24 March 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone! Welcome to day two! This post is for Y5 and Y6 but it’ll be clear which tasks/questions are for you.
Today’s three tasks are maths, reading and history. (Remember, most tasks will be revisiting prior learning to consolidate your knowledge.)
Maths – LO: arithmetic
Y6 – answer all the questions
Y5 – answer 7 of the following questions of your choice. You can do more if you want to challenge yourself.
Challenge
Explain to someone else (or write down) how you worked out the two hardest calculations.
Reading – both Y5 & Y6 – LO: retrieval
Read this script or, alternatively, watch this video (or both!). Answer these retrieval questions in your home learning book.
- What did Odin want Freya to do?
- Why was it considered an important job?
- What was the name of Freya’s spouse?
- What adjective was used to describe the cave/tunnel?
- True or false:
The sapphires in the cave were dazzling.
The goblins’ skin was bumpy.
The goblins gestured to the object on the floor. - Find and copy a word which shows the goblins were stood together.
- List two tools mentioned in the script.
- Match the adjective to the noun:
wet damp strange
noise air walls - What garment is mentioned in the script?
- What event were Freya and her husband going to attend?
- What was Freya’s intended destination when she left Asgard?
- List two ways from Loki’s speech that shows Freya did not want to kiss the goblins.
Challenge
Create a feelings graph for Freya for these key points in the script:
- When she received her task from Odin.
- When she was invited somewhere by Odin.
- When she set off from Asgard.
- When it started raining.
- When she first went into the cave.
- When she saw the necklace.
- When she heard the necklace’s price.
- When she went home.
History – both Y5 & Y6 – LO: I know why the Vikings were frequently successful in battle.
Your task is to create a poster to tell someone else all they need to know about why the Vikings were such effective and lethal fighters. Your poster should include information about the following:
- their longships – sleek and manoeuvrable
- weapons – spears, swords and axes
- armour – chainmail if you were lucky
- battle tactics – intimidation, hit and run, element of surprise
- way of thinking – Valhalla
R2s:
- colourful
- details about why each part helped them succeed
- pictures
Optional: carry out your own research but this is absolutely not essential.
If you are able to, email me a photo of your poster!
Challenge
Explain how you think it would have felt to be living in the year 900AD. You might consider different view points (eg Anglo-Saxons or peaceful Vikings) or different places in the world (eg York vs Baghdad).
23 March 2020: answers
Maths – LO: arithmetic
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
23 March 2020: Home Learning
Welcome to the first Home Learning tasks for Y6! Technology, hey?
I hope you’re doing well and feeling happy and healthy. During this time away from school, if you have any questions, email me at jenwilson@spherefederation.org.
Remember, your mental health is just as important as your physical health – exercise when/where you can, talk about what’s on your mind and know that we’re all in this together.
This week’s spellings are:
- interfere
- interchangeable
- international
- supernatural
- superimpose
- autograph
- automatically
- television
- telescopic
- teleport
Children and parents are reminded to practise little but often and test weekly alongside practising a mixture of times tables and related facts (60 x 7 = 420).
Today, we have maths, reading and writing. Each task should take 30-40 minutes and answers (where appropriate) will be ‘live’ tomorrow morning for you to mark your learning with.
Maths – LO: arithmetic
Challenge
Write the R2s for addition or subtraction and a top tip you’d give to someone else.
Reading – LO: explore and evaluate
Today’s reading task is all about the Viking saga: Odin creates the world. Your task is to watch this video. Next, read the transcript that goes with it at least two times. After that, answer these questions in your home learning book and complete the activity that follows underneath.
- What did you like about the clip?
- What did you dislike about the clip?
- Is this similar to anything you have read or watched before?
- Are there any words or phrases you liked?
- Are there any words or phrases you didn’t understand? If so, find out what they mean and record them in your home learning book.
- Could Odin have created any of the homes differently? What would you change about them?
Finally, whilst reading the transcript, you have two options:
Option A: read the transcript alone and be as expressive as possible – changing voices for the different characters.
Option B: read the transcript with someone else at home being as expressive as possible, too.
Challenge
Whilst reading the transcript, try acting it out as well in the style of a play!
Writing – LO: audience and purpose
Today’s writing task is to write up your newspaper report that we planned in class last week. All children have been given their plan so they should reference this frequently whilst writing.
Structure R2s:
- headline
- paragraphs
- image
- caption
- quote
Grammar R2s:
- passive voice
- formal language
- speech to convey character
- parenthesis
- relative clauses
It’s important that you reread each paragraph after writing it and check it’s followed your plan, makes sense, includes R2s and is spelled correctly. If you need to edit, use your purple pen.
Challenge
Record yourself reading your newspaper as if you’re a real newsreader or perform it to someone else!
That’s it for today. As always, email me if you’re unsure of anything and thank you for working so hard.
Miss Wilson
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 – 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.
28 February 2020
This week, our homework is Creative and is helping us to celebrate World Book Day next week.
I can show what I love about reading.
Children could come up with their own ideas for how to show this, or ideas might include:
- create a labelled diagram of the perfect place to read in
- write a book review
- draw and label/describe a character from your favourite book
- write a letter to an author telling them how much you loved reading their book
- write a one minute speech on your favourite book, persuading others to read it – consider what the most exciting parts are, which characters you love or you love to hate, who might enjoy reading it next and why
Be as creative as you like.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review on World Book Day itself, 5 March 2020.
07 February 2020
This week, the whole school has the same creative homework, which is due in on Thursday 13 February 2020.
I can show different ways to stay safe, including online.
This week, linked to our Living & Learning, we have been thinking about how to make safe choices, including online. There are many ways, and many different situations, in which we need to keep safe: at home, at school, in our environment and online.
Children should think about the situations where they need to keep safe and who might help them to stay safe. This could be done in any creative way:
- A story
- A poem
- Instructions
- A comic strip
- An advert
- An interview
- A game
- Scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
The homework will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.
