Week beginning 01 February 2021
Monday 01 February 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson and spelling list
- Maths: order FDP video, worksheet, answers
- L&L: lesson
- RE: lesson Sikh creation description pictures
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Tuesday 02 February 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson, witness statement
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: percentage of an amount (1) video, worksheet, answers
- Geography: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Wednesday 03 February 2021
- Reading skills: lesson quiz
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: percentage of an amount (2) video, worksheet, answers
- Geography: lesson and game
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Thursday 04 February2021
- Reading skills: lesson and activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: percentages – missing values video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Friday 05 February 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and activities
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson, blank witness statement
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: arithmetic worksheet with answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Week beginning 25 January 2021
Monday 25 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: introduction to the week and lesson
- Spellings: lesson and spelling list
- Maths: End of decimals block worksheet, answers
- Geography: lesson
- RE: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Don’t forget to join Joe Wicks for his workout at 9am.
Tuesday 26 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Recap: understand percentages video, worksheet, answers
- Geography: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Wednesday 27 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and Kahoot Challenge One (plus Kahoot Challenge Two if One is full)
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson video
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Fractions to percentages video, worksheet, answers
- Geography: lesson, RIC and quiz
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Joe Wicks is here to start your day right.
Thursday 28 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and RIC text with activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Equivalent FDP video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Friday 29 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and RIC text with activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Arithmetic worksheet with answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
It’s dressing up day for Joe Wicks. Find your best costume and join him at 9am.
Week Beginning 18 January 2021
Monday 18 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and Planet Earth text and activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson, spelling list and suffix sheet
- Maths: Division to solve problems video, worksheet, answers
- Science lesson
- RE: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- PE with Marcus Rashford
Tuesday 19 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and match report with activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Decimals as fractions video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Wednesday 20 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Fractions to decimals (1) video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson and video and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Joe Wicks has a live lesson at 9:00am each Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Thursday 21 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson, Pig Heart Boy extracts and Kahoot quiz challenge
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: Fractions to decimals (2) video, worksheet, answers
- Topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Friday 22 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and crossword task
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Maths: arithmetic worksheet with answers
- Topic: lesson and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Joe Wicks has a live lesson at 9:00am each Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Week Beginning 11 January 2021
Monday 11 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Multiply by 10, 100, 1000 video, worksheet, answers
RE: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson, planning pdf and word
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Divide by 10, 100, 1000 video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Music appreciation: Gustav Holst’s ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’.
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson, first map (if you can’t quite see it on the video) and Steve Backshall video
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson and texts for comparison
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Multiply decimals by integers video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
PE: Joe Wicks is back with his school workout three times a week.
Thursday 14 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson and planets video with sound
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Divide decimals by integers video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Music appreciation: Which is better? Mars or Mercury? There’s only one way to find out…
Friday 15 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson, text and quiz
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Arithmetic worksheet with answers
Science/ topic: lesson and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
08 January 2021
Today, we’re starting a new way of supporting home learning. Below you’ll find seven lessons with videos to follow created by teachers in your school and in other schools in the federation. It should give you a taster of how we’re planning on delivering your lessons from now onwards.
Don’t forget you can send some of your work to your teacher if you’d like to -we’d be particularly interested in any tasks that you found tricky, or ones that you feel particularly proud of. Email addresses can be found in Mr Roundtree’s recent communications.
Today’s lessons:
- Reading skills: lesson and RIC
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson and text
- Spellings: introduction video. Now, practise words that’ve you’ve been given to learn in previous weeks, using any of the spelling strategies we usually list.
- Maths: Please find your next lesson on the White Rose links posted below.
- Science / topic: lesson
Other mini sessions that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (ask your teacher if you’ve forgotten your logins)
- 5 minute moves
Week beginning 03 January 2021
Happy New Year. We hope you’ve had a fantastic holiday and are looking forward to continuing our learning journey this year. Sorry that you can’t be in school this week but we’ve got plenty of activities to keep you busy.
Maths
In school this week, we’re learning how to calculate fractions and mixed numbers. Children should use these resources:
- lesson one video: add and subtract fractions video worksheet, answers
- lesson two: add mixed numbers video, worksheet, answers
- lesson three: subtract mixed numbers video, worksheet, answers
- lesson four: mixed addition and subtraction of mixed numbers video, worksheet, answers
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rock Stars, too. Even rock legends need to keep their fingers and brains sharp. Email your class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rock Stars daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text on the book Sky Song that we’ll read in class this week. In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
- Day 1: Read the fluency text and answer the RIC questions.
- Day 2: Re-read the prologue to Sky Song. Take photos of yourself acting out different parts of the story, or if you can’t, then draw picture to summarise it.
- Day 3: Re-read the prologue to Sky Song. Summarise the story in 10 sentences.
- Day 4: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Follow these lessons on journalistic writing from Oak National Academy. There’s a whole series of lessons, but start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing one (or maybe even two) each day. (If you’re self-isolating in your second week, stick with the series of lessons you’ve already started and aim to complete the full series.)
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes for each)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page. Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Topic
Our topic this half-term is about climate change. This geography unit from Oak Academy is called Water, Weather and Climate.
Follow these. There are six lessons in total, but start at the first lesson and work through, doing two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
Our focus this half-term is Space.
These six lessons from Oak National Academy link closely to what we’ve been doing in class. Start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing two or three in the week.
If Science really motivates your child, you could also use look at these lessons all about practical Science.
(Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)
PE
Don’t forget to do some daily exercise!
Do two or three of these Five Minute Moves from Joe Wicks each day – spread them across the day as if they were playtimes, maybe!
Try working through this series of 25 lessons from the Association for Physical Education – do two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 5 minutes daily, plus 30 minutes for the longer PE lessons)
Week beginning 07 December 2020
Maths
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class. This is a review week with a look back at some of the areas which have already been covered this term.
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.
Lesson one: video, activities, answers
Lesson two: video, activities, answers
Lesson three: video, activities, answers
Lesson four: video, activities, answers
Lesson five: arithmetic
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rock Stars, too. Even rock legends need to keep their fingers and brains sharp. Email your class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rock Stars daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text on A Christmas Carol that we’ll read in class this week. In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
- Day 1: Read the fluency text and answer the RIC questions.
- Day 2: Read the extract again. Use the descriptions from the text to draw what you are picturing in your head after reading it. Think about the characters and setting.
- Day 3: Re-read The Christmas Carol extract. Make a list of any adventurous vocabulary that impresses you. Is there any vocabulary that you’re unsure of? Can you find out the definitions?
- Day 4: Re-read the extract. Summarise the text in 10 sentences.
- Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Follow these lessons on narrative writing from Oak National Academy. There’s a whole series of lessons, but start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing one (or maybe even two) each day. (If you’re self-isolating in your second week, stick with the series of lessons you’ve already started and aim to complete the full series.)
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes for each)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page. Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Topic
Our topic this half-term is about history – all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt, an advanced ancient civilisation.
Follow these lessons on pre-historic Britain from Oak National Academy. There are ten lessons in total, but start at the first lesson and work through, doing two or three in the week.
We are also doing a Topic RIC this week based on the Rosetta Stone. You will need this text and the RIC questions.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
Our focus this half-term is forces.
These six lessons from Oak National Academy link closely to what we’ve been doing in class. Start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing two or three in the week.
If Science really motivates your child, you could also use look at these lessons all about practical Science.
(Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)
PE
Don’t forget to do some daily exercise!
Do two or three of these Five Minute Moves from Joe Wicks each day – spread them across the day as if they were playtimes, maybe!
Try working through this series of 25 lessons from the Association for Physical Education – do two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 5 minutes daily, plus 30 minutes for the longer PE lessons)
Extra stuff…
As an extra (or as an alternative, if this helps to motivate your child)…
Geography isn’t a topic-driver this half-term, but you could brush up on your locational knowledge – something that was missed when schools closed earlier this year. You could explore some online maps and try to memorise some new countries, capitals, rivers and mountain ranges. These three lessons about Europe are worth checking out.
What about some Living and Learning? While you’re away from school, you could check out these lessons on money!
Week beginning 30 November 2020
Maths
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.
Lesson one: video, activity, answers
Lesson two: video, activity, answers
Lesson three: video, activity, answers
Lesson four: video, activity, answers
Lesson five: arithmetic
You don’t have to print the worksheet. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 4 times table. Email the class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
Look on the homework page to find this week’s spellings. Your child should complete one task each day.
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This week’s fluency text is a news report about recently discovered tombs in Egypt.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: RIC – Is it too early for a Christmas RIC? Watch this advert and answers these questions. You might want to watch it a few times.
RIC stands for:
- Retrieve: finding information in a text
- Interpret: using clues in the text to unlock information
- Choice: thinking about the author’s choice of words, techniques or organisation that make the text interesting and enjoyable to read
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Read this article from First News, a newspaper for children, and complete the activity.
Day 4: Read your fluency or RIC text again. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Activity 1: Read this fantasy quest text called Blodden’s Adventure. Choose key words or phrases that you like. Can you find any figurative language? Summarise each paragraph and draw a map of showing Blodden’s journey.
Activity 2: Create your own fantasy character who is similar to Blodden. What do they look like? Why have they been chosen for the quest? How do they feel about leaving their home?
Topic
This week’s topic learning is history.
Re read the fluency text for this week. In class, we are having a debate about opening tombs. Is it ok to open up tombs. Write a list of three for and against statements. Now, write a paragraph showing your own opinion on the subject.
(Estimated time: 30-45 minutes)
Science
Here’s a science quiz based on the last term of lessons. Enjoy.
Week beginning 23 November 2020
Maths
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.
Lesson one: video, activity, answers
Lesson two: video, activity, answers
Lesson three: video, activity, answers
Lesson four: video, activity, answers
Lesson five: arithmetic
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.
You don’t have to print the worksheet. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 4 times table. Email the class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
Look on the homework page to find this week’s spellings. Your child should complete one task each day.
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This week’s fluency text is all about Egyptian Gods.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: Re read your fluency text on Egyptian Gods and answer the questions below.
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Read this article from First News, a newspaper for children, and complete the activity.
Day 4:Read this extract from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Activity 1: Click here to learn about figurative language.
Activity 2: Using the spooky clip from Literacy Shed, write your own sentences about the setting. Try and use figurative language to describe the setting and create a picture in the reader’s mind.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is history.
Take a look at the BBC Bitesize website and read about why farming was important to the ancient Egyptians and which gods they believed in. (Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)
Science
This week we are learning about water resistance.
Look at this PowerPoint and carry out the experiment. If you can’t access the PowerPoint, then look at this BBC website and carry out the same water resistance experiment in the video.
Week beginning 16 November 2020
Maths
Year 6
Lesson one: video, activity, answers
Lesson two: video, activity, answers
Lesson three: video, activity, answers
Lesson four: video, activity, answers
Lesson five: arithmetic
These five lessons will roughly match the teaching and learning happening in class.
You don’t have to print the worksheet. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 4 times table. Email the class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
Look on the homework page to find this week’s spellings. Your child should complete one task each day.
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This week’s fluency text is an extract from Dracula.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: RIC – Here’s a text about space which ends in a very famous quote.
RIC stands for:
- Retrieve: finding information in a text
- Interpret: using clues in the text to unlock information
- Choice: thinking about the author’s choice of words, techniques or organisation that make the text interesting and enjoyable to read
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Children in 5/6 have been very animated with their thoughts about the US presidential election. Read this article from First News, a newspaper for children, and complete the activity.
Day 4: Read your fluency or RIC text again. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Task 1: We are starting to look at setting descriptions so that we can write our own next week. Watch this video about figurative language. Here is some extra information to read on BBC Bitesize.
Task 2: Read these setting descriptions (Wild Boy, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes) and create a list of similes, metaphors and any phrases or vocabulary that you would like to use in your writing.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is history.
Look at the hieroglyphics alphabet. Write a coded message using the symbols. Find out more using this BBC website.
(Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)
Science
We are learning about forces.
We are continuing to look at air resistance in class. You might want to look at this video for more information.