18 June 2020: Home learning
Morning, everyone!
Hope you’re all staying happy and healthy.
Here are yesterday’s answers for the main maths activity and challenges.
Maths – LO: calculating ratio
First, watch this video from the White Rose Maths Hub. You need to find ‘Week 1’, ‘Lesson 4 – Calculating Ratio’. Ignore where it says pause the video and attempt a set of questions. Just watch the video through and try to answer along with the video. You can email me if you need more help.
Then, you know the drill – click here for today’s video.
Next, click here to download today’s activity.
Writing – LO: writing poetry
Today, we’re continuing our learning about poetry by writing nonsense poems!
You need to use this BBC Bitesize lesson and complete activities one, two and three.
Email your poem to me for some feedback or it’d be amazing to hear and see you perform yours!
17 June 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday, Y6!
Keep your emails coming in – it’s been great to catch up online and over the phone. I’m always here to answer any questions, comments or concerns!
Today’s tasks are maths, reading and writing.
Maths – LO: using the ratio symbol
Click here for yesterday’s answers.
Join me for today’s video by clicking here and then, when you’re done, click here for today’s task.
Challenges
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Reading – LO: create a puzzle
Writing – LO: figurative language
Using this BBC Bitesize lesson, let’s build on our poetry learning from yesterday and explore figurative language.
You need to read the web page, watch the videos and complete activities one and two.
Challenge
Complete activity three.
16 June 2020: Home learning
Maths – LO: ratio and fractions
Click here for yesterday’s answers.
Get your pencil and brain ready and click here to watch today’s video. Be ready to pause when you need to!
Once you’ve finished, click here for today’s activity.
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
Happy Monday, Y6!
Welcome to another week in these weird and wonderful times. If you haven’t done so for a while, please take some time to email me with what you’ve been up to, whether that’s learning or anything else!
Today’s tasks are maths, reading and we’re going to be looking at Pride month using art.
Maths – LO: ratio language
Join me in today’s lesson where we learn about a new topic – ratio.
Click here to watch the video and be ready to pause it! Then click here to start your task for today.
Challenge
12 June 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday, Y6!
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!
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!
jenwilson@spherefederation.org
Maths – LO: algebra
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: algebra
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 jenwilson@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.