Category: Home Learning

Happy Monday Discoverers, 

How was your weekend in the not-so-sunny weather? I hope that you managed to find some fun activities to keep you entertained.

We are at the beginning of a new week, and in English, we are starting something new. 

Over the coming weeks, we are going to be focusing on a beautiful book, called ‘Rain Before Rainbows’ by Smriti Halls. 

Here are the teachers of Sleights, reading the book to you.

Today, I would simply like you to listen to this story, and think about what you like about it. 

You could write comments about how it makes you feel, or what it makes you think about. Or you could even read the book yourself, and use expression to show your feelings. 

In Maths this week, we are going to be focusing on money. Today, I have written some questions for you. I would like you to convert the amounts of pence, into pounds. 

I have shown you how to do this in the first example. 

As there are 100p in £1.00, whenever you convert pence into pounds, you simply divide the amount by 100, and this gives you your answer. 

Here is the answer from Friday’s question also. 

We are continuing with science as our foundation subject this week. There is such much more about plants that we can learn. 

Today, we are going to be learning how to classify and group plants, and we are going to focus particularly on separating ones that have seeds, and ones that don’t. 

I would like you to watch this video firstly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgVlrtGnG6s&feature=emb_logo 

Now, you could use the internet to research different plants, or go for a walk, or even into your garden if you have any, and observe the different plants that you see. 

Then, you can draw or write the plants into two categories, one for plants with seeds, and one for plants without seeds. 

Here are some plants without seeds to get your started:

Have a great day everybody,

Mrs Taylor 

Happy Friday Discoverers, 

I hope that you’ve had a good week, and are ready for the weekend.

Today in English, you are going to continue writing your diary entry, as a Victorian child at school. 

I was impressed to see that you got off to a great start yesterday, so today, you will be focusing on writing the rest of your diary. This will focus on the afternoon at school. 

Remember to write in the first person, as if you are the Victorian child, and you will also be writing in the past tense, as the events have already happened. 

Also, diaries are a time to reflect, and can help people process their feelings from the day, so try to write about how you felt during different activities, and perhaps the reasons for this. 

How did you manage with yesterday’s maths problem? That’s great to hear. 

I have another one for you today. 

You need to match the descriptions of people’s numbers, with the correct number. 

I will upload the answers on Monday for you. 

Good luck! 

In science today, you will be looking at how water is transported through a plant. 

Here is today’s video: 5. How does water get from roots to leaves in a plant? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Mf5rhbTkHLZ3fbJzScyDvC/primary-science-plants

To help you understand this, it would be great if you could carry out the experiment. 

You may be able to do this today, if you have the write equipment, but if not, you could save it for another day. 

Enjoy, and have a fabulous weekend, 

Mrs Taylor 

Good morning Discoverers,

You’re working really well this week, keep it up and well done! 

In English today, you are going to use everything you have learned so far, about a Victorian child’s school day, and begin to write your diary entry, as if you were the Victorian child. 

It would be great if you could include some of the activities that you wrote on Monday, and include some emotions that you were writing on Tuesday. Yesterday may have helped to plan how you might structure your diary, and what you may talk about first.

For today, simply focus on the morning of your day at school, and we can write the afternoon part tomorrow. 

I have included some examples of things that you may want to include, as these are typical features that are usually included within a diary entry. 

Here is the answer for yesterday’s maths problem. Did you manage to answer this correctly? Well done!

Today, I have another one for you. This time, you have to decide if you agree with Mo, or not. 

The only clue I will give you to answer this problem is: remember to check how many beads there are altogether.

Good luck!

I have been so impressed with your science work this week. You have included lots of detail, and learned tricky, new vocabulary, well done 😀

Today we are moving on to looking at the pollination process. 

I would like you to watch the video on the usual link, it is called: What is pollination and how does it work?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Mf5rhbTkHLZ3fbJzScyDvC/primary-science-plants

Then, it would be great if you could create a cycle, a little like my example, which includes the different steps within the pollination process. 

Have another fantastic day,

Mrs Taylor