Homework

01 April 2020: Home learning

It’s Wednesday – we’re halfway through the week!

Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths learning for year 3 and year 4.

Maths:

Year 3 – find your addition and subtracting packs. Complete the “adding 3-digit and 2-digit numbers – with carrying” page. Remember to be careful where you place your numbers and the numbers you have carried over. Keep the ones under the ones column and tens under the tens column.

Year 4 – find your addition and subtraction packs. Complete the “Estimate answers speed challenge” page. Here are the allowable ranges for your answers:

Reading: 

Today’s reading task is all about Really Rare Runes. Remember, the answers are on the second page so don’t scroll down until you’ve answered them. There’s no need to print the sheet – just write your answers in your home learning book.

Science:

Which are better: disposable nappies or reusable nappies?

Have a look at the data from last week. Think about how many nappies a baby will use in their lifetime and they all go in the bin. Is that right?

Have a look at the statements on this sheet. The statements are for and against the use of disposable nappies. Sort them into two lists (you can either print them and cut them up or write them in two columns in your book).  Then, decide if you think babies should use disposable nappies or should all babies use reusable nappies?

1 April 2020 : Home learning

Happy April Fools Day!

We are in the fourth month of 2020 already! Sing the months of the year song – https://youtu.be/JABPMyXTZcs

Maths – addition using part whole models

We use part whole models to help us represent number stories and calculations. From a part whole model, a ‘fact family’ can be created. These are calculations that are closely related and match the part whole model. There is an example below.

Look at the other part whole models, copy them into your home learning book and write the addition fact families to go with them.

Challenge : Draw your own part whole model and write the addition fact family to go with it.

Reading – phonics

Copy the questions below into your home learning book. Add sound buttons to the words that you need to sound out (your child should know what these are and there is an example below). Write yes or no to answer them.

Can a boat sail?

Would you scream if you saw a snake?

Has a frog got sharp claws?

Challenge : Think of some more yes/no questions of your own.

Topic – jokes!

It’s April Fools Day. Tell some jokes to your family. Here are some ideas or you could find/tell some of your own.

31 March 2020: Home learning

Good morning!

Thank you to those of you who emailed me your posters – it was great to hear from you and see what you’ve been up to.

Answers to yesterday’s learning: 

Factors of 18: 1,18,2,9,3,6

Factors of 14: 1,14,2,7

Factors of 16: 1,16,2,8,4

Factors of 30: 1,30,2,15,3,10,5,6

Factors of 25: 1,25,5

Factors of 42: 1,42,2,21,3,14,6,7

Factors of 48: 1,48,2,3,4,6,8,12,16,24,48

Factors of 60: 1,60,2,30,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20

6 is a factor of 24= true

12 and 7 are factors of 72= false

3 is a factor of 27= true

1,3 and 8 are factors of 48= true

8 is a factor of 54= false

2,6 and 8 are factors of 42= false

Today’s learning is multiples. 

A multiple is the product result of one number multiplied by another number.

Multiples of 3: 3,6,9,12, 15, 18 etc.

Warm up: Ninja multiples

Task:

Investigate

Are all multiples of 8 multiples of 4?

Are all multiples of 4 multiples of 8?

Common multiples:

A common multiple is a number that is a multiple of two or more numbers. The common multiples of 3 and 4 are  12, 24, 36

• Write the common multiples of 4 and 6
• Write the common multiples of 2 and 3

Challenge:

Annie is double her sister’s age.

They are both older than 20 but younger than 50.

Their ages are both multiples of 7.

What are their ages?

Reading task

Read the article from this week’s First News and answer the RIC questions.

History task:

Look at the images of the Viking artefacts. Answer the questions for each artefact.

31 March 2020: Home learning

Happy Tuesday!

Here are the answers to yesterday’s maths learning: Year 3, Year 4.

Today’s learning:

Maths:

Year 3 – find your addition and subtracting packs. Complete the “adding 3-digit and 2-digit numbers – no carrying” page. Remember to be careful where you place you numbers. Keep the ones under the ones column and tens under the tens column.
Year 4 – find your addition and subtraction packs. Complete the “Finding missing numbers in column subtraction calculations” page. You might need to exchange some tens or hundreds to find the right number to fill the missing gap.

Reading:

The reading task today is an advert for an Anglo-Saxon house.

Writing: 

https://www.literacyshed.com/dreamgiver.html

Imagine your friend has never seen the Dreamgiver before. What does the Dreamgiver look like? Can you describe him? Draw a picture of him and label.

Challenge:  Find images that you would like the Dreamgiver to crack his egg onto. Then describe the dreams that happened afterwards.

Handwriting:

Complete the first of your handwriting sheets – these are in your learning packs. (There is a spare copy here!)  The words that you are practising to write neatly are part of the Y3/4 word list.

31 March 2020 : Home learning

Good morning!

Keep going with reading, spellings and times tables every day.

Maths

Warm up by singing the big numbers song – https://youtu.be/e0dJWfQHF8Y

There are some numbers missing from this part of the 100 square. Copy it and fill in the missing numbers.

Challenge :

Reading

Read a story book. Write three questions that you would like to ask one of the characters. Remember to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a question mark. For example –

How did you feel when you found Goldilocks in your house?

Topic – History

We have been learning about chronology in the last few weeks, putting toys in chronological order. Look at the toys timeline we created last week. Talk about what the timeline shows using the words below.

Challenge : Choose 3 or 4 of your own toys. Put them in chronological order of when you got them.

Reading at home

We have had a few emails asking what to do when children have finished reading their school reading books.

Any books you read at home will be fine; story books, comics, magazines, dictionaries, atlases, chapter books, recipes or lists. The children don’t need to be able to read every single word independently. You can read to them, take turns, look for words they can read and talk about the book.

There are also lots of e books on Twinkl for free, ranging from traditional tales to information texts – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy/reading/reading-ebooks

Just keep reading!

30 March 2020: Home learning

Hello- I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and you’re all ready for week 2 of home learning! I’ve started to learn a bit of Spanish using the Duolingo app, just for ten minutes a day- you should give it a go!

Year 5 and 6 maths task

Your learning today is factors.

• A factor is a number that divides into another number exactly and without leaving a remainder.

• Most numbers have an even number of factors; however, a square number has an odd number of factors.

• A prime number has only two factors – the number itself and 1.List the factors for the following numbers:18, 14, 16, 30, 25, 42, 48, 60

Are these statements true or false?

6 is a factor of 24                                   12 and 7 are factors of 72

3 is a factor of 27                                   1, 3 and 8 are factors of 48

8 is a factor of 54                                  2, 6 and 8 are factors of 42

Challenge:   ‘sweets in a box’ problem

Reading task: inference

Look at this picture and answer the inference questions.

History/writing task

Watch the videos and create a fact sheet about the Vikings and how they lived.  It would be great if you could take a photo and email it to me on nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org

30 March 2020 : Home learning

Good morning everyone! It is Monday again, so here are some new spellings and times tables to use throughout the week. Remember to keep reading every day too.

Y1 spellings

• she
• so
• some
• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

Y2 spellings

• every
• everybody
• eye
• fast
• father
• find
• floor
• gold
• grass
• great

Times tables for this week is the times 5 facts and divide 5 facts (for Y2s) and counting forwards and backwards in 5s (for Y1s).

Maths

Sing along with the counting in 3s song – https://youtu.be/V96IZWctZYA

Copy and compete the number patterns.

0, 2, 4, 6, …., 10, …., 14, …., ….

0, 5, …., 15, …., …., 30, …., ….

0, 10, 20, 30, …., …., …., 70, ….

0, 3, 6, 9, …., 15, …., …., 24

Challenge :

16, 14, 12, …., …., 6, …., 2, 0

50, 45, 40, …., 30, …., 20, ….

100, 90, 80, …., …., …., …., ….

24, 21, …., 15, …., 9, …., 3, 0

Challenge : Make your own ‘Guess my number’.

Reading

Read the ‘Hide and Seek’ text and answer the questions in your home learning book.

You can also use the text as ‘reading fluency’. We do this every day at school, reading the same text each day. The aim is to develop fluency and expression when reading. Each day we would focus on a different aspect of the text eg vocabulary (what do the words mean), punctuation (taking note of commas, full stops) and tricky spellings. By the end of year 2, children are expected to be reading approximately 90 words per minute.

Topic : Geography

Watch and sing along with the continents song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE

Write a list of all the continents. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of continents).

If you have a globe or atlas, you could try to find them on there too.

30 March 2020: Home learning

27 March 2020 : Home learning

Happy Friday!

Read for 20 minutes and work on your times tables.

Maths

Warm up by counting in 2s – singing along with the song https://youtu.be/JyCr0IgbYcI

Reading/writing

Choose one of your favourite toys. Tell someone about it, using some adjectives to describe what it looks like, what it can do and what it is made of.

Challenge : write some sentences about it – remember your ‘Must Dos’

Topic : Geography

Sing the song about the UK –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncqDJW4EhmE

Write a list of all the countries and capital cities in the UK. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of countries and capital cities are all proper nouns).

If you have a globe or atlas, you could find them on there too.