Homework

30 March

Good morning Year 2! Hope you and your families had a good weekend. It’s the start of a new week and we’ve lots of learning ready for you.

We will keep suggesting a physical activity and mindfulness activity that you can include in your day too.

Physical activity: Sports Jam is the active blast today on imovement.

Mindfulness activity: As well as thanking people for specific things, gratitude can also be a thankful feeling towards the world. Today, note down five things you are grateful (thankful) for. This will help you to notice the good. This mindfulness activity is taken from Scouts Great Ideas for Indoors.

Lexia

These children have reached their next level in Lexia since Friday – Tommy, Cate, Saif and Jaiden. Great work!

Task 1 reading

Here’s the fluency text for this week. Aim to read this daily so that by the end of the week you will become more fluent when reading it. It would be great if you could ‘perform’ this poem by Friday – maybe to a relative over a video call?

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

Words I’m not sure of

1.Read the fluency text based on table manners (our Living and Learning statement for this week).

2.If you have time, copy out the text. Underline the words you are not sure of. Try to find out their meanings using a dictionary or online.

Challenge: Can you spot the rhyming pattern in the poem?

Task 2 maths

1. Watch the video about 3D shape properties.

2. Fill in the missing words to complete the definitions.

A ________ is a flat or curved surface on a 3D shape. 

An ________ is where two faces meet.

A _______ is a corner where edges meet. The plural is _______. 

Word bank:    vertices      edge      face      vertex

3.Complete the missing information below. You could use 3D shapes you found in your house on Friday to help you.

Challenge: Give clues to a 3D shape to a family member – can they guess the shape?

Task 3 writing

Hopefully you were successful with your spelling test last week.

Your spellings for this week are all words ending in ed. We’re revisiting the -ed suffix which is often used to change the form of a verb to the past tense (eg walk to walked). Children often make mistakes with this suffix: walkt or walkd.

These spellings have also been added to your child’s Spelling Shed account. Spelling Frame also has spelling games as an alternative online resource (spelling rules 12-16 look at adding suffixes like -ed).  Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.

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

1.Read the text below that includes some of the spelling words.

2.Can you spot and correct the spelling errors in the text?

3. Can you spot and correct the other errors too? These include punctuation and other spelling mistakes. There are 16 errors in total.

Challenge: Can you think of some other verbs where we add the -ed suffix?

jake hurryed to the swimming pool becos it was his swimming lesson he stumbled and droped his kit on the flor. He tidyed it up and grined to himself as he new he wud make it in time. Wen he arrived at the pool, he wos confoosed as no one was there. ‘Oh no!’ Jake growned and then he realised. ‘I forgot to chanje my clock!’

Have a great day of learning and keep look at our class news page to see some of your fantastic home learning work.

30 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year Three! How was your weekend? I spent mine in the garden getting lots of fresh air. It’s been great to see some of your home learning efforts at home. You’ve impressed me – well done!

Reading

Review

Check your comprehension answers from Friday against mine:

1. (R) How does George react to the news?

She’s upset and angry because it says ‘It’s my castle!” she stormed to her mother’

2. (R) How does Uncle Quentin react to George?

It says he was ‘surprised’ and ‘astonished’ at someone wanting to buy the Island for such a good price.

3. (C) George didn’t use the best persuasive language to make Uncle Quentin change his mind! Present an argument to Uncle Quentin to persuade him to change his mind about selling the island. The challenge is: you can’t mention the map or the hidden ingots!

Write down a list of 4 reasons why the island shouldn’t be sold.  e.g. Because it might harm the rabbits living there.

A:

1. Because they might not look after the Island and the shipwreck won’t be around to be explored anymore.
2. Because people travelling to the island will cause traffic in Kirrin Bay.
3. Because the island was promised to George by her mother.
4. Because George hasn’t got brothers or sisters to play with and Kirrin Island is one of the only places she can go and explore nearby.
5. (R) True or false:
6. Uncle Quentin gave the island to the men from London. F
7. Uncle Quentin bought the island from the men from London. F
8. The men from London bought the island for over a hundred pounds. F
9. The men have man have shown they want to buy the island but haven’t bought it yet. T
10. (R) What does ‘ingots’ mean? gold
11. In the text, Aunt Fanny says: “George dear, I did mean you to have them to play on, when I thought they couldn’t possibly be worth anything,” said her mother, looking distressed. “But now things are different. Your father has been offered quite a good sum, far more than we ever thought of getting- and we really can’t afford to turn it down.”

Why does George’s mother look distressed?

A – because she realises she’s made a promise she can’t keep to George. She doesn’t want to break it because George is unhappy and angry but also doesn’t want to make uncle Quentin angry because he really wants to sell it for the money.

7. Write a thought, as Aunt Fanny, showing what she’s thinking while saying this to George.

A – I don’t want to upset George but she’s only a child and doesn’t understand that we can make a lot of money from selling the island. It’s the right thing to do. I wish George wouldn’t be so disappointed.

8. Which sentence best summarises chapter 10? Write the letter down.
9. Uncle Quentin gets an amazing offer for Kirrin Island but the children aren’t sure about it.
10. Uncle Quentin gets an amazing offer for the old box but the children don’t want him to sell it.
11. Uncle Quentin gets an offer for Kirrin Island and the children are slightly worried their secret has been discovered.
12. Uncle Quentin gets an offer for Kirrin Island and the children are incredibly worried their secret has been discovered.

Today’s learning

Watch the short animation ‘The Catch’ (click here). Then answer the following retrieval questions. Remember you can rewind the clip and make sure to double check your answers.

1. Draw the boy from the video and label different aspects of this character’s appearance.
2. Describe the setting the video is set in.

Spelling

Here’s a list of words to learn this week. These words either have the prefix ‘sub’ or ‘tele’. Check you understand what they mean. Start by practising them with your best handwriting.

submarine / telephone / substitute / telescopic / subconcious / telescope / subway / television

Maths

Today’s learning

Today’s learning is all about money. There’s a couple of challenges to do.

First, warm up by playing this ‘custom cars’ game here.

Times tables

This week, you’re to focus on your 8 times table. There will be a test on Friday.

Science

Today, you’re going to be identifying materiels and testing to see if they’re translucent, transparent or opaque. Either print this sheet out or set a table out in your book based on the one below. Remember to think about what the material is (wood / plastic / wo0l) not what the item is (tree / toy / jumper).

30 March 2020: Home Learning

Good morning. Hope you’ve all managed to have a good weekend. Thanks to everyone who emailed photos of learning last week. They’re on the Class News page. Thanks also for letting me know how you’re getting on with the learning. It’s new to all of us and I appreciate your messages.

Reading and spelling

Watch the short animation ‘The Catch’ (click here). Then answer the following retrieval questions. Remember you can rewind the clip and make sure to double check your answers.

1. Draw the boy from the video and label different aspects of this character’s appearance.
2. Describe the setting the video is set in.

Here’s a list of words to learn this week. These words either have the prefix ‘sub’ or ‘tele’. Check you understand what they mean. Start by practising them with your best handwriting.

submarine / telephone / substitute / telescopic / subconcious / telescope / subway / television

Maths

Challenge

Challenge

History

We’ve learnt loads about the Roman invasion of Britain and the effect that this had on Britains living there at the time – specifically Boudicca and the Iceni.

What we haven’t talked about is when and why the Roman Empire ended. Read the text below to find out:

In AD410, the Roman Emperor Honorius sent a goodbye letter to the people of Britain. He wrote, “fight bravely and defend your lives…you are on your own now”. The city of Rome was under attack and the empire was falling apart, so the Romans had to leave to take care of things back home.

After they left, the country fell into chaos. Native tribes and foreign invaders battled each other for power. Many of the Roman towns in Britain crumbled away as people went back to living in the countryside.

In this history lesson, I’d like you to answer the following question:

Were the Romans good for Britain?

I’d like you to make a list or table of pros and cons and debate these with someone at home. Here are some key points to get you started (you decide of they’re pros or cons):

• It isn’t nice to invade places. You wouldn’t like it if I invaded your home!
• The Romans treated Britains badly. They took their land, made them pay taxes, whipped them and killed them if they stood up to them.
• The Romans tried to change how we lived (houses, religion, language).
• The Romans protected us from other invaders.
• The invented lots of things that made our lives better: straight roads, central heating, sewage systems.
• They introduced things which had a big impact on Britain: calendar, language, Christianity.

28 March 2020: Home learning

Maths answers

27 March 2020: answers

Y6 Maths

1. 212,888
2. 68
3. 81.015
4. -72
5. 486,266
6. 109.705
7. 179,200
8. 367,470

Y5 Maths

Writing

“What are you doing Thor?” cried Loki.

A laughing Thor replied,“What does it look like?“

“Well, dancing, yes!“ said Loki, also laughing now. “But only you’re in your underwear!“

27 March 2020: Home learning

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope your week has been great and you’ve managed to enjoy the sunshine. Today’s tasks are maths, PE and writing.

Y6 Maths – LO: arithmetic

Your task today is to answer a mixture of calculations using the four operations that we’ve looked at this week.

First, though, I’d like you to hone your times tables skills using Times Tables Rockstars for at least 15 minutes.

1. 9,256 x 23
2.  2,856 ÷ 42
3.  67.955 + 13.06
4.  53 – 125
5.  7,843 x 62
6.  1,865 ÷ 17
7. 128,356 + 50,844
8. 623,952 – 256,482

Challenge
On Times Tables Rockstars, challenge someone to a battle!

Y5 & 6 PE 

Let’s mix things up, today! I’m missing my fresh air/boogie/running for WUSU and I know lots of you will be as well. Today, you have two options:

Option A: Using your favourite song, create a WUSU style dance that lasts 2-3 minutes. It should take you about 30-40 minutes to choreograph and you could even post it (safely) to that website “TokTik” or whatever it’s called that you all love but I don’t get because I’m old…

Option B: Taking inspiration from people like Joe Wicks, I’d like you to make up your own fitness workout lasting 2-3 minutes. It could include press ups, star jumps, running on the spot, lunges, squats, sit ups, burpees – anything, really, as long as your audience doesn’t need any equipment so they can do it at home.

You could even get in touch with someone else from school and collaborate your efforts! As always, we would love to see how you’re getting on with your home learning so if you do video yours, we’d love to see on an email! You might go viral! Who knows??

Y5 & 6 Writing – LO: punctuate speech

Your task today is to write and punctuate speech correctly and write a dilemma for your character. This should be no longer than half a page. Following from your setting description yesterday, your character needs to run into some sort of problem. This problem must include dialogue between two characters.

R2s

• Punctuate speech correctly, using inverted commas and capital letters appropriately.
• Use the said clause in different places for speech.
• When there is a new speaker, start a new line.

Here is an example of a dilemma with dialogue.

The ship entered a dark and gloomy cave – the sea was calm and quiet. Without warning, a huge figure rose out from beneath the black water. “Prepare yourselves!” shouted Bjorn, as he unsheathed his sword.

“I am Odin,” bellowed the shadowy figure, “God of wisdom, god of magic, god of death.”

“Remove us from this cave and let us pass,” commanded Ragnar. He knew that Odin was a powerful god and would not take kindly to threats; he threw his sword onto the deck in a gesture of good will.

Odin grinned, “To leave this cave, the price of death must be paid. Sacrifice one of your men to me and I will guide you to the fame and fortune you desperately crave.”

“Do it,” hissed Floki, “Give him your son, Bjorn. You have many more sons and you will have many more!”

“You think the death of my son is worth the gold and glory?” questioned Ragnar, slowly, as he held his arm out to Floki.

“Yes,” spat Floki, clutching Ragnar’s arm. “Give him to Odin.”

Ragnar turned to look at Bjorn, then back at Floki. His eyes were full of rage. He grabbed Floki by his chest, and threw him overboard. “There is your sacrifice,” he growled.

Challenge
Correct the mistakes in the speech below. How many points will you get? There are 11 to spot!

“what are you doing Thor” cried Loki

A laughing Thor replied “what does it look like?

“Well, dancing, yes! said Loki, also laughing now but only you’re in your underwear!

27 March

Wow! Year 2 you are really impressing us with all your fantastic home learning this week. Keep looking at our class news page to see your learning on display and being celebrated.

Learning will continue to be posted for you at 9am each day so if you are an early riser, spend some time reading, practising spellings and times tables, do some art or work through your maths pack from school before you get your daily tasks.

Physical activity:  At school we have our daily Wake Up Shake Up at 10am. Today, why not put on a favourite song and have a dance around – maybe even making up your own routine.

Mindfulness activity: Using a sheet of paper, take your pencil for a walk, without taking it off the paper, and then colour in the sections you have created in different colours.

Well done to Hardev who has now reached his next Lexia level. ***Friday update – Theo too! ***

Here are your home learning tasks for today.

It’s Friday so it is spelling test day. Ask your adult to test you on the spellings for this week (key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley, honey, money, turkey) by putting the word in a sentence so you understand the meaning. New spellings for next week will be posted on Monday.

Task 1 reading

Firstly, here are your answers from yesterday.

Are the following statements true or false?

Polar bears eat plants.           TRUE or FALSE

Polar bears are good at swimming.    TRUE or FALSE

Polar bears often eat seals.    TRUE or FALSE

Polar bears can’t smell very well.      TRUE or FALSE

Find and copy a word from the text that means

usually __generally_____

amazing __remarkable____

can’t be seen __camouflage___

firmly pressed together __compacted___

How do the polar bears keep warm in the cold Arctic environment? Their thick white coat and a layer of fat keep them warm.

1. Today, we would like you to choose a book (fiction/non-fiction or other text such as a poem or a comic) from home.

2.Tell us about it. You should include the title, the author, a little bit about it, why you like it and maybe a picture too.

Challenge:What one adjective would you use to describe it?

Task 2 maths

Here are your answers from yesterday’s learning in ascending order.

0 x 5 = 0

1 x 2 = 2

10 = 5 x 2

2 x 10 = 20

24 = 12 x 2

6 x 5 = 30

9 x 5 = 45

10 x 10 = 100

It’s Friday so it is times tables test day. Based on the times table you have been set on Times Table Rock Stars, ask your adult to test you on 8 facts from that times table. We use different vocabulary such as 8 lots of 5, 8 multiplied by 5 and 8 times 5.

Before you start today’s activity, time how long it takes you to write down all the number bonds to 20 (eg 20 + 0 = 20). How do you know when you have got them all?

Following our learning on 2D shapes, we will now be thinking about 3D (not flat) shapes.

1. Watch the video to see some 3D shapes. Here are the names of some 3D shapes.

2. 3D shapes are all around us. Go on a 3D shape hunt around your house. Record the object and the matching 3D shape.

Challenge: Have a look at the 3D shape object – what 2D shapes can you see?

Task 3 science

1.Watch the video of different science experiments.

2. Choose one of the experiments from the video. Can you use your observational (looking) skills to describe what happens.

3. Include some time connectives (firstly, then, next, after that, in the end) in your description.

Challenge: With an adult, if you have the equipment needed, have a go at one of the experiments at home.

It’s nearly the weekend! Don’t forget to change your clocks. It’s Earth Hour this weekend so you might want to find out more about this.

Well done for all your efforts this week. Stay safe and we will be back with more home learning next week.

27 March 2020: Home learning

Morning, Year 1!

You’ve nearly completed your first week of home learning – well done everybody! I’m sure it has been quite strange, but you’re all doing an amazing job!

Here are today’s tasks:

Writing

Yesterday, you wrote silly sentences using some tricky words I asked you to learn. Today, I want you to see if you have remembered how to spell those tricky words.

Ask your parent/carer to dictate the sentences below one at a time and your task is to write them from memory.

I lost my teddy bear.

His fur is brown and worn.

One of his ears points upwards.

My friend and his sister helped me find him.

They were both very kind.

Once you’ve written the sentences, ask your parent/carer to check them. You get one point for a capital letter, one point for a full stop and one point for a tricky word spelt correctly.

There are 18 points available .  How many points will you get?

Maths

Today, we are going to add numbers within 20 using our knowledge of number bonds.

Using ten frames helps us to see how number bonds to 10 can help us with our calculations.

E.g.

Answer the calculations below remembering to use number bonds to help.

Reading

Read this poem below – share it with people in your home. Draw a picture which shows your vision of this poem.

Challenge:

Can you learn a part of the poem and recite it by heart?

I hope you enjoy today’s tasks.

Mr Parker

26 March 2020: answers

Y6 Maths – LO: negative numbers

1.  6 – 10 = -4
2. 15 – 20 = -5
3.  -3 + 8 = 5
4.  -9 + 22 = 13
5. What is 6 less than 4? -2
6. What is 5 more than -2? 3
7. What is the difference between 3 and -5? 8
8. What is the difference between -10 and 10? 20
9. The temperature in Leeds is 6°C. Sheffield’s temperature is 4°C colder. Glasgow is 8°C colder than Sheffield. What’s the temperature in Glasgow? -6°C
10. In a building, the basement is at level -3. The office is 16 levels above the basement. What level is the office on? Level 13

Challenge
Miss Kennedy says, “If I start at 27 and count backwards in 3s, I will say -12.”
Miss Wilson says, “If I start at 86 and count back in 6s, I will say -12.”

Miss Kennedy is correct because 27 is in the 3 times table so you’d reach 0 and then -3, -6, -9, -12. Miss Wilson is incorrect because you’d say -10 and then -16.

Y5 Maths – LO: multiplication

Reading – LO: RIC

Retrieval question: A shield

Inference question:

1. Father says he chose his shield brothers carefully.
2. Father says he would never have fought alongside any man who lied as you have.

Choice question: and felt a wave of hatred for Skuli sweep through him

27 March 2020: Home learning

Reading answers

1. Because her army was much larger than the Roman one.
2. Roman arrows and javelins slowed them down.
3. It helps you to understand what happened during the battle.
4. They were stopped by their own troops and also wagons and animals they had left.
5. An act of resistance.
6. We don’t know. London and the midlands have been suggested sites but there is no archaeological evidence.

Reading 

Fridays are always our Love of Reading session in Year 4 so we’ll keep this the same whilst we’re home learning. Your job is to relax and read. You could read to an adult, enjoy some quiet time where you and an adult both read, have a discussion about favourite books or authors. There’s no requirement to do work in your books. The most important thing: enjoy reading!

Maths answers

Maths

Challenge 1

Challenge 2 

Writing answers

Science

Challenge

Draw some diagrams to accompany the statements about melting, freezing and boiling.

Optional challenge

Make some ice cubes and create a tower as tall as possible. Discuss what makes building the tower tricky and why?