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.
- Maya baked 7 cookies for her friends.
Joseph ate 6.
How many cookies were left?
- Charlie had 12 colouring pencils.
Alistair takes 7 to use.
How many does Charlie have left?
- Vivienne saw 15 rabbits in the field.
8 rabbits hopped away.
How many are left in the field?
- 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?
02 April 2020: Home learning
Spellings
Practise your spellings today by using the ‘rhymes and rememberings’ method.
happiness / loneliness / thoughtfully / painless / colourful / humming / wrapping / dripped / clapped / funniest / hottest / hopeful / wishful
Reading
Today, you’re going to be reading and performing poety. Make sure to read the poem out loud at least five times so you’re familiar with it and reading it fluently. Ask an adult if you don’t understand anything in the poem.
Then watch this video which explains how to perform poetry like a professional.
The poem to read and perform is ‘The Dentist and the Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl.
Maths answers
Maths
I’ve prepared addition and subtraction problems. You’ll need to click the link below to see them. Before jumping in to answer a question, they need to read the question carefully a couple of times and then decide whether they need to add or subtract. They should then perform the calculation. Check the answer to the calculation and then make sure they answer the question.
The first three questions are similar to problems we’ve already encountered this week.
The following four have data presented in a table or a chart. The numbers for these are smaller but the challenge comes from interpreting the data correctly.
The final three questions are two-step word problems where children need to do two things before getting to the answer.
(The answers to the questions are in the ‘Mark Scheme’ tab at the top.)
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 what the boy was feeling at different parts of your story (feel free to reimagine 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
Morning everyone! And a big virtual high five to you all.
Reading
Today, you’re going to be reading and performing poetry. Make sure to read the poem out loud at least five times so you’re familiar with it and reading it fluently. Ask an adult if you don’t understand anything in the poem.
Then watch this video which explains how to perform poetry like a professional.
The poem to read and perform is ‘The Dentist and the Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl.
Maths
Today, you’re going to apply your multiplication knowledge to money problems. When we multiply money, remember we can still set it out in the column method – if we need to.
First, sort this list of questions into 2 categories. Category A is the list you would need to use your column method to multiply and category B you wouldn’t need your column method. Think about:
- is it a simple doubling?
- is there going to be an exchange?
- is there a simple related times table fact I can apply?
Here are some worded money multiplication questions. decide if you need to use the column method to multiply.
- How much does it cost to buy three bouncy balls?
- How much would two ice creams cost?
- How much would it cost to get the weekly Beano magazine for a whole month?
- How much would you spend in total if you were bought a birthday badge for five years straight?
- How mch would it cost to buy four glitter pen packs?
- How much would three ice creams cost?
Need a challenge?
These questions have two steps. First, you need to multiply (maybe twice) and then add your answers together.
- How much does it cost to buy two bouncy balls and two milkshakes?
- How much would two ice creams and three Beanos cost?
- How much would it cost to get two packs of glitter pens and four bouncy balls?
- How much would you spend in total if you got yourself and three friends a badge and an ice cream each?
- How much would it cost to buy four glitter pen packs and two milkshakes?
- How much would three ice creams and four milkshakes cost?
Writing
There was that noise again. This time it was louder and the ground trembled. I looked around to see if anyone else had heard it but my sister was too busy playing video games and my mum was on another Zoom conference call. I went into the garden and there it was again. A low rumbling noise. It was coming from next door’s garden. I tiptoed warily to the garden fence and peered through a hole. I couldn’t believe what I saw.
Continue the story. What did you see on the other side?
01 April
It’s April fools day – hope you haven’t been caught out yet!
Here are your daily physical and mindfulness activities plus today’s learning tasks.
Physical activity: Why not get active with some gymnastics skills today? We enjoyed this video from Max Whitlock yesterday. He will be live every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30pm. I’m sure Betsy will be having a go to practise her skills.
Mindfulness activity: Today, have a go at the rainbow breath activity on GoNoodle.
Lexia
There’s even more Lexia success today. Well done to Edith, Evie and Moosa who have achieved their next level.
Task 1 reading
1.Read through the fluency text again (below) and take account of the punctuation as you read. Also, remember to aim for 20 minutes of reading (of any texts) a day where possible.
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. Read the Mystery Key comic including words with the ey phoneme (last week’s spellings).
3. Answer the following questions about the text.
a.Why were the pirates following the map?
b.Why did the pirates not want to go down the cliff?
c.What did the pirates use a pulley for?
d.Find and copy two words to describe the donkey.
e.Find and copy a word that means a box.
f.Put these places, that the pirates visited, in order.
Osprey Cliff smoky volcano stony valley grey boulder beach
Challenge: Find all the adjectives (describing words) in the text.
Task 2 maths
Here are your answers from yesterday.
1.
The can should be in the ‘both’ set because it has flat faces and a curved surface.
2.
Same – both have square faces, 6 faces, 12 edges, don’t roll, can stack, no curved edges.
Different – name, colour, size, one only has square faces the other has squares and rectangles.
3.
Cube or cuboid
4.
Shape D – the triangular prism
5.
Some shapes with flat faces will stack – they will need to have flat faces on opposite sides (cubes, cylinders, cuboids).
Shapes with a curved surface will roll (cone, sphere, cylinder).
Some shapes with a flat face cannot be stacked (square based pyramid, cone).
Today’s learning
Start by listening to this 3D shape song.
Today, we are looking at patterns with 3D shapes.
1.Complete the following patterns based on the sequence so far.
2. Try the following reasoning problem.
Challenge: Make your own repeating pattern using two different 3D shapes.
Task 3 Toys now and then
Read or listen to the story Peepo. Discuss that this story might be about when your grandparents were little.
Draw a timeline in your book (like the one below) and label the years in decades (every 10 years).
Can you put the year you were born onto the timeline?
Can you find out when some of your family members were born and add then to the timeline? What will you need to do if someone was born in 1950?
Challenge: If somebody in your family is 50, what year would they have been born?