Homework

23 April 2020: Home learning

Good evening! This post is ahead of tomorrow morning (23 April) in case you wanted to get started earlier than nine, prepare anything or make sure your learning doesn’t clash with your morning workout!

First, an exciting announcement: next week’s Y6 Hall of Home Learning Fame is going to be upgraded to a video format! Keep emailing Miss Wilson your pictures of what you’ve been getting up to (anything, not just your learning!) so you don’t miss out a chance to star in the video!

Today’s tasks are maths, reading and geography!

Y6 Maths – Yesterday’s answers for working backwards (using the inverse)

Y6 Maths – LO: arithmetic

Hopefully you’ve been keeping on top of your arithmetic skills but let’s see how sharp you are with this arithmetic paper.

**Important note! Q22 should be 645 divided by 43 – the bus stop is missing for some reason! 2 x Golden Tickets to Nayaab for her eagle eyed spot!**

You could complete it as normal, on a 30 minute timer, or if you want to take it steady, take away the timer and do it at your own pace. Remember, check in your CGP books for any hints or tips you may need and you can always email me if you need more help.

Y5&6 Reading – LO: writer’s choice

Your learning today is all about the writer’s choice of language and the specific vocabulary they use.

First, reread the text we’ve been focusing on this week. Then, click here to answer the questions. **Q2 should read: “Look at paragraph six on page two.”**

But! There’s a twist! Once you’ve worked out the answer to each question, you must then find it in the word search on the page underneath!

Challenge
Choose a synonym that the writer could have used for each question. Even better if you discuss your reasons why with someone at home or prepare your own reasons and write them in your home learning book.

Y5&6 Geography – LO: I know some of the main rivers, mountains and regions in the UK.

Today’s task is a crossword puzzle! Use the clues provided to help you figure out the answers.

If you have access to a map, atlas, globe or can view a map on the internet, this will help, too!

Click here to start the crossword!

*when there is an answer with two words, the space is included.*

Remember to email if you are stuck with anything!

Challenge
Compete with a family member to see how fast you can recite all the answers without saying ERM!

23 April 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year One!

How lovely is the weather at the moment! What daily exercise have you been doing? I’ve been finding new places to walk in the local area.

I’m also still taking part in PE with Joe Wicks. It’s so fun!

Onto today’s tasks…

Geography 

Someone who studies geography is a geographer! Your task as a geographer is to remind yourself of the four countries of the UK and their capital cities.

Follow the link below to help you  with today’s task:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdq6t39

Reading

Read the instructions about how to make a healthy Greek salad. Answer the questions in your home learning book.

Challenge:

Follow the recipe to make a Greek salad.

Maths

Your first task today is to complete the sentences below using the phrases:

• more than
• less than
• equal to

Use the 50 square to help

21 is _____________ 27

20 is _____________ 19

34 is _____________ 34

41 is _____________ 38

Now, use equality symbols to compare the numbers below.

23 ___  29

37 ___ 21

40 ___ 4

31 ___ thirty one

forty nine ___ 39

30 ___ forty

Challenge:

22 April 2020: Home learning

Morning everyone!

Hope you’ve registered your lunch choice with your adult (the veg option looks tasty) and have remembered your PE kit – Wednesdays are PE days!

Let’s get started!

Y6 Maths – LO: solving puzzles

Today, we’re practising working backwards and using the inverse to solve I’m thinking of a number puzzles – you’ve done lots of these at school, especially with Miss K! For example:

I’m thinking of a number. If you add four to it, then divide it by three, you get twelve.

Starting with my end number of twelve, we’ve got to work backwards and use the inverse so instead of dividing by three, I multiply twelve by three to get 36. Next, still working backwards, instead of adding four, I take away four. 36 – 4 = 32. The number I was thinking of was 32!

Click here for today’s questions and to see if you can work out the joke that’s hidden in the picture on there!

Challenge
Design some of your own similar questions. If you email them to us, we can choose some for everyone to complete next week! #HoHLF

Y5 Maths – Y5 Maths –  LO: solving puzzles

 

Y5/Y6 Writing – LO: audience and purpose

Mr Roundtree needs your help. He’s been writing lots of website news articles recently, but has started to suffer writers’ block – that is the name for when authors run out of ideas.

The articles are for parents and carers to read, and they offer top tips and other guidance to support parents and carers with their child’s home learning. Your task is to write an article on his behalf – are you up for this writing challenge?

 

Like any piece of writing, we need some R2s (remember to’s). We use these so that our writing keeps its purpose! Also, a website article is very different to a setting description, so we need specific things to (remember to) do so we can make sure our writing is the best it can be!

R2s for a website article:

– A headline (normally quite short and snappy and tells the reader what the article is about)

– A date (so we know when the article was published!)

– Sub headings (these are mini headings which inform the reader what each section is going to be about)

– Sections (the writing is normally split into little sections to make it easier for the reader to digest – or to find something more specific they might be looking for)

– A quote (if you take a look at Mr Roundtree’s previous website articles, he normally includes a quote of some sort!)

What else can we (remember to) do in our news article…

– Bullet points (this makes a list of things clear to see and easy to read)

– Writing in bold and italics (This is used when we want specific bits of information to stand out – eg. teachers will publish the home learning at 7pm the day before.)

 

– Parenthesis (you can use this to add extra information to main clauses – brackets, dashes and commas!)

Y5&6 Reading – LO: inference

Skim over the text from Monday and Tuesday to remind yourself about it. All of today’s questions are about this text.

Now, answer the inference questions.

For a challenge, imagine you are Mary and you are trapped in the cave. You don’t have any mobile reception but you manage to log on to the cave next door’s WiFi and so you can send an email. Choose someone to email asking for help. This could be her husband, her sister or her best friend.

PS I’m aware that if you were on the WiFi you could also send a message or Facetime etc – but an email made for better learning!

22 April 2020: Home learning

Guten Morgen, Jahr Ein!

Anyone know what language that is?

I’ve taught myself a few words from a different language. Have you learnt anything new whilst being in isolation?

If so, please email me and i’ll share it on our Class News page!

Onto today’s tasks…

Writing 

In yesterday’s reading task, I asked you to choose a character from a story and write words about them.

For today’s writing task, I want you to put those words into sentences. When writing your sentences, use ‘and’ to join words together.

E.g.

George is kind and caring.

He is friendly and helpful.

George is thoughtful and selfless.

He is big and tall.

Remember to use:

• Capital letters
• Finger spaces
• Full stops

Maths

Today’s task is about partitioning a number into tens and ones.

It is important to understand how a number is made up of tens and ones, e.g. 34 = 3 tens and 4 ones.

Look at the examples below:

Complete the part-part whole models below by drawing how many tens and ones each number has.

Now, complete the sentences below.

12 has _____ ten and ___ ones.

29 has _____ tens and ___ ones.

30 has _____ tens and ___ ones.

49 has _____ tens and ___ ones.

Reading

Today’s reading task is a RIC.

R – Retrieval

I – Interpret

C – Choice

Read the text below and answer the questions

My name is Sienna and I am six years old. My favourite thing at school is PE because I love running around outside. 

My favourite food is anything sweet. I love cakes , chocolate and fruit. When it is hot and sunny, I love eating ice cream.

I saw some chocolate breakfast cereal in the supermarket and my mum let me get some. Now, I can even eat chocolate for breakfast! 

What don’t I like? Anything with bits in! 

Questions:

Retrieve: What is Sienna’s favourite thing at school?

Retrieve: Name two things Sienna likes to eat?

Retrieve: What doesn’t Sienna like?

Interpret: Do you think Sienna has a healthy diet and why?

Choice: Why does Sienna use an exclamation mark after the sentence, ‘Now I can even eat chocolate for breakfast!’?

Keep up the great learning, Year One!

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.