Homework

Tuesday 24 March: Home learning

Good morning Year 2! Hope you all had a productive first day of learning at home. Here are your home learning tasks for today.

Physical activity: Who joined in with Joe Wicks’ live PE lesson yesterday? The 30 minute session can be accessed at any time if you miss it in the morning.  The sessions will be running Monday to Friday at 9am. Today, why not also try one of the Super Movers videos if you need a brain break. Here’s a video about division.

Mindfulness activity: Starfish meditation – this is a great way to refocus the mind.  Spread your fingers on one hand like a star fish.  Slowly, trace your finger, from the other hand, around your fingers and hand.  Continue until you feel calm.

Here are some of the words you may have selected from the fluency text yesterday as words that you are not sure of. We use the word synonym to show words that mean the same.

carnivore – meat eating

particular – special

depend on – need

generally – usually

social – to be with others

remarkable – amazing

detect – find

compacted -firmly pressed together

camouflaged – can’t be seen

harsh – severe

Task 1 reading

This image is taken from the Pobble365 . This website shows a different picture every day as a stimulus for learning. The children have seen these images before in class. Answer the following questions about the photo.

1. What do you think it is that Poppy and Jasper have seen?

2.Where do you think Poppy got the aircraft from?

3.What will happen next?

4.Where do you think they had planned on going?

5.Will they reach their destination?

Challenge: What could be a title for the image?

Task 2 maths

Before you start today’s activity, here is a game to play (test your number bond knowledge – up to 20 or up to 100).

We have recently been learning about symmetry especially relating to shapes. Watch this video to remind yourself of what it means.

1.Look at the 2D shapes below. Which shapes are symmetrical?

2. Which shapes have more than one line of symmetry?

3.Play this game to check your understanding of symmetry.

Challenge: Which capital letters have lines of symmetry?

Task 3 writing

Look back at the Pobble365 image. Here’s a story starter.

Flying is supposed to be fun, right?

Poppy often dreamed about what her first flight would be like. She’d imagined it was like being a bird; free and weightlessly drifting through the clouds.

The first part of the journey had been exactly as she’d hoped it would be. Jasper agreed, signalling his enjoyment by barking enthusiastically from the co-pilot’s seat.

Things were about to take a drastic turn for the worse…

1.Continue the story. What could happen next?

Challenge: Use two different conjunctions in your learning (such as because, but, and, so, when or if).

24 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year 1. I hope you all coped OK with yesterday’s tasks – I’m sure you did!  Remember, if you want me to take a look at any of your learning, feel free to email me – I’d love to see how your’re getting on.

Here are today’s tasks:

History

This half term, we have been looking at the history of toys. In last week’s history session, we ordered three teddy bears in chronological order. Can you remember what chronological means?

Below, you will see two of those teddies that we ordered.  In the session, we decided that teddy 1 was the oldest and teddy 2 was the newest. Your task today is to write three sentences about each teddy explaining why we decided that.

Teddy 1                                                      Teddy 2

Use the sentence stems below to help you with your sentences.

Teddy 1 is the oldest because…

Teddy 2 is the newest because…

E.g. Teddy 1 is the oldest because it is worn.

Remember:

• capital letters
• finger spaces
• full stops

Maths 

Today’s maths task follows on from yesterday’s learning about part-part whole models.

Your task  is to draw and complete the part-part whole models like yesterday,  then write four addition sentences under each one.

E.g.

Challenge:

Continue the pattern to find all of the number bonds to 10

10 = 10 + 0

10 = 9 +  __

10 = 8 + __

Reading

This half term, our class novel has been Dogger. We’ve done lots of learning about Dogger, so you should have a good understanding of the story.

Your reading task today is to re-tell the main events of the story.  Use the pictures below to help you with the task.

Also, if you want to remind yourself of the story, I have posted a link below of the story being read on YouTube.

I hope you enjoy today’s tasks! Again, if there is anything I can help you with, contact me using the email: benparker@spherefederation.org

Good luck!

Mr Parker

23 March 2020: answers

24 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year Three! I hope you’ve put your lunch order in with your adult at home and had your milk and water! I’ve been thinking about you all lots and missing you, too! Hopefully you had a go at the home learning from yesterday. Please remember – if you find a task too challenging, I’m here to help. My email address and the instructions for emailing are on a post on the same ‘homework’ tab that home learning is found on. Make sure you give it a good go first though!

Each day, our home learning post may include a ‘revisit’ where I share answers for previous posts in purple. Learning from our own answers (and mistakes) is crucial to the learning process. Be sure to pick any colour pen as your purple pen and mark your answers. The current day’s learning will then follow on underneath.

Reading

Review

Morning Year 3! How do your Famous Five story maps look?. Did you get all of these important parts of the story so far? Check you did, against my list of key events in the story, below:

1. 4 children (Anne, Julian and Dick) go on holiday to Kirrin Bay to visit family.
2. Their aunt Fanny, uncle Richard and cousin George live there.
3. They meet their cousin George who is a confident, outgoing tomboy.
4. The children hire a boat and go to George’s Island even though there’s a storm.
5. They get stuck on the island during the storm which exposes the shipwreck.
6. They explore the shipwreck and bring back an old tin box.
7. They try really hard to open the tin. When it’s finally open they find a map leading to ingots (gold).
8. The 5 take a tracing and put the box back (uncle Richard confiscated it)
9. Uncle Richard sold the box to a man from London and they want to buy Kirrin Island.

Today’s learning

Today’s learning carries on with The Famous Five.

We’ve read up to the part where the Famous Five have found the map to the gold on George’s Island and they have made a tracing of it. We also know that some men from London want to buy Kirrin Island and they’ve most likely found the real map.

1. Draw the Five children around the table as they find out about the men from London buying the old tin which contains the real map.
2. Add a thought bubble to George, Anne and Uncle Quentin

Your thought bubble should be in the 1^st person (I think… I feel….). You should extend your thought bubble with a conjunction explaining why the character is feeling/thinking this way (as/because/so).

Here’s a clipping of the book when they’re sat around the table.

Want a challenge?

Draw your own map of Kirrin Island, leading the way to the buried treasure. Or, draw a map to treasure inside your home, or out in the garden, and see if someone else can follow it to find your hidden treasure.

Spellings

Practise your spellings today by using the ‘rainbow write’ method.

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

Maths

Review

Check your answers from yesterday, below:

Today’s learning

Today you’re going to practise column subtraction. Make sure to subtract and not add!

Warm up by doing some mental maths – click here and choose numbers to 100.

Need a challenge?

Writing

Question time….

Use your imagination and creativity to answer the following questions. Remember to use conjunctions (eg and, but, so, because, when, even though, if, as, although) to add extra information to your answers.

1. How has the helicopter crashed?
2. What do you think he should try to do next?
3. Who might be able to help in this situation?
4. What do you think you would do if you were in a similar situation?
5. Why do you think he is afraid?
6. What might he be afraid of?

Home Learning – reading update

Hi everyone!

Below are the links for today’s home learning reading task:

Odin creates the world video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4B2yhzckFnLbb8myKQvvhMF/viking-sagas-odin-creates-the-world

Transcript:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/pdfs/viking_sagas/story_01.pdf

23 March 2020: Home learning

Hi everybody and welcome to the first Home Learning tasks for Y5!

I hope you’re all doing well and feeling happy and healthy. During this time away from school, let’s continue to be a great team! With that being said, if you have any questions about home learning, please don’t hesitate email me at: oliwain@spherefederation.org.

Remember, your mental health is just as important as your physical health – exercise when/where you can, talk about what’s on your mind and know that we’re all in this together.

This week’s spellings are:

1. interfere
2. interchangeable
3. international
4. supernatural
5. superimpose
6. autograph
7. automatically
8. television
9. telescopic
10. teleport

Children and parents are reminded to practise little but often and test weekly alongside practising a mixture of times tables and related facts (60 x 7 = 420).

Today, we have maths, reading and writing. Each task should take 30-40 minutes and answers (where appropriate) will be ‘live’ tomorrow morning for you to mark your learning with.

Maths – LO: add more than four digits

Reading – LO: explore and evaluate

Today’s reading task is all about the Viking saga: Odin creates the world. Your task is to watch the video clip (link below). Next, read the transcript that goes with it at least two times. After that, answer these questions in your home learning book and complete the activity that follows.

1. What did you like about the clip?
2. What did you dislike about the clip?
3. Is this similar to anything you have read or watched before?
4. Are there any words or phrases you liked?
5. Are there any words or phrases you didn’t understand? If so, find out what they mean and record them in your home learning book.
6. Could Odin have created any of the homes differently? What would you change about them?

Finally, whilst reading the transcript you have two options:

Option A: read the transcript alone and be as expressive as possible – changing voices for the different characters.

Option B: read the transcript with someone else at home being as expressive as possible, too.

Challenge
Whilst reading the transcript, try acting it out as well in the style of a play!

Writing – LO: audience and purpose

Today’s writing task is to write up your newspaper report that we planned in class last week. All children have been given their plan so they should reference this frequently whilst writing.

Structure R2s:

• headline
• paragraphs
• image
• caption
• quote

Grammar R2s:

• passive voice
• formal language
• speech to convey character
• parenthesis
• relative clauses

It’s important that you reread each paragraph after writing it and check it’s followed your plan, makes sense, includes R2s and is spelled correctly. If you need to edit, use your purple pen.

Challenge
Record yourself reading your newspaper as if you’re a real newsreader or perform it to someone else!

Remember, you can email me if you need help with any of the learning by using my email address at the top of this post. Thank you for working so hard – you’ve got this!

Mr Wain

23 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning, Year 1! I hope you’re all happy and healthy. Here are your learning tasks for today.

Writing task

Below, I have written some sentences about Dogger. However, I forgot to use capital letters and full stops! Please re-write the sentences for me with capital letters and full stops.

dave had a toy dog called dogger

one of dogger’s ears pointed upwards

dogger has brown fur

he was left at the school gates by dave

dave has a sister called bella

a little girl bought dogger at the school fair

Remember:

• Sentences start with a capital letter.
• Sentences end with a full stop.
• Names start with a capital letter.

Maths task

Draw these part-part whole models into your book and complete them by writing a number in the empty circles.

E.g.

If you would like a challenge, see how many different ways you can complete the model below.

If possible, use resources such as counters or cubes to support your learning.

Reading task

Read a story or ask an adult to read one to you.

Once you’ve read or listened to the story, tell an adult (or write) what you liked or disliked about it and why.

Try to use because in your answer.

E.g. I like the story because…….. or I dislike the story because……….

Challenge – Tell your adult (or write) about a specific part in the story that your liked or disliked.

E.g. I liked the part when…….. or I disliked the part when……..

Please feel free to email me any photos of the children’s learning at home -either the school learning tasks or other learning tasks.

Good luck.

Mr Parker

23 March 2020: Home Learning

Welcome to the first Home Learning tasks for Y6! Technology, hey?

I hope you’re doing well and feeling happy and healthy. During this time away from school, if you have any questions, email me at jenwilson@spherefederation.org.

Remember, your mental health is just as important as your physical health – exercise when/where you can, talk about what’s on your mind and know that we’re all in this together.

This week’s spellings are:

1. interfere
2. interchangeable
3. international
4. supernatural
5. superimpose
6. autograph
7. automatically
8. television
9. telescopic
10. teleport

Children and parents are reminded to practise little but often and test weekly alongside practising a mixture of times tables and related facts (60 x 7 = 420).

Today, we have maths, reading and writing. Each task should take 30-40 minutes and answers (where appropriate) will be ‘live’ tomorrow morning for you to mark your learning with.

Maths – LO: arithmetic

Challenge
Write the R2s for addition or subtraction and a top tip you’d give to someone else.

Reading – LO: explore and evaluate

Today’s reading task is all about the Viking saga: Odin creates the world. Your task is to watch this video. Next, read the transcript that goes with it at least two times. After that, answer these questions in your home learning book and complete the activity that follows underneath.

1. What did you like about the clip?
2. What did you dislike about the clip?
3. Is this similar to anything you have read or watched before?
4. Are there any words or phrases you liked?
5. Are there any words or phrases you didn’t understand? If so, find out what they mean and record them in your home learning book.
6. Could Odin have created any of the homes differently? What would you change about them?

Finally, whilst reading the transcript, you have two options:

Option A: read the transcript alone and be as expressive as possible – changing voices for the different characters.

Option B: read the transcript with someone else at home being as expressive as possible, too.

Challenge
Whilst reading the transcript, try acting it out as well in the style of a play!

Writing – LO: audience and purpose

Today’s writing task is to write up your newspaper report that we planned in class last week. All children have been given their plan so they should reference this frequently whilst writing.

Structure R2s:

• headline
• paragraphs
• image
• caption
• quote

Grammar R2s:

• passive voice
• formal language
• speech to convey character
• parenthesis
• relative clauses

It’s important that you reread each paragraph after writing it and check it’s followed your plan, makes sense, includes R2s and is spelled correctly. If you need to edit, use your purple pen.

Challenge
Record yourself reading your newspaper as if you’re a real newsreader or perform it to someone else!

That’s it for today. As always, email me if you’re unsure of anything and thank you for working so hard.

Miss Wilson

23 March 2020: Home learning

Reading 

Maths

Science

Monday 23 March: Home learning

Good morning Year 2! Here are your home learning tasks for today. There are some optional challenges too. We will also give you a suggested physical activity and mindfulness activity to help you to keep physically and mentally healthy.

Physical activity: Why not start your day by joining in with the free live PE with Joe video for kids. These sessions will be running daily at 9am.

Mindfulness activity (we usually do these straight after lunch but it can be included at any point in the day): OK breathing – Make an ‘ok’ sign on your tummy and slowly breathe in and out.  This sign is to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions.  No emotions are bad.  Emotions change and you won’t feel like that forever.

Task 1 reading

Here’s the fluency text for this week. The children are used to having these these texts weekly in class and they are aimed at developing the children’s fluency when reading.

1.Read the non-fiction text below based on polar bears (like our class mascot, Snowy, that we have adopted from WWF).

2.Underline and copy out words you are not sure of. Try to find out some of their meanings using a dictionary text or online.

3. Reread the text and record two facts you have learnt about polar bears.

Challenge: write an incorrect fact about polar bears too.

Polar bears

Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on.

Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of compacted snow, and from almost a kilometre away.

Adults are strong swimmers – they can swim for several hours to get from one piece of ice to another. Their thick white coat and a layer of fat keep them warm and camouflaged in their harsh Arctic environment.

Words I’m not sure of

Task 2 maths

1. Go on a shape hunt around your house and record, in your home learning book, the different 2D (flat) shapes that you find. For example, a rectangle on the front cover of a book.

2.You could also include their properties – sides and vertices (where two lines meet together at a point).

Challenge: Give clues to one of the shapes to a family member – can they guess the shape?

Task 3 writing

Your spellings for this week are all words ending in ey. Don’t forget to spend some time on Spelling Shed to practise these words. Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.

key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley, honey, money, turkey

1.Write questions with half of your spelling words. Then, use the other half to answer the questions. The sillier the better!

2.Underline the spelling words when you use them.

Challenge: Start each question with a different word.