Homework week beginning 13th December

 

Here are the words 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 test will be on Friday.

Maths Homework

There is some MyMaths homework based on division which we looked at last week. The children learned to divide by sharing or grouping the objects or counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Other things we have been learning this week:

We finished our Science topic. We have been learning about habitats, micro-habitats and foods chains.

In Art we have been working on our drawing skills. The children are learning about tone, cross-hatching and other shading techniques.

We have been writing information sentences in English, using subheadings to break our information up.

Feel free to ask them about and see if they can show you what they know.

Homework week beginning 6th December

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

Maths Homework

I have set some MyMaths homework, it is a division task based on sharing or counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

Also there is TT Rockstars for the children to work on their 5 times tables.

Enjoy!

Work for children isolating

Friday

Maths

Teaching video - Division - sharing

Worksheet - Division - sharing

English

Spelling Test

Children will be introduced to an information text about Burglar Bill. Together we will look at the text and discuss the features of an information text. Children to help the teacher to write an improved information text about school.

R.E

This will be our final lesson learning about what it means to be Jewish and the celebration of Hanukkah. The children will learn how to play dreidel, talk about and try some food and light another candle on the menorah.  The children will compare this with their own experiences of celebrations - what is the same and what is different?  

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Thursday

Maths

Teaching Video - Recap - division by sharing

Worksheet - Recap - division by sharing

English

Buddy the elf has left Andes Class a letter asking us to give him some information about our school before he comes to visit. He wants to know

What is your school like? 

What is good about it?

What can I do at your school?

Who might I meet?

The children are going to write this information for Buddy today.

Science

Today we are learning about world habitats - particularly the ocean, the rainforest, the arctic and the desert. We will split our page in 4 and use information books and search engines to find out which animals and plants we might find in these habitats

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Tuesday

Maths

Teaching video - Multiplication - using arrays

Worksheet - using arrays

English

We have been turning the Burglar Bill story we have been learning into a story featuring Father Christmas who started off like Burglar Bill stealing things but then he meets Mother Christmas and changes to be the Father Christmas we know today. The children can change or keep whatever they want in the story. Will it be a baby they find or an elf? What food and drink will he munch and slurp on? I can't wait to read the changed stories.

R.E

We are celebrating Hanukkah this week. Do some research and see what you can find out about the Jewish celebration.

Make sure you take some time to read a book for pleasure every day! 

Homework week beginning 29th November

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

Maths Homework

There is another MyMaths money task set for the children to do. We have started learning about multiplication this week in school so that they have a better understanding of what x means. Feel free to keep working on times tables on TT Rockstars too so that they can begin to see the connection 

Other things we have been learning this week:

In RE the children have been learning about what it means to be Jewish and have started looking at Hanukkah which is celebrated next week

In Science we have been sorting and grouping using different tables and diagrams. We sorted pictures  into "living", "never living" and "dead". Then did some research and sorted animals into "carnivores", herbivores" and "omnivores" as part of our learning about foodchains.

In PSHE we had a lovely discussion about friendship and what it means to be a friend

Why don't you ask them all about it and see what they can remember! 

Homework week beginning 22nd November

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

Maths Homework

I have set a MyMaths activity for the children to work on their adding of coins and totals and finding change. If the children enjoy this there is also toy shop money game

Homework week beginning 15th November

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

Maths Homework

In school this week we have been learning about pence and pounds so children can use this coin game to play different games or there is this measuring game to consolidate what they were doing in Maths last week. 

Have fun and don't forget to keep up with the 2 and 10 times tables on TT Rockstars

Reading Homework

Reading books to be returned on Monday

Library books to be returned on Wednesday if finished

Work for children isolating

 Wednesday

Maths

Continue to work on counting coins and working with pence. Complete these problem solving questions

English

Start by recapping what alliteration is e.g. Burglar Bill - what other names could we use alliteration for? Hungry Helen, Lovely Lisa, repeat for other names

The focus of the lesson is to continue to work on improving our descriptions by adding adjectives and conjunctions to our sentences to improve them. In the story we have the repeated sentence "He spotted a nice toothbrush so he put it in his sack." "He spotted a nice tin of beans so he put it in his sack."

Can we pretend we are writing about Burglar Bill going around stealing things but improve the adjectives and maybe the verb to improve the sentences. 

e.g. He spied a bright, orange handbag so he shoved it in his sack. He spied a giant, snuggly teddy bear so he shoved it in his sack.

P.E and Library

Choose one of the fun Cosmic Yoga routines to do  and then choose a book from the SORA app to read for pleasure

Work for children isolating

 Tuesday

Maths

Teaching video - count money pence

Worksheet - count money pence

English

In school, we will discuss how to create good characters in stories, we will talk about how using precise adjectives helps to create pictures in our heads of the different characters. I will show different characters from the books in our familiar book box and discuss precise adjectives for them (not just 1).

We will then move on to looking at the impact verbs can have in a story to create good characters and recap on the verbs (doing words) from the story e.g. slurped, munched, climbed.

We will look through powerful verbs PP and improve the boring verb sentences by choosing better verbs but also adding adjectives, conjunctions, extra detail to make the sentences come alive more.

History

Today we will start by referring  back to the timeline to give context to 1605

How do you think we know about the Gunpowder Plot? No-one alive was there?! Discuss.

How can we be Historians? Watch and discus

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zs3487h/articles/ztnvgk7

Next we will learn about different types of evidence - primary and secondary Evidence PP

then sort these examples of evidence into primary or secondary in books Primary or Secondary evidence

Now look at pictures of evidence and recap–  Are they primary or secondary evidence? How much should we believe? Look through the prove it statements - which picture proves which statement? Record which number picture proves each statement. Prove it statements

Work for children isolating

 Monday

Maths

Teaching video - problem solving with length

Worksheet - problem solving with length

English

In school we will be continuing to learn the story of Burglar Bill by heart, then we will be looking at our Wanted Posters and seeing how we can improve them. What can we magpie from this one?

Mrs Burton's Wanted poster for Burglar Bill

Computing

Miss Gray is teaching the children how to search effectively and safely on search engines, then the children are using these to learn more facts about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. 

• The children have been using the search engine https://www.safesearchkids.com
• When searching for facts it is a good idea to put KS1 or for children or for kids so that the information is easier to read.

Homework week beginning 8th November

 Here are the words we will be learning to spell at school this week. They are tricky words that we will be using in our stories. If you have time it would be great for the children to learn them at home too. The spelling test is on Friday.

Maths Homework

I have set some MyMaths homework, it may require the children to remember how to use the column addition we did at school last half term.

Don't forget TT Rockstars too

or Hit the Button

Reading Homework

Reading books to be returned on Monday please

Library books to be returned on Wednesdays when finished please

Work for children isolating

 Friday

Maths

Teaching Video - ordering lengths

Worksheet - ordering lengths

English

We will be continuing to learn the story Burglar Bill by heart and thinking of actions to help us.

Then we are going to use the descriptions we used yesterday to create a Wanted poster for Burglar Bill. We will describe what Burglar Bill looks like, where he might be found and what to do if you see him. The children will be encouraged to extend the sentences using conjunctions (so, with, who) to help to encourage them to add extra detail.

Work for children isolating

 (Please complete Tuesday and Wednesday's Maths and English before completing Thursday's work)

Thursday

Maths

Teaching video - compare lengths

Worksheet - compare lengths

English

In class we will be continuing to try to learn the story of Burglar Bill by heart, using the pictures we drew yesterday and adding our own actions as we read it.

Then we are going to think of some adjectives to describe Burglar Bill, using a thesaurus to improve and widen our adjectives. Next we will write some descriptive sentences about Burglar Bill. I will challenge the children to write extended sentences with more than one description of him in each sentence. If time we will also write about Baker Bill at the end too.

History

We will continue to learn more about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkj382/articles/zjsqbdm 

We will look at some pictures of York so the children can link it with a place some may have visited and talk about Guy Fawkes coming from our locality.

Finally I will ask the children to answer the questions:

Who is Guy Fawkes? 

Why are we learning about him? 

Why did he do what he did? 

Why do we remember this each year?

PSHE

We will discuss what a family is. We will discuss different kids of families we and others have but that they are all characterised by being based on love and care.

Work for children isolating

 Wednesday

Maths

Teaching video - measuring length (m)

Worksheet - measuring length (m)

English

Shorter version of Burglar Bill

In class we are reading this version of the story and then Mrs Stones and the children are drawing their  own text maps, only a couple of pictures for each sentence and simple pictures to help us learn the story.

P.E and library

If you can't get out and do some exercise why not choose some Cosmic Yoga to take part in, then choose a book from the SORA app and read for pleasure

Work for children isolating

 Tuesday

Maths

Teaching video - measuring length cm

Worksheet - measuring length cm

English

Listen and read along with Burglar Bill

In class we acted out the story to help us get to know the story even more and then we wrote down some questions we would like to ask Burglar Bill, don't forget the ?

History

We have started to learn about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot Gunpowder Plot Story PP

We talked about it being 400 years ago and how each hundred year starts with different numbers, we are in 2000s, before it was 1900s, before that was 1800s, before that was 1700s and before that was 1600s which is the time we are thinking about

I asked the children to sequence the events from the story into the correct order (these need mixing up and then chopping up) Gunpowder Plot story sequencing

Finally we looked at a timeline of all the events from the birth of Guy Fawkes in York until his execution (again these need chopping up and muddling up so they can be put back in the correct chronological order) Gunpowder Plot timeline

Homework week beginning 1st November

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

Maths Homework

Following all our work on addition and subtraction last half term, I have set "Sums crossing 10" on MyMaths. For questions 2 the children will need paper and pencil so that they can work these calculations out using the column method we have learned at school.

Don't forget TTRockstars which can always be accessed to help with 10 and 2 times tables

Reading Homework

Please return reading books on Mondays so they can go out again on Thursday

Library sessions are on Wednesdays

If you are looking for more things to read don't forget about the SORA app where children can access hundreds of books electronically

Work for children isolating

Maths

Teaching slides adding 2 two digit numbers

Adding 2 two digit numbers

Teaching slides subtracting 2 two digit numbers

Subtracting 2 two digit numbers

English

Conjunction activities

Science

Teaching slides - what are food chains?

Children to then record on paper some food chains

Homework week beginning 18th October

Here are the words we will be learning to spell at school this week. They are homophones, words that sound the same but have different meanings. If you have time it would be great for the children to learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday.

Maths Homework

This week we have been starting to add and subtract 2 digit numbers however quite a few children weren't confident at adding numbers up to 10 together so the maths games I have chosen encourage the children to get more fluent and confident at this. We encourage them to use fingers or put one number in their head and count on or back if they don't yet know the answer by heart. Ideally they should be working these out quickly or knowing the answers by heart with practice.

Mental Maths Train

Alien Addition

Reading Homework

Please can library books be returned on Wednesdays unless not finished

Reading books back on Monday and then they will go home again on Thursday

Homework week beginning 11th October

Here are the words we will be learning to spell at school this week. They are homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings. If you have time it would be great for the children to learn them at home too. The spelling test will be on Friday

Maths Homework

This week we have been learning to add and subtract single digits to numbers up to 100, by putting the largest number in our heads and then either counting on or back.

 I have set 2 tasks on My Maths for the children to do linked to what they have been doing at school. (Some children have needed a 100 square to help them, if you google 100 square you will find ones for the children to use to count on or back with)

If your child is eager you can of course continue to work on TT Rockstars and we have been playing on Robot More or Less too as an extra.

Reading Homework

Library books back on Wednesday

Reading books back on Monday and then they will be sent home again on Thursday

Reading for pleasure 

 It was National Poetry Day last week so we have been reading, watching and enjoying a few poems this week, feel free to find some poems to read and enjoy

Many thanks for your ongoing support