Homework

26 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, friends! Another beautiful day and lots of opportunities to learn something new today. If you’ve got some more free time after your home learning, why not ask an adult or older sibling to help/show you:

1. How how to tie your shoelaces.
2. Do some cooking or baking (help make tea for your family at home).
3. Play a board game. My favorite is Monopoly (but I keep running out of money!).
4. Design a quiz based on what you’ve learnt in Computing/History/Maths this year and have everyone at home compete in a head-to-head challenge tonight. You decide the forfeit!

Reading

Review

Have an adult at home check that the words you replaced have the same meaning. Keep challenging yourself to use these words when you speak to your family at home.

Today’s learning

Today, we have a RIC. Remember – R= retrieve I=inference C= choice

The Famous Five

R. The children were shocked that Uncle Quentin had sold the old box. Find and copy the word that shows their shock.

I. Why would the man from London pay such a high price for an old box?

C. Explain what the statement, below, means:

‘Well this fellow collects curious things like that and he gave me a very good price for it’

Spellings

Practise your spellings today by using the ‘spelling jumps’ method.

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

Maths

Revisit

Check your answers from yesterday with a calculator and tell an adult how you did.

Today’s learning

Flex those Maths muscles of yours and warm up by either:

1. Play ‘Think of a number’.Think of a number between 0-100 and get someone at home have to guess what it is They can ask questions like ‘is it less than 20?’ (yes/no questions).
2. Play ‘which operation is missing’ here.

Today’s learning is fractions.

1. Play ‘match the fractions’ here.
2. Play ‘fraction wall’ here. Make sure it’s selected to ‘fractions’ with a denominator of up to 12 (at least) and then ‘scatter’. Your job is to rebuild the fraction wall. Then answer the following questions:
3. How many thirds are equal to three sixths (3/6 or three out of six)?
4. What other fractions are equal to four tenths (4/10 or four out of ten)?
5. What fractions are equal to six twelfths (6/12 or six out of twelve)? Find all the possibilities.
6. What fractions are equal to three eights (3/8 or three out of eight)? Find all the possibilities.
7. Use the fraction wall to help you order these fractions in ascending (smallest to largest) order using >. Remember to use the fraction wall when it’s ‘tidy’ to help you to do this.

1           1          1          1          1          1          1         1          1         1          1

6           8         12         3          2         11         5         7          4         1         9

Writing

Challenge

Show off that you can use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions by using some in a sentence or creating a short story which uses some.

25 March: Home Learning

Reading – Day 2 Answers

1. three
2. woman
3. Romans
4. nodded
5. flee to the mountains
6. hurled
7. Boudicca
8. gold
9. They had travelled a long way / they were tired / they wanted a rest
10. To keep her daughters safe
11. She was angry / he was questioning her
12. They were worried about their mum / they were worried about the battle with the Romans / they were scared of their mum’s anger

Reading

Maths – day  2 – answers

Maths

15 minutes Times Table Rockstars

 Addition Arithmetic

 1. 452+327=

2. 253+425=

3. 405+584=

4. 258+324=

5. 437+256=

6. 652+285=

7. 792+154=

8. 478+356=

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

Write an addition word problem.

For example:

On Monday, a baker makes 345 bread rolls and 563 cakes. How many products does he make altogether?

Day 3 History

In history lessons this half-term, we have answered all of the following questions.

1. When did the Romans successfully invade Britain?
2. Who was the emperor during the first successful invasion?
3. Why did the Romans invade Britain?
4. Was Boudicca a Roman or a Celt?
5. What was the name of Boudicca’s tribe?
6. How did Boudicca die?

First of all, I’d like your child to answer the questions. If there are any questions they don’t remember the answer to, they can use the internet to find them. A couple of links below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Next, they should show off some of the knowledge they’ve learnt in the topic in a poster. This could be some of the answers to the questions above or other things they’ve learnt. Email some pictures of the posters you create and I’ll post them on Class News!

25 March

Hope you are all set for today’s activities. You maybe starting to have some kind of routine or timetable now and as with the normal school day, remember to include plenty of brain breaks.

Physical activity: Joe Wicks’ live PE lesson is proving popular in our house – hope you are managing to join in too. It’s a great start to the day! Today, why not also try one of the many videos on GoNoodle. I know a particular class favourite is Banana, Banana, Meatball.

Mindfulness activity: Cosmic Kids Yoga have a variety of yoga, mindfulness and relaxation videos to follow online. Let us know which ones you’d recommend to a friend.

Well done to Leon who achieved his next Lexia level yesterday. Just 10/15 minutes a day can help your child to progress in their Lexia learning.

Here are your home learning tasks for today.

Task 1 reading

Reread the fluency text about polar bears from Monday. Today, read it aloud and take account of the punctuation in the text – a short pause for a comma and a longer pause where there is a full stop.

Hopefully you enjoyed the Pobble365 image from yesterday. There are no wrong answers for the questions that were set but it is always good if you can explain your answers by giving reasons based on the text/image. For example, maybe they had got the plane from a museum because it looks old.

Today, we have a poetry text including some of our spelling words this week.

1.Read the poem aloud.

2.Read it again in a different voice. For example, an excited voice or a tired voice.

3.Copy out the words in the poem that follow the ey pattern like your spellings.

4.Think of other words that follow the ey pattern (Spellzone can provide some more if you get a bit stuck).

Challenge: Try and add a third verse following the pattern of the poem and including some ‘ey’ words.

Task 2 maths

Here are your answers from yesterday’s learning. How did you do?

Before you start today’s activity, write out, in digits and words, the numbers from 0 to 20.

Today, we will finish our learning on 2D shapes with a sorting exercise.

1. Using the shapes listed in the word bank, sort them into the correct box.

2.Attempt to draw the shapes too.

Challenge: Complete the question below.

Task 3 Toys now and then

Imagine you have lost one of your toys (go and get it so you have it in front of you).

1.Write a description in sentences to help people find your toy.

2.Think about what adjectives you could include to give more description.

3. Include a picture of your toy too.

Challenge: Look at the adjectives you have used. Can you think of what is the opposite of these adjectives?

Finally, it would be great to see some of your home learning if you want to type it in an email (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) or send it as a photo. Keep working hard, everyone. You’re doing great!

25 March 2020: Home learning

Morning, everybody!

A word from Miss Wilson…

Hope you and your families are doing well and looking after yourselves (both mind and body!). It’s been great to receive emails to catch up with how you’re getting on with the tasks – keep them coming, guys! And as always, if you need help or advice about anything school related, do not hesitate to email me at jenwilson@spherefederation.org and I’ll reply ASAP!

My first couple of days have been good: I’ve decided to learn French seen as you lot love it so much at school (it’s tres bien so far) and I’ve also found having a check list of things to do for the day helps me keep my mind focused. Give it a try if you haven’t already. Keep up the hard work, team!

A word from Mr Wain…

Onto today’s tasks…

We’ve obviously never set tasks like this before so we have absolutely no scooby doo whether we’re doing it right. Any feedback is greatly appreciated or if we could do better, we’d love to know how. Thanks!

Today’s tasks are maths, reading and writing. Again, it will be clear which are for Y5 and which are for Y6 and there’s a bonus task at the end.

Y6 Maths – LO: rounding

Use two dice, a number spinner or a pack of playing cards (picture cards are zero) to generate two 7-digit numbers e.g.  6,527,901 and 6,420,100

Compare using the ‘greater than’ symbol (>) or ‘less than’ symbol (<) eg 6,527,901 > 6,420,100

Choose 10 more numbers to compare.

Your main learning today is rounding. Using the numbers that you have already created, round five of them of your choice to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000.

For example:
6,527,901
10 – 6,527,900
100 – 6,527,900
1,000 – 6,528,000
10,000 – 6,530,000
100,000 – 6,500,000

R2s
My number is 6,527,901. What are you rounding to? Nearest 10. Underline the 10s column. 6,527,901. Look next door to the right. 0-4 rounds to the floor. 5-9 climbs the line. It’s a 1 so I round down to 6,527,900.

Challenge
Whitney rounded 2,156,708 to the nearest 10,000. Her answer was 2,200,000. Explain her mistake.

Y5 Maths – LO: subtraction

Your maths task today is subtraction using column subtraction.

Using the column method for subtraction, solve the following calculations.

1. 4,648 – 2,347 =
2. 45,536 – 8,426 =
3. 29,456 – 8,896 =
4. 37,506 – 22,819 =
5. There are 83, 065 fans at a football match. 45,927 fans are male. How many fans are female?
6. Create word problems for Q1-4.

Challenge
Eva makes a 5-digit number. Jo makes a 4-digit number. The difference between their numbers is 3,465. What could their numbers be?

Y5 & Y6 Reading – LO: inference

Today, we’re finding out what happens with Freya after she returns to Asgard with her necklace.

Read the script (and optionally watch the accompanying video, too).

Our task today is to infer how characters would be thinking and feeling at different stages. In your home learning book, draw a table with the headings event, character, feelings and thoughts like this:

Your task is to write a feeling or emotion and then explain, using first person, what they’d have been thinking about. For example, using yesterday’s script:

event – Freya kissed the goblins
character – Freya
feelings – disgusted/revolted
thoughts – “Oh my goodness, deary me! Just look at those ugly things! Are they seriously asking a god from Asgard to do this? Yet, I must! I want – no… I need that necklace. Yuck! Here goes…”

Challenge
Write a script to show the conversation and what happened between Odur and Freya when he returned. You could use Loki as the narrator like we’ve seen in the past few days but that’s optional. Remember to set out your script like the ones we’ve read so far and include thoughts and feelings.

Y5 & Y6 Writing – LO: character description

Your writing task today is to write descriptively – a character description of your choice. This should only be no longer than one paragraph. By the end of the week, you will have created a story involving a character, a setting and a dilemma.

For your character description, you need to think about:

• character appearance
• What do they sound like?
• What features do they have that stand out?

Here is an example of a character description.

Ragnar Lothbrok was a leader of men, a lethal Viking legend in his own right and a father to many sons. He was a distinctive man to say the least, who could not be mistaken for any other; he was often the last, terrifying thing many warriors saw. Ragnar’s eyes were blue seas, clouded by a thunderous frown. An uncut, ragged ponytail hung from his head, with markings of snakes and war printed across his skull. Scars were littered across his skin, each a tiny victory amidst a gruesome patchwork that nodded towards his battle prowess. Silver shafted, a sword hung from a sheath buckled at his muscular side: Death Bringer. Echoes of this fighter’s fearsome roar could be heard across oceans, leaving enemies fleeing for their lives.  

R2s

• relative clauses
• similes/metaphors
• powerful vocabulary
• range of punctuation
• different openers – adj/verb/noun
• alternative nouns/pronouns for your character eg he/Ragnar/this fighter

Tip: When choosing the right vocabulary, think about who your character is and when they are set. Don’t write about your character having a computer if he/she is set in the Viking Era!

Challenge
Draw your character and label the key parts. Challenge someone else to draw your character without seeing yours. If they’re similar, your description was successful!

Bonus Task

I’d like you to do something really important: reach out to a friend from school. Use whatever technology you can to speak to someone from school. Even better – someone you haven’t spoken to yet. You could ask them what they’ve been doing or how they’re feeling (or how much they’re missing school, ha!). We might feel a little lonely/frustrated/bored over the coming weeks but staying in touch will make people feel connected/happier/valued – promise! Give it a go!

Don’t forget, there’s plenty of other things you can be doing at home, too. This web post from Mr Roundtree has loads of great information and ideas for  things to do at home.

25 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year 1! I hope you’re all well and are enjoying the home learning tasks. Remember, this is new for your parents/carers too, so make sure you’re following instructions – just like you would in school. We’ve all got to stick together!

Before I move onto today’s new learning tasks, I would like to revisit some of yesterday’s learning. For your history task, I asked you to write some sentences about the old and new teddies. Below, is the sentences that I wrote:

Teddy 1 is the oldest because it doesn’t have much fur.

Teddy 1 is oldest because it is hard.

Teddy 1 is the oldest because it is worn.

Teddy 2 is the newest because it is not worn

Teddy 2 is the newest because it has lots of fur.

Teddy 2 is the newest because it is very soft.

Check if my sentences  are similar to yours. If you have different sentences to me, I would love to see them.

Here are today’s tasks:

History

In the last history session, I told you that the oldest teddy belonged to my grandad.

Here is a picture of my grandad holding his teddy that he has had since he was born – a very long time ago! No wonder it looks so worn, hey?

Well, as my grandad (and many other elderly people) will be feeling lonely at this time, I thought it might be a good idea for you to ask him some questions about his teddy. Write your questions in your book and if you would like to, email them to me and I will ring him to find out the answers. This will give him a little bit of company and put a big smile on his face.

Remember:

• capital letters
• finger spaces
• question marks

Maths

In maths, we are carrying on with addition. 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 add together. Then, I have written the calculation.

13 + 5 =

Remember to put the biggest number first in the calculation to make it easier for you.

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

For this calculation, I put 13 in my head and counted on 5 (use fingers if needed) to get the answer 18.

You can also use objects to help you.

1. 12 people are on the bus.

4 more people get on the bus.

How many people are on the bus now?

2. Henry has 5 sweets.

Hidayah has 12 sweets.

How many sweets do they have altogether?

3. On Saturday Ava scored 6 goals.

On Sunday she scored 13 goals.

How many goals did she score at the weekend?

4. Jack has 9 smartypants.

Mr Parker gave him 11 more.

How many smartypants does he have now?

Write the calculations in your books.

Challenge:

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

Reading

Today’s reading task is a phonics one.

Below, is a list of  real and nonsense phase 3 decodable words:

quack

fich

shock

thack

tail

keep

might

zoal

curl

gowl

coil

Your task is to sort them into two groups – real and nonsense.

E.g.

Good luck with today’s tasks!

Mr Parker

24 March 2020: answers

Maths – LO: arithmetic

1.  145 and 646
2. 27 limousines are needed.
3. 196 bundles with 4 left over.
4. 4,263
5. 691,247
6. 16,539
7. £1,140,697.25
8.  650 divided by 12. She needs 54 boxes and there are 2 eggs left over.
9. false, false, false
10. 145,078
11. 222,358
12. 6 x 35 = 42 x 5
13. difference = 4,950

Reading – LO: retrieval

1.  What did Odin want Freya to do? Command the weather and seasons.
2. Why was it considered an important job? She had to get just the right amount of sun, snow, wind and rain.
3. What was the name of Freya’s spouse? Odur
4. What adjective was used to describe the cave/tunnel? dark
5. True or false:
   The sapphires in the cave were dazzling. false
   The goblins’ skin was bumpy. true 
   The goblins gestured to the object on the floor. false
6.  Find and copy a word which shows the goblins were stood together. huddled
7. List two tools mentioned in the script. picks and shovels
8. Match the adjective to the noun:
   wet       damp       strange
   noise    air        walls
   damp – air
   walls – wet
   strange – noise
9. What garment is mentioned in the script? dress
10. What event were Freya and her husband going to attend? a magnificent feast at Odin’s palace
11. What was Freya’s intended destination when she left Asgard? Midgard
12. List two ways from Loki’s speech that shows Freya did not want to kiss the goblins.
    Freya was well shocked!
    The thought of kissing those revolting faces!
    Yuck!
    she ran

25 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year Three! Spring is officially here. Make sure you’re going outside once a day for fresh air and to see all the beautiful flowers that are now blooming. I’ve been doing some mindful colouring each day to relax and rewind. Have a go yourself and why not listen to the composer Ludovico Einaudi while colouring. Here’s a link to the song we listened to in class: ‘ Golden Butterflies’.

Reading

Today’s learning

We’re carrying on with The Famous Five today.

Writers choose the words they use very carefully. Below, is a small bit of text from our class novel with underlined words. Your job is to use your own vocabulary, online or book thesaurus’ to replace these words. Make sure the words have the same meaning and for sense. Be sure to practise your handwriting as you write it out! Neatly join, clear tall (ascenders) and small (descenders) letters. I’m sure you’ll all remember your Must Dos, too!

Spellings

Practise your spellings today by using the ‘spelling flowers’ method.

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

Maths

Revisit

Mark your first 12 questions with a calculator. Tell and adult how you did!

Then, mark the challenges:

Today’s learning is column multiplication. Warm up by playing hit the button – click here. Choose ‘times tables’.

Now practise these questions in the column method:

Need a challenge?

Times tables

Are x2s, x5s and x10s this week, remember! Use the Moortown printable tests to see how you’re doing so far. Click here. Or, get someone at home to test you.

History

In history lessons this half-term, we have answered all of the following questions.

1. When did the Romans successfully invade Britain?
2. Who was the emperor during the first successful invasion?
3. Why did the Romans invade Britain?
4. Was Boudicca a Roman or a Celt?
5. What was the name of Boudicca’s tribe?
6. How did Boudicca die?

First of all, I’d like your child to answer the questions. If there are any questions they don’t remember the answer to, they can use the internet to find them. A couple of links below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Next, they should show off some of the knowledge they’ve learnt in the topic in a poster. This could be some of the answers to the questions above or other things they’ve learnt. Email some pictures of the posters you create and I’ll post them on Class News! Can’t wait to see what you create!

24 March 2020: Home learning

Here are today’s home learning tasks.

Reading

It’s my favourite historical figure, Boudicca! It’s a straightforward task: read the text and answer the questions.

Children can do Section C as a challenge or write their own questions about the text to test you.

Maths

Day 1 – Answers

Maths 

Writing

24 March 2020: Home learning

Hi everyone! Welcome to day two! This post is for Y5 and Y6 but it’ll be clear which tasks/questions are for you.

Today’s three tasks are maths, reading and history. (Remember, most tasks will be revisiting prior learning to consolidate your knowledge.)

Maths – LO: arithmetic

Y6 – answer all the questions
Y5 – answer 7 of the following questions of your choice. You can do more if you want to challenge yourself.

Challenge
Explain to someone else (or write down) how you worked out the two hardest calculations.

Reading – both Y5 & Y6 – LO: retrieval

Read this script or, alternatively, watch this video (or both!). Answer these retrieval questions in your home learning book.

1.  What did Odin want Freya to do?
2. Why was it considered an important job?
3. What was the name of Freya’s spouse?
4. What adjective was used to describe the cave/tunnel?
5. True or false:
   The sapphires in the cave were dazzling.
   The goblins’ skin was bumpy.
   The goblins gestured to the object on the floor.
6.  Find and copy a word which shows the goblins were stood together.
7. List two tools mentioned in the script.
8. Match the adjective to the noun:
   wet       damp       strange
   noise    air        walls
9. What garment is mentioned in the script?
10. What event were Freya and her husband going to attend?
11. What was Freya’s intended destination when she left Asgard?
12. List two ways from Loki’s speech that shows Freya did not want to kiss the goblins.

Challenge
Create a feelings graph for Freya for these key points in the script:

1. When she received her task from Odin.
2. When she was invited somewhere by Odin.
3. When she set off from Asgard.
4. When it started raining.
5. When she first went into the cave.
6. When she saw the necklace.
7. When she heard the necklace’s price.
8. When she went home.

History – both Y5 & Y6 – LO: I know why the Vikings were frequently successful in battle.

Your task is to create a poster to tell someone else all they need to know about why the Vikings were such effective and lethal fighters. Your poster should include information about the following:

• their longships – sleek and manoeuvrable
• weapons – spears, swords and axes
• armour – chainmail if you were lucky
• battle tactics – intimidation, hit and run, element of surprise
• way of thinking – Valhalla

R2s:

• colourful
• details about why each part helped them succeed
• pictures

Optional: carry out your own research but this is absolutely not essential.

If you are able to, email me a photo of your poster!

Challenge
Explain how you think it would have felt to be living in the year 900AD. You might consider different view points (eg Anglo-Saxons or peaceful Vikings) or different places in the world (eg York vs Baghdad).

23 March 2020: answers

Maths – LO: arithmetic