Category: Home Learning

Thursday 9th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning, Discoverers,

How are you feeling after your PE session yesterday? Are you aching?

Hopefully you are feeling ready to practise more PE today ?

In English, you are going to finish writing your information paragraphs, which you started yesterday.

Summarise the paragraphs into your own words, and capture the main points.

Then, draw and colour some relevant pictures, in the spaces you drew on Monday.

As tomorrow will be sports day, there won’t be an English task put on here for you.

Feel free to send me your finished reports. I’m excited to see what you have created 😀

 

In maths today, you are continuing to learn about four-sided shapes: quadrilaterals.

I would like you to complete the table, drawing or writing the name of the quadrilateral which fits into each box.

You only need to draw one shape in each section, and try not to be tricked, there may be one box in which no quadrilateral can fit.

Good luck ?

 

In PE today, I would like you to prepare a practise sports day for you and your family.

This will get you warmed up, ready for the virtual sports day which the year six children have prepared for you tomorrow.

Use any activities you like, you may invent some new ones of your own, and most importantly, have fun!

 

Remember, year 6’s will put on their sports day post for tomorrow,

I hope you have so much fun! Send me lots of pictures if you can 😀

Mrs Taylor 

Thursday the 9th of July – Pioneers Learning Suggestions

Scott Grason-Taylor

Find a selection of 3D shapes- cube,cuboid,sphere,cylinder.
Place them one at a time in a bag.
Ask your Pioneer to put their hand in and feel the shape and to describe what they feel.
Here are some words to try out –sharp, slopey, pointy, like a brick, arch, box.
Here is a list of mathematical shape language – corner, side, edge, flat, curved, rectangular, cylinder

Next,place a selection of shapes in the bag. Ask your Pioneer to bring out the shape with a curved surface or six flat faces or the one with rectangular faces.
This is tricky so you will need to model this.
Can your Pioneer ask the questions?
Happy Learning!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z96vb9q

Make a collection of your toy animals. Look at my photographs.
What do you think these animals eat?
Can you say if they are a herbivore, a carnivore or an omnivore?
What do you know about the teeth of the animals in my pictures?
Could you sort the animals into groups depending on what they eat?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALyrYqxhwiI Mr Thorne reads and blends for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emb2yvwAHtc&t=5s and a classic.

Go back through all of your Phase 3 soundmat and the words from Monday.
Reread yesterday’s reading book together.

Happy Phonics

Thursday 9th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders

I hope you all had a good day yesterday,  At school, we spent the morning outside in the forest and caught up with our maths in the afternoon.
 
Today, we are hoping to see if our flowers and leaves have dried out that we collected and pressed last week. ??
 
Why is the Sky Blue? – English
 
Have a look at the pages attached.  They have used flaps to hide information from the reader, which are used to tell you the answers to the questions.
 
Today, we are going to link our questions wit art work and have a go at re-creating a lift-the-flap item to record the answer to a question.  You could use any of the questions that you have previously written down.  The ones about an object will obviously work best if you can re-create the object in paper with a hidden flap.
 
Happy crafting!
 
Area of a Parallelogram – Maths
 
We had a go at the area of a triangle yesterday.  Today, we are going to investigate the area of a parallelogram.
 
 
Floristry Thursday ?
 
Today, we are going to have a look at the flowers and leaves that you left to dry from last week. 
 
If you find they are dried out enough, I would like you to make a piece of artwork from them.  You might want to use the pieces to make a picture of something (like the person attached) or just make an arrangement of your dried objects.
 

Wednesday 8th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders

I was sure the sun was going to put his hat on yesterday but I think he continued to hide throughout the day!!

I hope you have made some great plans to keep your ice cube frozen – take some time to collect the things that you have used in your design ready to make it at a later date.

Why is the Sky Blue? – English

You have probably heard the saying ‘that’s just the tip of the iceberg’ and possibly wondered what it means.

After looking at the page, what do you think this saying could mean?

We would think of people as icebergs with the tip representing all the visible things we can see straight away about someone with so many other things hidden underneath.

Today, think about someone you know well and think about them like an iceberg. What are the easily visible things which would represent the tip and what would be less visible and possibly hidden away that not everyone will see or know.

If you would like to, you could represent this with an annotated iceberg.

Area of Triangles – Maths

So far this week we have been looking at the area of 2d rectilinear shapes. Today, we are going to investigate finding the area of triangles.

Have a go at the questions below.

Sports – Get Moving

As we will be holding a virtual sports day next week I thought we would have a go at a fitness activity. A Samba carnival to invigorate us. ?

https://imoves.com/home-learning/1254

Wednesday 8th July

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning everyone!
I hope you are all ok!
Today’s suggested learning activities are as follows;-
In English we are thinking about the question in our book that asks ‘Why do trees lose their leaves?’
It’s Read-a-Book-Wednesday – enjoy cosying up somewhere and enjoy some time reading – Don’t forget to write in your Reading Diary afterwards!
In Maths, we have been learning about time this week. Today, we will use our knowledge to play a fun board game!
In Science, we will be finding out more about why trees lose their leaves as we discover more about the Seasons.
Thank you so much for all your messages, photographs and videos on Tapestry. It is so lovely to keep in touch with you all!
I will be ringing parents throughout this week in relation to Reports which will be sent out or collected next week! Please let myself or Mr Grason know your preference.
Have a good day and keep smiling as always 🙂
Mrs Brown

Wednesday 8th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning, Discoverers,

How are you all this morning?

In English today, you will begin to fill in the information on your report layout, which you created yesterday.

I have uploaded many sections of information, which you studied last week. These can be summarised into your own words, and written underneath the subheadings that you created yesterday.

You will continue to fill in the information boxes tomorrow, so take your time with them.

 

In maths today, you are going to move on to looking at four sided shapes, named quadrilaterals.

Here is a video to introduce you to the names of the different four-sided shapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiREqzDsMP8 

Then, try to answer today’s questions.

 

For our additional subject, we have been looking at art.

However, for the rest of the week, we are going to begin to practise for our sports day which is fast approaching.

An observation will be added to Tapestry and on our school website, on Friday. This will contain instructions and videos of the activities, which you can take part in at home.

We will be taking part in the same activities at school 😀

Can you think of the activities which usually happen on sports day?

Today, we will increase our fitness levels in preparation.

I would like you to complete a Joe Wicks PE session.

Watch the video, and follow along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGi-_4jAIk 

 

Have a great day everybody, 

Mrs Taylor 

Wednesday the 8th of July – Happy Learning Pioneers!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Here is a new funny book for you to enjoy together.
Happy Reading

Here is your race to rehearse today:
Daddy penguins need to keep their egg safe. To do this they balance it on their feet and waddle around.
Get a Potato and pretend that this is your penguin egg. Can you walk around with it balanced like a caring daddy penguin?
Its tricky!
Enjoy

 

Penguins eat fish. Polar Bears eat seal.Rabbits nibble grass.
Food chains are fascinating.
This is another of my favourite songs explaining food chains.
Take a look.

Here are links to two excellent videos to explain who is eating who:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/z3c2xnb Food Chains-an introduction

Today your building challenge is to recreate a famous landmark with your building material.
Use your increasing knowledge and vocabulary to describe which shapes you have used and where they are.
If it is appropriate,introduce horizontal and vertical to your vocabulary.
Use next to,on top of,beside,underneath,above to describe the position of the shapes.
That’s Maths Magic.

Tuesday 7th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders

I hope you enjoyed investigating constellations yesterday.  Did you manage to spot any of them last night?  It has been pretty cloudy recently so are much easier to spot in clear skies.  You might want to try some of the activities in the stargazing book over the holidays.
 
I love looking up at the sky on a clear night and star gazing. ⭐️
 
Why is the Sky Blue? – English
Today, I’d like you to spend some time investigating penguins and see how much more information you can find out about them.
 
Once you have collected your information, have a go at writing a fact sheet.
 
Volume – Maths
 
So far this week, we have looked at the area and perimeter of 2d shapes.  The area inside a 3d shape is known as it’s volume. Remember that volume is measured in a cubic measurement.
 
Have a go at answering the questions.
 
How can you keep warm and dry? – Science/ D&T
 
It’s time to be inventive!
 
Usually, things that keep you warm could also keep you cold (if you were already cold).  We are going to test this theory – Using what you might have found out about penguins,  I would like you to design something that would keep an ice cube frozen for as long as possible.
 
To make this a bit more tricky, I would also like you to make this waterproof so that the water does not escape once melted.
 
When designing your object remember to think about the properties of materials and the things that you will be able to get hold of.
 
Don’t forget to put some ice cubes in the fridge so they’ll be ready to test your invention.
 
 

Tuesday’s News – 7th July

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning everyone!
Tuesday’s suggested learning activities are as follows;-
Today, our question from our book is ‘What are bees looking for?’ With this in mind, we will be writing some instructions for bees to help them go about their daily routine!
In Maths, we will continue to look at time – focusing today on O-clock and half past the hour.
In Phonics today there is a fun diagraph song to enjoy!
Also, a happy song to listen to…..Don’t worry, bee happy!
In Science we will find out the answer to our question….What are bees looking for?

I hope you enjoy todays activities.
Don’t forget to write in your reading diary today too!
Bee good and keep smiling 🙂
Mrs Brown

Tuesday 7th July 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning all,

I hope that you had a great sleep last night ??

Today, in English, you are going to decide which information you would like in each of the information boxes that you have drawn. And, which pictures you will draw in the spaces you have chosen.

In a report, like the one you created about fish last week, you will find that there are subheadings above each different section of information.

A subheading gives you a clear idea of what the writing beneath will be about.

Today, I would like you to write the subheadings for each of the information boxes, and make a note of the drawings that you will create in the others. Your subheadings could be: Why are bees so important? What is pollination? How many species of bees are there? Why are bees dying? Etc.

You will also need a title, which tells the reader exactly what you report is about.

Your title could be as simple as ‘All About Bees’, or you could be more creative.

Well done with your maths work yesterday, you remembered the new vocabulary well ?

Today, you will be drawing the different types of triangles.

Try to draw two equilateral triangles (all sides are the same length), two isosceles triangles (two sides are the same length) and then two scalene triangles (no sides are the same length).

You could ask an adult to check your triangles for you, and if they are unsure of the properties for each, show them this video to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4rySgvfDQU 

Today, in art, you will finish the drawing of your bee from yesterday.

You can use whatever colouring materials that you have at home. This may be paint, colouring pencils, or felt tips.

Try to capture the colours that are in the original picture, and observe any areas which appear to need shading.

Look carefully for any shadows, and try to use a darker blend of your chosen colour to add these.

I would love to see your final drawings, so send them my way if you can ?

 

Thank you

Mrs Taylor