03 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning. We are already half way through our first week back! Go, team!
Maths: Y3 Unit fractions. Today’s video lesson is led by Mrs McCormack from Scholes. Activity sheet.
Y4 Twelve times tables. Today’s video lesson is led by Mrs Alloway from Scholes.
Reading: Yesterday’s answers. Today we are reading an extract from Peter Pan. Video learning and text.
Science: This half term we will be learning about plants. Click this link for the first lesson from Oak National Academy. Throughout the lesson, you will be asked to pause the video to complete tasks (just like when we do a video lesson). Don’t forget, you can go back and listen to bits again to help you fill in the answers correctly. Have fun!
02 June 2020: Home learning
Happy Tuesday! We hope you had a good day yesterday and are raring to go. Why not start your day with a Joe Wicks workout to wake up your body and mind?
Maths: Yesterday’s answers.
Y3 Maths: We are recapping on fractions. Today’s video lesson is led by Mrs McCormick from Scholes. Activity sheet.
Y4 Maths: Today’s video lesson, led by Mrs Alloway from Scholes, is continuing with multiplication.
Reading: Yesterday’s answers. Today’s task is to watch this video about Peter Pan and answer the questions.
Geography: Video learning. Go to the BBC Bitesize weblink with Sue Venir for the activities.
01 June 2020: Home learning
Welcome back to our final half term of the school year. We hope you have been able to enjoy the lovely sunshine that we’ve had over the half term break and that you are now ready for some new home learning activities.
Remember to keep up with your daily reading, spelling and times tables practice, too!
A reminder of our email addresses so that you can send in your awesome work or ask questions.
beckyrowley@spherefederation.org and kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org
Maths: Y3 and Y4: Today we are going to practise calculating times tables problems. Follow the link for two videos. Then complete activity 1 worksheet. You may also want to play activity 2 game Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica.
Reading: We are focusing on inference this week. Today’s video learning and task.
Music: Beatbox. What a fabulous skill to learn or can you already beatbox? This lesson shows you how to use your voice and mouth to create a percussion sound. Why not send us a video of your musical efforts?
Spellings: This week we are revising the long u vowel sound.
Half-term Home Learning
Because this week is half-term, we’re taking a break from the usual daily home learning tasks (just like we did at Easter). Instead, we’ve prepared a menu of home learning activities that you might want to dip into this week – these are optional only, but you might want to encourage your child to have a go at being a quiz master, doing some up-cycling, presenting a cookery masterclass or any of the other activities.
Whatever you decide to do, we hope you have a happy and healthy half-term.
22 May 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday – it’s half term. Well done for completing another half term of home learning. We’ve loved seeing all of your learning and hearing how you’re getting on. Keep sending us emails – we will still be checking them over half term so let us know what fun activities you’re getting up to, too.
Maths:
It’s challenge Friday! Head over to BBC bitesize for today’s challenges. Yr3 – here are the answers to yesterday’s learning. Yr4 – here are the answers to yesterday’s learning.
Reading:
Today is a love of reading session. We know that you love this reading session at school so your task today is to grab a book, find a comfortable spot and read! Have fun and enjoy reading. Share your book with a sibling or an adult if you’d like to.
RE:
Each week in school, we say the Lord’s Prayer. Today in RE, you have a task to learn more about the Lord’s Prayer and understand its meaning.
Storytime:
Here is the next installment of ‘A chicken gave it to me’. Keep an eye out on our class news page next week for the last few chapters.
21 May 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year 3 and 4 – you’ve nearly made it to half term. Another half term of home learning under your belt – well done!
Maths
Yr3 – Here is the video for today with yesterday’s answers and today’s learning. Here is a copy of the learning if you wish to print it.
Yr4 – Here are the answer’s to yesterday’s learning. Here is today’s video for learning. Here is a copy of the learning if you wish to print it.
Reading:
Whilst we are basking in the summer sunshine (hope you’re being safe and using suncream and hats – have a look at today’s science lesson to help to be sun safe!), have a go at this reading comprehension all about ‘A very unusual winter…’. Don’t forget, the answers are on the second page so don’t scroll down until you’ve finished answering the questions.
Science:
This week, we are learning all about how to be sun safe and how to protect ourselves. Have a look at this video – the learning is at the end of the video.
Storytime:
Mrs Welsby has recorded some more chapters of ‘The chicken gave it to me’ here – I’m enjoying hearing a story I haven’t read before. Are you? (If you’ve missed previous chapters, head back to the start of this week to find them.)
20 May 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday – you’re halfway through the week already!
Maths:
Y3 – continuing on with our maths problem solving, here is your video with yesterday’s answers and today’s problem. Here is the problem if you wish to print it.
Y4 – Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning. Today, you are continuing with position and direction in today’s video. Here is the worksheet if you wish to print it.
Reading:
Read through this exciting story starter and then answer the questions below. What do you think is going on? How mysterious …
SPAG:
Last week, we looked at verbs.
Recap
– A verb is an action or ‘doing’ word. It doesn’t always end in –ing.
This week, we are going to look at verb tenses.
Here is a video (with a quiz in it!) all about the present perfect tense along with a few questions to answer.
19 May 2020: Home learning
Happy Tuesday!
Maths:
Y3 – continuing on with our problem solving, here is the video for today – it has the answers to yesterday’s problem (and how I worked it out) and today’s new problem. Here is the problem if you wish to print it.
Y4 – Yesterday’s answers.
Today’s learning – Position and direction 1 video and worksheet.
Reading:
Something a little bit different ….
Read through this interview with Ben Schwarz and find out about the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Then, answer the questions on the next page.
Topic:
Answers to the last lesson’s continents and oceans. Today, we are learning about the hemispheres. Video learning and worksheet.
Storytime:
If you want to listen to chapter 2 and 3 of the story The chicken gave it to me by Anne Fine, click here. (If you missed chapter 1, you will find it on yesterday’s post)
18 May 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone,
How are you all? We hope that you have enjoyed the weekend. Can you believe that we are in the last week of this half term! Here are you learning tasks for today. Enjoy.
Maths: Y3 – Friday’s Y3 solutions. Today’s Y3 learning is another challenge.
Y4 – Mr Gathercole from Scholes explains the solution to Friday’s Y4 challenge. Today’s learning is multiplication and here’s the worksheet to complete.
Reading: Today you are going to find out about the explorer Amelia Earhart, a courageous pilot. Watch the video clip.
Your task is to write a paragraph to summarise the achievements made by Amelia Earhart. Try to keep your summary to five quality sentences. There is a transcript of the clip underneath that you can read through to help you.
Topic: Today we are going to recap the continents and oceans of the world. Watch the video and then answer the questions about continents and oceans.
Spellings: This week we are revising the long o vowel sound. Read and find the words with the long ‘o’ sound. Now complete the wordsearch which lists your spellings for this week.
Story time: If you want to listen to a story, here’s Chapter 1 of The chicken gave it to me, read by Mrs Welsby. Watch out for chapter 2 and 3 tomorrow.
15 May 2020: Home learning
It’s Friday! Hope you’ve had a good week and had a successful week of learning!
Maths:
It’s challenge Friday!
Year 3, here is your challenge all about coins commonly used in Britain today.
Year 4, here is your challenge – you have a magic square and you need to put the digits 1 to 9 in the square so that every row, column and diagonal all add up to 15. Here are some digit cards that you could use if you want to do it practically or you could make your own using some scrap paper.
Reading:
Something a little different… read the news article here and see if you can complete the crossword below it. All of the answers have been underlined so you just need to match each clue with the correct word.
Music:
Today, we are going to use our musical talents. I know many of you play instruments and lots of you love singing and dancing to rhythms. This is a fantastic lesson on pulse and rhythm. Follow this link from Oak Academy to practice your beats and rhythm. You may need a pencil and paper to make some notes.