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.
dark |
big |
hot |
nice |
| gloomy
black |
massive
|
Challenges
- Write a sentence from the story replacing ‘dark’ with the synonyms you thought of.
- 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.
15 June 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
I hope you are still managing to do some home learning. I know it is a long time, and things might be tough, but try to keep going! Please email me if you need any help or support. Keep sending photos and updates of what you are doing too.
katieharker@spherefederation.org
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. If you have run out of your own books to read there is a fab online library of eBooks to read on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : hair, chair, stairs, dinner, person, letter, sure, cure
Y2 : metal, pedal, capital, hospital, animal, pencil, fossil, nostril, pupil, spoil
Times tables : If you’re ready, start learning x6 (link to x3) OR keep going with times 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10
Maths
Watch the video about adding 2 two digit numbers : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1ll5C0dH
Choose 2 items from the shop. Add them together using what you know about adding the tens and then the ones. Keep choosing 2 items and adding them together.
Reading
Watch and read the Funnybones story : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1lI6C0Ly
Lots of our learning this week will be linked to this story. The beginning is below.
Think of or look for any words that have the long ‘i’ sound. It can be made in 5 different ways (the alternative grapheme poster below gives hints about which sounds are found where in words).
Eg : night, frighten, idea, climbed
Topic – PE/Science
Get moving with this activity using all of your body :
Home learning help
The teachers at school have been talking to some families who are continuing to learn from home this week. There was a common topic of conversation : this is all dragging on and becoming quite tricky at times!
It has been a long time since we have all been back at school with our classes and we understand that home learning is challenging. Here are a few links that might help if you are wanting more activities to engage your child.
This is great for working on all number facts and you can try to improve your own score. We use this in school on iPads but can also be played on laptops : https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Passwords for Numbots or Times Table Rockstars are the same : https://play.numbots.com/#/intro or https://ttrockstars.com/ Email your teacher if you have lost it.
Loads of resources on here including reading : https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents
For reading and phonics games : https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Maths teaching videos and other resources : https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Variety of lessons, recorded by teachers : https://classroom.thenational.academy/
We love Go Noodle for a sing and dance : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBT7HYqCbbvzu3kKZ3wnw
Or Cosmic Yoga Kids for a more relaxing workout : https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Please ring school or email your child’s teacher if you need support and we will try to help.