Homework

03 April 2020: Home learning – answers

Here are Friday’s answers:

Y5 Maths:

1. 6/8 or 3/4
   6/6 or 1 whole
   10/3 or 3 and 1/3
2. 7/8
   5/8
   9/10
3. 7/12
   5/9
   9/15 or 3/5

   Challenge:
   Amir ate 8/12
   Whitney ate 3/12

   You could have simplified each amount to:

Amir ate 2/3
Whitney ate 1/4

Y6 Maths:

03 April 2020: Home learning

Good morning, everyone. Today is the last day of daily home learning as we break for two weeks for the Easter holiday. Other optional learning activities will be available for this break.

Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities plus today’s learning tasks.

Physical activity: This video from the cricket themed website, Chance to Shine, focuses on the skill of catching.

Mindfulness activity: Today, why not try some back to back breathing with someone at home. This is something we have tried in class.

1.Begin sitting up as tall as possible and back to back with a partner. You can place your legs however is most comfortable for you.
2. Take a few deep breaths on your own and feel the support of your partner behind you, doing the same thing. You may close your eyes, or keep them focused on one point.
3. After a few rounds of calming breath on your own, notice if you can feel the breath of your partner.
5. You may then begin to breathe together.

Lexia

Today’s Lexia stars are Evan and Inaaya who have achieved their next level.

Spellings

It’s Friday so it is spelling test day. Ask your adult to test you on the spellings for this week (grinned, dropped, stumbled, confused, hurried, tidied, groaned, splashed) by putting the word in a sentence so you understand the meaning and maybe mixing up the order of the words. There won’t be any new spellings for the Easter break.

Have a focus on your handwriting when writing your spellings following our handwriting guidelines.

Task 1 reading

Here are the answers from yesterday.

a. What kind of text is this?

Choose one               story              instructions             poem            recount

b.Find and copy a word that means not very nice. disgusting

c.Find and copy a word that is an antonym (opposite) of quiet. loud

d.Find and copy a word that rhymes with new.  chew What other words rhyme with new? few, you, who, shoe, dew, blue plus others

e.What does the word broth mean? a type of soup

f.Find three things that the Goops do that are not good table manners.

Any three of the following…licking their fingers, licking their knives, spilling their food, talking while eating and chewing loud and fast.

Here are some other table manners to remember.

Today’s learning

1. Reread the Table Manners fluency text for a final time and if you can, read it to someone that is not in your house maybe over a video call. Remember to use your expression as you read.

2. First News is a weekly child friendly news paper. Here are some articles from this week’s paper to read with some questions to complete. Choose to complete one, two or all three.

Challenge: Here’s a link to the full newspaper. Choose and read another article and tell someone what it is about.

Task 2 maths

Here’s one possible set of answers from yesterday. There are also other possibilities. This problem solving challenge took a lot of resilience!

Today’s learning

1.It’s times table day today so to start with, if you are able to access this at home, spend ten minutes on Times Tables Rock Stars.

Following a couple of requests from parents, we have amended the Rock Stars times tables so that you will now be able to practise x10, x5 and x2. If you would prefer to continue with a single times table, just let us know.

Therefore, for today’s times table test, you should be tested with eight questions. Let your adult know the times table you would like to be tested on.

2. Listen to one of the times tables songs from Super Movers.

3. Complete the following activities based on the 5 times table. Activities based on other times tables can be found here.

Colour in or copy out all of the numbers that are the solutions of the five time table.

Complete the circle by multiplying the number in the centre by the middle ring to get the outer numbers.

Challenge: Using a fact from the five times table, come up with a number story to match the fact. For example, there are six children in a group. Each child has five balls. How many balls are there altogether?

Task 3 Science

Inspired by the fantastic rainbows we have been sent here’s a science experiment for you to try at home. Hopefully you can access the things you need.

If you are unable to do this at home, you could investigate colour mixing and research the primary and secondary colours.

Well done for such a great effort with the learning we have set so far. We hope you all have a safe and healthy Easter break and we will be back with our daily home learning activities in two weeks time.

03 April 2020: Home learning

02 April 2020: Answers

Y5 Maths:

3.

Y6 Maths:

Y5 and Y6 Reading:

Across
3. feat
6. rehabilitation
7. metres
Down
1. dribbling
2. volunteers
3. fortunately
4. practising
5. mirrored

Y5 and Y6 writing:

tion or sion?
ambition
infection
competition
persuasion
exaggeration
interruption
suggestion
profession

Today’s learning…

Y5 maths: LO: add fractions

Challenge:

Y6 maths LO: dividing fractions


Challenge:

Year 5 and 6 reading: LO: retrieval

Today’s task is to read back through the FirstNews newspaper from Wednesday and retrieve information to fill in the boxes below. You will need to find:

• page number
• section
• what the story is about

  for eight different articles

Year 5 and 6 writing – LO: describe and ask questions

1. Re-read this letter from Odd. It is the most recent letter we have received and we have read it in class.

Your task is to write a reply to Odd and describe how the past two weeks have been learning from home and what is going on in the world right now.

Use Odd’s letter to help you set your letter out.

Finally, within your letter, you must ask Odd three questions about Vikings that you want to find out.

Challenge:

Google your questions and see if you can find out the answer – let me know if you find out anything interesting!

03 April 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year 1!

Where is the time going? That’s nearly two weeks of home learning done! What an amazing job you’re all doing. Thank you for all the emails you’ve continued to send –  It’s been lovely to see how you’re all keeping busy during this strange time.

I’ve used this opportunity to do a lot more exercise. As I’ve said, I’ve also been reading lots – mainly non-fiction books, as I love to learn new things. My cooking skills have also become a lot better whilst I’ve been at home.

Keep safe and keep smiling, Year One. If you want to share more things with me, remember, you can email me at: benparker@spherefederation.org

Onto today’s tasks:

Writing/spelling

In today’s writing task, I want you to learn tricky words listed below:

once

says

said

our

love

I want you to learn the spellings using the speed write method.

For the speed write method, choose a word and see how many times you can write it in one minute. Repeat this for the other words.

Once you’ve done this, write each word into a sentence.

Challenge: Can you use ‘and’ in your sentences?

Reading

Today’s reading task is again, phonics.

Segment and blend the words below. To help you segment the words, write them in your book and put sound buttons underneath them.

Once you have read the words, draw a picture of each one.

sea

joy

shirt

dolphin

toe

mouth

Maths

In maths, we are carrying on with subtraction. Today’s task is to read (or ask an adult to read) the word problems below, identify the calculation and answer it.

E.g.

As you can see, I have circled the numbers that I need to subtract. Then, I have written the calculation.

9 – 5 =

Remember to always put the biggest number first in the calculation .

To solve the calculation, put the first number in your head and count back the second number.

For this calculation, I put 9 in my head and counted back 5 (use fingers if needed) to get the answer 4.

You can also use objects, bridging through 10 or the drawing and crossing out method to help you solve the problems.

1. Maya  baked 7 cookies for her friends.

Joseph ate 6.

How many cookies were left?

2. Charlie had 12 colouring pencils.

Alistair takes 7 to use.

How many does Charlie have left?

3. Vivienne saw 15 rabbits in the field.

8 rabbits hopped away.

How many are left in the field?

4. Rayhan had 19 balloons for his party.

7 popped.

How many balloons were left?

Write the calculations in your books.

Challenge:

Write your own word problem for someone in your house to answer.

Good luck with the tasks 🙂

03 April 2020: Home Learning

Spellings

Get someone at home to test you on your spellings.

happiness / loneliness / thoughtfully / painless / colourful / humming / wrapping / dripped / clapped / funniest / hottest / hopeful / wishful

Reading

How did your poetry performance go? Perform the poem to an adult at home and ask for some feedback on your expression. Did you do a different voice for the dentist and for the crocodile? What does a crocodile who can speak even sound like? Did you include some actions?

It’s Friday so it’s our Love of Reading session again. Find somewhere quiet to sit and read. Parents/carers, take some time to read as well if you can!

Afterwards, chat about what you’ve read.

Maths answers

Answers were on the link from yesterday. Here it is again if you haven’t checked them.

https://woeijik.exampro.net/#atarget

Maths 

Today’s learning are some puzzles to solve. The game is on the link below (make sure you allow flash to get it to work). If you have problems, screenshots of the levels are posted underneath the link. Children will need to draw the shapes before they try and solve. There’s a certain amount of trial and error involved so instead of re-drawing each time you make an error, it might be easier to make little cards for the numbers which you place on the powerlines. They don’t have to be fancy; some quick paper squares will work really well.

You need to make each line total the power line total using the numbers at the top. You can only use each number once. Well done if you manage to complete all eight levels. Some of them are tricky!

https://primarygames.co.uk/pg2/powerlines/powerlines1.html

Science

In our science lesson today, we’re recapping our learning from last year about the water cycle.

First of all, consume the information on the following webpage:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z3wpp39 

Next, watch this water cycle video from YouTube (you will be singing it all weekend, sorry).

Finally, draw your own water cycle diagram. Making sure that you label it with scientific vocabulary:

evaporation

condensation

precipitation

run-off

If you’re struggling, here’s a diagram to help…

03 April 2020: Home learning

Morning everybody! Happy Friday!

Reading

Review

How did your poetry performance go? Perform the poem to an adult at home and ask for some feedback on your expression. Did you do a different voice for the dentist and for the crocodile? What does a crocodile who can speak even sound like? Did you include some actions?

Reflect on your learning: 

The best part of my poetry performance was…

I want to work on/get better at…

Today’s learning

Today, there is a RIC for you to answer!

R. What three words show that the dentist was, at first, scared of the crocodile?

I. Why did the crocodile repeat saying ‘do the back ones first’?

C. Find and copy words with the same meaning as:

cried –

smiling –

shouted –

gentle –

Spellings

Turn to the back of your home learning book and do a spellings test. Ask an adult (or older sibling) at home to test you on the words you learnt this week.

Or, if your adults are busy, fill in the gaps on these words. No sneaky peeking!

su_ _ _ _ine

_ _ l _p _ o _e

_ _ _ _ti _ _te

_ _ _ _ _ _opic

_ _ _ _on_ _ _ _s

_ _ _ _s _ope

_ _ _way

_ _ _ _vision

Maths

Today, you’re going to look at some tricky multiplication questions. You’ll need to be resilient and try different solutions to find the answer. You may even be able to find more than one answer. Warm up your multiplication muscles on this game.

Times tables

It’s time for a 8 times table test! Download the 8 times table sheet here. Time yourself to three minutes to fill it out or answer into your book. Good luck!

Writing

So what was on the other side of the fence? A monster?  An enormous, unexplained hole? Mr Wilks bouncing on the trampoline?

In this lesson, I’d like you to think about how the boy was feeling at different parts of your story (feel free to re-imagine it if you have new ideas).

For example: nervous, curious, excited, scared, shocked, etc.

I’d then like you to write six sentences beginning with a feeling. For example:

Curious, the boy peeked through the hole in the fence. 

Intrigued by the noise, the boy moved tentatively towards the garden. 

02 April 2020: Home learning – maths guidance

Hi everyone!

Here is some guidance for today’s maths lesson – comparing fractions.

When comparing fractions with different denominators (the number on the bottom), you first need to make them the same – this is called finding the common denominator.

Let’s look at this example:

Compare 7/8 with 3/4

8 and 4 are our denominators – they are different. We need to make them the same.

8 is going to be our common denominator because we cant divide 7 into a whole number.

In order to make our fraction of 3/4 have a denominator of 8, we need to multiply the 4 (current denominator) by 2.

3/4 becomes 3/8

However, we must remember, whatever we do to the bottom, we do to the top.

3/4 becomes 6/8.

Now we can compare our fractions: 7/8 and 6/8

Which is bigger? Well 7/8 is bigger than 6/8 because it is a larger fraction.

Remember, 6/8 is the same as 3/4 – it is just written in a different way for the purpose of comparing.

So, we can say: 7/8 is bigger than 3/4 by 1/8.

How about if we are comparing 2/3 and 3/4.

Well, 3 doesn’t go into 4, so our common denominator will have to be a number that is a multiple of both 3 and 4.

12!

Let’s make our fractions have a common denominator of 12.

2/3 becomes 8/12 (multiplied the bottom by 4 so we multiply the top by 4)

3/4 becomes 9/12 (multiplied the bottom by 3 so we multiply the top by 3)

Which is bigger?

3/4 is bigger than 2/3 by 1/12!

I hope this helps.

Any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

02 April 2020: Home learning

Morning, everyone!

I hope that you are all keeping safe and well.

Here are yesterday’s maths answers:

Y5

Y6

Here are today’s tasks:

Year 5 Maths – LO: compare fractions

2. Use common denominators to compare 1/3 and 2/5

*EXAMPLE 2/5 and 2/3 become…

6/15 and 10/15

2/3 is bigger by 4/15*

3.

Challenge:

Year 6 Maths – LO: multiply fractions

Challenge:

Year 5 and 6 Reading: LO: retrieval
Your task today is to read the text:

Then, once you have read it, have a go at the following crossword!

Year 5 and 6 Writing: LO: suffixes – tion

Finally, write a silly sentence for each of our focus words today.

As always, if you have any questions about any of the learning, please don’t hesitate to send me an email.

02 April 2020: Home learning

Morning, everyone!

It was great to see lots of you doing a range of activities to help you stay physically healthy yesterday!

It’s also important to have a healthy mind as well as a healthy body. Click the link below and have a go at these breathing exercise on GoNoodle.

Science

In our first science session this half term, we experimented what would happen to raisins in still water and in fizzy water.

If you can remember, the raisins sank to the bottom in still water and floated to the top in fizzy water.

After this, we asked questions about what would happen to the raisins in other liquids.

E.g.

Will the raisins float or sink in coca cola?

Will  the raisins float or sink in olive oil?

Will the raisins float or sink in orange juice?

For today’s task I want you to pick 3 liquids and predict what will happen to the raisins and why.

Complete the sentence below for three different liquids.

I think the raisins will ______________ in ___________

because ______________________.

Let me know which three liquids you chose.

Reading

Today’s reading task is phonics.

Segment and blend the phase 5 words below.

stray     play      shout        clouds       cried     pie

Now, read and write these sentences and fill in the gaps with the words above.

I like to ___________ outside in my garden.

There are lots of white ________ in the sky.

My friend __________ when he fell over.

I’m having a _______ for my dinner.

On my walk, I saw a __________ cat.

Maths

Similar to an addition task last week, I’ve written some calculations. This time, they are subtraction calculations.

Some are true and some are false!

Your task is to make a list of true calculations and a list of false calculations.

E.g.

8 – 2 = 6

9 – 4 = 4

10 – 5 = 4

11 – 6 = 5

13 – 6 = 7

15 – 7 = 8

17 – 5 = 11

14 – 8 = 5

12 – 10 = 3

Challenge: Can you turn the false calculation into true calculations?

Good luck with today’s tasks 🙂

Mr Parker

02 April

Look what appeared in our garden yesterday morning!

Luckily, this wasn’t real but it was our April fool based on Google 3D animals. Have you tried it?

Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities plus today’s learning tasks.

Physical activity: The new #ThisisPE video is all about footwork patterns.

Mindfulness activity: Today, why not try this secret treehouse guided meditation.

Lexia

Today’s Lexia stars are Penelope, Zhuokai and Sunny who have achieved their next level.

Spellings

Just one more day until your spelling test. Here’s a reminder of this week’s words.

grinned, dropped, stumbled, confused, hurried, tidied, groaned, splashed

Why not try some word shapes with your spellings today. The tall boxes are needed for letters that have ascenders (b, d, h, k, l and t) and if there is a letter with a descender (f, g, j, p, q and y), then the box needs to be lower than the other boxes.

Task 1 reading

***** Apologies  – here are the answers from yesterday’s Mystery Key comic comprehension. ******

We’ve had a query from a parent about whether answers for a reading comprehension should be recorded as a sentence or not. We tell the children that, in this instance, they do not need to answer in a full sentence but simply to record the answer as show below. Sometimes, this type of learning might be timed so the children are advised to use their time effectively and record simple answers. Hope that makes sense!

a.Why were the pirates following the map? to find the treasure/to use the key

b.Why did the pirates not want to go down the cliff? because ospreys might be there and they have sharp beaks

c.What did the pirates use a pulley for? to pull up the chest

d.Find and copy two words to describe the donkey. nosey and grey

e.Find and copy a word that means a box. chest

f.Put these places, that the pirates visited, in order.

4  Osprey Cliff      2   smoky volcano      3   stony valley    1    grey boulder beach

The adjectives used in the poem were mystery, grey, boulder, smokey, stony, nosey, grey and sharp.

1.Read through the fluency text again (below) and this time try to use some expression as you read.

Table Manners         

The Goops they lick their fingers,

And the Goops they lick their knives,

They spill their broth on the table-cloth,

Oh, they live disgusting lives.

The Goops they talk while eating,

And loud and fast they chew,

So that is why I am glad that

I’m not a Goop. Are you?

By Gelett Burgess

2. Answer the following questions about the text.

a. What kind of text is this?

Choose one               story              instructions             poem            recount

b.Find and copy a word that means not very nice.

c.Find and copy a word that is an antonym (opposite) of quiet.

d.Find and copy a word that rhymes with new. What other words rhyme with new?

e.What does the word broth mean?

f.Find three things that the Goops do that are not good table manners.

3. This week our Living and Learning statement is I use good table manners.

Discuss with someone the different table manners that we should use (not based on what the Goops do!).

Challenge: What do you think a Goop looks like? Draw and label a picture of one.

Task 2 maths

Here are your answers from yesterday.

1.

2. 

The first and second patterns use two shapes.  The colours of the shapes are different. In the 3rd pattern, one shape is used in different orientations. In the 2nd pattern, the shape is used twice each time.

Today’s learning

Start by listening to this counting song from Super Movers.

Today’s learning is based on a problem from nrich maths website.

Challenge: Are there any other totals that would work?

Task 3 Toys now and then

Think back to the story, PEEPO!, from yesterday.

1.Discuss with someone if the things in PEEPO! are the same as now or different. How do you know?

2.Using the picture of ‘porridge’ from the book, find three similarities (the things which are the same) to now and three things that are different.

3. Look at the diagram below. Can you add more facts to it?