Author: Alison Davies

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Home learning 3.12.21

Maths

We haven’t had any maths today because the class were finishing off a Science experiment. Please have a go at the mental arithmetic paper to keep refreshing your skills on areas  we have covered.

Arithmetic-Paper-3a

English 

We wrote up our ‘Magic Box’ poems into neat for display purposes. We first made improvements and reminded ourselves on the structure. Some children illustrated their poem around the edges, some drew a picture in the background. Only do this when your poem is finished.

We completed our spelling test as well. Please get an adult to test you. The new spellings for next week are already on our class page.

 

IT

Please access our computer programme we follow on ilearn2. Enter in the activity code Z131. We are looking at computers and how they have evolved over time. We are looking at Pupil Activity 2. Please watch the video first to give you an idea about the timeline. Read the information to the side of the video too.

Timeline Task
Pupils can create a timeline of their own computing history (the different computers/games consoles etc they have at home). Pupil can find images of the devices they have had at home and then research when/who/what/why. Alternatively, pupils could select 6-8 important moments from the History of Computing display/video to focus more research on.

 

 

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Home learning 2.12.21

Maths

Today we looked at converting miles to km and back again.

Key information that you will need to remember: 

(you should be able to spot a pattern)

  • 1 miles = 1.6 km or 1600 m
  • so 5 miles = 8 km.
  • so 10 miles = 16 km

We looked at using conversion graphs/ They look a little like line graphs and are plotted like coordinate. Both of which you have done in class before!

E.g 5 miles /8km is plotted on the conversion graph as (5,8)

You will need a ruler and a sharp pencil in order to complete this work.

Conversion graphs

English

We used our ideas from yesterday’s thought shower to construct our version of the ‘Magic Box’ poem.

We looked at one that Mrs Hilditch wrote using her ideas and talked about how she has considered the poetic features needed to help create an image in the reader’s mind, e.g. personification metaphors etc. We also talked about how each stanza was specifically talking about one of the senses you collected yesterday. Such as the first stanza is all about sight and the second is sounds etc. poem example

Then we used this writing frame to help follow and keep to the structure of the poem. Remember that each new idea needs a new line. You can write on the writing frame or you can write it without. The Magic Box Writing Frame

Reading

It’s really important you keep plugging away at your reading. Please find attached a reading comprehension that I think will allow you the opportunity to discuss the topic in much better detail with adults at home. It is differentiated so please pick an appropriate level.

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Home Learning 18.11.21

Sorry for the late post, I had parent evening consultations tonight so it will only be two subjects today.

SPAG and Spellings.

Last test I promise! Today we looked at both Spelling and the follow up Punctuation test. Now although this isn’t the test the rest of the class have done, it should help the children at home by exposing them to a similar style of test.

Spellings- Please find the spelling sheet and the spellings the children need to spell below. An adult will need to read the spelling out and then the sentence using that particular spelling.

Spelling test                         For adult – spelling administration and Mark Scheme

Please allow 45 minutes for the PAG (Punctuation and Grammar) test. It is really important that they try this independently and please encourage them to go back through their work and check that they have answered all of the questions and checked the ones they were unsure of.

Paper 1 PaG for kids                                       Paper 1 PaG Mark Scheme

English

Today we used our vocabulary we collected yesterday and turned it into a setting description. As a class, we went through what makes an effective description: effective vocabulary, starting sentences off in lots of different ways, using a range of punctuation, short sentences for tension etc.

Please look at the class example below to help give you a little structure to your setting description. You will include yours in your final write up next week. We went through phrases that we thought were effective and talked about why and we also looked at what punctuation is needed and why.

Life in the trenches example

If you look at the structure of the example, this will help you set yours out.

Roughly:

  1. Troops entering the trenches and noticing how different soldiers look when they leave.
  2. A mission has been given- is it a rescue or to capture someone?
  3. Trench life/going over the top- what can your character see, hear, smell, touch or taste?
  4. Retreat back to the trench

Please don’t go any further then this as we are looking at flashbacks only. Good luck. The children in class have produced some fantastic ones today, I hope yours is the same!

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Spellings over half term.

It is so important that Room 8 keep practising their spellings so over half term we would like the children to revise the 10 5/6 spellings from previous lists and then learn the five new ones added to the bottom. Sadly, there aren’t any spelling rules to learn for these ones so they are just going to have to learn them!

Good luck!

Autumn 2 Week 1 SATS revision