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
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&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.
| Person | Reason they are unavailable |
| Her best friend, Belinda | |
| In Kent on a business trip. |
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
- How fast can a cat run?
- True or false? Cats that live indoors are safer than cats that go outside?
- True or false? A Sphynx cat has lots of fur?
- What might a cat do if it feels scared?
- 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.
- What was the pepper for?
- Did the soap make any difference? Explain your answer.
- 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
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:
Geography:
Now, onto our learning for today…
Reading
Maths
Geography
20 April 2020: Home learning
Welcome back, everyone!
A word from Miss Wilson…
Morning, guys! Hope you all had a great “break” and you’re keeping happy and healthy in this month-long-Sunday we’re currently experiencing. It’s been amazing hearing from you all and seeing what you’ve been getting up to! I’ve been enjoying the sun, PE with Joe Wicks and catching up with family and friends over video chat, doing a few quizzes! Email me (jenwilson@spherefederation.org) to let me know what you’ve been doing – pictures, too, would be awesome!
A word from Mr Wain…
Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you have all had a fantastic Easter ‘break’ and have managed to get up to lots of fun things! I hope you are all doing well and please feel free to email me sharing some of the things that you’ve been up to during our break!I’ve been extremely thankful for the lovely weather we’ve had – I’ve been in the garden a lot: reading, listening to music and kicking my football about!Just a reminder that my email is: oliwain@spherefederation.orgPlease use it to email me with any questions you have about any of our learning or just to share what you have been up to!Keep happy and healthy,Mr Wain
Ok, let’s get started! Today’s tasks are maths, writing and reading.
Y6 Maths – LO: four operations
Click here for today’s questions. Write the answers in your home learning book. If you’ve forgotten some of the ideas, your CGP books might help. Remember, you can email me if you’re still unsure.
Challenge
Choose one of the problems and write your own similar question. Send me a photo of it for me to have a go!
Y5 Maths – LO: calculate perimeter
Reading
This week’s reading centres around a text called The Cave. Your learning today is a mix of retrieval and inference.
First, you should read the text. Then, your first task is to draw and label a picture of Mary. You have done this before in your reading lessons at school. If you’re feeling arty, you could draw an actual picture of Mary or you could draw an outline (like a Gingerbread person). Around the outside of your person, you should label it with things from the text. This could be facts (eg her toenails are painted) or it could be inferences you’ve made about her personality (eg I think she’s brave because…).
Your second task is to imagine you are Mary when she realises that she is in a cave (towards the end of page 1). Your task is to draw what she can see around her – remember this isn’t an art lesson. Once you’ve drawn everything, use evidence from the text to label your picture. For example, you could label the floor as ‘highly uneven, but largely flat’.
For a challenge, you could write either a short setting description, or a short character description (or both!). Whichever challenge you choose, remember to use evidence from the text and send me a photo of it if you like! You might even star in #HoHLF!
20 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning Year 2!
We hope that you have enjoyed the Easter break and are ready to get back to some home learning tasks. We will continue with the same structure as before. PLEASE send us your completed tasks as we would like to see how you are all doing. So far, we have been incredibly impressed by all your efforts (parents too) and we are very proud of everyone.
We are all missing each other and school life. Just keep going – you’re doing a great job! 
Please contact us if there are any queries or if you just want to touch base. We will aim to reply the same day.
carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org
jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org
To help with homeschooling, BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons launches on Monday 20 April. We are going to look through these lessons with a view to using some of them. We will keep you posted! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Let’s get going!
Here are your home learning tasks for today.
There are some optional challenges too. We will also give you a suggested physical activity and mindfulness activity to help you to keep physically and mentally healthy.
Physical activity: Why not start your day by joining in with the free live PE with Joe video for kids. These sessions will be running daily at 9am.
Mindfulness Matters Activity (we usually do these straight after lunch but it can be included at any point in the day): OK breathing – Make an ‘ok’ sign on your tummy and slowly breathe in and out. This sign is to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions. No emotions are bad. Emotions change and you won’t feel like that forever. Play some relaxing music just like we do in school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUXEeAXywCY 
Task 1 Reading
Here’s the fluency text for this week. The children are used to having these texts weekly in class and they are aimed at developing the children’s fluency when reading.
A Helicopter Tour of London
Before you read the text, study the picture. What can you see? Are there any places that you have been to?
1. Read the non-fiction text below based on a helicopter ride over London.
2. Copy out words you are not sure of. Try to find out some of their meanings using a dictionary text or online.
3. Reread the text and record two new facts, in full sentences, you have found out. I have found out that ……………………… I didn’t know that ………………………….. 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! Challenge: Can you find and correct my mistakes? london is the capital sity of England and the queen lives in Buckingham palace
Task 2 Maths
To start with, chant your 5 times tables to 12 x 5 = 60 Can you do it backwards? Fractions
LO: I can make equal parts.
Notes Children explore making and recognising equal and unequal parts. They should do this using both real life objects and pictorial representations of a variety of shapes and quantities. Below are some helpful questions to ask your child regularly. What is the whole? What are the parts? How many parts is the object/quantity split into? Are the parts equal? How do you know? Do equal parts always look the same?
Next, using a piece of A4 paper, how many ways can you fold it to make equal parts? Try folding in half first and remember, the parts must be equal.
Next, follow this link and complete the activity.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ Week 1 Lesson 1 Make equal parts There is a short video and a worksheet. When you have finished you can mark your own work using the answers provided. Good luck!
Challenge Can you split the teddies into three equal groups? 
Can you split the teddies into three unequal groups?
How many ways can you split the teddies into equal parts?
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Task 3 Writing The spelling rule this week is drop the y for an i. Each word is a noun. When making the noun plural (more than one) you need to follow the rule.
Don’t forget to spend some time on Spelling Shed to practise these words. Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.
| lorry | family | party | cherry | city | baby | lady | worry |
| lorries | families | parties | cherries | cities | babies | ladies | worries |
Write 5 crazy sentences using some of your spelling words. The crazier the better!
Can you help me? I think I’ve made a few mistakes
Write out my sentence in your BEST handwriting and underline the corrections. Mrs Freeman’s silly sentence. The cheeky babys slowly drove the lorrys.
Challenge1: Test me! Using your spellings, can you think of an incorrect sentence to send to me? Will it be correct when I send it back?
Challenge 2: Draw a picture for each spelling and label it. You could draw one teddy or you could draw five teddies.
WELL DONE YEAR TWO!
20 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year One!
How are you all? Well I hope!
I hope everyone had a great Easter and enjoyed a little break from the learning tasks. Thanks to those who continued to send me emails – It was great to see lots of you having fun completing the different tasks.
Now back to the learning tasks…
Writing
Look at the picture below from ‘Pobble 365’ and write sentences about what you can see.
If you want to see the picture clearer, click on the link below.
https://www.pobble365.com
When writing your sentences, remember to use:
- capital letters
- finger spaces
- full stops
Also, can you use ‘and’ in your sentences?
Reading
Read a story of your choice with an adult. Once you have read the story, think of some questions that you would like to ask the adult you were reading it with.
With your questions, you can check if they were listening and if they have understood what you have read.
Use the question words below to help you start your questions:
- who
- what
- where
- when
- how
- why
Maths
In maths, over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be focusing on place value.
Today’s task is about finding one more and one less of any given number to 50.
Find one more and one less of the numbers below:
12 45 31 8 47 20 29 14 33
e.g
Use this hundred square to help you if you need it.
Challenge:
Complete the sentences below:
39 is one more than _____.
40 is one less than _____.
_____ is one more than 26
_____ is one less than 44.
If you would like to send me any learning you have completed or are stuck with anything, please feel free to email me. My email is – benparker@spherefederation.org.
Good luck with today’s tasks!