14 July 2020: Home learning
How was the National History Museum yesterday? Did you enjoy it? I loved the dinosaur that is suspended in the centre of the museum. It looks huge!
School trip
Today, we’re staying in London but heading to The National Gallery’s Rooms and Galleries. Follow this link to their virtual tours to have a look around one of (or all three if you wish) their galleries. Your task for today is an art based task – choose your favourite picture and have a go at recreating it. You can choose to use pencils, felt tips or paint- whatever you have to hand at home. Send some pictures in of your fantastic artwork to beckyrowley@spherefederation.org .
Maths
Did you work out who the murderer at the movies was? Here are the answers for you to check.
Crime seems to be following you around, Year 3 and 4! Pinebridge Village prides itself on how beautifully kept the lawns and gardens are; especially
the lovely hanging baskets which adorn the many lamp posts throughout the village. Each spring, the mayor of the local town visits Pinebridge and praises the residents for the beauty of the many flowers and blossom trees.
However, a crime has been committed!
The day before the mayor’s visit, it has been discovered that all the hanging baskets along the High Street have been knocked down and the lovely flowers kicked along the pavements! As Chief Inspector, it is your job to make sure your team finds out who has vandalised the hanging baskets and bring them to justice.
The descriptions of people in the area were taken. Use their descriptions, solve the clues, and identify the scoundrel vandal!
13 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year 3 and 4! It is the final week of the summer term. Its feels like it’s been a long long time since we’ve seen you all and enjoyed learning together in the classroom but, at the same time, it has flown by. For your final week of learning, we’re going to have a little bit of a different approach – we hope you enjoy the change and all the new things you’ll do!
School trip!
Who knew you could go on a school trip from the comfort of your own home. I know for Mrs Welsby and I, it is one of the highlights of the year so for today’s (hint hint for exciting things planned for the rest of the week) trip, we are off to the National History Museum in London! Don’t fall asleep on the coach ride there!
Have a look around the National History Museum’s virtual tour. You can choose to visit all of the places or just one or two that interest you the most. When you’ve been to that place, write a fact file to show the information you have learnt from one of the sections. Try to include at least 5 facts.
If you want some more traditional learning, head to their learning and resources page and complete an activity from there.
Maths
Have you ever fancied being a detective? Well, today your challenge is to solve this murder at the movies! Officers have compiled a list of suspects in attendance at the cinema. You must use the list of cinema-goers and the clues (worked out by answering maths questions) to determined who has committed the terrible crime! The answers will be posted tomorrow.
It’s Friday!!
Maths
In this lesson, we will be building on our knowledge of scales for mass by introducing capacity and millilitres and litres.
Reading
For today’s reading session it is Love of reading.
In class, we’d usually have a Love of Reading session each week where we read something that we love. Adults use the time to read with children.
Today, I’d like you to…
● Get really comfy: wear some thick socks, a dressing gown or wooly jumper. Sit somewhere soft and relaxing.
● Turn all electronic devices off: TVs, radios, computers, phones, tablets, etc.
● Spend some quality time reading with each other. Read aloud, take it in turns, put on voices for characters, re-read things to improve how you’re reading them.
● Talk about what you’re reading. Which are the best bits? Why? Does it remind you of other things you’ve read or watched? Do you know anything about parts of it from other knowledge that you have? What do you think of the characters? What will happen next? Why do you think that?
Spanish
In this lesson, we will recap our previous learning in Spanish and then learn how to answer the question ¿Dónde vives? and saying where we live in Spanish. For this lesson, you will need a pen and pencil and some paper, as well as another person or a cuddly toy to have a conversation with!
09 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Maths
In this lesson, we will be building on the reading of scales for mass, moving onto reading different scales, and focusing on differing intervals.
Reading
Yesterday, you read a story about a man who bought a mountain. Today, we’re going to change our text type and look at a fact file. Read this fact file all about the ocean. You have two challenges to choose from today for your reading comprehension – an easier challenge and a more difficult challenge.
SPAG
It’s been a while since you’ve had any SPAG lessons in school. Have a go at this SPAG mat to give your brains a workout. There are three challenges to choose from. Choose which you think best suits you.
08 July 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday – you’re halfway through your penultimate week.
Maths
In today’s lesson, we will be applying our knowledge of adding and subtracting mass from yesterday, as well as how to accurately read scales, and to solve problems involving mass.
Reading
Have you ever wondered where mountains come from or who they belong to? Find out about the man who bought a mountain in today’s story and comprehension. Again, there are three challenges for you to choose from.
1 star / 2 star / 3 star (the more stars the harder it is)
RE
In this lesson, we will be learning about the church – the place of worship in Christianity. You will learn about the features of a church and also look at two very famous churches in England.
Home learning: 07 July 2020
Good morning!
Reading
Have you ever fancied being a detective? Every time you infer something that you have read, you are being a reading detective. Today, your reading task is a “Whodunnit” story. Whodunnits are a story where the reader acts as a detective to find clues and solve the crime. When you have read the text, you need to complete a deductions sheet much like a real detective. You’ll need to think carefully about each of the suspect’s alibis. Finally, bring all of the clues together to make a deduction about who committed the crime. I’ll post the answers tomorrow.
Again, there are three different possibly challenge levels. Choose the challenge that you think is right for you.
1 star – story and deductions page.
2 star – story and deductions page.
3 star – story and deductions page.
Maths
Today, we are continuing our learning about mass here with Oak National Academy. In this lesson, we will begin to add and subtract mass, including regrouping the values. We will use the partitioning strategy as a process to add or subtract the mixed-units (kg and g).
Topic
Have a look at Mrs Latham’s post all about PE under the homework page- it’s West Yorkshire’s School Games Virtual Sports Day.
07 July 2020 : Whole school home learning (Let’s get sporty!)
Whole school sporting activities
Home Learning: 06 July 2020
Good morning, Year 3 and 4. Are you ready for another week of home learning?
Here is your learning for today.
Maths
Head to Oak National Academy to learn all about measures. In this lesson, we will use our knowledge of reading scales and our understanding of mass to compare and order different values.
Reading
Have you ever seen the film “How to train your dragon?” well today, your reading task is a comprehension task all about training dragons? I wonder if they have the same ideas.
There are three options for this task. You can choose the challenge you want to do. 1 star = easier. 2 star = medium. 3 star = harder. Don’t be too easy on yourself – give yourself a challenge!
Science
Today, head to Oak National Academy to learn more about plants. In this lesson, we will learn about how plants transport water internally and watch this in an experiment.
Home learning: 03 July 2020
Good morning, Year 3 and 4!
It’s Friday! Hope you’ve all had a happy, healthy, and successful week.
Reading
How did you find yesterday’s challenge to send questions in? Thank you to Evie for her super questions. Can you answer them?
- Who introduced social distancing?
- What will social distancing do?
- How do Myra and Jagrati kept in touch with their grandparents?
- At school are there more or less pupils?
- Why do you think Myra and Jagrati put on the play?
- What three things have the government asked people to do?
For today’s reading session it is Love of reading.
In class, we’d usually have a Love of Reading session each week where we read something
that we love. Adults use the time to read with children.
Today, I’d like you to…
● Get really comfy: wear some thick socks, a dressing gown or wooly jumper. Sit somewhere soft and relaxing.
● Turn all electronic devices off: TVs, radios, computers, phones, tablets, etc.
● Spend some quality time reading with each other. Read aloud, take it in turns, put on voices for characters, re-read things to improve how you’re reading them.
● Talk about what you’re reading. Which are the best bits? Why? Does it remind you of other things you’ve read or watched? Do you know anything about parts of it from other knowledge that you have? What do you think of the characters? What will happen next? Why do you think that?
Maths
It’s challenge Friday! Head over to BBC Bitesize for today’s maths challenge.
Living and Learning: I can make healthy choices
This week, our living and learning statement has been all about making healthy choices. It is often easier to make healthy choices with our food and our body – we know to eat healthily and to exercise but what about a healthy mind? That is just as important!
Today, we’re thinking about keeping our minds healthy. Follow some of the links below and have a go at some activities.
02 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning everyone. Is it really Thursday already? What is your new healthy choice for today? (Don’t forget that you can look back to Monday’s post for ideas!)
Let’s all have a boogie to the 8x table!
Maths:
Year3: Today we are going to be looking at methods to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. You may be familiar with the RUCSAC method. Can you remember what each of the letters stand for when helping us to solve mathematical word problems? Click on the slideshow to find out.
Year 4: As we continue to work on fractions, in today’s video lesson we are looking at subtracting fractions from a whole number.
Reading: By now we’ve read the text for three days so you should be very familiar with it. Remember to read the text again out loud to develop your fluency. Then, 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 in, like Joe did last week, and we can add them into tomorrow’s post.
RE: Today we are learning about the scared text of Christianity with Miss Dhillon from the Oak National Academy.