23 March 2020: Home learning
Reading
Hi Year 3 and 4! Today’s reading activity is to story map The Famous Five: Five on Treasure Island.
- First, you need to pick out the main parts – this is summarising the text.
- Then, in your home learning book, start by drawing the main characters.
- Use arrows or number your story map. Remember to only include the main, important parts.
Have a look at this story map which sequences Hansel and Gretel, below.
Still need help?
That’s OK! Here are the beginning main parts of the story for you to sequence. See if you can carry it on yourself.
- 4 children (Anne, Julian and Dick) go on holiday to Kirrin Bay to visit family.
- Their aunt Fanny, uncle Richard and cousin George live there.
- They meet their cousin George who is a confident, outgoing tomboy.
- The children hire a boat and go to George’s Island…
Want a challenge?
Story map your favourite book or film.
Spellings
Spellings this week recaps the list of suffixes you learnt in Year Two, and in class this year.
They are: –ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness.
Create your own list for words that work for each suffix.
Then, practise your handwriting while learning how to spell these words:
happiness / loneliness / thoughtfully / painless / colourful / humming / wrapping / dripped / clapped / funniest / hottest / hopeful / wishful
Maths
Today, you’re going to work on column addition. Remember to mark any exchanges you make and write the operation on your question. But first, click here for a mental maths game to warm you up.
Need a challenge?
Time stables
Times tables this week is to recap your x2s, x5s and x10s. I’ll be testing you on Friday so do a little practise, every day.
Science
Challenge 1:
Find three other examples of solids, liquids and gases. Challenge yourself to think of some which nobody else will think of!
Challenge 2:
Explain how you would change the state of one or more of the words in the table.
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
Home learning Year Three
You can email your child’s teacher…
Email teachers if you’re unsure about some aspect of the home learning. The email addresses follow the same pattern in Key Stage 1 and 2:
joebloggs@spherefederation.org
In my case the email to use is:
graceclifford@spherefederation.org
I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
Home Learning
Hello parents, carers and Y4 children!
I hope you’re all okay. I wanted to email before the first set of learning goes live to give you a bit of information about what to expect.
Structure and Routine
As newly ‘qualified’ teachers, these first days will be a bit of a rollercoaster for you! Hang in there! You’ll be fine. Hopefully, you can get into a routine and find a structure that works for you. I’ve posted the timings of a typical school day below. Sticking to some of the school timings so there’s consistency may help.
| 9-10 | First lesson |
| 10-10.10 | Wake Up Shake Up (or dance around the garden with music blaring out!) |
| 10.10-11 | Second lesson |
| 11-11.15 | Break |
| 11.15-12.10 | Third lesson |
| 12.10-13.10 | Lunchtime (they can make their own – we call this Food Technology) |
| 13.10-14.10 | Fourth lesson (household chores, perhaps) |
| 14.10-14.45 | Fifth lesson (gardening or naptime) |
| 14.45-15.15 | Assembly/Reading class novel |
The Tasks
- Each day there will be three tasks: a reading task, a maths one, and a science / topic / writing task.
- These tasks will ‘go live’ at 9AM each morning on the Y4 Homework page of the school website.
- The tasks will not include any new learning. Instead they will consolidate learning that has happened during Year 4 with some challenge questions to apply or use the learning in a different way.
- The tasks should take between 30-40 minutes.
- Answers (where appropriate) will be posted with the following day’s new tasks.
You can email me at paulwilks@spherefederation.org about any of the learning tasks. I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
Class News Posts
It would be great if you emailed some photos of the children learning at home – either the school learning tasks or other learning or fun you’re having. I’ll post some of these on the Class News section of the website each week so that you can all see what each other are up to and it might make us feel a little less isolated. If you want to send photos but don’t want your child’s image used on the website, let me know.
Best of luck to you all.
Paul
ps. Feel free to give out some Cool Class Tokens if your child is doing some great learning, or, conversely, feel free to give out warnings if they’re not following the school/home rules!
Home learning
We’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
You can email your child’s teacher…
joebloggs@spherefederation.org
In my case this means the email to use is:
Home Learning – emails
Email teachers if you’re unsure about some aspect of the home learning. The email addresses follow the same pattern in Key Stage 1 and 2:
In my case, this means the email to use is:
jenwilson@spherefederation.org
I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
20 March 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: I can pay and receive compliments to/from people outside of school.
This homework, which links to our recent living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to discuss the benefits of paying compliments to people. Here are some questions that might shape your discussion:
- How does paying a compliment make you feel?
- How does receiving a compliment make you feel?
- Why is it important to be sensible when paying or receiving compliments?
- Can you compliment people too much?
- Is it ok to compliment a stranger? Is this safe?
Children should be ready to discuss what they’ve talked about at home by Thursday 26 March 2020. It would be even better if children were able to talk confidently about times when they have given, or received, a compliment.
13 March 2020
Our homework this week is Creative: I can show my talents.
All of the children in our school are blessed with an array of talents. This week, our homework, which links to our living and learning statement (I can recognise my talents), gives our children the opportunity to celebrate and share their talents. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their talents to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:
create a short performance to show to the class
film themselves showing off their talent
make a collage of their many talents
produce a piece of art to show off their talents
There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond. Children should be ready to show off their talents by Thursday 19 March 2020.
06 March 2020
his week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect.
I can compare numbers up to 50
In maths, the children have been learning about numbers to 50. Their job this week is to compare numbers using the symbols >, < and =. Your child will be able to tell you what those symbols mean.
There is a sheet stuck in their book to complete
The homework is due on Thursday 12th March.