Home Learning
Kestrels Home Learning Thursday 11th June
Oak Class Thurs 11th June
Maths: Use the website nrich. Find Activities ages 5-7, Interactive games and select sort the street. If you have anything else that may need sorting at home, try sorting the same things in different ways. You could use toys, Lego blocks, socks or even leaves from your garden.
Literacy: \today I want you to think about things that you can do, and then compare them to animals. You could say, I can run on 2 legs, a dog can run on 4 legs. Write your sentence down and draw a picture to show the differences.
Science: Life Cycle of a Human. Can you find pictures of when you were a baby? Can you find pictures of when you were a toddler? How have you changed?
What were you doing differently? Now compare to how you look and things you can do now! Can you sort the photos in the right order and then have a go at drawing pictures of how you grown and changed.
I can not believe how much we have all changed in the last few months!
Have a great day!
Mrs T x
Maple Class home learning for Thursday 11th June 2020.
Spelling – prefixes can be added to roots to form new words. Roots often have meanings from other languages (like pre+dict = predict, de+ tach = detach). Try these words and put into sentences:
Di + vide, pro + creed, auto + matic, ex + ceed
English – can you copy a piece of text in your best handwriting? It could be a poem, or a page from your reading book. Make sure to join the letters carefully. Keep the tall letters tall and the long letters long!
Maths – today, explore the Nim-7 for Two game.
How do you play?
You’ll need an adult to play with.
You will also need seven objects, such as counters or blocks.
Place the 7 counters in a pile and starting with the adult, take turns to take away either one or two counters.
The person who takes the last counter wins.
Swap who goes first, and keep playing until you work out a winning strategy.
Does it matter who has the first turn?
What happens when there are three counters left?
How can you win at this game?
What happens when you start the game with more counters?
Theme/Science – “Our life cycle”. Think about how you have changed since you were a baby and a toddler. Ask someone at home about what you were like when you were younger. How will you change as you grow into a teenager and then an adult? Complete the diagram for “The Human Lifecycle”, with pictures and labels.
Thank you, Mrs Keeler
Thursday 11th June 2020, Elm Class learning
Spellings: This week, we will be looking at words ending ‘ion’ and ‘ian. These endings could be spelt ‘tion’, sion, ssion or cian. Here are the rules for when to use each at the end of a word:
Clues about whether to put t, s, ss or c before these suffixes often come from the last letter or letters of the root word. –tion is the most common spelling. It is used if the root word ends in t or te.
–ssion is used if the root word ends in ss or –mit.
–sion is used if the root word ends in d or se.
Exceptions: attend – attention, intend – intention.
–cian is used if the root word ends in c or cs.
Your task today: Can you practice some of your words you have collected in your neatest handwriting? Choose two words from each of the different endings to practice.
Arithmetic: This week, we will be revisiting adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. We have done this plenty of times before, so this is just revision. If you have forgotten how to do this follow these steps:
1. If the fraction is a mixed number, convert it into an improper fraction first (See the MAD instructions attached to the post).
2. If the fractions have a different denominator (the bottom number of the fraction), you need to find a common multiple of each number of the fractions so they both have the same denominator.
For example: 3/9 + 2/18, I could multiply 3/9 by two so the new fraction would be 6/18 (Remember, if you multiply a fraction to change the denominator, you must remember to multiply the top and the bottom of the fraction).
3. When the denominators are the same, you can add or subtract the fractions, so 6/18 + 2/18 = 8/18
I have attached a video to this post on how to do this, if you need more of an explanation.
Can you have a go at these?
3/9 + 2/7=
1 3/8 + 2/6=
1 2/5 + 5/8=
7/9 + 3/6=
Grammar: Continuing with looking at different sentence types and sentence structures, today we are going to look at main clauses and subordinate clauses; Main clauses in a sentence make sense by themselves and could be a standalone sentence. Subordinate clauses do not make sense by themselves, but add more information to the sentence. They start with a subordinate conjunction. Using the subordinate conjunctions below and the independent clauses on the activity, can you create a subordinate clause to add onto each independent clause?
English:
L.O. To read up to the end of page 11 (up to chapter 7).
As you read, really consider the character of Stanley. What are we learning about him? DO you like him? Why? Why not?
Maths: Today’s Investigation!
Numbers to 30!
Using the digits 1, 2, 3 and 4 and +, – , x and ÷ symbols can you make the numbers from 1 to 30?
Each of the numbers has to be used every time, for example 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10.
Topic: Our human body topic today: Our life cycle.
Can you have a go at one of the suggested activities below?
• Write a detailed life cycle of a human.
• Compare the life cycle of a human to another animal.
• Compare the life cycle of a human to a plant.
• Find out the different stages of development for a baby to child. What have you already learnt how to do?
• Why can some animals do everything they need to do as soon as they are born? Why can’t we?
If you would like to post any work or send it to me, I would love to see your creations!
Stay safe,
Miss Coates.
Cedar Class Learning for 11 JUN 2020
Skylarks suggested learning Thursday 11th June
Hi Skylarks! Here is your learning for today.
Maths – Today you have a number investigation to try. By following a set of steps, can you always get to the answer 1089? Does this only work when you start with a 3-digit number? What would happen if you tried a 2 or 4-digit number? What is special about the starting number in the example? Can you apply this to other numbers to get the answer 1089?
English – Use your adjectives and similes collected yesterday to write a free verse poem about the city in The Promise.
Afternoon – Science – The human life cycle. Learn about the different stages of our life cycle and try some of the activities around this.
Owls learning for 11th June 2020
Skylarks suggested learning Wednesday 10th June
Maths – To investigate/design houses for the pentapeople, the Pentigles, to live in.
English – Today we will continue with our picture book The Promise. We are thinking about the setting of the story – a grim, grey city. Today I would like you to collect adjectives and similes to describe the city from pictures given and to think about whether you would like to live there.
Afternoon – Science: To compare humans with other animals. Can you use what you have learnt about human bodies and compare this to some animals? Ideas for things you might like to research or have a go at can be found on the last slide.
Kestrels Home Learning Wednesday 10th June
Wednesday 10th 2020, Elm Class learning
Spellings: This week, we will be looking at words ending ‘ion’ and ‘ian. These endings could be spelt ‘tion’, sion, ssion or cian. Here are the rules for when to use each at the end of a word:
Clues about whether to put t, s, ss or c before these suffixes often come from the last letter or letters of the root word. –tion is the most common spelling. It is used if the root word ends in t or te.
–ssion is used if the root word ends in ss or –mit.
–sion is used if the root word ends in d or se.
Exceptions: attend – attention, intend – intention.
–cian is used if the root word ends in c or cs.
Your task today: Can you use one of the spelling menu activities to practice some of the spellings you have collected?
Arithmetic: This week, we will be revisiting adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. We have done this plenty of times before, so this is just revision. If you have forgotten how to do this follow these steps:
1. If the fraction is a mixed number, convert it into an improper fraction first (See the MAD instructions attached to the post).
2. If the fractions have a different denominator (the bottom number of the fraction), you need to find a common multiple of each number of the fractions so they both have the same denominator.
For example: 3/9 + 2/18, I could multiply 3/9 by two so the new fraction would be 6/18 (Remember, if you multiply a fraction to change the denominator, you must remember to multiply the top and the bottom of the fraction).
3. When the denominators are the same, you can add or subtract the fractions, so 6/18 + 2/18 = 8/18
I have attached a video to this post on how to do this, if you need more of an explanation.
Can you have a go at these?
4/12 + 2/6 =
1 3/9 + 2/10=
2 1/5 + 4/10=
3/8 + 4/5=
Grammar: Can you have a go the test style activities below based on different sentence types?
English: L.O. To create a leaflet to sell a product.
Using your product from yesterday, or a new one you have invented, create a leaflet to sell it. You will need to consider the persuasive devices from yesterday.
Create a leaflet that sells your product to the world!
Include the following:
Attractive, eye catching design
A title, logo and advertising slogan
Your persuasive paragraphs
Pictures – drawings/diagrams
Below I have still listed the inventions if you need a recap:
Other useful information – price, website, user instructions
Google and Levi’s are teaming up to create the first smart jacket! This is controlled by a smartphone, the temperature in your jacket can be controlled by an app on your phone! Skip a song by swiping your sleeve.1 Take a picture by tapping on a shoulder strap. Get reminded about the phone you left behind with a blink of light or a buzz on your cuff.
– Trainers which include a speaker- you can Bluetooth music from your phone to the speaker in your shoes, a speaker on the go!
– The Smart toothbrush! You have to brush your teeth. So why not get it done as quickly as possible? A new gadget called the Unico Smartbrush will help you do just that. It cleans your teeth in three seconds flat! And all you have to do is place it in your mouth. The smartbrush is basically a mouth guard that’s packed with rotating electric toothbrush heads. Toothpaste automatically squirts onto each brush, and then the brushes get busy cleaning every surface of your teeth. The toothbrush even sprays out mouthwash from tiny nozzles to make sure your tongue gets cleaned, too. Sounds like something to smile about!
– Why not try the ‘circret’ bracelet. This is the latest in technology that doesn’t require you to carry your phone around! The fitness style bracelet allows you to project your smart phone display onto your arm and the display acts as a touch screen too!
– Light up helmet- It’s the world’s first smart helmet. Called the Lumos, this helmet has white lights in the front and red lights in the back, so cyclists can be seen in the dark. And even better, it features left and right turn signals that allow drivers to know which way a cyclist plans to turn, as well as lights that come on when a biker brakes. As for how the helmet works, all of the lights are controlled by a small remote that’s attached to the handlebars.
Maths: Today’s investigation! Zios and Zepts!
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs.
The great planetary explorer Nico, who first discovered the planet, saw a crowd of Zios and Zepts. He managed to see that there was more than one of each kind of creature before they saw him. Suddenly they all rolled over onto their backs and put their legs in the air. He counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Do you think there are any different answers?
You can also find the link here:
Topic: Today our topic is: Us compared to other animals.
Can you have a go at one of the suggested activities below?
• What are the different groups of animals and why are they grouped this way?
• Is there such thing as the ‘animal kingdom’? What does it show?
• Compare a human to another type of animal and do a case study. Who would win in a fight? Why?
• Find out about how we evolved, as well as some other animals. What is the same or different about our journeys?
• What traits/ characteristics do we have that are unique to humans?
If you would like to post any work or send it to me, I would love to see your creations!
Stay safe,
Miss Coates.
Maple Class home learning for Wednesday 10th June 2020.
Spelling – Negative prefixes are added to words to create new words and change their meaning (like un + well = unwell, mis +spell = misspell). Create new words using these prefix and put into sentences:
Non, sub, anti, mis
English – visit the letter join app and practise some of the letters or joins you find tricky. See previous school newsletter for log in details, or class page on website.
Maths – today, look at the “Always, sometimes or never” statements. What do you think? Can you make a decision and give your opinion? Cut out/write the statements and sort into the grid.
Theme/Science – “Us compared to other animals”. Can you draw a picture of yourself and then a picture of your favourite animal. How are you the same? How are you different? See if you can think of at least 5 statements for each.
Thank you, Mrs Keeler.