Homework for week beginning March 28th

 

 Here are the spellings we will be learning to spell at school this week. If you have time it would be great if the children could learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday

Maths Homework

I have set another fraction task on MyMaths for the children, to help them consolidate all the work we have been doing in school.

Lines for Play

The link below has the lines for the 2 main scenes that Andes Class are in for our play. (Your child should know who they are.) You will see there aren't many lines to learn but the children do need to know them by heart and when to speak.

 Lines for Andes Class

I have found the song on YouTube being performed by some older students if the children want to sing along/get inspiration.

Hare and Co. - Zoom! - YouTube

Please can costumes be brought into school as soon as possible (named so we don't get them confused)? 

Thanks for all your help with this

Homework for week beginning 21st March

 

 Here are the spellings we will be learning to spell at school this week. If you have time it would be great if the children could learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday

Maths Homework

I have set some MyMaths homework based on the fraction work we have been doing this week. 

We have also been working daily on Times Tables Rockstars so feel free to go on this to help them become even more confident.

Please can the children learn their lines if they haven't done already - see previous post with lines. We will be rehearsing every day now 

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Friday

Spelling Test

Maths

Warm up - TTRockstars/ MyMaths/ Hit the Button

Teaching Video - equivalence 1 half 2 quarters

Worksheet - equivalence 1 half 2 quarters

English

Today we are going to enjoy a range of dragon poems. I will ask the children to read them all in groups, act them out or illustrate them if they wish and then chose their favourite to perform to the rest of the class. We will talk more about dragons in English next week - this is just to get the children talking and excited about dragons.

Science

Pirate Challenge!

Can you design or make a boat that could sail out and rescue Pirate Pat? You will need to think about what materials you are going to use: Which material is the best at being waterproof? Which material is the best at floating?

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Thursday

Reading - Here is a non-fiction book for you to read about London, as we have been learning about it in History All about London

Maths

Warm up - TTRockstars/MyMaths/Hit the Button

Teaching Video - Non-unit fractions

Worksheet - Non-unit fractions

English

Today I would like the children to finish their story. Before they start they should read through what they did yesterday to check it makes sense and to spot anything that needs changing and then finish the story.

History

Today I will be asking the children to pretend to be a diarist like Samuel Pepys. We will act out being alive at the time of the Plague and the Great Fire of London and discuss what we might have seen or done. Then I would like the children to write a diary explaining what it was like to be around during the Plague and then another one from a day whilst The Great Fire of London was blazing - showing all that they have learned in History these last few weeks.

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Wednesday

Reading for pleasure

Maths

Warm up - TT Rockstars/MyMaths/Hit the Button

Teaching Video - Unit Fractions

Worksheet - Unit Fractions

English

Today we will be writing the first part of our changed Dick Whittington story, using the ideas we came up with yesterday. I do not want the children to write the whole story today as it may be rushed and not as detailed as it could be, so the children should only write up to where the main character is asked to give something away. We will finish it tomorrow. 

Don't forget I am looking out for expanded noun phrases, apostrophes for possession and careful sounding out if you don't know how to spell a word, as well as the usual other things.

P.E

Here is the link from last week for the dance for Great Fire of London, in school we only managed the first 2 episodes. 

If you completed all of these why not find a Cosmic Yoga on a theme you like?

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Tuesday

Spellings - continue to look at plurals and their spellings - why don't you talk through this?

Maths

Warm up - TT Rockstars or MyMaths or Hit the Button

Teaching video - Find a third

Worksheet - Find a third

English

Today we will continue to plan our own changed Dick Whittington story. Here is the plan the children will be using at school to write down their ideas. It is important the children just write the ideas not the story - that will come tomorrow.

History

Today we will do some research on the laptops to learn more about the Plague and The Great Fire of London as next lesson we will be writing a diary about it, showing all that we have learned over the last couple of weeks. 

Here is an old clip of Magic Grandad going back in time to the Great Fire of London which will give some more information about it.

The children should use their research skills remembering to put "KS1" or "for children" in the search engine so the information is easier for them to read and understand.

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Monday

Spellings - We will talk today about how when there is more than one of something, it can change the word. e.g. more than 1 mouse are called ...... mice, can the children think of any more?

Mostly though when there is more than 1 of something we just add an s or es e.g. 1 boy, 2 boys, 1 bush, 2 bushes

Today we are looking at when words end in  y, sometimes we have to change it to an "i" (like we have done when adding suffixes before) - then we add es - that's what is happening in our spellings this week.

We will write the singular, then rub out the y and add ies to make it plural and repeat to reinforce this.

Maths

Warm up - TT Rockstars/MyMaths

Teaching Video - recognise a third

Worksheet - recognise a third

English

If you need to finish your story from last week, please do this, we finished this in school on Friday 

Today we will start to think about writing our own changed Dick Whittington story (see the blog from last Tuesday for the Dick Whittington story we have learned by heart at school) - today we will think about who are main character will be in our story. I will encourage the children to draw their main character - remember they must be either poor or sad or lonely at the beginning, what will they look like? What will their name be? Then I will ask the children to write a few sentences using expanded noun phrases  (Here is a reminder link below of what an expanded noun phrase is but we have been looking at them in school for the last couple of weeks)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z3nfw6f

Science

We will be doing some investigations this half term on different materials and their uses according to their properties

I will talk the children through how to do an investigation and how to keep it fair

Today we are starting our investigations with the egg drop experiment (good luck!)

Homework for week beginning 14th March

 Here are the spellings we will be learning to spell at school this week. If you have time it would be great if the children could learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday

Maths Homework

I have set some MyMaths homework based on the work we are doing on fractions in school. This week we have looked at halves and quarters, then next week we will look at thirds and which fractions are the same.

Other things we have been learning:

• In English we have been learning how to use a possessive apostrophe and how to extend our sentences with adjectives and extra detail
• In Computing the children have just finished their Word Processing unit, where they have been learning how to use the different tools on Word
• In History, we have been learning about life in the 17th century, particularly The Plague and The Great Fire of London - I wonder what facts they can tell you about these?

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Friday

Spelling Test

Maths

Warm up - TT Rockstars (let me know if you need your username and password)

Teaching Video - Find a quarter

Worksheet - Find a quarter

English

Continue writing the changed Dick Whittington story - see previous day for plan of the story. Just write the problem section today. Don't rush this - we will finish this on Monday.

Computing

In school we have been working on Word Processing, using Word to create information posters, we have looked at the tools below. Can the children explain what each one is or what it does? If you're unsure, perhaps you could go on Word and refresh your memory.

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Thursday

Read along with Vlad and the Great Fire of London

Maths

Warm up - TT Rockstars

Teaching video - Recognise a quarter

Worksheet - Recognise a quarter

English 

We are going to start writing a different version of the Dick Whittington. I am going to choose the character this time, next week the children can add in their own. We are going to change Dick to Diana - see the changes below

Today I would like the children to write the opening and build up. They should write the version that they have learned just changing as it says above.

History

Today we will recap primary and secondary evidence and how things created from the time (primary evidence) is more reliable. We will look at a diary (below) written at the time of the Great Fire of London and write what facts we know from this. 

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Wednesday

Maths

Warm - up - TT Rockstars

Teaching Video - Find a half

Worksheet - Find a half

English

Today we will start to think about how we can change part of the Dick Whittington story. How could we change the main character? Who could we replace Dick with? Someone else who is poor? What might their name be? What might they look like? As we have been working on extending our sentences, I will ask the children to write a descriptive sentence about them

Instead of 

There was a poor, scullery boy called Dick who worked in Mr Warren's grand house - what could we change it to?

What if the main character wasn't poor but sad? What could that character be called? What might they be like? Can the children write a sentence about this made up character they have created ? Don't forget the adjectives and extra detail.

What if the main character was lonely? Think about what descriptions you might use for them. Think about characters you have read about before to help inspire. Then write a sentence about them.

If time we will think about how the characters will change at the end of they story from poor to rich, sad to happy, lonely to lots of friends. Then write some sentences about them at the end of the story.

P.E - Dance

Here are a series of 3 dance lessons where the children get to act out helping with the Great Fire of London - if you don't have time to do them all today, don't worry, save them for another afternoon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/dance-ks1-time-to-move-the-great-fire-of-london-index/zmjtt39

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Tuesday

Spelling - Continue to learn the spellings (see Homework blog below )

Maths

Warm up - counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 2 times tables practice

Teaching Video - Recognise a half

Worksheet - recognise a half

English

We started by telling the story of Dick Whittington,

 we have learned this by heart.

Then we completed the boxing up sheet - thinking about the different parts of the story. Can you?

History

Today we learned about the Great Fire of London and put the events in order. Use your search skills on the internet to see what you can learn about the Great Fire of London - remember put in KS1 or for children so that what you find will be easier for you to read. Then can you decide which order these cards should go in? You could even make your own timeline

Homework week beginning 7th March

Here are the spellings we will be learning to spell at school this week. If you have time it would be great if the children could learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday

Maths Homework

I have set a task on MyMaths which compliments the work we have been doing in school on 3d shapes. Don't forget there is also TT Rocktstars to support timetables knowledge

Reading Rivers

I challenged the children to try and make their own Reading River this weekend, showing all the different reading they do. Here is the one we did in class. (It can be anything they read e.g. recipes, instructions, signs, things on tv)