Cedar Class

Spelling: Can you remember the spelling rule you have been learning this week? Get someone at home to test your memory of it, and then get them to pick out 10 words from your word list and see if you can spell them correctly!

Arithmetic: Get someone to test you with ten questions on your arithmetic focus for the week.

English: LO: to illustrate and describe yourself.

To round the week off I would like you to create a self-portrait using any type of art material you can find; paint, pens, pencils, clay, or even natural objects collaged on a page. Once you have created your self-portrait, write down or draw all of your favourite things around your picture. Feel free to email me any of your work from this week; I would love to see it and can pass anything on to your new teacher that you want them to see!

Maths: LO: to show time on an analogue clock.

Today I would like you to finish off your week by showing off your knowledge of time by drawing hands on clock faces to show a written time. Below are two challenges to test your knowledge on this. If you kept a time diary yesterday, you could go through and draw clock faces to show each of the times you recorded in your diary entries.

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

English: LO: to create a class charter.

Back at the start of this academic year we created a class charter of all the rules and expectations we had of each other and how we would behave and treat the adults and other children in our class. Today, for your transition activity, I would like you to come up with a proposal for a class charter for your new class when you come back in September. What rules do you think there should be? How do you think the children and adults should behave towards each other? Come up with 5-10 points on your charter to share when you come back to school.

Maths: LO: to tell the time from an analogue clock.

Today I would like you to work on telling the time using a clock. There is a choice of activities today depending on what you have available to you. If you can, I would like you to keep a time diary throughout the day and write down the exact time you do day-to-day events. For example: you might have just sat down and started your school work. In your time diary you would write down the current time and write ‘started school work’ next to the time. If you are unable to do this, or want to do extra work, then below are two different challenge worksheets on telling the time from an analogue clock.

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

English: LO: to write an autobiography.

An autobiography is a piece of text written about your own life. People write autobiographies to share their life stories with readers; they are written in the first person (I/my/me).

For today’s transition activity I would like you to write an autobiography in which you share details about your life, your family, and anything else you feel is important. This is like a factual story all about your life where you tell the reader what you think the most important bits to know are. Bring your autobiography to school in September to share with your new teacher and classmates!

Maths: LO: to order times and events.

Today I would like you to work on putting times and events into the correct order. In your book, break your page into quarters and write the following headings in each quarter: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night.

Now look at the below list of events and times. Write them in the correct quarter in your book.

Going to bed,

Getting ready for school,

Brushing your teeth,

Noon,

3 o’clock in the morning,

Breakfast,

Sunrise,

4 P.M.,

Sunset in summer,

Dinner,

Dawn,

Assembly,

8 o’clock at night,

Midnight,

Midday,

13:00,

Lunch.

What other events can you think of? Try and come up with 5 more.

English: LO: to write a newspaper article.

For today’s task I would like you to use your news article skills we practised a couple of weeks ago to create an article about your biggest achievement from last year (the school year you are now finishing). What do you think your biggest achievement was? Why is this something you are particularly proud of? Did you celebrate this achievement or win an award/prize? Draw an illustration to go with your news article, and don’t forget to give the article a catchy headline!

Maths: LO: to order dates.

Today I would like you to look at ordering dates. Below are two worksheet activities for you to complete in your books. Challenge 1 has days and months to order, whilst challenge 2 has days, months and years in the dates which need ordering.

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

English: LO: to write a letter.

This week we are going to be completing some tasks in English which will help you prepare for September. I will suggest a different activity each day and give your some pointers for how to complete each one.

Today, I would like you to use your letter writing skills to write a letter to your new teacher to introduce yourself. If you are currently in year 3 you will need to write your letter to Miss Brown and will be in Rowan class next year. If you are currently in year 4 you will need to write to Miss Beaumont and will be in Elm class next year.

Think about the language you will need to use in your letter; this should be more formal than informal. What qualities of yours do you think are important to share with your new teacher? Are there any things about you which your new teacher might not know from just looking at you?

Maths: LO: to create a definition poster for ‘time’.

This week we will be revisiting the topic of time. Today, I would like you to create a definition poster for the word ‘time’. Just like the ones you have created before, write ‘time’ in the middle and then write a definition of what the word means. Fill the rest of the poster with pictures and words related to time, and write definitions for these related words as well. Below are some words to help you out.

Key words: A.M., P.M., minute, hour, second, o’clock, past, to, days, months, years, decades, analogue, digital, 12 hour time, 24 hour time.

Spelling: Can you remember the spelling rule you have been learning this week? Get someone at home to test your memory of it, and then get them to pick out 10 words from your word list and see if you can spell them correctly!

Arithmetic: This week we looked at addition and subtraction when using near-tens. Get someone to give you 10 questions and see how quickly you can solve them using your skills around adding and subtracting near-tens.

English: LO: to write a creative review.

Over the course of the week you have written 3 reviews with different briefs (what you are reviewing, where it is published, who will read it, what the impact will be). Today, I would like you to review something of your choosing. Pick a product and create a brief of your own (or get someone at home to create your brief for you). If you can’t think of anything, review an imaginary holiday to Mexico and use some of the things you learned this week in your review.

Maths: LO: to solve missing operation problems.

Today I would like you to finish off your week by solving the following problems. I have removed the operation (add, subtract, multiply, divide) in the following questions. Find and insert the correct operation to complete each question.

English: LO: to create a formal review from a different perspective.

Over the course of the rest of the week I would like you to write a review of a different type of product or service each day. I will tell you what you will be reviewing, who the intended audience will be, and where the review will be being published; you’ll have all of the information you need to plan the type of language you will use and the level of formality/informality you feel is appropriate.

Today’s review:

What am I reviewing? – For this review, you are going to pretend to be an adult. You are going to pretend you have just purchased your dream car and will be reviewing this.

Who will be reading my review? – Adults who are also looking to buy cars.

Where will my review be being published? – A magazine which contains reviews of every type of car. People buy this magazine before they go car shopping.

What will the possible impact of my review have? – If you give the car a good review, more people will buy it! There will be more of them on the roads and so the cost of repairing your car will be less! However, because there are more of them about your insurance fee will go up and so you will actually end up having less money to spend from your wages each month! If you give the car a bad review, there will be less of them purchased and so fewer of them on the roads. This will mean that you will be driving a rarer car, but it might cost a bit more to repair. You insurance will cost less though, so you will have more money to spend each month from your wages!

Maths: LO: to solve missing number problems around multiplication and division.

Today I would like you to work on some missing number problems, but these ones are on multiplication and division. Fill in the blanks to complete the problems! Use your times table facts and related division facts to help you (this was our arithmetic focus a few weeks ago).

English: LO: to create a formal review.

Over the course of the rest of the week I would like you to write a review of a different type of product or service each day. I will tell you what you will be reviewing, who the intended audience will be, and where the review will be being published; you’ll have all of the information you need to plan the type of language you will use and the level of formality/informality you feel is appropriate.

Today’s review:

What am I reviewing? – The sofa or your bed you have at home.

Who will be reading my review? – Adults who are looking to buy a new sofa or a new bed for their child.

Where will my review be being published? – A website which sells sofas and beds.

What will the possible impact of my review have? – If you give the product a good review, adults will spend money on the bed/sofa you recommend; their children will have to use this sofa/bed for at least a few years of their lives. If you give it a bad review, the product will be purchased less and the manufacturer could lose business and money.

Maths: LO: to find a pattern in a problem.

Today I would like you to try and find a pattern in the below problem. This will really test your thinking skills and you will need to take your time with it. Drawing a table will help you to record your results so you don’t forget what you have already done! Have a go and see what patterns you can find. You do not have to use match sticks (or cocktail sticks) – drawing lines will do just as well.

I was exploring a puzzle in which headless match sticks had to be moved to make a different number of triangles. I made one small triangle

3 matches

I made it into 4 small triangles by adding 6 matches.

9 matches

I added another row and counted the number of small triangles and counted the matches.

I made a table of my results and continued adding rows. I found many patterns.

Find a good way to record your results. See if you can predict the numbers for rows of triangles you have not drawn.

When you have done all you can with triangles, see if you get the same sort of results with squares. Then think of other shapes which might make number patterns as they grow.

English: LO: to write an informal review.

Over the course of the rest of the week I would like you to write a review of a different type of product or service each day. I will tell you what you will be reviewing, who the intended audience will be, and where the review will be being published; you’ll have all of the information you need to plan the type of language you will use and the level of formality/informality you feel is appropriate.

Today’s review:

What am I reviewing? – Your favourite video game, film, or TV show.

Who will be reading my review? – All of the children in the school.

Where will my review be being published? – A book which will be given to each class, the children will be able to read the reviews if they want to discover a new game or something to watch in their free time.

What will the possible impact of my review have? – Children in the school will listen to your review and get the game/watch what you were reviewing; if this happens, the company which makes the game or show/film may be able to afford to make more content. If you give it a bad review then the children may not buy/watch it and so the company might not make more content.

Maths: LO: to solve missing number problems around addition and subtraction.

Today I would like you to work on some missing number problems. Fill in the blanks to complete the problems! You can either count on to help you get the answer, or invert the problem.

Let’s look at question 1 as an example: 3 plus something equals 20.
I could do this in two ways:

1) Count up from 3 to 20 and see how many more 20 is than 3.

2) Invert the problem to 20 – 3 = ? This way I can carry out a simple subtraction and still get the same answer!

English: LO: to consider the function and features of a review.

This week we are going to take an in depth look at how we use reviews for different products or services. I’d like you to start the week off by writing down what a review is, what we use reviews for, and the features of a review. We have written book reviews in class to recommend (or not recommend!) books we have read to our classmates, so you should have a good idea of the main features of a good review. If you can, look at a website which sells things (Amazon or eBay for example) and read some of the reviews of products on there. How do these reviews differ from a more formal review you might find on a website such as ‘Which?’?

Think carefully about the different language you might use in different types of review; a book review which will be read by your classmates will be informal compared to a review you are going to post online of a brand new washing machine!

Maths: LO: to think algebraically.

This week we will be looking at some problems which require thinking and often have multiple answers. This is what we call algebraic thinking in primary school; we don’t use algebra in more advanced forms until a few years time!

Today I would like you to try a problem which requires trial and error, a lot of thinking, and has multiple answers. If you already did the first problem (we looked at this in class prior to the school closures and something similar in home learning) , then please try the second problem (the ark problem). If you didn’t do the first problem, or struggled with it before, feel free to do this one again.

Spelling: Can you remember the spelling rule you have been learning this week? Get someone at home to test your memory of it, and then get them to pick out 10 words from your word list and see if you can spell them correctly!

Arithmetic: This week we looked at short division. Get someone to give you 10 questions and see how quickly you can solve them using this method.

English: LO: to have a P4C discussion.

Today I would like you to hold a mini P4C session at home. Have a discussion with someone in your home around the following question:

If everyone was a billionaire, would the world be a better place?

Maths: LO: to understand symmetry.

To finish off our week on shape I would like you to do some work on symmetry. If you can, use squared paper for this activity. If you don’t have any squared paper, try and use lined or draw a grid on some plain paper to help you.

With a ruler, draw a square on your paper. Then, draw a line directly down the middle of the square. On one side of the line, draw a shape (see the picture). To start with, draw a simple shape such as a square or an equilateral triangle.

Now, I would like you to draw the shape on the other side of the line as if it was reflected in a mirror. For the shape in my example, see the other picture.

Practise drawing 3 shapes symmetrically. To check if you have done this correctly, you can fold the paper down the centre line; the two shapes should completely cover each other.

If you want to get your art skills involved in this activity you could take a picture of something (even yourself) and cut it in half. Stick it onto a piece of paper and then try and draw the other half of the picture.