Author: Miss Beatson

Good morning- I hope you’re all staying happy and healthy. Please email me if you have any questions about the home learning or you would like to send me any pictures of your learning.

Today’s learning…..

Y5 maths: regular and irregular polygons

Well done to Sofia, who emailed me her fantastic maths learning from yesterday all about polygons. I love her presentation too- very neat and colourful!

Today, you are going to continue to learn about regular and irregular polygons. Use the video from yesterday to support you. Complete the task.

Y6 maths: ratio and proportion

Yesterday, you followed a White Rose lesson all about ratio and proportion. Today, complete this fluency sheet. Choose which level you want to do (first page easiest) and then mark your work with the answers at the end.

Challenge cards

Writing: reports

Think of your favourite celebrity, musician, sportsperson or hero. Write a formal report about them. Follow this online lesson to find out how to do this. I would love to read some of your reports, so please email me your writing!

Geography: trade and economic activity

BBC Bitesize 

Follow the learning and have a go at the quiz tasks 1 and 2.

Good morning!

Today’s learning…….

Year 5 maths: regular and irregular polygons

Watch the video

Year 6 maths

Here are the answers to yesterday’s arithmetic paper.

Today, your learning is about ratio and proportion. Here is a link to the White Rose Maths website. Watch the video in week 2 lesson two ratio and proportion.

After watching the video, answer these questions in your exercise book.

Reading

Today, complete this FirstNews comprehension.

Living and Learning: I know the importance of money.

Watch this video

Happy Friday!

Today is a bank holiday – a time where you may be spending extra time with your families and celebrating VE day. VE day stands for Victory in Europe Day and it is celebrated on 8th May – the day when World War  II ended in Europe in 1945.

If you would like to do some learning about VE day, there are a few tasks below that you can do and a few extra fun things based around VE day.

Watch this BBC video to find out more about VE Day.

The Royal Mint has released a special £2 coin to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. This Newsround article explains more about this. Once you’ve read the information, have a go at designing your own £2 coin to mark this occasion.

How about doing some war time baking? In WWII, lots of the food was rationed to ensure there was enough to go around, so people had to bake using different ingredients. Does anything take your fancy? I think the chocolate cake sounds delicious!

How about becoming a medal designer? Lots of medals were handed out during and at the end of WWII. Do you have what it takes to be the designer of an important medal?

How about flying a spitfire plane? The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two. Its groundbreaking design and superior specifications gave the British a decisive advantage fighting the Luftwaffe.

Please do send me any pictures of you celebrating VE day and let me know how you’re doing- have a great day!

Good Morning Year 5 and 6. The weather is starting to pick up again, so I hope you’re managing to get some fresh air and exercise.

Today’s learning…..

Maths

Year 5: watch the video on angles

Year 6: watch the video on circles

Writing: semi colons

Watch this video and listen to the words to remind you when we use a semi colon.

Writing: using bullet points

Follow the BBC Bitesize lesson about bullet points.

Art: optical illusions

Today, we are going to use our artistic talents! I am always amazed at optical illusions (where your eyes deceive your brain) and I find them fascinating. I thought we could all have a go at making our own!

Why are we doing this?

During this school year, we have been learning about different skills that can be used in paintings, drawings and sketches to improve our artistic abilities. Skills such as shading and colour choice are vital when improving form. This task is a great way to improve our skills and create an exciting optical illusion!

I would love to see some of your finished pieces – please email me nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org

How to get there: click here.

 

We are halfway through the week! I can’t quite believe we are now into May. I’m so proud of you all during these strange times; you’re all doing so well.

Maths: angles

I hope the videos helped with yesterday’s learning. Please refer back to the videos to help you with today’s learning if you need to.

Year 5: angles on a straight line

Complete this practice makes perfect activity, re-capping on yesterday’s learning.

Year 6: quadrilaterals 

The activity today is a re-cap on yesterday’s learning about quadrilaterals and the interior angles of a quadrilateral.

Writing: hyphens and dashes

When do we use a hyphen? When do we use a dash? Can you remember the difference between the two?

Today, you are going to revise hyphens and dashes by following the BBC Bitesize lesson. 

Geography: capital cities

As part of Geography this half term, we would be learning the capital cities in Europe. Using an atlas or google maps, can you locate all the capital cities in Europe? Use this sheet to help you with the activity.

Once you’ve completed the activity, test yourself (and people in your family) to see how many you can remember!

 

Good morning!

There are two video lessons today: Year 5 maths and Year 6 maths. Please email me if there’s anything you need help with. Have a good day!

Maths: angles

Year 5: angles on a straight line

Please watch the video– my first Year 5 video lesson!

Year 6: angles in a quadrilateral

Please watch the video to find out how to find missing angles in a quadrilateral.

Reading

Here are the answers to yesterday’s reading comprehension.

Today you are going to complete a reading activity on BBC Bitesize: The London Eye Mystery by Siobahn Dowd.

Geography

BBC Bitesize lesson

Watch all 3 videos, have a go at the video tasks. For activity two, name the seven continents of the world.

This is a year 6 task, but it is designed for both year 5 and 6 to do, as our topic lessons are spread across two years. (Basically year 5 and 6 do it, not just year 6.)

Hi guys, I hope you’ve had a good weekend.

Thank you to Hannah, who sent me a video of her doing the physical challenge Mr Mills set for everybody last week. Did anyone else have a go? Please send me some photos of your obstacle courses or any other learning you’ve been doing. Check out the class news page to find out more about what everyone has been up to.

Maths

Year 5: mental calculation

Complete the activity by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing mentally.

Year 6: four operations

Complete these questions using all four operations.

Challenge

Write you own word problem, similar to Q9.

Reading

Your learning today is a comprehension task.

You should read the FirstNews task. Once you’ve read it, answer the questions on page 2 – these questions will help you practice a range of reading skills.

Challenge 1: create your own questions for someone else to answer.

Challenge 2: ask someone in your house to help – they’ll need to be able to read so maybe not your pet dog or your favourite teddy bear. One of you is going to play the role of a ‘journalist’. The other person will play the role of an ‘expert’. The journalist should ask the expert questions that they can answer using the text. The expert uses the text to answer them. You could swap roles, too. Why not go BIG and put on a different voice, dress up or use a hairbrush as a microphone. You could even film it and send it in to me!

Music: BBC Bitesize singing with feeling

Following on from Friday’s learning, today you are going to try activity 3. Choose one of the ten pieces. It’s time to get arty. Listen to the music carefully and create some artwork based on it. Watch the video to get some more ideas.