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Year 2 Home Learning - 25th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 7:36am
Good morning Year 2,
We hope you all had a brilliant weekend. We have loved reading all your posts. You have done some amazing work so far and we are very proud. Now it is time to start our home learning again and I’m sure you are all ready to go.
Remember, some work will be set on Seesaw this week so please read this post carefully. This can be accessed by logging in and navigating to the family announcements section. We know home learning is very different to school but try your best to stick with it. Try to remain resilient and persevere with all the tasks set. Little and often is always the best policy.
Keep going, we are so proud of you all!
Hopefully the snow sticks around today. If it does, we have attached a couple of snow experiments to the end of this post for you to try. Enjoy!
Why not try a more relaxing start to your morning. 50 minute compilation of yoga adventures, mindfulness and guided relaxations - with themes around courage, thinking positive and staying peaceful. 🌈 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JI01thiHYI
Or you could carry on doing the Joe Wicks daily session 😊 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
Riddle of the day
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Talk to an adult and send us your answers on Seesaw.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 10’s – Can you count forwards to 120? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 120?
10 Times Tables – Listen to this 10 times table song: 10 times table song
Play hit the button and select 10 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 10 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 10 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will be doing a re-cap on Multiplication and Division. We have already covered this area in class so you should be able to use certain strategies such as grouping, repeated addition and drawing arrays to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of multiplication and division too.
Can I use an array?
Today we are going to look at using arrays.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Multiplication and division
Spellings – adjectives with the suffix -ful and -less
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adjectives with the suffix -full and -less.
Adjectives are describing words. Adjectives describe nouns.
You can make your own adjectives, by adding suffixes onto nouns or verbs.
A suffix is a group of letters that we can add onto the end of another word.
The suffix then changes the meaning of the word.
This week, you are going to add the suffix -ful and the suffix -less.
-ful means full of.
Tom's thumb gave him a lot of pain.
Tom had a painful thumb.
-less means without.
The painter didn't care.
The painter was careless.
Watch this introduction to suffixes to help you – suffix video
Please see attached PowerPoint presentation and worksheet for you to have a go at.
Science
Resources
Collection of manmade and natural objects.
Paint and a pencil
Study with an adult a collection of objects. Have a go at sorting the objects into two groups. Give them clues (think about what the object was before it became what you see in front of you, etc.) and only tell them the groups should be 'manmade' and 'natural' after they have had plenty of time to think and discuss the grouping options.
Discuss the meaning of 'manmade' and 'natural'. Now try to regroup your objects accordingly.
When you look at objects from the manmade group and compare them to the natural objects, what are the differences? Are there any similarities? Is there anything that surprises you about the objects in these two groups?
Can you write words to describe the objects you see (cold, hard, metal, etc.) and the properties they have (flexible, strong, waterproof, etc.).
Can you draw your objects as a repeating pattern? (manmade, natural, manmade, natural, etc.) If you have paint you could try printing paint using some objects from the manmade group and some from the natural group. As they do so, encourage them to talk about the different effects the objects make with the paint. Ask them if they notice any difference in printing between manmade and natural objects. Allow them to be free with their designs but if you need the paintings to be small, the chn will need to use small objects to print (the end of a twig, a tiny piece of sponge, a screw, etc.)
Additional activities – Snow Science
If there is still some snow outside you could have a go at one of the snow science experiments attached to this post.
We can’t wait to see what you get up to this week!
Year 2 team
Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 26th January 2021
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 5:40pm
Hello Year 1 and welcome to your Tuesday Home Learning.
This week we are continuing with our Pirate learning. We will be reading some new stories and sailing the seven seas with Blackbeard and his crew. In our sounds learning this week we are revisiting all our long U sounds and practising word reading and spelling. In our maths we are continuing with our addition and subtraction learning, revisiting all our strategies and practising our number facts.
Reading
Continue to read for at least 10 mintues everyday. Reading is the most important part of your home learning. If you need more books, please contact the school office and we will send home some more. Also, our Oxford Owl eLibrary is available at the Home Learning button of the Year 1 page.
Phonics
Watch the video below and have a go at the following task.
We are looking at the ue and ew sounds. Spilt your page in half and write the words that appear in the video.(One half for the ue words and the other for the ew words.)
Can you use any of these words in a sentence of your own?
English
You are going to write your pirate story today. Look at your story map from yesterday and practise speaking your story. Use your word bank to help you with your spelling and to get some great pirate vocabulary in your story.
Write your story on the sheet and remember your Think Pinks. Draw pictures from your story in the boxes.
Upload your stories to Seesaw.
Maths
Watch the videos below to practise your counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Can you sing the song counting backwards?
Today we are looking at the relationship between addition and subtraction by comparing number sentences. Watch the video linked here and have a go at the worksheet attached.
Keep up with the practice on Sumdog. Daily practise will improve understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction as the more questions the children answer, the more patterns they will spot.
R.E.
We are celebrating all our learning about special people. Look at what you drew in your stars from yesterday and pray this litany. You could light a candle.
Our Litany
Thank you God for Mary who cared for Jesus
Thank you God for Joseph who looked after Jesus
Thank you God for Simeon who gave thanks for Jesus
Thank you God for Anna who was happy to see him
Thank you God for our parish family of St Oswald's
Thank you God for the special people in our lives
Thank you God for Jesus who loves us all
Sing This Little Light of Mine
P.E.
Today we are going to explore travelling skills with the Oak Academy. Visit the below link and follow along with the video.
Exploring travelling movements
Well done on completing your learning for today.
Year 3 Home Learning 25th January 2021
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 5:32pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice weekend and enjoyed your learning on Fun Friday.
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw, it was nice to see your pictures or videos on Friday. They put a smile on my face.
If you are finding any of your work tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your Geography and Art work.
The Sumdog challenges will start on Monday – make sure you log on and have a go.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Things that made me smile over the weekend (you could write your own list too)
- I had a snowball fight on the park – I won.
- I played basketball on the park with snowballs.
- I went for a run on Sunday morning and saw a fox; it walked right in front of me and stopped to look at me, and the street was called Fox Street – I couldn’t believe it!
Monday 25th January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody what has happened in your own words.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings:
there, their, they’re, here, hear, see, sea, too, two, blue, blew
Write the long date: Monday 25th January 2021
Write the title: Spelling Test
Write the numbers 1-12 down your page.
Ask somebody to read out your spellings twice, ask them to read out these sentences so you can choose which homophone to use for each question.
- There. Put your pencil over there.
- Their. I like the way they did their hair.
- They’re. They’re going to do well on the test.
- Here. Come over here.
- Hear. I can hear a bird tweeting.
- See. You can see if there is some light.
- Sea. I love swimming in the sea.
- Too. I was too cold when it snowed.
- Two. I would like two pizzas please.
- Blue. She has blue eyes.
- Blew. The wind blew through the cracks.
The bonus question (a spelling from another week) is: wonderful
If you get any wrong, practise a bit more and then try again.
Writing:
Long date: Monday 25th January 2021
Title – Can I use conjunctions?
Your writing activity is attached on a PowerPoint. Please watch and listen to the PowerPoint as I have recorded my voice to help and give you ideas. You can do this by opening the PowerPoint, clicking slide show, and then clicking from beginning.
Times tables
Write the short date: 25.01.21
Write the title: Times Tables Test
Write the numbers 1-11 down your page.
Ask somebody to call out your 8x tables in a mixed up order.
In school I always read the question out, count to five, read it out again and then count to three before moving on to the next question.
The bonus question is: 87 x 10.
If you get any wrong, practise a bit more and then try again.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Related Facts Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
- Grammar and Spelling Challenge: 25th January – 31st January
Maths
Today you are going to be looking at times tables and comparing statements.
Watch the video, pause where you need to.
Complete the worksheet attached and then use the answer sheet to check your answers.
For questions 2, 4, 5 and 6, it will help you if you write the answer to each part of the question above the question.
Science
Attached to this blog is a PowerPoint, complete the lesson on the PowerPoint which is all about sources of light.
Geography / Art
In Geography we have been looking at South America, and last week we focussed on Brazil. Today we are going to look at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Click on the link below, watch both videos and read the information.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyhp34j/articles/zr2h47h
You are going to do some art in the style of a Brazilian artist today called Romero Britto. He painted what he saw in Brazil using bright colours and bold patterns.
Attached to the blog is a picture of a piece of art in the style of Romero Britto. You are going to create your own picture of Copacabana Beach in the style of Romero Britto.
- Draw the hills, sky, sun, sea and lots of tall buildings (you might want to use a ruler).
- Split them into sections.
- Fill each section with different colours and patterns.
- You can use whatever you have at home – paint, felt pens, pencil crayons, crayons.
HOME LEARNING Monday 25th January 2021
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 3:49pm
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 25th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a lovely weekend. I was shocked when I woke up on Saturday morning and saw the snow! Although it was quite chilly, it was still lovely to go outside for a walk and some fresh air – I hope you managed to do something you enjoy too.
Keep doing your best and working as independently as you can. It is important that you continue to work hard, both recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things. I have enjoyed seeing your work on Seesaw – please keep posting what you can.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Find ten adjectives (a word that describes a noun) and write the words you have found in your Home Learning book. To find an adjective, first find a noun. Then look for any words which describe it.
eg. The hat on the chair was blue.
Monty the sleepy dragon was guarding his valuable treasure
Purple words = nouns Red words = adjectives
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write each of the words in your book in different coloured shapes
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 1 of Kensuke’s Kingdom again. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and links to the audio are below. You may read or hear information which you missed on Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEa-beSa0o&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1ii4BPJN4&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 2)
- Download the sheet ‘For and against’ attached to the blog. Instructions are given on the sheet – you can complete the table on the sheet or copy the headings into your book.
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I give reasons for and against sailing around the world?
- Choose 3 reasons for and 3 reasons against sailing around the world.
Write one paragraph to FULLY EXPLAIN your reasons for not wanting to sail around the world.
Write one paragraph to FULLY EXPLAIN your reasons for wanting to sail around the world.
An example is given on the second page of the ‘For and against’ document. Use the sentence openers given to help you construct your paragraphs.
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain my reasons for and against sailing around the world?
Once you have finished your work, check your spellings, capital letters and punctuation very carefully.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 0 to 750 and back again. Count in 50’s from 850 to 1550 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Writ the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers with composition, choose a time interval and play again.
If you found this tricky last week, give yourself a longer time interval, if it was too easy, give yourself a shorter time interval.
Last week, we saw lots of arrays on the maths videos and worksheets. Many of you found this concept quite tricky. Today we will learn more about arrays in order to consolidate this learning. It is important that you are confident with this concept as it will help with your mental and written multiplication strategies later on.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Arrays’ attached to the blog.
Either click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Using arrays
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-9-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 25.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I show an understanding of arrays?
Complete the worksheet and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from Friday in the document ‘Answers Multiply 3 numbers’. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
To consolidate arrays further, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Remember, an array is a picture which helps us to understand our times tables. Multiplication is the same as repeated addition. 5 x 3 can be shown in 2 arrays:
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
History
Follow the link below to take you to “What was it like in Roman Britain?”
Read the information, click on the images to reveal further information, and watch the clips.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/ztqg4wx
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe how the Romans changed Britain?
COMPLETE EITHER 1a or 1b (you can do both if you wish). Then complete number 2.
1a Write a subheading What were Roman houses like?
In your own words, describe what Roman houses were like (they were very different from Celtic houses).
Sketch a Roman Villa and label it using ideas from the website
1b Write a subheading What was a Roman town like?
Sketch a Roman town and label it using ideas from the website
- Write a subheading What technology did the Romans bring?
In your own words, explain how the Romans brought roads and aqueducts to Britain. How did they make them? What were they for? What was special about them?
You can find more information by clicking on the link below. Look down the left hand side of the webpage to find out more about Romans Baths, Roman Houses, Roman Life, Roman Roads, Roman Towns etc
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
Computing
Using the link below to log into code.org. Carry on where you left off.
https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
- A maths challenge based on ‘arrays’ and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
- A grammar challenge ‘capital letters’ (this is something which I am having to correct in writing every day, therefore I am setting it as a challenge this week)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 1st February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 25th January 2021
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 12:59pm
Monday 25th January 2021
Good morning Year 6. I hope you had a fun weekend with all the snow. I managed to make a daddy snowman and a baby one, and they are still there!. This week set yourself a target of what you want to accomplish: maybe it is to complete everything, send me your writing every day or complete the Sumdog before Friday – whatever it is, write it down and let’s see how well you do at the end of the week.
Here are the tasks for the day:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Building up your reading stamina and speed will help for when you return.
Reading activity for today:
- Pick a descriptive word from the text, write it down and, using a thesaurus (real or from the internet), write down 5 synonyms (same as) and antonyms (opposite) for that word.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on chants. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your descenders below the line and formed correctly (f, g, j, p, q, y).
We want to wear our wellies
We want to wear our wellies
When it’s windy.
We want to wear our wellies
When it’s wet.
We want to wear our wellies
When the weather on the telly
Say’s it’s going to be
The warmest day yet.
We want to wear our wellies
Even though our feet get smelly.
We want to wear our wellies
Because they’re red.
We want to wear our wellies
When it’s wet or warm or windy-
But we never wear our wellies in bed!
Spellings
There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, homophones (words with the same sound but different spelling).
- All the spellings are on Sumdog (deadline is Friday for this so you can have your own spelling quiz at home).
Writing task
Can I write a character description of Abel?
Read chapter 15 (pages 113 – 123). In this chapter, Hatty and Abel have a bonfire to get rid of the bows and arrows in exchange for a small knife which she carves her initials into trees. Tom then climbs the wall and Abel quickly makes Hatty swear on the bible that she will not ever climb that wall.
Why did Abel make her swear on the Bible?
Do you think there could be another reason behind his strange behaviour?
Your task is to illustrate, label then describe Abel.
- There is a picture on page 124 to help you illustrate but you can use the description on page 50 (bottom half).
- Label the picture, not with a description of his appearance, but a description of him as a character from what you have learnt.
To help, think about:
- The things he has done in the story (you do not have to remember them all, just 3 things). Skim through the book from page 50 onwards, if you need to, but just think about anything that Abel has done.
- Is he kind or rude, aggressive or understanding. Use the Impressions List at the bottom of the blog to find good vocabulary for Abel.
- What would his thoughts be: towards the garden and Hatty and the cousins?
- Now piece all of this together to create a character description, which should be a paragraph long (this will help massively for tomorrow’s lesson).
E.g. Here is an example of part of task 2 and 3 (you will obviously write more than this):
2. Abel fixed the green house glass that Hatty broke with her arrow = shows he is calm and kind.
Abel warned Hatty of making arrows = caring
3. Abel is the gardener of the big house. He spends every day there tending to every corner of it. He is very kind towards Hatty, especially if she makes a mistake like the time when she broke the green house glass and he mended it calmly. Abel shows he cares for Hatty often by warning her of things that could get her into trouble.
Maths – Percentages Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forward in 25s.
125, 750, 1420, 500, 335
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
- Mix of 6 and 8 times tables
- Add / subtract within 10 000 (this will show quite a few column addition and subtraction questions which will help you throughout the week’s learning).
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use various mental strategies to add numbers together?
See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson. The attached worksheet is called ‘Mental strategies - questions and answers’.
- Challenge – is to name the strategy you chose for each question and write it next to the answer (I will not take ‘I just did it’ as an answer – describing your process takes you one step closer to mastering maths).
PE
Being active is once again so important. Hopefully you are going for walks, running, biking, etc but if the weather is keeping you inside, prepare a little circuit that raises your heart rate and makes you sweat a little. Through Seesaw you can send me videos of anything, including PE so keep them coming, I love to see them all.
Gymnastics:
- Click on the link here, Sequence Champions, with the video here, Video for Sequence Champions.
- Warm up – let’s continue to up the warm up time with 30 star jumps, 30 squats, 30 seconds running on the spot. Rest for 30 seconds and repeat one more time.
- Loosen the joints again with arm circles, leg circles. Never do anything that makes you feel in pain.
- Once again you will need a dice or something equivalent to choose 1-6 randomly.
- Then create a sequence using any of the rolls or balances we have looked at in the past. To remind you here is a list we made the last day you were all in:
- Rolls – egg roll, teddy bear roll, side roll, pencil roll
- Balances – 4 point, 3 point, 2 point, 1 point, dish, arch, front and back support
Games:
- Click on the link here, Battleships 2, with the video here, Video for Battleships 2.
- Don’t forget to be warm for any PE activity you do. Copy the same as gymnastics if you are not warm already.
- In this follow up game to last week, we introduce an ‘ultimate battleship’ that allows the player to bring a ship back to life. Watch the video for guidance and try to play it with someone.
- If everyone is busy, have the ‘ultimate battleship’ in a very far position for you to aim at. How many times can you knock it over in a minute? Which is the furthest distance you can knock it over in? (just be careful not to knock over anything else in the house!).
Reception 25th January Home Learning 2021
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 2:18pm
Monday 25th January 2021
Hello Reception, we hope you have had a fabulous weekend and are ready for your home learning this week. Remember if you need anything, contact the school office, we are here to help as much as we can.
Before you start any of your home learning this week have a listen to our 'I Have A Go' song. I hope it makes you smile as much as it does when we are in class :)
Online Resources
Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games 😊
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
Phonics –
Please revisit all of our new digraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa
Can I write the sounds on a whiteboard?
Can I put the sounds onto a bit of paper and hide them around the house, then can I run to find the sound that my grown up asks for?
Today’s new sound is ‘igh’ – this is a trigraph, meaning that three letters that make one sound.
Have a watch of Polly’s Video to help you with the sound.
Can I read these ‘igh’ words?
night sight sigh
right fright
Can I write the words on a whiteboard?
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Nn.
The Humpty Words of the week are: my, her, are, me
Can I write them with chalks outside?
Can I paint them?
Can I use different colours to write them?
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
Our story this week is Supertato! Have a watch of the story here.
After listening to the story, have a think about the main characters.
Supertato and Evil Pea
Can I describe the characters?
Things to think about:
How do they act, think and move?
How do they think and feel?
Can you think of some interesting describing words?
Are they similar or different? How?
What do they look like?
Can I record myself talking about one of the characters?
Reading – It is great that so many of you are ringing the office to collect new books weekly.
It has been lovely to hear some of your reading on seesaw, well done.
Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional).
Maths –
Recap - Can I count in twos?
Use this splat square to help you. Do you notice any patterns?
Today we are going to revisit our 3D shapes.
Watch the video below the attachments to remember the names of the 3D shapes.
Can I discuss what 3D shapes I can see in the robot pictures? (See attachment)
Can I find 3D shapes around my house and make a model with them?
It would be great if you could upload a little video to seesaw, to show us your model and tell us the shapes you have used.
Topic Time
EAD - Can I make my own Supertato? (Have a look at the instructions attached)
RE – The story of the Presentation
Activity - Read the passage below whilst looking at the picture attached and discuss the questions about the story.
Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the Temple. He was their baby boy and they wanted to thank God for him. At the Temple they met Simeon and Anna who were both old and had been going to the Temple to pray for many years. They were very happy to see Jesus and to thank God for him.
Can you answer these questions?
• What do you see in the picture?
• Why did Mary and Joseph take Jesus to the Temple?
• Who were the people that they met?
• Why did Simeon and Anna go to the Temple?
Reception Story Time (see video below attachments)
Today's story is ‘Ruff‘ by Jane Hissey.
We hope you have a great week of learning!
Year 1 Home Learning Monday January 25th 2021
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 11:14am
Happy Monday morning everyone! We hope you had a restful weekend. Please keep sending us all your fabulous learning on Seesaw. We are really enjoying it all. We will be uploading our own message to Seesaw every Friday.
Reading
It is great that so many of you are changing your books regularly. Just let us know when you need some more. We have loved seeing the videos of your reading.
Your reading challenge today is to talk about your book. Who is your favourite character? Why? Would you like to live in this setting? Why/why not?
Remember you can also find a huge library of eBooks at the Oxford Owl (link in the Home Learning button at the top of out class page).
Contact the school office if you need new books sent home.
Phonics
Visit Seesaw for your Phonics learning this morning. We will be looking at the long U sound this week.
Keep having a go at your Sumdog spellings. Word building/spelling practice is key to understanding phonics and spelling patterns. Do what you can. Our new word list is on the long U sound and we have also created a key words list to have a go on.
English
Start your day with a pirate dance!
We are continuing with our pirate learning this week. You have all done really well to remember your Think Pinks in your writing.
You are planning your pirate story today. Listen to Sayeeda's story again. Think about all the pirate learning you have already done. What is going to happen in your pirate story? Think about who the characters are in your story. Is your story about Sayeeda or are you going to be in the story? Are there other characters in the story? Talk about your ideas before your draw your pictures on the story map. Use your story map to tell your pirate story to someone in your family. Are you using the pirate words you collected in your word bank last week?
Maths
Watch the videos on number bonds below. Sing along to the songs to remember your number facts. Play a game of Number Fact Bingo (games 1 or 2) by choosing 6 numbers between 0-20 and cross them off when the matching question comes up.
Today we are going to look at the relationship between addition and subtraction and related facts. Watch the video on Related facts here. Work through the worksheet linked below.
We have also started a new addition and subtraction challenge on sumdog on related facts. Answer as many questions as you can. 10 minutes a day makes a huge difference to number fluency.
R.E.
As this is the last week in the Special People topic you are going to think about all the learning you have done.Talk about who is special to you, who does special jobs in church and the stories you have listened to about Jesus. In each star on the sheet write or draw something that you could do to say ‘Thank you’ to the special people you know at home, in school and the parish family.
Science
Today we are looking again at everyday materials. Open the file below and have a go at the challenges. Have a go at the Venn diagram activity revisiting any properties / materials you used last week. Take some photos of what you've found and record how you have sorted your materials.
Well done on completing your learning for today.
Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 22nd January 2021
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:48pm
Friday 22nd January 2021
Good morning Year 6. Congratulations - you made it to the end of another week! Thank you once again to those who have sent in their work via Seesaw. I am happy to see any work, whether you are celebrating or needing support, I do not mind.
This Friday is the start of my weekly ‘Friday Catch-up’ videos so please check your Seesaw for my message.
Here are the final tasks of the week:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Now is the time to build up reading stamina by reading for longer. Some of you do this already, which is great, but it is important that we all do it every day.
Reading activity for today:
- Write about a memory or experience of your own that is similar to something you’ve read in the book.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
Every day this week we are going to focus on our number 1 class target, Handwriting, which must be joined. Each day, I will give you a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on having clear spaces between words.
The soldiers (Yesterday’s lesson = Matchsticks)
Who were the soldiers
tall and erect
who came to your door
while you still slept?
Who were the soldiers
pale and thin
who never knocked
to be let in
but stood on guard
with hats of tin?
(Answer is at the bottom of the blog)
Spellings
There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week – fer
- Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order. Then ask them to come up with 3 sentences for you to write for your dictation.
Writing task
Yesterday’s great example of reported/indirect speech (past tense and third person)
Tom and Hatty had an argument. Tom had accused Hatty of being a ghost but she didn’t take it very well. Tom punched her trying to prove she was a ghost. Hatty ended crying but then Tom took back what he had said and put his arm around Hatty to comfort her. She carried on with her jobs, sniffing every once in a while.
Can I write a report, as Tom, explaining why Hatty is from the past (and which part of history)?
Read chapter 14
In this chapter, Tom is researching information on how Hatty must be from the past and therefore a ghost.
As you read this chapter, make notes on the information Tom finds that secures this. Make bullet point notes (which we have done many times) to help. Some of the following sub-headings can be used to give you a start:
- Monarchs (Kings and Queens of England) – page 110
- 17th, 18th or 19th Century? – page 110
- Trousers – page 111
- Skirts – page 112
- First World War - 112
With this information, your task is to write a report detailing why Hatty is from the past and therefore a ghost.
Success criteria. Explain each of your reasons with:
- Formal language (no contractions – don’t, can’t)
- Use modal verbs (could, should, might, will, does mean)
I have sent a video explaining how to work through each task of making notes and using them to create a report.
Maths – Percentages Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 0.01s.
1024, 1 843, 24 626, 274 763, 1 847 265
With each number count back in 1s, 10 times.
(1024, 924, 824, 724, 624, 524, 424, 324, 224, 124, 24)
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 7 and 9 times tables
- FDP – converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I find percentages of amounts?
Today’s lesson is about finding percentages of amounts. There is a video for the lesson here, Percentage of amounts, which works through a few strategies to solve a range of questions.
I have also sent you a video of me explaining how we solve percentages of amounts in class. I work through multiples of 10%, 5% and 1% so please watch as it should jog your memory.
Complete the attached ‘Percentage of amounts sheet’ at the bottom of this blog.
- Maths challenge – Percentage of amounts is attached at the bottom of this blog. My video should help you in solving both the ‘challenging’ and ‘very challenging’ sections.
Art
Following yesterday’s History lesson, we learnt about 6 of the Mayan gods that they worshipped over a thousand or more years ago. One of the main gods that they worshipped was Kukulkan. Kukulkan was a powerful snake god whose name means ‘feathered serpent’. He was the primary god of the Itza people in the latter part of the Maya civilisation. They even built a temple, which is called the Kukulkan, with a huge serpent guarding the temple with a gaping mouth. Have a look at the PowerPoint, Kukulkan Images, which show some jewellery, coins and artwork that show Kukulkan.
As you can see in the images, Kukulkan is often drawn to look like a dragon. This god was not unique to the Maya civilisation as he was also known as Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs (another ancient civilisation who ruled in the same country, Mexico, just after the Mayan ended). For you to sketch the Kukulkan, follow the video, How to draw a double headed Aztec Serpent (Kukulkan).
Keep your sketch as well as your other pieces as we will put them together for a final art piece in the future.
Handwriting answer = Milk Bottles
Have a super weekend everyone!
Year 3 Home Learning 22nd January 2021 - FUN FRIDAY
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:41pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day, it was fantastic to see how well you did with your arithmetic questions and lots of you practised using a number line – amazing!
Friday 22nd January 2021
Today we are going to have FUN FRIDAY!
I know you have been working so hard at home – I have seen amazing work on Seesaw and so many of you have been going on Sumdog every day.
In school, we are going to try to be active today. We are going to have an extra 5 minutes outside (hopefully) at play time, and an extra 10 minutes at lunch time. Why don’t you do the same at home?
On Seesaw today, please send me a photo of something happy – it can be a photo of yourself or something you have done that made you smile.
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Try to use lots of expression and different voices for the different characters.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings:
there, their, they’re, here, hear, see, sea, too, two, blue, blew
Write the long date: Friday 22nd January 2021
Write the title: Homophones practice
Split your page into 10 shapes.
Fill each shape with a different spelling word – make sure they are all spelt correctly. Use different colours for each shape.
Writing:
Long date: Friday 22nd January 2021
Title: Can I write a story?
Make up a story about anything you want, you could choose a character or setting from a book you are reading at home and use them. Or you could write a silly story. Or you could write the story of your favourite film. It can be ANYTHING that you are interested in.
Illustrate it with colourful pictures when you have finished.
Remember:
Capital letters and full stops
Perfect spelling
Beautiful handwriting
To make it even better:
Add a simile
Include a question
Use an exclamation mark
Start a sentence with a conjunction – if, when, because, even though, so that
Times tables
Listen to the 8x tables rap. Do silly dances and call out the numbers in silly voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwaOvWD-PY
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Statistics Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
- ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×8 ×10 tables: 18th January – 24th January
- Homophone Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
Maths
Times tables game
Cut up 24 pieces of paper.
On 12 pieces write out times tables questions from 1 x 8 up to 12 x 8.
On 12 pieces write the answers from 8 up to 96.
Either:
Put the cards face down on the table.
Choose two cards.
If they match, keep them.
If they do not, put them back.
Or:
Share the cards between yourself and somebody at home.
Play snap – shout a silly word if they match.
Computing
If you can remember your login details for code.org, log on and have a go at the next lesson.
https://studio.code.org/users/sign_in - YCTNBX
Or choose an animal that lives in the Amazon Rainforest and make a PowerPoint about it including pictures and facts.
Get active
Follow the link.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rkUsuzOksT0SvGG1vuOb2qVaS7EDvizg?usp=sharing
Double click on Year 3 and 4.
Double click on the street dance video.
Watch the video and try to learn the dance.
Golden Time
Do something fun at half past 2:
Play outside, draw and colour a picture, make up your own game, make a PowerPoint about something you love, type up your favourite writing from the week.
HOME LEARNING Friday 22nd January 2021
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:20pm
Year 4
Home Learning Friday 22nd January 2021
Good morning Year 4. Well done for all your Home Learning this week. You have worked hard and put in a lot of effort. I’m sure you’re looking forward to relaxing over the weekend and enjoying some time with your family.
Look out for the ‘Friday catch up’ which will be sent via Seesaw later on this afternoon.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Find ten common nouns (general words for people, places and things) and five proper nouns (specific names for people, places or things – they always have capital letters). Write the words you have found in your Home Learning book.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means amongst or during.
Copy the new words into your book carefully and make sure you find out the meanings of any words you don’t know. Please practise these words in your books, they are NOT on Sumdog this week.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
English
Yesterday we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, as you read / listen to Kensuke’s Kingdom, write down the names of all the characters you meet.
If you want to read Chapter 1 to yourself, please download the copy of Kensuke’s Kingdom attached to the blog. ONLY READ Chapter 1 please.
If you want to read Chapter 1 and listen to it being read, please click on the links below (at the end of Part 1 it should automatically go to Part 2 – the link is here incase it doesn’t).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEa-beSa0o&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1ii4BPJN4&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 2)
- Download the sheet ‘Chapter 1 Definitions’ attached to this blog. Instructions are given on the sheet – either print the sheet off, complete it and stick it in your book, or copy the words into your book and write the meaning and a sentence below the word.
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I find definitions for words and use them correctly?
- You should have a list of names you heard whilst you were reading / listening to the story. Choose 4 of those names and write everything you have learnt about that character so far in the story. (You should try and include some main characters, such as Mum, Dad, Michael and Stella Artois, as well as some minor characters, such as Barnacle Bill, Eddie Dodds etc)
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain what I have learnt about a character using evidence from the text?
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
If you did your test yesterday and sent it to me on Seesaw, I may have given you a new target. Please start to practise your new target today.
If you didn’t do your test yesterday, please do it today and send it to me on Seesaw so that I can see how you are getting on learning your tables.
If you have a new target, please practise that on Hit the button.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 100’s from 800 to 2100 and back again. Count in 100’s from 550 to 1750 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Writ the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers with composition, choose a time interval and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiply 3 numbers’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, Multiply 3 numbers
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 22.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I multiply 3 numbers accurately?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers 11 and 12 times tables’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Science
Yesterday, you may have set up a freezing activity.
If you set this experiment up, please take your frozen liquids out and leave them until they start to melt.
Download the lesson using this link and goto slide 5
Look at the table on slide 5 and copy it into your Home Learning Book under the date and learning objective.
Date - Friday 22nd January 2021
Learning objective - Can I make observations of frozen liquids?
Record the observations of your frozen liquids beginning to melt in your table, adding as much detail as you can. There is a good example on slide 9.
Well done – you are becoming experts on changing states of matter
RE - Community
Jesus proclaimed God the Father’s love by what he said and did. People who followed Jesus Christ in the early Church began to be called Christians. They formed a Christian community called the Church. At the beginning of his ministry on earth, Jesus chose certain people to follow him and share in his work. They were to be apostles and would be sent out to spread the Good News. God chooses people to serve him today through their parish communities. Read Mark 3: 13-19 below.
Questions to think about
How do you think the apostles felt when Jesus chose them to help him in his work?
Why do you think he chose people to help him?
What do you think the Good News is?
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Learning objective Can I describe how James / Andrew etc felt to be chosen as an apostle?
(Write the name of your chosen apostle where I have written James / Andrew etc).
Draw one of the apostles in your book. Draw a speech bubble and write the words you think they would say to Jesus immediately after he chose them to help him in his work. You MUST write a minimum of 8 words!
Please upload your RE to Seesaw
Art
Last week, you had a go at designing your own mosaic border using 5 rows of squares and either 2 or 3 colours. This week, I would like you to design another border, using a different pattern / different colours.
Please download the document called ‘Mosaics’ attached to the blog – this gives some examples on pg 3.
Attached to the blog is some squared paper for you to use (Mosaic squared paper).
REMEMBER ONLY USE 2 OR 3 COLOURS AND REPEAT THE PATTERN
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your creative designs.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 25th January 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.
Reception 22nd January Home Learning
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 9:56am
Friday 22nd January 2021
Good morning everyone, it is Friday already. What a great week of learning you have all had. I hope the phonics video was helpful yesterday.
Online Resources
Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games 😊
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
Phonics –
Please revisit all of our new digraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa
Can I write the sounds on a whiteboard?
Can I have a go at the writing sheet attached?
Please see the Seesaw video for the 'Writing a sentence' activity.
Can I write a sentence? (see attached sheet for pictures)
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Mm.
The Humpty Words of the week are: she, they, all, was
Today is spelling check day, can you write the words all by yourself?
Can you remember the other words we have been practising?
The, go, no, I, to, into, he, you
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
Our story this week is - The Tiger who came to Tea.
Today we are going to finish writing our stories, using the ideas you made up in your story maps.
Can I read the beginning of my story that I wrote yesterday?
Can I write the middle of the story?
Can I write the end of the story?
Keep it very simple. (One sentence for each)
Here is Miss Collinson’s Story
The Monkey Who Came To Tea
Beginning - A cheeky monkey came round for tea. He ate all the bananas in my house.
Middle – The monkey jumped on the bed.
End – The monkey was swinging in the trees.
Remember before you start your writing, to say your sentence, count how many words are in your sentence and say each word slowly. What sounds are in your head? Write the sounds you can hear.
Try to use your finger spaces and full stops too.
(You can use the template attached or your exercise books.)
You can watch the story on demand on Channel 4
Reading – It is great that so many of you are ringing the office to collect new books weekly.
We would love to hear some of your reading this week – I wonder if you could record a little bit and put it on Seesaw?
Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional).
Maths – Can I count in twos?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20
How far can you go counting in twos?
Use this splat square to help you. do you notice any patterns?
Today we are going to recap 2D shape –
Watch the video attached below.
Can I have a go at the cutting and sorting activity attached?
Topic Time
PE – Co-ordination with Ball Skills
Have a go at lesson one – co-ordination with ball skills.
These videos are delivered by PE teachers and will help your child to continue their skill development in PE.
Cosmic yoga – Yoga in the jungle
Reception Story Time
Today's story is 'Elmer and the lost Teddy' by David Mckee.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and well done for trying your best every single day!
Year 2 Home Learning - 22nd January 2021
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 9:20am
We made it to Friday!
Well done Year 2. You have had another great week of learning. We can see that you are all working really hard at home which is brilliant to see. We are proud of you all!
Please view our ‘Friday catch up’ on Seesaw, where we discuss all of your amazing achievements throughout the week. To view all the lessons so far, select the inbox and click family notifications.
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
You should have received an email inviting you to join your child’s account on Seesaw – please check your junk mail if you have not received this. Through Seesaw, you will be able to upload work which has been completed at home and we will be able to give feedback. You will only see your child’s work and all feedback given will be private to your account. We are looking forward to seeing the super learning which has been completed at home.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
When you’ve finished reading, talk about what happened. Acting out the things that happened in the story or describing the big idea of a chapter is really fun and maximises learning. For example, ‘can you remember all the things that happened on the bear hunt?’
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 5’s – Have a go at the following games
https://uk.splashlearn.com/maths-skills/year-3/number-sense/count-by-5-s
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/duckShoot/index.html
5 Times Tables – Listen to this 5 times table song: 5 times table song
Can you write out all your 5 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal.
Today’s Maths lesson can be found under the notifications section on Seesaw.
We would like you to have a go at the arithmetic quiz. Watch the video first to remind yourself about all the different strategies we use when completing addition and subtraction questions.
You will need:
Pencil
Exercise book or scrap piece of paper to show your working
A quiet space
Arithmetic questions
Arithmetic answers to check your work
Be careful not to view the answers before you start the quiz. Try to complete this activity independently and once you have completed the quiz, go through the questions with an older sibling or adult (if they are available).
Let us know how you did by posting your score on Seesaw.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths –
Spellings – adverbs with the suffix ly
Sumdog – Well done to the 19 children who have had a go at the new Sumdog challenges this week. We would love to see everyone have a go at the challenges set for next week. Sumdog can be a great way to consolidate learning and practise your spellings.
English
Please see attached document for the English lesson.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
Adverbs
An adverb is simply a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word).
• He ate his breakfast quickly.
The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
Where to place adverbs?
Adverbs can come before or after a verb.
• He 'quickly' ate his lunch.
• He ate his lunch 'quickly'.
Let Johnny and Inel get you up and moving, while you learn about adjectives and adverbs. Through a song and routine, children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and adverbs.
Watch this introduction to adverbs on BBC bitesize and have a go at the games – BBC bitesize - adverbs
Please see attached document. Look at each picture and verb. Can you write a sentence including an adverb about each one? Or you could have a go at the mini adverb quiz.
Computing
This term we are looking at coding in Computing. On the additional documents you will find your child’s individual login for the programme we use. The website is called Code.org. It should work on your tablets. If you do not have one, school will be happy to loan one out to you whilst you are off. Once your child has their unique login, they will be able to access the programme on code.org by following the instructions on the document.
- Each child will have the same 6 letter section code – FMSQGM, they will then search for their name, choose their secret picture and then press the sign in button.
Today please complete the following lesson:
- Course B (2020)
- Complete Lesson 5 – Programming with Harvester
Please only complete the lessons stated above.
Additional activities – Art
Try one of the art activities on the attached document or paint your own picture of a dragon.
We hope you have a brilliant weekend and look forward to seeing your work next week.
Year 2 team
Year 2 Home Learning - 21st January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 3:50pm
Hello everyone.
Well done for all your brilliant learning so far this week. Today there will be a lesson introduction from Miss Bennison for English. It has been uploaded to SeeSaw. We have really enjoyed seeing what you have been doing at home through your pictures on SeeSaw. Tell someone you live with 3 things that you were proud of yesterday.
Keep active with Joe Wicks every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Have a go at drawing some cute animals, learning step by step how to draw them.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dEvA1is6-0_yuei9iCdEw
Premier League Stars have come up with some great videos to stay fit and healthy – they are for the whole family.
https://plprimarystars.com/home-learning/the-premier-league-bbc
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
You should have received an email inviting you to join your child’s account on Seesaw – please check your junk mail if you have not received this. Through Seesaw, you will be able to upload work which has been completed at home and we will be able to give feedback. You will only see your child’s work and all feedback given will be private to your account. We are looking forward to seeing the super learning which has been completed at home.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
When you’ve finished reading, talk about what happened. Acting out the things that happened in the story or describing the big idea of a chapter is really fun and maximises learning. For example, ‘can you remember all the things that happened on the bear hunt?’
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 5’s – Start on 2 and count on in 5’s. Can you notice a pattern? Challenge – Can count backwards?
5 Times Tables – Listen to this 5 times table song: 5 times table song
Play hit the button and select 5 times tables – hit the button
Can you write out all your 5 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal.
This week we will be doing a re-cap on addition and subtraction. We have already covered this area in class so children should be able to use certain strategies like drawing tens and ones, partitioning numbers or drawing number lines to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of addition and subtraction too.
Can I use my bonds to 100?
Today we are going to look at bonds to 100 just using tens.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – addition and subtraction
Spellings – adverbs with the suffix -ly
English
Please see attached document for the English Lesson. Today the introduction for the English lesson has been uploaded to SeeSaw.
Please upload a picture of your writing to SeeSaw.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
Adverbs
An adverb is simply a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word).
• He ate his breakfast quickly.
The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
Where to place adverbs?
Adverbs can come before or after a verb.
• He 'quickly' ate his lunch.
• He ate his lunch 'quickly'.
Let Johnny and Inel get you up and moving, while you learn about adjectives and adverbs. Through a song and routine, children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and adverbs.
Watch this introduction to adverbs on BBC bitesize and have a go at the games – BBC bitesize - adverbs
BORING SENTENCES!!! Please see the worksheets attached. Can you alter these boring sentences by including adverbs?
RE
The four Gospels, found in this second part of the Bible - the New Testament - tell the story of Jesus’ life on earth, his birth, his teaching, the friends he called to help him and his Death and Resurrection. The four Gospels are each named after the person who is thought to have written it – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Gospel writers wrote for different reasons and different groups.
Q How many Gospels are there?
Q What are the names of the Gospels?
Q How do the Gospels help us?
In the Gospel of John, Jesus says,
‘Love one another. I love each one of you’ and,
‘You are my friends.’
Activity
Choose one of these sayings and describe in sentences how it can be lived out at home or in school.
Can you draw a picture underneath to show what it means to you? Why did you choose it?
Additional activities – Art
See attached document with lots of dragon art activities. Have a go at some. We can’t wait to see what you create on SeeSaw.
Well done Year 2.
Year 2 team
HOME LEARNING Thursday 21st January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 3:15pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 21st January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all happy and well. Make sure you say a big thank you to everyone at home who has helped you in any way. They may have helped with your Home Learning, made you something to eat or drink, or given you a hug and a big smile. Thank you also from the Year 4 team for all your help and support at this tricky time.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Tell someone about your favourite character in the book. What is their name and what does it suggest about them? What is it about the character that you like? Can you describe their appearance (what they look like) and their personality (what they are like)?
Spelling
This week’s spellings all have the prefix ‘super’. Children in school will be tested on these words today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Write the date in your book - Thursday 21st January 2021 and the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath. Once you’ve completed the test, check any words that you got wrong. Good luck! The words are:
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Today we will be starting a class novel – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This is one of my favourite books and our English learning will be based on it.
Please open the document attached to the blog called ‘Front cover and blurb’.
Write the long date Thursday 21st January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I make predictions and ask questions about a text?
Look at the front cover carefully (slide 1). In your book:
- Write a list of what can you see in the picture.
- Explain where you think this is and why.
- List who and what you see in the boat.
- Is the sea calm or do you think the boat is in danger? Explain why you think this.
Read the blurb on the back carefully (slide 2). Answer these questions in your book.
- Who do you think Michael is and how old is he?
- How did Michael get washed up on an island?
- Why do you think Michael was on a boat in the first place?
- How do you know Michael is not alone on the island and is this ‘person’ a friend or an enemy? Why do you think this?
- What genre of book do you think this is? (this means what category / kind of
story do you think it is, for example science fiction, fairy tale, adventure story, fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller etc)
- Explain why you think the book belongs to this genre.
Now read the first 2 paragraphs of Chapter 1 on the third and fourth slide (you will be sent a recording of these 2 paragraphs through Seesaw on Thursday morning, so you can listen to and read the text at the same time).
In your book, write 6 questions that you would like to ask now you have read these first 2 paragraphs. For example:
How did Michael disappear?
How did he come back from the dead?
Why has he had to keep this secret for 10 years?
Please remember to write your answers in full sentences, in your best joined up hand writing, using questions marks and capital letters in the correct places.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Children in school will be tested on their tables today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on your individual target or ÷8 if you are on ‘free’ tables. Ask them to call out your tables in a mixed up order. This is how I do it in school - ask the question twice, count to 8, then ask the next question.
Write the short date 21.01.21
Write the title Times table test
Check your answers carefully.
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 100’s from 100 to 1500 and back again. Count in 100’s from 180 to 1280 and back again. Think about what you found tricky.
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Repeat the addition games you played yesterday but choose a shorter time between the questions. For example, if you chose 10 seconds between each question yesterday, choose 7 seconds today etc.
Click on play game. Choose level 2, addition, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 2 digit numbers and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ’11 and 12 times table’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, 11 and 12 times tables
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 21.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate using the 11 and 12 times tables?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Divide by 1 and itself’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Science
Click this link for today’s lesson investigating freezing and melting. https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=54CF08BDFC25132B!24310&ithint=file%2cpptx&authkey=!AJO_FWydZh6aBrk
In school, we will be setting up the freezing activity on slide 5 and then coming back to this tomorrow once the liquids have frozen. Then, we will watch the chocolate making video and investigate how chocolate melts as described in the second video clip on slide 9. You will need some dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate for this activity. If you are able to do this investigation, please plan and record your experiment on the sheet attached to the blog called ‘Science Investigation Sheet’.
Write the long date Thursday 21st January 2021
Write the learning objective for the chocolate experiment, which is Can I plan and carry out an investigation about melting?
If you don’t have chocolate, you could try the ice investigation on slide 6. Record your work under these headings:
What I used
What I did
Which ice cube melted fastest and why
How I could improve my investigation
The next day, take your frozen liquids out and leave them until they start to melt. Record your observations in a table like the one on slide 5. Add as much detail as you can. You can have a look at a good example on slide 9.
The learning objective for the frozen liquids experiment is Can I make observations of frozen liquids?
Well done – you are becoming experts on changing states of matter
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 3 Home Learning 21st January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 2:20pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day and are looking forward to another day of learning. I hope you enjoyed listening to my reading of some of Mr Stink – I love reading to you all. Today you will get to see me in a video which I have made for your maths lesson – I had some help from some wonderful Year 3 children.
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
If you are finding any of it tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your arithmetic questions and number lines.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Things that made me smile on Wednesday (you could write your own list too)
- Morgan and Louis were very helpful with making a video for your maths lesson – we had a few funny mistakes like pen lids flinging and the wrong words being said.
- Ms Hodson was laughing a lot while we were reading Mr Stink – especially the bit about the egg sandwiches and toilet habits. It makes me happy when I hear people laughing.
- 3 of you have already completed the homophones challenge on Sumdog J
- 9 of you have already completed the times table challenge on Sumdog J
- 9 of you have already completed the statistics challenge on Sumdog J
Thursday 21st January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody what you think is going to happen next and why.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings:
there, their, they’re, here, hear, see, sea, too, two, blue, blew
Write the long date: Thursday 21st January 2021
Write the title: Homophones
Copy the sentences and fill in the gaps with the correct spelling
- I can … the birds singing. (here, hear)
- All of … handwriting was beautiful. (their, they’re, there)
- Mrs Crumb was … posh to listen to rock music. (too, two)
- Mr Stink asked if … are any more egg sandwiches. (there, their, they’re)
- … the best class in the whole school! (their, there, they’re)
Answers
- I can hear the birds singing.
- All of their handwriting was beautiful.
- Mrs Crumb was too posh to listen to rock music.
- Mr Stink asked if there are any more egg sandwiches.
- They’re the best class in the whole school!
Writing:
Read pages 194 - 201 of Mr Stink. They are attached to this blog. I think you will enjoy the part about earplugs.
Long date: Thursday 21st January 2021
Title – Can I use exciting vocabulary?
You are going to write a story explaining who Mr Stink used to be and how he became homeless. Use your imagination just like Chloe does.
I would like you to choose 5 good words from this chapter and write them down, you are going to use them in your writing.
Here are my choices:
Invented, powerful, abandoned, hilarious, world-famous
Please write two paragraphs and try to write at least half a page in total.
Paragraph 1:
Mr Stink used to…
Paragraph 2:
It all ended and he became homeless when…
Please make sure you have:
- Beautiful handwriting
- Capital letters and full stops
- Great spelling
Here are some top tips of how to make your writing amazing:
- Include commas and exclamation marks.
- Include a question.
- Include a simile.
- Include feelings.
- Start sentences in different ways.
- Use conjunctions – if, when, as, so, because, even though.
Times tables
Go on hit the button and practise your 8x tables, if you want, you could listen to the 8x table rap first and write out your 8x tables to help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwaOvWD-PY
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Statistics Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
- ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×8 ×10 tables: 18th January – 24th January
- Homophone Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
Maths
Your Maths lesson today is on Seesaw, before starting the video please get everything you need:
Pencil
Exercise book or paper
20 minute timer
Arithmetic questions
Arithmetic answers to check after
Optional Maths Challenge
Attached to this blog is a sheet with some questions. Use a number line to answer the questions.
Please send me a photo of your arithmetic questions and number lines on Seesaw
PE
Attached to this blog is an activity called – Ship Shape
Here is a video to help:
French
Here’s a song to recap greetings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkJ88ygPY0
Look back at your pencil case words from last week. Test yourself. How many can you remember?
Go through the PowerPoint again to remind yourself of all the other items.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y3_French/Yr3AutumnFr.php
Scroll down to Lesson 9 with audio.
Now collect some pencil case items and play Kim’s Game. You’ll need an adult to help.
Look carefully at the items for about thirty seconds. Then you close your eyes and the adult takes one item away. The adult asks ‘Qu’est-ce qui manque?’ (kess key monk?) What’s missing? You say the name of the missing item in French and roles are swapped.
Here’s a familiar song to finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kNeFGBAcw
Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine!
Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 21st January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 1:13pm
Thursday 21st January 2021
Good morning Year 6. As we approach the end of the week, I would like to say well done to those who have sent me their work through Seesaw. It has been so nice to see the improvements you are making whilst at home. If you need any help, even if you are not sure what to do, you can send your work to me (just like you would do in class) and I can give you some pointers (just like I would do in class).
Also, well done to the 20 of you who have completed the Sumdog challenges. Keep this up as regular practice is a great way to learn.
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up your stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Who else should read this book? Why? Who shouldn’t read this book? Why?
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
Every day this week we are going to focus on our number 1 class target, Handwriting, which must be joined. Each day, I will give you a poem to copy in your neatest handwriting. This week focus on staying on the line.
In the log-cabin (Yesterday’s answer = COMPUTER)
In the log-cabin,
A hundred guardsmen are lying asleep.
Ssh! The door slides open.
Enter a pink-headed monster.
Quickly she grabs a guardsman,
Dashes his head on the wall,
She tries him with fancy hair-styles,
First an orange wig,
Then a black crew-cut.
Spellings
This week’s spellings is -fer (and suffixes attached to them).
- Look at each of these words: prefer, defer, refer and transfer – what TWO rules could happen when a suffix (ed, ing, ent, ence) is added?
Writing task
Can I use reported speech to report on the argument between Hatty and Tom?
Read all of chapter 13 where Hatty and Tom have an argument. The argument is written in dialogue but just like in yesterday’s task, your task is to turn that dialogue into reported speech. Another way to explain this task is to imagine you are telling/reporting to someone about the argument. Think about what you would say.
To help, follow these success criteria:
- No speech marks
- Third person
- Past tense
- Not the exact words
For extra help, look at this WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like) from yesterday’s lesson of reported speech from someone in Year 6:
Tom moaned to Alice saying they were in an awful situation. Alice agreed but said she knew of someone who could help them. Tom eagerly asked who it was. However, Alice replied saying she wasn’t sure she could tell him. Tom assured Alice that he could trust her and he’d be careful. Alice ordered him to stay quiet and let her think.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 0.5.
1024, 1 843, 24 626, 274 763, 1 847 265
With each number count back in 1s, 10 times.
(1024, 924, 824, 724, 624, 524, 424, 324, 224, 124, 24)
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets for this week):
- Mix of 7 and 9 times tables
- FDP – converting between fractions, decimals and percentages
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I order fractions, decimals and percentages?
For today’s learning, it is important that you watch the video, Ordering FDP, as this will help in understanding the steps needed to solve each question on the Ordering FDP questions and answer sheets. Here are some TOP TIPS to give you the best possible support:
- Percent means out of 100 = 100 hundredths = 1 whole
- Every two decimal placed number is in the hundredths
- (0.45 = 45 hundredths = 45 %)
- (0.82 = 82 hundredths = 82%)
- Make sure you turn every fraction into /100
- (e.g. ¾ multiply the numerator and denominator by 25 = 75/100, which then equals 75 hundreths = 0.75 = 75%)
- Greater than symbol >
- Less than symbol <
- Maths challenge – Order FDP. Once again there are 3 different sheets which move up in difficulty. If you found the lesson quite straight forward, attempt all three and send it to me via Seesaw.
- Arithmetic quiz (1 - 18 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the sheet (so you can print it or simply write the answers – with workings out – in your HOME LEARNING BOOK). I have also attached the answers (for after the quiz so no peeking!)
History
Can I create a fact file about one of the Mayan Gods?
- Follow the link to the BBC Bitesize website here, Mayan beliefs, where you will be directed to the BBC website, ‘What did the ancient Mayas believe?’ Here you will find information about the Mayan beliefs and some of the gods that the Mayan people believed in. There is a video to watch along with a matching activity to complete.
- There is also a PowerPoint, Mayan: Gods and Religion, which explains their religion in more depth with a detailed description of 6 of the main gods. Read through this PowerPoint, answering the questions that you see on certain slides. There is a ‘Gods and Religion’ quiz on slide 15 for you to complete – put your answers in your Home Learning book.
- Slide 16 = The main task. With the information you have gathered, create a fact file (either on a template of your choice or on the one provided at the bottom of the blog, Mayan Gods Fact File). There are pictures of the Mayan Gods for you to copy onto your fact file.
Remember to include:
- Pictures of the gods and their name
- What they were a god of?
- One or two pieces of information about them
(Once completed, send it me via Seesaw.)
Year 1 Home Learning Friday 22nd January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 11:10am
Welcome to your Friday learning Year 1. We continue to be impressed with all your learning on Seesaw. We love watching the videos of you reading, doing gymnastics, performing puppet shows and role playing stories. We are seeing the progress you are all making.
Reading
Try to read every day. It is so important. For your reading challenge today we would like you to do some predicting before you read a new book. Look at the book cover and the blurb on the back of the book – What do you think this book will be about? What do you think will happen next? What makes you think this? Record some of your ideas to Seesaw.
Phonics
This week we have looked at all the long I sounds. Well done to everyone who completed the challenges set and had a go at the spelling and words challenge on Sumdog.
Daily practise of word building will help with fluency in reading as well as with spelling.
Today we'd like you to have a go at spotting all the long I sounds you can find in your sounds spotter challenge. Use a different colour for each sound. Can you then write out your words and choose three to write a super sounds sentence? Remember to use you neatest handwriting and stay on the lines.
We have also added all the phonics videos from this week to watch below.
English
Every night Sayeeda writes a diary about her day. She writes about what she has in her treasure chest, where she's been on her galleon, the jobs she has to do and many other things pirates get up to.Imagine you are Sayeeda and you are writing in your diary.
Talk to your grown up about what you've done today as Sayeeda. Write your diary entry on the sheet. You could use some of the words you collected on Wednesday.
Remember your Think Pinks and upload a photo of your diary entry to Seesaw.
Here's another pirate song to get you in the mood!
Maths
Keep counting. Have a look back at all our counting songs. Can you make up a counting song of your own? Maybe you could count down in 2s? Start at a different number?
Today we are continuing our learning on subtraction and counting back through 10. Watch the video on Crossing 10 (1) here and complete the work sheet attached.
If you would like to do a little bit extra here is an extra lesson on subtraction - crossing 10 (2) (Worksheet attached below)
Well done to everyone who has completed our Sumdog challenge. We are sure you are impressing everyone with how quick you are getting at remembering your number facts! Keep it up!
Art
Follow the instructions to make your pirate ship collage. Use whatever materials you have at home or get in touch if you need some from school.
Have a look on Seesaw for a message from us, your weekly Friday catch up!
ADVANCE NOTICE
Next Friday to celebrate the end of all our pirate learning we are going to have a pirate day. We would like the children to dress up in a simple pirate costume to get in the mood. On Thursday we will be making a pirate hat to wear. Post your photos to Seesaw and we will share them with the children in class.
Reception 21st January Home Learning
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 10:38am
Thursday 21st January 2021
Good morning everyone. There was some amazing art on Seesaw yesterday, it was so lovely to see.
Online Resources
Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonic games 😊
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
Phonics –
Please revisit all of our new digraph sounds 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee.
Today’s new sound is oa, have a watch of Polly’s video.
Can I write the sound on a whiteboard?
Can I think of a word with the new sound in?
Can I have a go at the read and roll game?
Please see the Seesaw Video for our phonics writing activity.
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Ll.
The Humpty Words of the week are: she, they, all, was
Can I write the words without looking?
(Using paper or the whiteboard from your pack)
Literacy –
Our story this week is - The Tiger who came to Tea.
Today we are going to write our stories, using the ideas you made up yesterday.
What is your title?
Can I write the beginning of the story? (We will do the middle and ending tomorrow)
Can I draw an illustration for my writing?
Here is Miss Collinson’s Story
The Monkey Who Came To Tea
A cheeky monkey came round for tea. He ate all the bananas in my house.
Remember when you are writing to say your sentence, count how many words are in your sentence and say each word slowly. What sounds are in your head? Write the sounds you can hear.
Try to use your finger spaces and full stops too J
(You can use the template attached or your exercise books)
You can watch the story on demand on Channel 4
Reading –
We would love to hear some of your reading this week – I wonder if you could record a little bit and put it on seesaw ? J
Try to read 10 minutes each day 😊
For extra reading you can access Oxford Owl (optional)
Maths – Can I count in twos?
Have another go at counting in 2s
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1819 20
Can I practise finding one more and one less with the chopper game?
(Choose one more and one less from 1-20, or try the bigger numbers to 20, if you feel confident )
Carrying on with our addition – Watch the White Rose Maths Video to help you complete the activity attached. (Adding more)
Topic Time
EAD – This is the ‘Hey Tiger’ song for the children to enjoy and have a go at learning.
Science – This week we are exploring Milk -
Have a watch of this video explaining where milk comes from and other foods made from milk.
Why not try and make some milkshake yourself?
Rainbow milk Experiment
This lesson will demonstrate the property of surface tension and the effect that soap, a surfactant, has on the surface tension of milk.
(Please see the attached sheet to explain how to do the experiment)
Reception Story Time
Today's story is ‘Tiger Child’ by Joanna Troughton J
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 20th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 4:18pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 20th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. Well done for keeping up the fantastic work – I have really enjoyed seeing your learning on Seesaw, please keep posting.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Tell someone what you think will happen next – explain why you think this will happen using ideas and evidence from the text.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 21st January 2021. They all have the prefix super. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Super means ‘above’ or ‘over’.
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
Write the long date Wednesday 20th January 2021
Look at the word, cover it up then write it. Check it carefully. Then, put your pencil on the page, close your eyes and write the word again without looking and without taking your pencil off the paper. Can you spell it correctly?
English
Today you are going to be editing the spy story you wrote yesterday. You will need a different coloured pen or pencil (to use like you would your purple editing pen).
- Read through your work carefully OUT LOUD (to check you haven’t missed out any words and that it makes sense!) At the bottom write 2 things you are proud of and 1 thing that you would improve if you were to write the story again.
- Read through your work and find a short sentence where more information could be given – use a different colour pen or pencil to edit it
- Read through your work and correct any words that need capital letters. Correct any words where you have a capital letter but they shouldn’t be there (correct with your coloured pen or pencil)
- Read through your work and include punctuation where needed, for example, is your speech punctuated correctly? Is a sentence too long and you need to split it up with full stops?
- Read through your work and improve 3 sentence openers – check the ISPACE sheet from yesterday for suggestions
- Choose 3 words which you could change to more ambitious vocabulary. Write the alternative word neatly in your work.
Write the long date Wednesday 20th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I edit my work?
Re-write one or two paragraphs of your work in your best joined up handwriting with all your corrections. Compare it to the original. Remember, writing is a process, we need to read, improve, read, improve …..
Please share your edited work on Seesaw
Times tables
Practise your 4 and 8 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
On Monday 4th January, you were all given your individual table targets (if you are unsure, please message me on Seesaw). Please practise your table target using ‘Hit the button’ and the link below. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.
If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 21st January 2021 - if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷8.
Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Counting
Please count in 4’s from 500 to 650 and back again – can you go any further?
Count in 8’s from 300 to 400 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 8 on to your last number if counting up or subtract 8 if counting down)
Count in 10’s from 2050 to 3090 and back again. Count in 10’s from 1552 to 1692 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, addition, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 2 digit numbers and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Divide by 1 and itself’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, Divide by 1 and itself
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-11-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 20.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I divide by 1 and itself?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Multiply by 1 and 0’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Dance – Move to the beat extravaganza
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Move%20to%20the%20Beat%20Extravaganza.pdf
Games – Battleships
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Battleships%20.pdf
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 3 Home Learning 20th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 4:14pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day and enjoyed reading the funny chapter in Mr Stink, I found it funny that he kept calling Sir David the wrong name, asked him if he was wearing any makeup and asked to go to the lavatory in the middle of the show. Today’s chapter is just as funny, if not more funny – I bet you can’t read it without laughing.
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
If you are finding any of it tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your writing and of your spelling sentences.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Things that made me smile on Tuesday (you could write your own list too)
- The very funny Mr Stink.
- The sound of the rain on the windows.
- When it stopped raining J
- 9 of you have started the homophones challenge on Sumdog - amazing!
- 15 of you have started the times table challenge on Sumdog - woohoo!
- 20 of you have started the statistics challenge on Sumdog - yippee!
Wednesday 20th January 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody everything you can about one of the characters.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but have different meanings or spellings:
there, their, they’re, here, hear, see, sea, too, two, blue, blew
Write the long date: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Write the title: There, their, they’re
Write at least 3 sentences using the correct spelling of there, their, they’re.
Here are some examples:
- I just saw a pink fluffy unicorn over there.
- Their pizza looks delicious, mmm!
- They’re working very hard in school and at home.
Please send me a photo of your sentences on Seesaw.
Writing:
Read pages 184 – 194 of Mr Stink. They are attached to this blog. I will definitely be laughing when I read this to the children in school.
Long date: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Title – Can I infer a character’s thoughts and feelings?
You are going to write a diary entry today, as if you are Chloe. Imagine you have just got into bed after your day at the television studio.
Remember, you are pretending to be Chloe, so you won’t say Chloe, you will say I.
Here are some ideas of how you might want to start each paragraph.
Dear diary,
I have just got back from the funniest day of my life at the television studio. We were there because…
Mr Stink was so funny, he …
After he came back from the toilet, Mr Stink started telling everybody…
Mother made such a fool of herself when she …
When Mr Stink said I’m an absolutely fantastic girl, I felt…
I wonder what will happen tomorrow!
Here are some top tips of how to make your writing amazing:
- Include commas and exclamation marks.
- Include a question like – How could she think she would get away with telling all those lies?
- Include a simile.
- Include feelings.
- Start sentences in different ways.
Please send me a photo of your writing on Seesaw.
Times tables
Listen to this 8x tables rap, try to join in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=3SwaOvWD-PY
Counting
Count out loud in 2s:
From 0 to 24 and then back again.
From 1 to 25 and then back again.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
- Statistics Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
- ×2 ×3 ×4 ×5 ×8 ×10 tables: 18th January – 24th January
- Homophone Challenge: 18th January – 24th January
Maths
Attached to this blog is a worksheet for some extra practice of pictograms.
Please have a go and then use the answer sheet to check your answers. If you need to, you can watch the videos from Monday and Tuesday to help.
You can also click on the following link for some more practice.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=pictograms
Optional Maths Challenge
Attached to this blog is a sheet to practise your 8x tables. Time yourself to see how quickly you can answer each column.
Music
Please follow the link and complete the music lesson. You will need a pencil and paper.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-simple-rhythms-c5h3ad?activity=video&step=1
RE
During Collective Worship in the hall you have been looking at the fruits of the Holy Spirit. This has been the theme of Collective Worship since September.
Attached to this blog is a booklet. The booklet has activities which will help you to remember and think about the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Today, you can colour in or draw the front cover and then draw a picture about joy. It could be a picture of how you can make life happier for others, which is very important at the moment. If you would prefer, you can write a poem or a prayer about joy.
Home Learning Thursday 28th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 3:26pm
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 28th January 2021
Good morning my hardworking Year 5’s. I hope you are well and ready for today’s learning. Please try your best, if you are struggling to get through the work, do what you can and enjoy it. Most importantly, read a good book that you find interesting. I have had a look at some of the BBC Bitesize programmes on CBBC, ages 7-9 and 9-11 are really good. It’s Science Week, so I know some of you budding scientists will enjoy watching that. It starts at 9.00 and finishes just after 10.00. There are a range of things on during this time that may spark your interest. 'Celebrity Supply Teacher' is on after the programmes I have mentioned and is worth a watch and Horrible Histories...enjoy!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Pretend you are one of the characters in the book and write a short diary entry for one day in the story. If you are reading a non-fiction book, write a short diary entry on facts you have discovered whilst reading. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ence. Please learn these spellings for Friday (29.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patience intelligence consequence influence evidence
essence reference audience circumference excellence
sequence silence obedience absence commence
English
Read pages 36 to 43 (the end) - Mysterious Traveller 7 (documents below). Or click on the link and listen to the story being read to you. You will need to start at 20.23 minutes and keep going until the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVBgEICds4&t=25s
I hope you enjoyed reading The Mysterious Traveller. Now that we have finished this short novel, we will write a book review about it.
It will give you a chance to say what you thought about the story and if you liked it or not and why?
In the documents below you will find - Book Review Ideas and Questions, and a Book Review Worksheet.
Print the worksheet out, trim it down and stick it into your exercise book or copy it into your book.
You need to complete the sentences with your opinions/views about the story. The ideas and questions sheet will help you think about it a bit more.
The date and title are:
Thursday 28th January 2021
Can I write a book review on The Mysterious Traveller?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Maths Fishing. Choose from the times tables 6, 7 and 8 (it does not matter if it says Year 4!).
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Compare and order fractions less than 1 (Part 1).
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
28.01.21
Can I compare and order fractions less than 1?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Age old problems
1. My age this year is a multiple of 8.
Next year it will be a multiple of 7.
How old am I?
2. Last year my age was a square number.
Next year it will be a cube number.
How old am I?
How long must I wait until my age is both
a square number and a cube?
3. My Mum was 27 when I was born.
8 years ago, she was twice as old
as I shall be in 5 years’ time.
How old am I now?
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Know multiplication facts to 10 x 10.
Recognise square and cube numbers.
Zids and Zods – Answers:
There are 3 Zids with 4 spots and 4 Zods
with 9 spots.
If Zids have 5 spots and Zods have 7 spots,
the possible ways of making 140 are:
28 Zids;
21 Zids and 5 Zods;
14 Zids and 10 Zods;
7 Zids and 15 Zods;
20 Zods.
History
The next lesson is - Who did the Shang people pray to?
Click on the link below, watch the video clip and do the short activity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/articles/zc6h2nb
Read through the website below and create a fact sheet/poster about religion during the Shang Dynasty. You can choose your title, here are some examples:
Shang Dynasty Religion
Who did the Shang people pray to?
The God Shangdi
Use plain paper, you can trim it down and stick it in your exercise book (with the date) or pin it up at home somewhere for everyone see.
Make sure you include facts and pictures. Try to design your fact sheet in an interesting and colourful way.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Wednesday 27th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 3:26pm
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 27th January 2021
Good morning Year 5. Thank you for posting your fantastic work on Seesaw. I thoroughly enjoy reading it. I am so happy to see that you are doing such excellent work at home. A huge well done and thank you to all those who are helping you to keep learning, despite everything. I hope you managed to have a look at some of the audio books and Yoga I mentioned on yesterday’s blog. Have a good day and keep positive.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Draw your favourite character. Write down three things the author says about this person. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ence. Please learn these spellings for Friday (29.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patience intelligence consequence influence evidence
essence reference audience circumference excellence
sequence silence obedience absence commence
English
Re-read pages 30 to 36 - Mysterious Traveller 6 (documents below). Or click on the link and listen to the story being read to you. You will need to start at 20.19 minutes and stop at 25.36 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVBgEICds4&t=25s
In the next few days, you are going to write your own faraway story, but today you will research and choose a setting.
Have a look at the wonderful and inspiring landscape images from National Geographic (Setting Pictures below).
Look at some possible settings that you might like to use (grasslands with a huge tree, barren mountains and a grey lake, desert rocks under stars, strange cities, rainforests and waterfalls, desert cities, tiny villages perched on the side of a mountain frozen land with startling blue lakes) – the list can go on and on.
Remember, you are thinking about and developing your ideas today.
You could look on the National Geographic website and find your own picture for your setting. Click on the link to look at some interesting photos:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/landscapes/
When you have chosen the picture you like for your story setting. Then, stick it in you exercise book. The date and title are:
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Can I research my story setting and collect useful words, phrases and sentences?
Underneath the picture write the sub-headings:
Adjectives I will Use:
You will write all the adjectives that work well for the setting picture you have chosen.
Remember to use the online thesaurus from yesterday’s work to help you.
Follow this link:
Similes I will use:
You will write any similes that work well with your setting picture.
Look back at the imagery work we did for ideas.
Sentences with Relative Clauses that I will Use:
Here, you will write sentences that have relative clauses. Just like the work you did yesterday.
Please have a look on Seesaw where I have given an example of today’s work and a further explanation.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Sequences. Scroll down to ‘play game’ and have a go at level 11 and 12.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/42/sequences
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Number Sequences.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
27.01.21
Can I continue and complete number sequences?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Zids and Zods
Zids have 4 spots.
Zods have 9 spots.
Altogether some Zids and Zods have 48 spots.
How many Zids are there?
How many Zods?
What if Zids have 5 spots, Zods have 7 spots,
and there are 140 spots altogether?
Find as many solutions as you can.
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Know multiplication facts to 10 x 10.
Add two-digit numbers mentally.
Franco’s fast food – Answers:
A curry costs £3.50, a pudding costs £1
and a tea costs 50p.
So, the total cost of a curry, a pudding and
a tea is £5.
Science
Write the date and today’s learning objective which is:
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Can I investigate reversible changes by separating mixtures by sieving, filtering and evaporating?
Click on this link to access the lesson:
Please read slide 5 carefully so you understand the difference between sieving and filtering. When would you need to use evaporation to separate a mixture?
Watch the Royal Society of Chemistry video on slide 8 before you start.
Now have a go at making, then selecting an appropriate method for separating the mixtures on slide 6.
Draw the results table on slide 7 into your book or print it out. Complete the table for each mixture that you try to separate. The vocabulary on slide 9 will help you. Check out slide 10 for an example of what a good results table looks like.
Well done! You have worked as chemists today!
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
French
We have been doing really well with our French phonics, so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc
Now we are going to continue our learning about the Planets.
Download the PowerPoint Les planets (documents below).
There is one sentence about each planet. Please click on the sound button and repeat each sentence a few times so that you gain confidence with your pronunciation.
Now, write the date, in French and learning objective in your book:
Mercredi 27 janvier 2021
Can I translate sentences from French to English?
Use the key words boxes or the dictionary link to translate each sentence into English. Remember to translate how we would say it, not literally what is there in French. It must make sense in English.
Well done! We will use these sentences as a model next week to do our own sentences about the planets in French.
Here’s the planets song to finish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-G7trS2qCk
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Tuesday 26th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 3:26pm
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 26th January 2021
Good morning Year 5. I hope you are all well and ready for today’s learning. If you are missing school and friends, try to do some activities you enjoy doing for part of the day or try something new. Listen to different types of music and make up a dance to go with it. You could perform it to your family. Below is a link to free audio books, there are loads to choose from. Elementary is primary school ages, so you should find something there that interests you.
You could also do some art and crafts. There are lots of inspirational ideas on Pinterest and art tutorial videos on YouTube.
I know you have done Yoga before in school, have a go at home. Follow the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM5MGLMNN_E
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Write down three questions you would like to ask your favourite character. Then write the answers you think that character would give. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ence. Please learn these spellings for Friday (29.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patience intelligence consequence influence evidence
essence reference audience circumference excellence
sequence silence obedience absence commence
English
Re-read pages 25 to 29 - Mysterious Traveller 5 (documents below). Or click on the link and listen to the story being read to you. You will need to start at 17.05 minutes and stop at 20.23 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVBgEICds4&t=25s
Issa asked Mariama about what she saw…Mariama said that she ‘did not have the words’ to describe what she saw.
I would like you to use what we have learnt about imagery, excellent vocabulary and relative clauses (sentences from Monday’s work) to write a description about what Mariama saw. Use the picture, your imagination and senses to write as descriptively as you can.
Write straight into your exercise book or print out the Description Worksheet (below). You will need to trim it down and stick it into your exercise book.
The date and title are:
Tuesday 26th January 2021
Can I write a powerful description using interesting vocabulary, imagery and relative clauses?
Before you start writing, watch the lesson clip on Seesaw – Using the Online Thesaurus. I will explain how to use the online thesaurus and give you some ideas for including powerful vocabulary in your writing.
Click on this link for a thesaurus:
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the fractions game – Fruit Splat. Click on level 1a and 2a, adding two and three fractions with the same denominator.
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/fractions/addition-game/
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
26.01.21
Can I convert mixed numbers to improper fractions?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Franco’s fast food
This is what food costs at Franco’s café.
1 curry and 1 tea cost £4.
2 curries and 2 puddings cost £9.
1 pudding and 2 teas cost £2.
What do you have to pay in total for
1 curry, 1 pudding and 1 tea?
What does each item cost on its own?
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Anyone for tennis? – Answers:
Ali, Luke, Holly and Zoe play tennis.
Two boys can play.
Ben won’t play if Luke plays.
So, the two boys must be Ali and Ben,
or Ali and Luke.
Ali will play only if Holly plays.
Holly won’t play with Ben.
So, the two boys are Ali and Luke.
Luke will play only if Zoe plays.
So, the two girls are Holly and Zoe.
PE
Games Skills - have a go at Blast Off.
Follow the links to read the instruction cards and watch the video clips:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Blast%20Off.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLBI5KvarD8&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=24&t=0s
Gymnastics - have a go at Sequence Champions:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Sequence%20Champions.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIElQTPVc3Q&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=15&t=0s
If you can record yourself, post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org.
Please work through the lessons in order.
https://studio.code.org/sections/ZGVGHS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Monday 25th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 3:25pm
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 25th January 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are all well and had a good weekend with your families. This week I will be including a couple of filmed lessons that you can watch on Seesaw. Hopefully, it will help you with your Home Learning and make things a bit clearer. Thank you for posting your work for me to see on Seesaw, it really is very good and you should be extremely proud of yourselves. Keep up the positive effort this week Year 5.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Choose three descriptive words from your book and write them down. Using a thesaurus or online thesaurus find a synonym and antonym for each word. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ence. Please learn these spellings for Friday (29.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
patience intelligence consequence influence evidence
essence reference audience circumference excellence
sequence silence obedience absence commence
English
Read the next part of our story Mysterious Traveller 5 (documents below).
Use the Relative Clauses PowerPoint (documents below) to remind yourselves of the work we did on Friday.
Here is a sentence for us to look at together:
The sun lit the mountains.
I have underlined the nouns.
Next, I am going to describe the sun a bit more and add a relative clause.
The sun, which shone brightly, lit the mountains.
Now, I am going to describe the mountains a bit more and add a relative clause.
The sun lit the mountains that were snow-capped and magical.
This is what you will be doing today. Please look at the writing prompt (documents below) and follow the instructions.
The date and title are:
Monday 25th January 2021
Can I write detailed sentences using correctly punctuated relative clauses?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the problem-solving game - Bead Numbers.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/bead-numbers
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Improper fractions to mixed numbers.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
25.01.21
Can I convert improper fractions to mixed numbers?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Anyone for tennis?
Two boys and two girls can play tennis.
Ali said: ‘I will only play if Holly plays.’
Holly said: ‘I won’t play if Ben is playing.’
Ben said: ‘I won’t play if Luke or Laura plays.’
Luke said: ‘I will only play if Zoe plays.’
Zoe said: ‘I don’t mind who I play with.’
Which two boys and which two girls play tennis?
Focus:
Solve a problem by extracting and interpreting data.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Slick Jim – Answers:
Jim won £540 000.
Art
As you have been describing a rocky mountain/desert setting in English today. I thought you might like to have a go at drawing one. This tutorial is a bit tricky, but I am sure some of you budding artists will do a great job.
Or you could draw your own version of the picture from our story Mysterious Traveller. You will find this in the story PowerPoint (documents below).
Follow this link for the tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_onMwLprjY
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Fractions.
Spelling Challenge: The suffix -ence. These - ence words are slightly different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Year 2 Home Learning - 20th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 1:15pm
Happy Wednesday!
Well done for completing all your home learning this week. Keep it up! We hope you had a great day yesterday and we hope you are finding lots of reasons to stay happy.
Well done to the 11 children who have had a go at the new Sumdog challenges this week. We would love to see everyone have a go at the challenges set for this week. Sumdog can be a great way to consolidate learning and practise your spellings.
10 Minute Shake Up games
Change4Life and Disney have teamed up again to bring you new Shake Up games inspired by Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 4 and Incredibles 2, and Disney's The Lion King and Frozen. These 10-minute bursts of fun will really get your kids moving and count towards the 60 active minutes they need every day!
https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups
Why not have try a more relaxing start to your morning with some Yoga. Watch cosmic yoga on YouTube (see link below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JI01thiHYI
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
You should have received an email inviting you to join your child’s account on Seesaw – please check your junk mail if you have not received this. Through Seesaw, you will be able to upload work which has been completed at home and we will be able to give feedback. You will only see your child’s work and all feedback given will be private to your account. We are looking forward to seeing the super learning which has been completed at home.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
When you’ve finished reading, talk about what happened. Acting out the things that happened in the story or describing the big idea of a chapter is really fun and maximises learning. For example, ‘can you remember all the things that happened on the bear hunt?’
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 5’s – star on the number 1 and count in 5. Do you notice a pattern? Challenge – Can you go backwards?
5 Times Tables – Listen to this 5 times table song: 5 times table song
Play hit the button and select 5 times tables – hit the button
Can you write out all your 5 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal.
This week we will be doing a re-cap on addition and subtraction. We have already covered this area in class so children should be able to use certain strategies like drawing tens and ones, partitioning numbers or drawing number lines to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of addition and subtraction too.
Can I check my calculations?
Today we are going to look at checking our calculations.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
https://vimeo.com/461791410
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – addition and subtraction
Spellings – adverbs with the suffix -ly
English
Please see attached document for the English lesson.
Phonics and Spelling
Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!
You may log in with the following details:
username: jan21
password: home
This week we will be looking at adverbs using the suffix -ly.
Adverbs
An adverb is simply a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word).
• He ate his breakfast quickly.
The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
Where to place adverbs?
Adverbs can come before or after a verb.
• He 'quickly' ate his lunch.
• He ate his lunch 'quickly'.
Let Johnny and Inel get you up and moving, while you learn about adjectives and adverbs. Through a song and routine, children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and adverbs.
Watch this introduction to adverbs on BBC bitesize and have a go at the games – BBC bitesize - adverbs
Look at the sorting cards with an adult. Are they spelt correctly? Sort the cards into the correct place on the chart attached to this post.
PE
We are continuing out Topic – Dance.
We all know how much Year 2 love to dance! This week is a move to the beat extravaganza
Watch this video first which helps you to find your rhythm – Move to the beat
Listen for a beat - When trying to listen for a beat, make sure you give the piece of music all of your attention. Use headphones or move to a quiet environment with no noise interruptions.
Additional activities – Art
Create some dragon art. See the attached document with ideas.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Year 2 team