Monday 23 March: Home learning
Good morning Year 2! Here are your home learning tasks for today. There are some optional challenges too. We will also give you a suggested physical activity and mindfulness activity to help you to keep physically and mentally healthy.
Physical activity: Why not start your day by joining in with the free live PE with Joe video for kids. These sessions will be running daily at 9am.
Mindfulness activity (we usually do these straight after lunch but it can be included at any point in the day): OK breathing – Make an ‘ok’ sign on your tummy and slowly breathe in and out. This sign is to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions. No emotions are bad. Emotions change and you won’t feel like that forever.
Task 1 reading
Here’s the fluency text for this week. The children are used to having these these texts weekly in class and they are aimed at developing the children’s fluency when reading.
1.Read the non-fiction text below based on polar bears (like our class mascot, Snowy, that we have adopted from WWF).
2.Underline and copy out words you are not sure of. Try to find out some of their meanings using a dictionary text or online.
3. Reread the text and record two facts you have learnt about polar bears.
Challenge: write an incorrect fact about polar bears too.
Polar bears
Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on.
Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of compacted snow, and from almost a kilometre away.
Adults are strong swimmers – they can swim for several hours to get from one piece of ice to another. Their thick white coat and a layer of fat keep them warm and camouflaged in their harsh Arctic environment.
Words I’m not sure of
Task 2 maths
1. Go on a shape hunt around your house and record, in your home learning book, the different 2D (flat) shapes that you find. For example, a rectangle on the front cover of a book.
2.You could also include their properties – sides and vertices (where two lines meet together at a point).
Challenge: Give clues to one of the shapes to a family member – can they guess the shape?
Task 3 writing
Your spellings for this week are all words ending in ey. Don’t forget to spend some time on Spelling Shed to practise these words. Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.
key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley, honey, money, turkey
1.Write questions with half of your spelling words. Then, use the other half to answer the questions. The sillier the better!
2.Underline the spelling words when you use them.
Challenge: Start each question with a different word.
23 March 2020: Home learning
Reading
Hi Year 3 and 4! Today’s reading activity is to story map The Famous Five: Five on Treasure Island.
- First, you need to pick out the main parts – this is summarising the text.
- Then, in your home learning book, start by drawing the main characters.
- Use arrows or number your story map. Remember to only include the main, important parts.
Have a look at this story map which sequences Hansel and Gretel, below.
Still need help?
That’s OK! Here are the beginning main parts of the story for you to sequence. See if you can carry it on yourself.
- 4 children (Anne, Julian and Dick) go on holiday to Kirrin Bay to visit family.
- Their aunt Fanny, uncle Richard and cousin George live there.
- They meet their cousin George who is a confident, outgoing tomboy.
- The children hire a boat and go to George’s Island…
Want a challenge?
Story map your favourite book or film.
Spellings
Spellings this week recaps the list of suffixes you learnt in Year Two, and in class this year.
They are: –ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ly, -ful, -less, -ness.
Create your own list for words that work for each suffix.
Then, practise your handwriting while learning how to spell these words:
happiness / loneliness / thoughtfully / painless / colourful / humming / wrapping / dripped / clapped / funniest / hottest / hopeful / wishful
Maths
Today, you’re going to work on column addition. Remember to mark any exchanges you make and write the operation on your question. But first, click here for a mental maths game to warm you up.
Need a challenge?
Time stables
Times tables this week is to recap your x2s, x5s and x10s. I’ll be testing you on Friday so do a little practise, every day.
Science
Challenge 1:
Find three other examples of solids, liquids and gases. Challenge yourself to think of some which nobody else will think of!
Challenge 2:
Explain how you would change the state of one or more of the words in the table.
Home Learning – reading update
Hi everyone!
Below are the links for today’s home learning reading task:
Odin creates the world video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4B2yhzckFnLbb8myKQvvhMF/viking-sagas-odin-creates-the-world
Transcript:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/pdfs/viking_sagas/story_01.pdf
Home learning Year Three
You can email your child’s teacher…
Email teachers if you’re unsure about some aspect of the home learning. The email addresses follow the same pattern in Key Stage 1 and 2:
joebloggs@spherefederation.org
In my case the email to use is:
graceclifford@spherefederation.org
I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
Home Learning
Hello parents, carers and Y4 children!
I hope you’re all okay. I wanted to email before the first set of learning goes live to give you a bit of information about what to expect.
Structure and Routine
As newly ‘qualified’ teachers, these first days will be a bit of a rollercoaster for you! Hang in there! You’ll be fine. Hopefully, you can get into a routine and find a structure that works for you. I’ve posted the timings of a typical school day below. Sticking to some of the school timings so there’s consistency may help.
| 9-10 | First lesson |
| 10-10.10 | Wake Up Shake Up (or dance around the garden with music blaring out!) |
| 10.10-11 | Second lesson |
| 11-11.15 | Break |
| 11.15-12.10 | Third lesson |
| 12.10-13.10 | Lunchtime (they can make their own – we call this Food Technology) |
| 13.10-14.10 | Fourth lesson (household chores, perhaps) |
| 14.10-14.45 | Fifth lesson (gardening or naptime) |
| 14.45-15.15 | Assembly/Reading class novel |
The Tasks
- Each day there will be three tasks: a reading task, a maths one, and a science / topic / writing task.
- These tasks will ‘go live’ at 9AM each morning on the Y4 Homework page of the school website.
- The tasks will not include any new learning. Instead they will consolidate learning that has happened during Year 4 with some challenge questions to apply or use the learning in a different way.
- The tasks should take between 30-40 minutes.
- Answers (where appropriate) will be posted with the following day’s new tasks.
You can email me at paulwilks@spherefederation.org about any of the learning tasks. I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
Class News Posts
It would be great if you emailed some photos of the children learning at home – either the school learning tasks or other learning or fun you’re having. I’ll post some of these on the Class News section of the website each week so that you can all see what each other are up to and it might make us feel a little less isolated. If you want to send photos but don’t want your child’s image used on the website, let me know.
Best of luck to you all.
Paul
ps. Feel free to give out some Cool Class Tokens if your child is doing some great learning, or, conversely, feel free to give out warnings if they’re not following the school/home rules!
Home learning
We’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
You can email your child’s teacher…
joebloggs@spherefederation.org
In my case this means the email to use is:
Home Learning – emails
Email teachers if you’re unsure about some aspect of the home learning. The email addresses follow the same pattern in Key Stage 1 and 2:
In my case, this means the email to use is:
jenwilson@spherefederation.org
I’ll aim to reply on the same day and no later than the following morning. To keep this manageable, please restrict emails to one per day, per child.
20 March 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: I can pay and receive compliments to/from people outside of school.
This homework, which links to our recent living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to discuss the benefits of paying compliments to people. Here are some questions that might shape your discussion:
- How does paying a compliment make you feel?
- How does receiving a compliment make you feel?
- Why is it important to be sensible when paying or receiving compliments?
- Can you compliment people too much?
- Is it ok to compliment a stranger? Is this safe?
Children should be ready to discuss what they’ve talked about at home by Thursday 26 March 2020. It would be even better if children were able to talk confidently about times when they have given, or received, a compliment.
13 March 2020
Our homework this week is Creative: I can show my talents.
All of the children in our school are blessed with an array of talents. This week, our homework, which links to our living and learning statement (I can recognise my talents), gives our children the opportunity to celebrate and share their talents. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their talents to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:
create a short performance to show to the class
film themselves showing off their talent
make a collage of their many talents
produce a piece of art to show off their talents
There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond. Children should be ready to show off their talents by Thursday 19 March 2020.
