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Chapter 9 Part 1

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Chapter 8 Part 2

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A bit of holiday reading 1…..

Before school was closed, our class novel was a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. It’s the first in the series:  Five on Treasure Island.

When Miss Rushbrooke started reading the novel with the children, they had a discussion about some of the language that Enid Blyton used and the characterisation of the five main characters. For example, the children were quick to pick up on some gender stereotyping they encountered in the book. It would have been easy to decide not to read the book because of this, but we believed that a conversation around these issues was really valuable learning. The mature and thoughtful discussion that followed really impressed Miss Rushbrooke.

So that we can continue to enjoy the book, I’ll be posting weblinks every few days to a video of me reading the story alongside the text. You’ll see some ‘tricky’ words explained on most pages as well. Your child can listen to these independently, or even better if they listen along with you. Feel free to mute me if you’d prefer to read it yourselves!

The link below starts at Chapter 8. Look back at your child’s story map from the first week of home learning to refresh what’s happened previously. Enjoy!

https://expl.ai/VTKDKYB 

Easter home learning

As it’s the Easter holidays, we’re taking a break from the daily home learning tasks. Instead, here are a range of activities that you might like to try over the two weeks. The tasks are creative and are designed to allow children the opportunity to enjoy some different learning, perhaps alongside family members. A few key points…

• The list will be the same across year groups, meaning if you’ve more than one child, they might work on it together in some way.
• Some of the tasks can take a bit longer, like a mini-project, and others match Creative homework tasks.
• You can encourage your child to do some or all of the activities – they’re all optional.
• During this time, you can still email your child’s class teacher about the home learning, although they may not respond as quickly as they have been doing.
• Teachers will return to daily home learning tasks on Monday 20 April.

Art Attack

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who creates art using things he can find in nature. The artwork shown here was created using different leaf types and creating a pattern. He creates his art outside as he likes the fact that it’s temporary and won’t be around for long!

Create your own piece of art using different materials you can find around your home or in the garden. You could even create some ‘rubbish art’ using only items that have been used and would be thrown away or recycled.

Take some photographs and send them to your teachers.

Hunted

Create your own treasure hunt with cryptic clues for your family members to complete. Make the clues as tricky as you can. What could be the prize for the winning hunter? Maybe, this could tie in with a family Easter egg hunt.

Secret Message

Create your own invisible ink.

Using a spoon, mix water and lemon juice. Dip a cotton bud into the mixture and write a message onto the white paper. Wait for the juice to dry so your message becomes completely invisible. When you are ready to read your secret message or show it to someone else, heat the paper by holding it close to a light bulb – be careful: maybe ask an adult to do this part. As the mixture heats up, your message should reappear so people can read it again.

Alternatively, the same result can be achieved by writing the message on white paper with a white candle or crayon. Then, paint over the message using coloured paint to reveal the writing.

For a challenge, come up with your own way of making invisible ink and try it out on your family.

‘Board’ Silly

Design and create your own board game for you and your family to play – perhaps play some existing board games first to research ideas.

There are a few key things to think about:

• What will your theme be?
• Will there be any ‘snakes’ or ‘ladders’ style elements?
• Do you need to make a dice using a cube net?
• Will there be any extra challenges or forfeits if you land on certain numbers?

Enjoy your games!

Extreme Reading

Reading is a great way to relax and learn about the world around us; also, reading regularly can help us to stay happy and healthy. This challenge is all about making reading even more fun. We’d love to know how many places you can read in. Try to read in a different place each day. Take photos or draw a picture of you doing it, if you can.

You could read…

• in a den that you’ve made
• up a tree
• under the bed/table
• to the dog/cat
• looking in a mirror

Stay safe and send your class teacher some pictures.

Come Dine/Bake with Me

Have your very own family ‘Come Dine With Me’ experience. Each family member could cook a meal or a course and then you must score each other out of ten. Similarly, each family member could bake something and you could all have a tasting after where you give points (like on Great British Bake Off). You don’t have to work on your own – you could help an adult.

Who will win?

Den Building

Who doesn’t love making a den? Either in your house, or in your garden, spend time building a den and enjoy some time relaxing in it – if there’s more than one of you, you could make it a competition. Use whatever materials you can find and see how creative you can get.

You could also read in it and combine this challenge with the ‘Extreme Reading’ one.

Get Ya Body Movin’

Staying physically active plays a crucial role in keeping us happy and healthy; it boosts our mental and emotional health, too. This task has three options – all of which are designed to get people moving during the holidays. You could include your family as well.

Option A: Create your own ‘Ninja Warrior’ style challenges in the garden or your house. Try to include a range of activities that include jumping, balancing, stretching, climbing and, if you’re feeling brave, water. The adults in your family will love a water challenge.

Option B: Create your own Joe Wicks style workout video. You could do it with your family or film yourself and send it to your friends. You might like to check out Joe Wicks’ YouTube channel for inspiration.

Option C: Choose your favourite song and create your own ‘Wake Up Shake Up’ (WUSU) dance routine. Again, you could lead this for your family to join in or film yourself and send it to friends or other family members. This’ll be a great way to get everyone dancing.

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.