16 June 2020: Home learning
Maths: LO: milligrams and millilitres
Reading – LO: answer questions about a text
Poetry – LO: analysing and performing
Today, we’re going to learn how to analyse and perform poetry. You need to read this web page, watch the videos and complete the three activities.
Once you’ve done, you need to choose a poem from activity two and perform it to either a family member, the mirror or record yourself on video!
As always, send in your home learning – we’d love to give you some stars and a step!
15 June 2020: Home learning
12 June 2020: Home learning
Friday’s here Y5 and I hope you’ve all had a fun and productive week!
We at school are doing the same learning as you guys at home!
The final home learning tasks for this week are maths, reading and science.
Maths – LO: equivalent fractions, percentages and decimals
Click here to watch the video and answer the questions as we go along.
Reading – LO: summarising a text
Your task today continues our learning about ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’. I would like you to create a book cover for this short story. Think about what happens in the story when creating your book cover.
You could use your feelings graph to help you show what the characters may look like, too.
When you’ve finished, I’d like you to summarise the story of ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’ in the following ways:
20 words
10 words
5 words
1 word
Good luck!
Spot the mistake!
Can you spot the mistake from today’s maths learning?
Email me if you think you have!
11 June 2020: Home learning
Hello everybody!
I’m really proud of all the hard work you have been doing at home. Please remember to keep sending in your work or if you haven’t already, that would be great!
oliwain@spherefederation.org
Maths answers from Wednesday:
Challenge 1:
- 0.03
- 0.9
- 0.25
- 0.5
- 0.76 – I’m aware I wrote this as 75% on the video. Thanks to Felix for spotting my ‘deliberate’ mistake!
- 0.10
Challenge 2:
It could be 50%
It must be 25%
It can’t be 75%
Onto today’s learning…
We have maths, reading and writing.
Maths – LO: percentages as fractions and decimals
Click here for your video! As always, answer the questions as we go along.
Reading – LO: inference
Your task today is to create a feelings graph for Hrungnir throughout the story ‘Hrungnir against the Gods’. This is the story that we read as part of yesterday’s reading task.
10 June 2020: Home learning
It’s the middle of the week already! How time flies…
Today’s learning consists of reading, maths and writing.
Maths – LO: percentages
Today we’re diverging from decimals to percentages.
You know the drill by now – here is the video!
Reading – LO: retrieval
Your task today is to read the following extract from ‘Illustrated Norse Myths’ and complete the task that follows. This can be found at the bottom of the document.
Please send in your work to oliwain@spherefederation.org
Good luck!
09 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning, everybody!
We hope you are all keeping well and have had a positive start to the week!
Today’s tasks are reading, maths and music.
Y5 Maths – LO: order and compare decimals
Your task is to watch this video and answer the questions as we go along!
Y5&6 Reading – LO: crossword
Today we’d like you to read this article and complete the accompanying crossword. Page 1 of the puzzle has the keywords underlined in the text. So, use this page if you’re stuck but we’d like you to have a go at the crossword on page 2, first!
Here is a copy of the latest FirstNews.
Good luck! Remember to send an email if you have any questions.
08 June 2020: Home learning
Happy Monday, everyone!
We hope you’ve had an enjoyable weekend and are looking forward to a new week of learning.
Today we have maths, reading and french.
Y5 Maths – LO: rounding decimals
Your task is to watch this video and answer the accompanying questions.
Y5&6 Reading – LO: RIC
Your task is to read this extract from ‘Illustrated Norse Myths’ and answer the accompanying RIC.
Challenge:
Find out the definitions of any words/phrases that are unfamiliar and write them in your home learning book.
05 June 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday, everyone.
We hope your week has been happy and healthy and you have some nice plans for the weekend. Thank you for continuing sending emails of your fantastic learning – it really brightens our day.
Y6 Maths – LO: solving problems using percentages
Today’s maths lesson is about solving two step problems that contain percentages. This means that you’ll have to do two calculations in order to solve each question. Do whatever you need to help you: draw pictures, write things down, use your mental strategies.
Click here to start today’s video. Get your pencil and paper out – be ready to pause the video when I say to!
R2s
- read the question carefully
- underline key information
- choose which operation to use eg + – x /
- answer the question
- check it makes sense
to start the video – you’ll need to pause it as we go through.
Y5&6 Reading – LO: Love of Reading
Y5&6 Design & Technology – LO: extreme designs
Today’s BBC Bitesize lesson is all about extreme designs and how they are tested, using elements of science and maths.
You need to read the article, watch the videos and complete either activity one or two – you decide!
If you haven’t got the materials at home (although, they can be made from weird and wonderful materials you might have lying around – be creative), you could always draw and label a design that you could make in future. It could be something talked about in the lesson or any other problem solving gadget you can think of!
Challenge
Have a read of this article all about more amazing DIY science experiments and have a go!
Please send in your amazing learning – we absolutely love it.
04 June 2020: Home learning
Y6 Maths – yesterday’s answers
- 3/4 = 75%
- 2/6 = 33.33%
- 1/9 = 11.11%
- 12/20 = 60%
- 3/25 = 12%
- 9/12 = 75%
- 4/7 = 57.14%
Y6 Maths – LO: compare and order FDP
Click here for today’s video. Have your pencil and home learning book out and get ready to pause the video – we’re working together as we go!
Y5&6 Geography – LO: eight compass points
Today’s task dives into the world of Harry Potter!
Click here for the video explanation. Then, if you need to, click here for the map and here for the timetable.
Challenge
Think of a place you know well (like school or home) and create a rough map on a grid (don’t worry about it being perfect). Then, create a timetable for the day and plan your movements using the language of the 8 compass points.