28 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning! How did you get on with the science activity? Hopefully there was enough sunshine for the activity! Here are today’s tasks.
Maths: Yesterday’s answers: Year 3 and Year 4. Today we have another video for you. Year 3 video learning and worksheet. Year 4 video learning and worksheet.
Reading: Yesterday’s answers. Today’s video learning and text. Your task is to write a short diary entry as if you are an explorer travelling the taiga belt. You must mention experiencing the difficulties listed in the text and how you’d cope with them.
Topic: Sorry! I forgot to put Friday’s topic quiz answers up for you yesterday. Here they are at last! Today’s activity is naming rivers and seas in the UK. Can you name the 10 rivers and 4 seas? Use the quiz and the topic work that you did last week to work out the rivers from the clues given.
27 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Monday, everyone.
This week, your learning is going to look a little different. Mrs Rowley and I have been beavering away, learning of new ways of getting information to you. Some of the lessons have a video of one of us. (Please bear with us as this is all new to us too.) We hope they will make learning more fun. Please let us know how you get along with this new style.
Mrs Welsby & Mrs Rowley xx
Maths: Last week’s answers. Year 3 and Year 4. This week’s work: Year 3 video and Year 3 worksheet. Year 4 video and Year 4 worksheets. Don’t forget, you can print the worksheets off or you can record your answers directly into your home learning books. After the main learning, there are challenge activities if you would like to stretch yourselves!
Reading: Moon Landings cartoon video, text and questions.
Science: Shadow investigation video and activity.
Spellings: In this week’s spellings we are revising the ai sound. Here is also a reminder page of spelling strategies that you could use.
24 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday!
Well done for your first week ‘back’ into this new term. Are any of you doing fancy dress Friday with Joe Wicks? I’m trying to do the workouts but haven’t managed the fancy dress bit yet! Enjoy your last learning tasks of the week.
Maths: Yesterday’s answers; Year 3 and Year 4 Wake up, shake up with Supermovers: The 8x table with Filbert Fox. Today’s activity: Year 3 – multiply by 2, 4, 8 and Year 4 – 3 digit by 1 digit multiplication
Everyone complete your weekly times tables check. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check Make sure your record your score on the sheet and find out which ones you have struggled with.
Reading: Layers of the Rainforest. (Answers are on the second sheet.)
Topic: How did you get on with yesterday’s towns and cities quiz? Answers. Today we are looking at counties in the UK. We are in West Yorkshire.
Spellings: Ask an adult to choose 10 of the 11 words from this week’s spelling list and test you on them. Can you get them all correct?
exciting learning activities to do at home.
23 April 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone,
I love a good laugh. Anyone know any good jokes? If you email me your jokes, I’ll post the best ones in our class news page. Happy learning!
Maths: Yesterday’s answers; Year 3 and Year 4 Wake up, shake up with Supermovers: The 8x table with Filbert Fox. Today’s activity: Year 3 – division by 8 and Year 4 – revising multiplying 2-digit by 1-digit.
Reading: Yesterday’s answers. Today’s activity: Gary’s Big Adventure (the answers are on the second page).
Topic: Last half term we focused on History. This half term we will be studying Geography. Towns and cities in the UK.
Handwriting: Complete the second of your handwriting sheets – these are in your learning packs. (There is a spare copy here!) The words that you are practising to write neatly are part of the Y3/4 word list.
22 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Wednesday – half way through the week already!
How are you all feeling? Are you learning different ways of doing things during Lockdown? What are you finding harder? It’s all rather strange, isn’t it? I’m developing my computer skills and finding different ways to communicate with friends and family near and far. You can email us both to let us know how you are.
kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org
beckyrowley@spherefederation.org
Maths: Yesterday’s answers: Year 3 and Year 4. Today’s learning: Year 3 -Dividing by 4 and Year 4 – Applying mental multiplication If I know 3 x 4 = 12, then I know 30 x 4 = 120
Reading: The tunnel
Writing:
We are learning about adverbs. Watch the two clips from BBC bitesize to remind you.
Read the example ‘My narrow escape from the leopard‘: Impala and leopard recount. Identify and highlight any adverbs or adverbial phrases for WHEN, WHERE or HOW. You could also copy them into your book and make your own bank of adverbials.
Challenge: You could create some of your own sentences using adverbs and adverbials about the Impala and the leopard. Use the adverbial phrase mat and fronted adverbials to help you.
21 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning.
Are you back into the swing of things? Are you starting your day with a Joe Wicks workout? I’ve tried to do some PE every day and the Joe Wicks workouts are fun! Don’t forget, a routine or timetable can help you to organise your day.
Maths: Yesterday’s answers – Year 3 and Year 4. Today’s learning –Year 3 and Year 4.
Reading: Which poem did you choose yesterday? Can you still remember it? Looking at the poems from yesterday, which poem did you like the best and why? Did it rhyme? Did it have any nonsense words? Was it funny? Did it remind you of something that has happened to you? Which words made the poem exciting?
Write a paragraph explaining which poem is your favourite, using the prompts above to help you. (If you used a different poem, you could write about that one instead.)
Reading challenge – write your own poem. Could you make it rhyme, or make a nonsense poem? Don’t forget to email any poems in.
Writing: Yesterday’s answers. Today we are going to write our own adverbs and adverbials. Watch the film clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhSDxp0oQK8 and then complete the questions using ideas from the clip. Use this information to write some sentences in your books using adverbials. Don’t forget to use your lovely handwriting and punctuation!
20 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
How are you all? We hope that you had a fabulous Easter break. How did you get on with the Easter challenges? Did you eat any chocolate or have an egg hunt? We’ve been eating plenty of chocolate and have also enjoyed the sunshine from the garden. Let us know what you have been doing to keep busy by emailing us both. (Thank you to those that already have done so – we love to hear from you!) Send us any pictures that you might want featured in our class news.
Enjoy your learning activities for today – remember to read every day for at least twenty minutes and practise your times tables too.
Take care and stay safe!
Reading: Read and perform a poem.
Writing: Adverbs and adverbials. Watch the powerpoint to remind yourself about adverbs and adverbials. There is also a revision sheet if you need it. Now complete the activity from the sheet.
Spellings: This week’s list.
Easter Home Learning
As it’s the Easter holidays, we’re taking a break from the daily home learning tasks. Instead, here are a range of activities that you might like to try over the two weeks. The tasks are creative and are designed to allow children the opportunity to enjoy some different learning, perhaps alongside family members. A few key points…
- The list will be the same across year groups, meaning if you’ve more than one child, they might work on it together in some way.
- Some of the tasks can take a bit longer, like a mini-project, and others match Creative homework tasks.
- You can encourage your child to do some or all of the activities – they’re all optional.
- During this time, you can still email your child’s class teacher about the home learning, although they may not respond as quickly as they have been doing.
- Teachers will return to daily home learning tasks on Monday 20 April.
Art Attack
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who creates art using things he can find in nature. The artwork shown here was created using different leaf types and creating a pattern. He creates his art outside as he likes the fact that it’s temporary and won’t be around for long!
Create your own piece of art using different materials you can find around your home or in the garden. You could even create some ‘rubbish art’ using only items that have been used and would be thrown away or recycled.
Take some photographs and send them to your teachers.
Hunted
Create your own treasure hunt with cryptic clues for your family members to complete. Make the clues as tricky as you can. What could be the prize for the winning hunter? Maybe, this could tie in with a family Easter egg hunt.
Secret Message
Create your own invisible ink.
Using a spoon, mix water and lemon juice. Dip a cotton bud into the mixture and write a message onto the white paper. Wait for the juice to dry so your message becomes completely invisible. When you are ready to read your secret message or show it to someone else, heat the paper by holding it close to a light bulb – be careful: maybe ask an adult to do this part. As the mixture heats up, your message should reappear so people can read it again.
Alternatively, the same result can be achieved by writing the message on white paper with a white candle or crayon. Then, paint over the message using coloured paint to reveal the writing.
For a challenge, come up with your own way of making invisible ink and try it out on your family.
‘Board’ Silly
Design and create your own board game for you and your family to play – perhaps play some existing board games first to research ideas.
There are a few key things to think about:
- What will your theme be?
- Will there be any ‘snakes’ or ‘ladders’ style elements?
- Do you need to make a dice using a cube net?
- Will there be any extra challenges or forfeits if you land on certain numbers?
Enjoy your games!
Extreme Reading
Reading is a great way to relax and learn about the world around us; also, reading regularly can help us to stay happy and healthy. This challenge is all about making reading even more fun. We’d love to know how many places you can read in. Try to read in a different place each day. Take photos or draw a picture of you doing it, if you can.
You could read…
- in a den that you’ve made
- up a tree
- under the bed/table
- to the dog/cat
- looking in a mirror
Stay safe and send your class teacher some pictures.
Come Dine/Bake with Me
Have your very own family ‘Come Dine With Me’ experience. Each family member could cook a meal or a course and then you must score each other out of ten. Similarly, each family member could bake something and you could all have a tasting after where you give points (like on Great British Bake Off). You don’t have to work on your own – you could help an adult.
Who will win?
Den Building
Who doesn’t love making a den? Either in your house, or in your garden, spend time building a den and enjoy some time relaxing in it – if there’s more than one of you, you could make it a competition. Use whatever materials you can find and see how creative you can get.
You could also read in it and combine this challenge with the ‘Extreme Reading’ one.
Get Ya Body Movin’
Staying physically active plays a crucial role in keeping us happy and healthy; it boosts our mental and emotional health, too. This task has three options – all of which are designed to get people moving during the holidays. You could include your family as well.
Option A: Create your own ‘Ninja Warrior’ style challenges in the garden or your house. Try to include a range of activities that include jumping, balancing, stretching, climbing and, if you’re feeling brave, water. The adults in your family will love a water challenge.
Option B: Create your own Joe Wicks style workout video. You could do it with your family or film yourself and send it to your friends. You might like to check out Joe Wicks’ YouTube channel for inspiration.
Option C: Choose your favourite song and create your own ‘Wake Up Shake Up’ (WUSU) dance routine. Again, you could lead this for your family to join in or film yourself and send it to friends or other family members. This’ll be a great way to get everyone dancing.
03 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday!
Did many of you clap the wonderful NHS workers at 8pm last night? I’m sure I heard some of you from my front door!
Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths for Year 3 and Year 4.
Maths:
All complete your weekly times tables check. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check Make sure your record your score on the sheet so that you can work on the ones you have struggled with.
Year 3 – find your addition and subtracting packs. Complete the “subtracting 2 digit numbers from 3 digit numbers – with exchanging” page. Remember to be careful where you place you numbers.
Year 4 – find your addition and subtraction packs. Complete the “Around the world flights” page. You can jot down your working either on the page or in your home learning books.
Reading:
Today’s activity is a challenge using your reading book.
Spellings:
Ask an adult to choose 10 words from this week’s spelling list and test you on them. Can you get them all correct?
Topic:
In history lessons this half-term, we have answered all of the following questions.
- When did the Romans successfully invade Britain?
- Who was the emperor during the first successful invasion?
- Why did the Romans invade Britain?
- Was Boudicca a Roman or a Celt?
- What was the name of Boudicca’s tribe?
- How did Boudicca die?
Answer these questions in your book. If there are any questions you can’t remember the answer to, why not use one of the links below to remind you? (They are fun to watch, even if you remember the answers!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
Now, can you make a poster to show off some of the wonderful knowledge that you’ve learnt in this topic? You could use some of the answers to the questions above or other things you’ve remembered. If you email a picture of your poster, then I’ll post it on Class News!
Have a lovely weekend.
(On Monday, we will post some activities that you might like to do over the Easter break.)
02 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Thursday!
Remember to keep sending us pictures of your learning and any other activities you’re doing at home.
Send it to both teachers so we can both have a look.
beckyrowley@spherefederation.org
kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org
Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning for year 3 and year 4.
Maths:
Year 3 – find your addition and subtracting packs. Complete the “subtracting 2 digit numbers from 3 digit numbers – no exchanging” page. Remember to be careful where you place your numbers. Keep the ones under the ones column and tens under the tens column.
Year 4 – find your addition and subtraction packs. Complete the “Using inverse operations to check addition and subtraction calculations” page. Pretend you are Mrs Rowley or Mrs Welsby and mark the maths learning. Are the answers right or wrong? Can you find where they have gone wrong if the answer is wrong?
Reading:
Find out all about the ‘Wooden Allfather‘ in today’s reading activity.
RE:
After Jesus was arrested, he was taken to be tried. Peter was the leader of the disciples — the most confident, and perhaps the one you might
expect to stick with Jesus at his arrest. But after Jesus’ arrest, Peter denied Jesus three times – just like Jesus predicted.
33 Peter said, “All the other followers may lose their faith because of you. But I will never lose my faith.” 34 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. Tonight you will say you don’t know me. You will say this three times before the rooster crows.” 35 But Peter said, “I will never say that I don’t know you! I will even die with you!” And all the other followers said the same thing. Matthew 26: 33-35.
Have a look at this video of Peter denying Jesus.
Tell an imaginary story about yourself. Use your dramatic side! Your best friend has just ignored you in the supermarket, as if they didn’t know you. Next, someone came up to them and said, ‘You are friends with him/her, aren’t you?’ and they looked at you and said, ‘I’ve no idea who they are!’ and walked off. Explain how you felt. How would the pupils feel? You could write this as a story or you could draw a comic strip and speech bubbles – the choice is yours!