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Maple Class home learning for Tuesday 28th April 2020.

Spellings plural rule 6 – when words end in ‘o’ and come after a consonant, add ‘es’ (like in potato=potatoes, hero=heroes). Make these words plural and write in a sentence:

Volcano, domino, tomato, echo, torpedo

English – explore words ending in the suffixes -est and -ing. Can you think of any examples? Can you find any words in your reading book? 

Add a suffix to these words and put into a sentence:

Proud, walk, long, write, dry, carry

Maths – investigate adding different coins together and writing the answers in pounds and pence. Using some coins you have at home, make different amounts and find the totals. Or complete the “Counting Mixed Coins” activity (see attached download sheet below).

Counting Mixed CoinsDownload

Theme – “Festivals” – continuing our theme of learning about Japan, below is a list of activities for this week to help you find out more about festivals in Japan. Pick those you would like to do, maybe one a day. 

  • can you research festivals in Japan? What are the names of the festivals? When in the year are they celebrated?
  • What special food do Japanese people have during these festivals? Can you draw and label a plate of festival food?
  • What special clothes do people in Japan wear during times of festival? Can you draw them? Can you design your own festival clothing? 
  • Hina Matsuri – Doll Festival – March 3rd – people pray for their daughters’ future happiness, health and growth. Can you write a prayer for your future? Can you write a prayer for the future of your family?
  • Here’s an old traditional song that’s sung for the Festival in Japanese, and with a loose English translation.
  • Hina Matsuri Song 

Japanese

Akari o tsukema sho bon bori ni 

O hana o agemasyo momo no hana 

Gonin – bayashi no fue daiko 

Kyoo wa tanoshii Hina Matsuri

Loose English Translation

Let’s light the lanterns on the tiered stand Let’s put peach blossoms on the tiered stand 

Five court musicians are playing flutes and drums 

Today is a happy Dolls’ Festival.

  • can you write your own song? Can you include parts of your prayer?
  • Can you perform your song for your family?
  • Can you add music to your song, with instruments you have at home (or you could make your own). 

Tango no Sekku – Boys’ Festival – officially called Children’s Day or Kodomo no hi – May 5th

  • Large carp windsocks, called koinobori, are displayed outside houses of families with boys. There’s one windsock for each boy in the house. The largest windsock is for the oldest son of the house.  The carp is a symbol of Tango no Sekku, because carp are considered strong and determined.
  • Can you make your own windsock?

Tanabata – The Star Festival – July 7th

One fun tradition on this day: “Children write their wishes on strips of fancy paper and put them on displays made of the branches of bamboo trees.”

  • can you write your own wish and hand it on a tree or branch in your garden?

Thank you, Mrs Keeler 

Elm Class Tues 28th April 2020

Suggested learning Elm Class.
Spellings: This week, I would like you to look at words ending cian, tion and sion. The rules for adding these suffixes to a root word are as follows:
–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.
Today, can you practice some of the words you found yesterday using the look, say, cover, write, check method?

Arithmetic: BODMAS! (I’m sure you and family members would love to see the youtube video on how to remember the order of Bodmas- I will link it below!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FKjqL6NyQ
Can you have a go at these questions?
20- 10 ÷ 5 =
36 ÷ 6 – 2=
(3 x 4) ÷ 2=
7² + 4² – 3 =
3³ – 7 + ( 5 x 4) =

Grammar: We will be looking at more word classes this week! Today I would like us to recap pronouns! A pronoun is a word used to replace a noun.
Examples of pronouns are: he, she, it, they. We use pronouns so that we don’t need to keep repeating the same nouns; for example, rather than repeat the noun ‘the car’ in this sentence, we use a pronoun (in bold):
We took the car to the garage because the car needed fixing.
We took the car to the garage because it needed fixing.
Can you find some pronouns in sentences within a reading book? Can you write 3 sentences, which include different pronouns?

English: Today I would like you to consider how Willie would be feeling now he has to go back to London. Write a diary entry as Willie on the night before he has to leave. How would he be feeling? Look back over the last few months and consider what he has enjoyed about being in the countryside. What will he miss? Remember to use descriptive and emotive language. A diary is for private writing so he can put whatever he wants in it without the fear of someone else reading it. He can write how he truly feels. You might find it helpful to act out a scene where someone wants you to leave somewhere which you love.


Maths: L.O- I can use mental maths strategies to calculate change. I have attached below a list of food and some prices or you could make up a food list and prices of your own. (This list is also below if this helps!)
Can you choose 3 items, add them up mentally? What is the change from a £5 note?
Can you choose 4 items, add them up mentally? What is the change from a £10 note?
Can you add up 5-7 items mentally? What is the change from a £20 note?
Just remember, you can also use jottings to help you work change out mentally, below is a picture to show you how to do this.

Challenge: Choose a few items from the shopping list. Are there different combinations of coins you could use to pay for this? Is there something you have been saving up for? What is the price? Are there different combinations of notes and coins you could use to pay for this?

Topic: Can you choose a different activity from the Japan activity list on festivals today? Could you research a different festival or create something on a festival you have been looking at so far?
Hope you are all ok!
Miss Coates.

Shopping Price List Working Change Out MentallyDownload

Cedar class learning for 28 APR 2020

English: LO: to identify word classes within a Haiku.

Below are some examples of Haiku poems. Copy them out into your workbook, then use different colour pens/pencils to underline: any verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Can you see any metaphors or similes?

Which word class can you see the most often? Do you have any idea why this might be the case? Consider what you found out yesterday about how long haiku poems can be.

1) A fat bee stings me,
It hurts very badly but,

I do not cry though.

2) In the woods they roam,
The wildlife is creeping,
They are living life.

3)The bat flies slowly,
Its wings are like steel curtains,

I wish I could fly.

Maths: LO: to calculate multiples of money.

Today in maths you are going to be able to use a super power: the ability to double any amount of money! Think of an amount of money (or get some coins and count out an amount of money), then use your superpower to double that amount and work out how much money you now have.

For example – if I counted out £1.20 and then used my superpower, I would start by doubling the £1 to get £2, then double to 20p to get 40p. I now have £2.40!

Using real money or drawing out some coins works well for this and will help you if you are finding it tricky. You could always make some money of your own and practise with this. Some board games also have money (Monopoly); you could use this instead.

If you find this too easy you could always upgrade your superpower so that you can triple or even quadruple the amount of money!

Elm Class Monday 27th April 2020

Suggested learning Elm Class.

I hope you all enjoyed the fabulous weather over the weekend, Mrs Dale and I are missing you all very much!

Spellings: This week, I would like you to look at words ending cian, tion and sion. The rules for adding these suffixes to a root word are as follows:

 –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.

Can you split your page in 3 and find example words which end in either of these suffixes?

Arithmetic: BODMAS! (I’m sure you and family members would love to see the youtube video on how to remember the order of Bodmas- I will link it below!) 

Can you have a go at these questions?

12 x 4 – 3=

(6 x 3) – 7 x 2 =

5 + 2²- 3=

100 – (15 x 5)=

Grammar: We will be looking at more word classes this week! Today I would like us to recap common nouns and proper nouns! A proper noun is a particular name of something- this could be a person’s name, a place name, a business name for example, and so these words require a capital letter! Common nouns do not need a capital letter, unless at the beginning of the sentence, and these types of noun are objects that are not specific, for example girl, dog, ball. Can you find examples of these in your reading book and write them down?

English:  Please read chapters 13 (Carol Singing) and 14 (New beginnings) of Goodnight Mister Tom. 

When you have read these. Consider and discuss how much Willie has changed. Why do you think he has changed this much? Has Mister Tom changed at all? Why?      

Maths: Today we are starting our next topic in Maths- Money! Can you discuss with someone at home or write down what you know about money so far? Why do we need money? What might we need money for? Where does money come from? Should you spend or save money? How might be a good way of saving? What is a budget? 

To get our topic this week started, I would like you to have a go at the money maze! (See link-  https://nrich.maths.org/2648) or type NRICH money maze into google and this will come up. Can you find the route which leaves you with the most money at the end? Can you find the route through the maze, which leaves you with the least money at the end?

Topic: Our weekly focus on Japan this week is festivals! I have suggested some activities on the following post and linked these to the class webpage which are suitable for a Year 5/6 class but can also be done by younger children with some help. 

Choose the activities you would most like to do and present them creatively! You can present your work however you like, for example, in the form of artwork, a scrapbook, a PowerPoint.

I look forward to seeing your wonderful work and any work you do, I would love to see a photo of on this thread!

Take care,

Miss Coates. 

Skylarks suggested learning Monday 27th April

Spelling – words ending in ‘ch’ and ‘tch’ 

Maths – Can you identify coins and make up different amounts using different coins? To challenge yourself find change from £10 or £20 or try adding 3 amounts of money. 

English – We are going to try to expand our vocabulary today! Can you match the words to the definition? Can you use a thesaurus (paper or online version) to find synonyms for the words given? 

Afternoon – We are looking at festivals this week for our Japan project! There are lots of exciting celebrations across the country and I have put together some ideas for activities you can do to learn about them. Remember other classes are doing this project too so check their suggested activities as well if you would like to! 

Monday 27th April Skylarks Suggested LearningDownload

Oak Class Monday 27th April 2020

Good Morning Oak Class! Rise and shine!

We have some fun things to do this week so lets get started!

Phonics: This week we are learning the letter sound er. Can you say the sound in the word fern and person. Say it, stretch it, sound it out. If you can write the words down, ask the children if they could add the sound buttons too.

Maths: This week we are looking at money. Today can you find some change and see if you know the different coins. Can you sort them in order from the smallest value to the largest. Can you count some different amounts of coins and add them together. Why not write some money maths additions down?

Topic: This week we are looking at Festivals of Japan. Today can you find anything about the Doll Festival-Hina Matsuri, held on March 3rd. Could you try drawing or making a doll? I would love to see some of your pictures!

If you are having trouble uploading pictures on emails, you can use Tapestry instead.

Have a great day!

Mrs T

Rowan Class Home Learning Week beginning 27th April

Each week, I will post lots of suggestions for home learning. You aren’t expected to do everything. Please pick out the things that will work best for your family. We are covering similar topics across all classes so that siblings can work together – feel free to also have a go at activities set by other class teachers or help your younger brothers and sisters with their learning too.

For those of you who prefer to print work for the children to complete offline, you will find downloads below. For those who like online activities, there are suggested weblinks.

Spellings: the letters ‘ch’ can make a ck or a sh sound
Example Words: chemistry, orchestra, scheme, stomach, technology, chef, brochure, machine, chalet, moustache.
Fun Fact: The words where the letters ch make a k sound come from Greek and those where they make a sh sound come from French. Can you find other examples of each?
Do you know what all the words mean? Can you use each word in a sentence? Practise writing them as quickly as you can. Practise writing them in your best joined handwriting. You can also find more activities on letterjoin if you click on ‘Rowan’ after logging in or print off a wordsearch to do from the links below.

Maths: Money

Children should recognise all coins and notes and should be able to solve problems involving money. This might involve converting pounds into pence, finding the total of different things and working out change, or comparing amounts of money to see who has the most. Remember that you use either the p or the £ sign when writing amounts of money but not both together. (Right: 357p = £3.57 Wrong: £357p or £3.57p)

Maths Challenge for the Week: Make a list of jobs you can do to help at home. Get your family to give you a virtual price for each. (e.g. empty the dishwasher 50p; tidy your bedroom £1.20). Over the week work out much virtual money you could earn. If you saved it, how much would you have in 2 weeks time? What about six weeks? Make a wishlist of things you would like to buy and work out how long you would have to save to afford them.

Suggested Maths Activities:

  • Make your own play money: you could draw round real coins or do coin rubbings, then cut them out. Don’t forget to make the notes too.
  • Set up a shop: you could use your toys, food items or draw pictures to sell. Label everything with prices: some in pence (e.g. 50p) and some in pounds using decimal notation (e.g. £4.99). Take turns pretending to be the shopkeeper and the shopper.
  • Play any board games that involve money, buying or selling (e.g. Payday, Money Bags, Monopoly, Buy it right, The game of life).
  • Look at your family’s shopping list for this week and estimate how much it will cost. After someone has been shopping, look at the receipt and compare your estimate to the actual cost.
  • Look at mobile phone deals online: which is the best value for different people in your family? Is it better value to go on a cheap SIM-only plan and then buy a phone separately, or to go on contract for 12 or 24 months which includes a free phone.
  • Look at a pizza or other takeaway menu & use it to plan a meal for your family (an example pizza menu can be downloaded below). What is the total cost to buy everything? Look at the different deal options: what is the cheapest way of ordering the food you want? Imagine you have these vouchers: buy one, get one half price; get your most expensive item free; 10% off everything. You can only use one voucher – which will make your chosen meal the cheapest?

If you prefer printable activities, there are some problems for Year 4 and Year 5 below.

If you prefer online activities, there are some money activities set as TO Dos on Purple Mash and further practice with money can be found by clicking on ‘Maths’ and then click on ‘Measures’ under the Topics heading, then select ‘Money’.

English: My Awesome Japan Adventure

An extract from the book can be downloaded from the links below, along with grammar & comprehension questions to accompany it.

Writing Challenge for the Week: Imagine you are on a plane going to Japan. Write a diary about how you feel and what you want to do and find out when you get there. The extract below will help you but don’t worry if you can’t print it off or access it as you can have a go at writing a diary without reading the example one. Features of a good diary: informal (chatty), in the first person (I, me), describes what you have done in the past tense; includes description and your thoughts and feelings. Remember to you can use the Year 4 & 5 Writing Mats below to help you.

Other Activities if you’ve read the extract:

  • Draw illustrations to go with it. Can you turn the child’s description of the plane journey into a cartoon strip?
  • The book doesn’t have any pictures on the front cover. Can you design a new front cover with suitable illustrations?
  • Download & answer the reading comprehension & grammar questions.

Other Activities that you can do even if you can’t access the extract:

  • Make an ‘I know, I think, I want to find out’ chart about Japan.
  • What would you pack for a visit to Japan? Draw & label the contents of your suitcase.
  • Play ‘I packed my bag and in it I put …’ Can you think of a noun for every letter of the alphabet (e.g. aftersun, book, clothes …)? How about trying to think of an adjective & noun (amazing aftersun, blue book, clean clothes …)?
  • Keep a diary of what you are doing during the school closures.

Grammar Suggestions:

This half-term we are going to be practising recognising all the different word classes. The Knowledge Organiser (see links below) will help you. This week let’s focus on verbs & adverbs. Verbs are action or doing words. Adverbs describe a verb.

  • List 5 verbs you have done today. Can you think of three adjectives to describe each?
  • Play adjectives charades: walk into the room in different ways (e.g. quickly, suspiciously, nervously, loudly). Can the other person guess which adverb you are acting out?
  • Silly sentences: take a simple sentence with just one verb (e.g. the dog ran home). Change the verb. Then, add an adverb. Now change the adverb. Find & change a noun. Add an adjective. Change the verb again.

Topic: Japan

Focus for the Week: Festivals

You might like to find out:

  • What festivals and special days do they celebrate in Japan?
  • When are they?
  • What do people do?
  • Are there special foods that are eaten?
  • Why do they have these celebrations?

Suggested Activities:

  • Every year in Japan they have a Children’s Day to respect children’s personalities and celebrate their happiness. Can you design a similar event for England? When would it be? What would people do? You could write recipes or design a special menu for the day. You could create a special song for the celebration. What about making decorations?
  • Make your own Koinobori (flying fish) for Japan’s Children’s Day – see photos for ideas. Miss Brown made hers from toilet rolls, wool and attached them to a stick from the garden, but you could use anything you have at home or you could draw or paint some.
  • Traditionally on Children’s Day, all children are measured. Measure everyone in our family. Repeat this every week and see how much you are growing. You could even make a graph of your growth over the time school is closed.
  • Try some origami (paper folding) or kirigami (paper folding with cutting).

Useful Links

Japan Facts

National Geographic

Japan Activities

Kirigami for Kids

Easy Origami

Maths Y5 Problems 1Download
Childrens Day FactfileDownload
Koinobi Toilet Roll InstructionsDownload
Maths Pizza DealsDownload
My Awesome Japan AdventureDownload
Maths Y4 Problems 1Download
Spelling WordsearchDownload
My Awesome Japan Adventure QuestionsDownload

Cedar class learning for 27 APR 2020

English: LO: to investigate Haiku.

A haiku is a type of poem which originated in Japan. Today I would like you to research what a haiku is. What does a poem have to be to be a haiku? Can you find and read and famous haiku poems?

Maths: LO: to add in money.

Last term we did some work on money, and this week we will be revisiting this topic. For today’s work I would like you to look over some of the work you did last term on adding money. Can you remember how to do this? Find some items with price tags on around the house, gather up 3 or 4 items and see if you can add the price of them up to work out the total cost of all the items. If you can’t find any items with price tags/labels on, or the prices are too tricky for you to add, think up some prices for your favourite sweets and add those together. For example, a bar of dairy milk is 75p, a small bag of haribo starmix is 10p, a can of diet coke is 99p. If I wanted to buy all of these items I would need 75p + 10p + 99p = ?

On the class website for the 25th of March there is a guide on how to use a number line to add money. This has a picture of an example I created which you might find helpful! Take a look if you need reminding:

Cedar Class Learning 25th March 2020

Maple Class Mon 27th April

Spellings plural rule 5 – when words end in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ change the ‘f’ or ‘fe’ to a ‘v’ before adding ‘es’ (like in leaf = leaves, life = lives). Make these words plural and write in a sentence:

Half, loaf, self, hoof, shelf, calf.

English – this week we will be learning about suffixes (letters that go at the end of a word to change or add to its meaning). Can you add -ful to these words and put the new words into sentences?

Help, thought, force, care, wonder 

Can you find any other examples of words with the suffix -ful at the end? 

Maths – this week we will be learning all about money. Can you identify the different coins and notes you have at home? Do you have a money box you can empty and look at the coins? Or can you ask a grown up to show you some coins from their purse or wallet? On Purple Mash play the “Coins Pairs” game (Found in Maths, Topics, Measure, Money, Coins Pairs game). The time it takes you to complete the game counts down at the side. Play the game a few times and see if you can get quicker each time. 

Theme – “Festivals” – continuing our theme of learning about Japan, below is a list of activities for this week to help you find out more about festivals in Japan. Pick those you would like to do, maybe one a day. 

  • can you research festivals in Japan? What are the names of the festivals? When in the year are they celebrated?
  • What special food do Japanese people have during these festivals? Can you draw and label a plate of festival food?
  • What special clothes do people in Japan wear during times of festival? Can you draw them? Can you design your own festival clothing? 
  • Hina Matsuri – Doll Festival– March 3rd – people pray for their daughters’ future happiness, health and growth. Can you write a prayer for your future? Can you write a prayer for the future for your family?
  • Here’s an old traditional song that’s sung for the Festival in Japanese, and with a loose English translation.
  • Hina Matsuri Song 

Japanese

Akari o tsukema sho bon bori ni 

O hana o agemasyo momo no hana 

Gonin – bayashi no fue daiko 

Kyoo wa tanoshii Hina Matsuri

Loose English Translation

Let’s light the lanterns on the tiered stand Let’s put peach blossoms on the tiered stand 

Five court musicians are playing flutes and drums 

Today is a happy Dolls’ Festival.

  • can you write your own song? Can you include parts of your prayer?
  • Can you perform your song for your family?
  • Can you add music to your song, with instruments you have at home (or you could make your own). 

Tango no Sekku– Boys’ Festival – officially called Children’s Day or Kodomo no hi –May 5th

  • Large carp windsocks, called koinobori, are displayed outside houses of families with boys. There’s one windsock for each boy in the house. The largest windsock is for the oldest son of the house.  The carp is a symbol of Tango no Sekku, because carp are considered strong and determined.
  • Can you make your own windsock?

Tanabata – The Star Festival – July 7th

One fun tradition on this day: “Children write their wishes on strips of fancy paper and put them on displays made of the branches of bamboo trees.”

  • can you write your own wish and hand it on a tree or branch in your garden?

Thank you, Mrs Keeler

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