07 May 2020 : Home learning
Good morning everyone. I hope you are all still doing a bit of reading and times tables each day.
Maths
Watch the slideshow by Miss Harker all about half turns : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfvQcBYYS
Reading – Phonics
Read the real and alien words aloud to yourself, a grown up, a pet or a teddy. Add sound buttons to any unfamiliar words and then blend the sounds together. Copy the real words into your home learning book with lead-in lines (Y1) or with joined handwriting (Y2).
Challenge : Put each real word into a sentence.
Topic – History
Read about VE day.
06 May 2020 : Home learning
Wednesday already! Here is the learning for today.
Maths
Miss Harker has recorded a lesson all about half past : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfvjmBYbr
Challenge : Draw some clocks showing some half past times.
Reading
Today’s reading is a Phase 3 phonics review by Miss Harker : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfuX6BcBf
Topic
Make a map showing a route or journey you know well. It might be your journey to school, if you can remember it! It might be a local walk that you have been doing or it could even be an imaginary journey. Make sure you give your map a title, a key and clear symbols.
06 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year 3 and Year 4 – you are halfway through another week!
Maths:
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths learning for Year 3 and Year 4.
Y3 Maths:
Here’s a link to a task on adding two three-digit numbers. This is a really important skill to revisit every now and then because there are some traps that are easy to forget about. Have a go at all three activities in this link.
During the video, they use the terms ‘number column’ and ‘carry’. Throughout school, we refer to these as ‘column addition’ and ‘exchanges’. In the title of activity two, they use the word ‘regrouping’. Again, we opt for saying ‘exchanges’. If you haven’t got a pack of playing cards for activity three, you could create what you need using some scrap paper.
Y4 Maths:
Here is a video for your maths learning and the task sheet.
Reading:
Here are the answers to yesterday’s RIC.
We are going to have a look at Robert Falcon Scott again. Watch this clip again. (There is also a transcript of the video available on this link if there is a problem with playing the video clip). Now, write a summary of Scott’s exhibition or draw a storyboard of the key events.
Science:
Today, head to BBC bitesize to carry on learning about your light topic. Here are your tasks to accompany BBC bitesize.
06 May 2020: Home Learning
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!
05 May 2020: Home Learning
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
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.)
05 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning. Here are the tasks for today.
Maths
Draw some 2D shapes/draw round objects – cut/fold/draw a line showing half (the line is called a line of symmetry).
Reading – Words of week
These words are from the Owl and Pussycat poem from yesterday. Re-read the poem.
Read the three words.
Additional challenges : 1. Put each word into a sentence. 2. Find out what some of the other words in the poem mean (eg tarried, quince). 3. Re-write the poem in your very best handwriting.
Topic – Geography
Draw a map of your bedroom. Make a key to go with it to explain what you have drawn. Try to draw it from a ‘bird’s eye view’, as if you are looking down from above.
Challenge : Draw a map of another room in your house or of your garden.
05 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning all. Thank you to all of you who have sent in messages, answers or photos. It’s always lovely to hear how you’re getting on because we miss you! Stay safe! If you want to see some more questions that have been sent in from last Friday’s reading task, check out our Class News page. x
Maths: Yesterday’s answers: Year 3 and Year 4. Today’s learning. Year 4 video learning and worksheet. Year 3 video learning and worksheet.
Reading: Yesterday’s answers. Today’s learning. Here is the first explorer that you are going to be finding out about, Robert Falcon Scott. Watch this clip that explains all about Scott’s expedition to the South Pole. There is also a transcript of the video available on this link if there is a problem with playing the video clip. Now, answer these questions in your home learning book.
Grammar: Revision of nouns.
04 May 2020: Home Learning
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.
04 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week five of our home learning tasks already! We hope you are enjoying the lessons from teachers. It is strange not having anyone answering! As time goes on, some of you may be struggling to keep up with all the tasks. Don’t worry, any learning that is missed we will catch up on once we get back to school. The most important thing at the moment is to stay safe and look after your emotional well-being. If you need any help or support, please email your class teacher.
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.
There is extra content on BBC Bitesize, with three lessons each day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and Oak National Academy (ONA), also with three lessons each day: https://www.thenational.academy/ There’s also White Rose: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. Then on Friday, see if you can write them out without looking at them. Someone could test you if you want.
Y2s will also have times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 – song bring train paint seen free coat soap
Y2 – who whole when where what why wild would could should
Times tables : If you ready, start learning 4x (double and double again, link to 2x tables) OR times 2, 3, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 5 or 10
Maths
We are going to look at fractions this week. Here, Miss Harker talks about halves. There are activities to do too, if you can.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYft61A71Q
Reading
Poem – Owl and Pussycat
We have chosen a poem to focus on for a couple of days this week. Join in and read along with Miss Harker : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfu2oBncR
Topic – Geography
Have a go at drawing or making the individual flags of the UK.
Challenge : Draw a Union Flag or make some bunting. Save your flags to display on VE Day on Friday.
04 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of home learning. You are all doing amazingly! Did any of you do Mr Mills’ Friday challenge?
Maths: Last Friday’s challenge answers. This week’s learning. Year 4 main learning video and challenge video. Year 4 worksheet. Year 3 learning video and Year 3 worksheet.
Reading: Today we are going to have another look at the text from Friday. Your challenge is to answer the questions set by your class mates last week. These questions were written by Leah. Thanks for sending them in, Leah – they’re great!
Topic: Today we are learning more about counties in the United Kingdom. Use compass directions to find the counties.
Spellings: This week we are revising the long e vowel sound. There is a wordsearch for you to do and a wordsearch template so that you can create your own. Here is also a reminder page of spelling strategies that you could use.
May the 4th be with you. (This is a Star Wars joke – May the force be with you!)