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. In order to ensure that children understand how vital it is that they practise good hand hygiene, a simple, fascinating trick has been developed using soap, pepper and water.

Mrs Freeman tried the experiment at home.

What do you think will happen? Explain why you think this?

Mrs Freeman then puts her  finger in a bowl of soap, before dipping it  back into the bowl of pepper. Will the same thing happen with the pepper?

Explain what has happened.

What happened?

The pepper rapidly moves away from the soap-covered finger.

Your turn

In your books write and draw pictures of this experiment in the correct order. You can number each step and make sure you label your pictures.

Answer these questions using full sentences.

1. What was the pepper for?
2. Did the soap make any difference? Explain your answer.
3.  Did you notice the pepper move? Why do you think this happened?

Challenge                                                                                                                                         With the help of an adult, can you complete the experiment at home. If not, you can watch it here.  Can you think of 3 questions you would like to know about the experiment?                                                                                                              https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/germs-experiment

20 April 2020: answers

Y6 Maths – answers

Y5 Maths 

21 April 2020: Home Learning

Hi all,

Hope yesterday’s learning was okay! Please let me know if you have any issues and I’ll try to help. Email me at paulwilks@spherefederation.org and I’ll get back to you.

First up, we’ve got the answers from yesterday’s learning: 

Maths Monday answers

Geography:

Now, onto our learning for today…

Reading

2. Tree poem RIC

Maths

Maths Tuesday

Geography

2. Geography Counties