Week beginning 23 November 2020 - St James' Primary School, Wetherby

Maths

These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.

You don’t have to print the worksheet. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.

Practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 4 times table. Email the class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.

(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)

Spelling

Look on the homework page to find this week’s spellings. Your child should complete one task each day.

Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text.)
Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.

(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)

Reading fluency

This week’s fluency text is all about Egyptian Gods.

In school, we generally follow this sequence:

Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.

(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)

Reading comprehension

Day 1: Re read your fluency text on Egyptian Gods and answer the questions below.

Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.

Day 3: Read this article from First News, a newspaper for children, and complete the activity.

Day 4:Read this extract from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Next, do one of the following:

Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.

Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too.

(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)

Writing

Activity 1: Click here to learn about figurative language.

Activity 2: Using the spooky clip from Literacy Shed, write your own sentences about the setting. Try and use figurative language to describe the setting and create a picture in the reader’s mind.

Topic

This week’s topic learning is history.

Take a look at the BBC Bitesize website and read about why farming was important to the ancient Egyptians and which gods they believed in. (Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)

Science

This week we are learning about water resistance.

Look at this PowerPoint and carry out the experiment. If you can’t access the PowerPoint, then look at this BBC website and carry out the same water resistance experiment in the video.