Homework

18 June 2020: Home Learning

Good morning!

Thank you to all of you who continue to send your learning to me by email. It’s lovely to see what you’ve been getting up to.

Today’s learning…….

Year 5 maths: short division

Today, I would like you to practise the short division strategy we’ve looked at this week. Complete this sheet.

You may want to go back and watch the previous videos to remind yourself what to do.

Year 6 maths: long division

Watch this video lesson on long division.

Reading: comprehension

Read this text all about running and exercise, then answer the questions .

Here are the answers.

SPAG: apostrophes

Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson about apostrophes.

Home Learning: 18 June 2020

Good morning, Year 3 and 4.

Maths:

Here are the asnwers to yesterday’s challenges. (Challenge 1 and challenge 2.)

Today in maths, you’re learning all about telling the time to 5 minutes. Watch this video and then answer these questions. There’s no need to print – you can just write the answers in your home learning book.

Reading: 

Here are the answers to yesterday’s comprehension.

By now you’ve read the text for three days so you should be very familiar with it. Please read it again out loud for excellent fluency.  Today, write some of your own comprehension questions for Mrs Rowley and Mrs Welsby to
answer. Try and include some retrieval, interpret, and choice question – like we have in our RIC style questions. Please send them to us for us to answer.

Geography

Follow this link below to a fun geography-based lesson which explores the differences between weather and climate. There are two clips to watch, photos to study and three activities to do. Try to complete the quiz and the second activity (see sheet attached). Click on the link on the webpage to
access the third activity, if you’d like this challenge.

Enjoy!

17 June 2020: Home learning

Happy Wednesday! Are you feeling fit and full of energy?  This mountain bike exercise helps with reaction times and core strength.

Maths: How are you getting along with our Time topic? Here’s today’s  Y3/4 lesson with Mrs Rowley.

Reading: Today we are reading Growing seeds from space again. Each time you read it, you will become more fluent. Today’s video and text.

Science: Here is our third lesson about plants from Oak National Academy. Throughout the lesson, Miss Roberts will ask you to pause the lesson to complete tasks.

17 June 2020: Home Learning

We’re half way through the week- I hope you’re all doing OK.

Year 5: I hope you’ve found the new textbooks helpful- aim to do between 40-50 mins of learning in them each day alongside the online learning.

Today’s learning……..

Year 5 and 6 maths: remainders as decimals

Follow another video lesson on short division with remainders expressed as decimals.

Reading: reading comprehension

Read the text about whales and then answer the comprehension questions.

Science: reversible and irreversible changes

We’ve learnt about reversible and irreversible changes in Science this year. Follow this BBC Bitesize lesson as a re-cap.

17 June 2020 : Home learning

Morning everyone.

Maths

Have a go at the word problems adding 2 two digit numbers.

Challenge : Have a go at these extra tricky problems.

Reading – synonyms and antonyms

Watch the clip about synonyms (words that have the same or similar meaning) and antonyms (words that have the opposite meaning) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk23c7h

The word ‘dark’ is used lots of times in the Funnybones story! (https://youtu.be/sJodPwWCClQ)

Can you think of any synonyms for dark? Make a list. Make 3 more lists of synonyms for big, hot and nice.

Challenges

1. Write a sentence from the story replacing ‘dark’ with the synonyms you thought of.
2. Do the follow up activities on the BBC Bitesize page.

Topic – Science

Watch the BBC Bitesize clip : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmptsbk

Have a look at the animal skeletons. Can you work out which animals they belong to? Look at the shape of the body, legs and tails for clues.

Challenge : Choose a different animal and draw what you think it’s skeleton might look like.

Answers :

Top row – dog, horse, chameleon

Bottom row – bird, fish, snake

16 June 2020 : Home learning

Hi everyone. Here is today’s learning.

Maths

Add the two 2 digit numbers. Add the tens and ones separately. You could draw the tens and ones and then count them.

Reading

Watch the Funnybones story again : https://youtu.be/9O9ErtvJKEo and then the BBC Bitesize clip about Funnybones. Do the follow-up activities : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfmtpg8

Topic – Science/art

Using magazines or newspapers, have a go at creating a person by cutting out different pictures of different parts of the body. You could draw any parts that you can’t find!

Challenge

Use the word mat to label all the body parts.

16 June 2020: Home learning

Hello everyone. If you need a wake-up jump about, head to Supermovers. You can wake your body up and revise your 3x table. Win, win!

Maths: Here is our second lesson on Time with Mrs Rowley.

Reading: Today we are looking at our newspaper article again. Here’s the video learning and text.

RE: This is our second lesson in a series of four lessons on Christianity from Oak National Academy. This lesson, led by Miss Dhillon, is about the Holy Trinity.

16 June 2020: Home Learning

Good morning!

Today’s learning….

Year 5 and 6 maths: short division

This week we will be focusing on division. Firstly, let’s recap our knowledge of short division. 

Reading

Read the First News articles about the recent protests in the US and UK. Then answer the comprehension questions.

Spanish

Follow this BBC Bitesize lesson to learn how to talk about hobbies and sports in Spanish.

Adios!

15 June 2020: Home Learning

Good morning- I hope you’ve all had a good weekend. The sun was a nice surprise!

Today’s learning……

Year 5 and 6 maths: multiplication and division

This week, we will be revising division. Today, have a go at recapping on basic multiplication and division facts by playing some of these games. 

Reading: finding information and summarise a character

Follow this BBC Bitesize lesson. 

Art: exciting paintings

Follow this lesson exploring famous artists and their exciting paintings.

15 June 2020: Home learning

Good morning everyone. We hope you have had a good weekend and have managed to enjoy some sunshine. Don’t forget, we love to hear from you and see the work that you have been doing. Here are our email addresses:                kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org and beckyrowley@spherefederation.org

Maths: This week in Maths we are focusing on Time and the lessons are for both Y3 and Y4. Here is today’s video learning  with Mrs Rowley.

Reading: This week we are basing our work on a newspaper article about seeds in space. Here is today’s video learning with Mrs Welsby, and text.

Spellings: This week we are focusing on the k sound when it is spelt ch. Here is the list.

Music: Sing a major scale. Click this link for the lesson from Miss Roberts at Oak National Academy.