CHALLENGE INCOMING from Mr Wain and Miss Wilson…
… to a trick shot challenge!
Here’s Mr Wain’s and here’s Miss Wilson’s!
Who has got the best trick shot?
Who can play it cool the best?
Who can find the most ridiculous items?
We’re challenging you to find what you can from around your home or garden and complete a spectacular shot. Send in your videos and we can answer this important question:
WHO CAN ‘TRICK SHOT’ BETTER… Y5 OR Y6?!
jenwilson@spherefederation.org
oliwain@spherefederation.org
04 May 2020: Home learning
Morning, everyone! Hope you had a great weekend – thank you for the photos and videos! Stay tuned for another episode of the Hall of Home Learning Fame…
Y5 Maths Friday Answers
- a) -3°C
- b) 2°C
- c) 6:15pm
- d) 7°C
- e) -1.3°C
- f) 8:45pm
- g) 3 hours 45 minutes
- h) 4pm and 5pm
Y5 Maths – LO: read and interpret line graphs
Following on from Friday’s learning, today’s task is all about interpreting line graphs. However, this time, there will be some problem solving questions.
These types of questions require you to complete more than one step in order to find the answer – we looked at this on the screencast lesson last Wednesday.
Click here for today’s task.
Then, click here for today’s task!
Y5&Y6 Geography – LO: I know some world-wide countries and some of their major cities.
- Population
- Size (area)
- Location (within the country)
- Main River (if there is one)
- Distinguishable features (e.g. a mountain or national park nearby)
- Climate
- An interesting fact!
- complete it in your home learning book
- on a computer/tablet eg powerpoint or keynote
- on a piece of paper to then stick in your home learning book
- record yourself talking about the country and its major cities
Whichever way you decide to present your work, I would love to see it. So, please do send them over to oliwain@spherefederation.org or jenwilson@spherefederation.org.
01 May 2020: Home learning
Answers for Thursday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths answers
Click here.
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: interpret line graphs
Following our Autumn term based recap of our learning, today’s work involves interpreting line graphs.
There are 7 questions followed by a challenge – give it your best shot. If you need a little bit of help, you know where to find me!
Click here to start.
Y6 Maths – LO: decimals
Write a story that goes with these calculations:
8 – 5.3
guide to remind you of the difference between facts and opinions.
Y5&Y6 Geography – LO: I know some European countries and their capital cities.
Today’s learning follows closely from yesterdays. Yesterday you were asked to pick six new countries in Europe and find out and remember their capital cities.
Here are six that I learnt!
- Latvia – Riga
- Moldova – Chisinau
- Slovenia – Ljubljana
- Estonia – Tallinn
- Montenegro – Podgorica
- Lichtenstein – Vaduz
Using four out of the six new capital cities you have learnt, you are to create a fact file for each one! In your fact file, I would like you to provide the following information:
- Population
- Size (area)
- Location (within the country)
- Flag
- Language
- Currency
- Main River (if there is one)
- Distinguishable features (e.g. a mountain or national park nearby)
- Climate
- An interesting fact!
Remember, when researching your capital cities, be safe online and think about how we kept safe online whilst in school!
If you have any questions about this learning or are stuck at all, please email me – I’m always willing to help!
Keep smiling!
30 April 2020: Home learning
Answers to Wednesday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths answers
- 35,441
- £1,798 left over
- 663 x 80 = 53,040
Y6 Maths answers
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: area and perimeter
I hope yesterday’s video was OK! Moving forward, there will be more videos and I’m sure they will become more streamline during this time!
Today’s learning is about area and perimeter. We did some work on this last week but please do let me know if you have any questions!
Click here for today’s learning.
Y5&Y6 Reading – LO: poetry
Your learning today is poetry. Use this link (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zn8bgwx) to access the BBC Bitesize reading lesson (dated April 24). For your main learning, complete activities 1 and 2.
Challenge: complete activity 3 from the Bitesize lesson.
Y5&Y6 Geography –LO: I know some European countries and their capital cities.
Today’s task is a quiz! Click here to have a go. Have more than one go, can you beat your first score? How many can you get by the end of the day?
Your task is to learn 6 countries and their capital cities in Europe.
These countries must be outside of the UK – so you can’t have England (London), Scotland (Edinburgh), Wales (Cardiff) or Northern Ireland (Belfast).
If you come across a country that you don’t know the capital for, then have a look online, in an atlas or ask someone in your home!
Good luck!
29 April 2020: Home learning
Answers to Tuesday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths – Answers
Click here.
Y5&Y6 Science – Answers
Click here.
Y5&Y6 Reading – Answers
Click here.
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: problem solving
Click here for today’s learning.
It’s a video using some new software – let me know your thoughts and if you have any comments, please email me!
Y5&Y6 Geography – LO: I know how some physical and human features in the UK have changed over time.
This term’s topic is a geography one – so expect to see more geography home learning! At the moment, we are recapping our previous geography topic ‘Where in the World Am I?’ before moving into our new topic ‘Explorers’.
Today’s task involves looking at how some physical and human features in Moortown have changed over time.
The questions within the task are to be answered in your home learning book. You may either think to yourself about the questions, talk to someone in your home about them or conduct some research of your own!
Find your task here.
Go to BBC Sport or other similar website – it can be anything you’re interested in. Your challenge is to summarise a web article of your choice in 20, 10 and 5 words. Send them in and we’ll include the best in #HoHLF!
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If you need any help, please, as always, drop me a line: oliwain@spherefederation.org
Hall of Home Learning Fame
Drum roll, please!
Here is the first ever Hall of Home Learning Fame MOVIE!
Keep sending in your (very fun to watch) entries – videos are ideal – and keep your eyes peeled for a special challenge from me and Mr Wain!
Thanks for working so hard, guys.
Enjoy!
28 April 2020: Home learning
Answers to Monday’s home learning.
Y5 Maths – yesterday’s answers
Click here.
Y6 Maths – yesterday’s answers
Click here.
Today’s learning:
Y5 Maths – LO: multiplication
Today’s learning continues with multiplication. There are three sections. Complete the questions starting from the left and working your way to the challenge on the right. Click here to start!
The second part of your learning is to log on to TimesTables Rockstars and challenge me in the ‘Rockslam’ section. Have a few practises in the studio first if you like!
27 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Monday, everybody!
As you may know, there have been changes to the home learning (such as the time it is posted and the amount of writing tasks) as we have gone along and this is thanks to your feedback – we greatly appreciate any feedback you may have so please don’t hesitate to let us know!
Moving forward, there will be instances of lessons from BBC bitesize and other similar websites. Also, there will be lessons which simply feature a video of your teacher teaching some of the different home learning subjects, too!
Before we crack on with today’s learning, here are the answers for the learning that took place on Friday.
Y5 Maths
The BBC maths challenge, which was the task for Friday, will contain the answers from Monday and can be found by clicking here.
Y5/6 Geography
The six-figure grid references answers can be found here.
Today’s learning…
Y5 Maths – LO: multiplication and division
Following on from our addition and subtraction learning on Thursday, today’s learning looks at multiplication and division. Click here for today’s task.
Look at Q9. Write your own clues for a number of your choice. Send them in via email and we can challenge the rest of the class!
24 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday, everyone!
We have been listening to your feedback so today’s tasks are again made up of maths, reading and geography! We will be setting much, much less writing tasks. Check out the post from Mr Roundtree. Feedback, comments and concerns are always welcome and greatly appreciated.
(Remember to tune in on Monday for the movie premiere of Y6 #HoHLF!)
Y6 Maths – yesterday’s answers.
Y6 Maths – LO: rounding decimals
Good news! Lots of companies/TV channels/other educational groups are coming together in these strange times! As you may know, one of these is BBC Bitesize (who have even enlisted some well-known names to help them teach a variety of subjects, so keep your eyes peeled in future for those!). I thought we’d give one of these BBC Bitesize sessions a go today! Let me know your thoughts!
Your task today is about rounding decimals. There are three videos to watch (one is a recap of tenths, first) and then there are two activities underneath that I’d like you to complete. I would like you to do activity two – Jerry and Albert’s shopping list – and activity three – the dinosaur decimal challenge.
You could email me with a screen shot of your best scores, a photo of you completing the activities, or your top tips for someone else.
Challenge
Complete activity one – move & learn. It does require some resources but if you haven’t got them, you could make your own! The important thing is this challenge is that you’re practising this maths skill but doing it in a very active way!
Your reading today is a little bit different! As you all know, we’re living through something that will go down in history for our children and children’s children to learn about!
Today’s task is to create a time capsule to record a snapshot of what is happening at the minute, how people are feeling and what we’re all getting up to in these strange times. The idea is that you bury or keep your time capsule somewhere hidden and then dig it up or look through it again in a number of years eg 2030, a decade after this famous year.
First, you must read this Time Capsule ‘How To’ guide.
Finally, click here to see what the time capsule could look like. Feel free to print this one (don’t worry if you can’t), copy some of the things down into your home learning book, or change or adapt it to create your own. It’d be great to complete this with your family so everybody’s feelings and thoughts are captured!
Challenge
Improve your time capsule by adding in other objects such as photos, games or a newspaper! You could even make your own box (although an old shoe box works just fine).
A grid of squares helps the map-reader to locate a place. The vertical lines are called eastings. They are numbered – the numbers increase to the east. The horizontal lines are called northings as the numbers increase in an northerly direction.
Things to remember:
When you give a grid reference, always give the easting first: “Along the corridor and up the stairs“.
If you need a little bit of extra help, then you can click on this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z6j6fg8/revision/4 and it will refresh your mind back to class in December!
Today’s task:
1) Click here to access today’s first task. If you need any help at all or simply just have a question, please email me.
2) Click here for the map symbols for your story. Your task is to create a short story (a paragraph at the most) which substitutes some words and replaces them with map symbols.
Here is an example to help you.
Geography Home Learning Crossword
Hi everybody,
On the crossword, Scafell Pike is accidentally spelt ‘Scarfell Pike’ with an accidental ‘r’.
If you add in the ‘r’, the words on the crossword should all fit.
Do please write the correct spelling underneath so you don’t make the same mistake I did!
Mr Wain
