This morning, Group D have been revising different tenses in grammar:
Below is a photograph of the notes we made during the lesson, a video we watched and some websites we used to help to secure this learning. Enjoy!
Please have a look at some ideas to help your child at home.
The video below is a short one minute video explaining the essential reading skills of skimming and scanning a text to find information and to read at speed. Both skills are vital for you to practise in preparation for your ‘find and retrieve’ reading comprehension questions!
The website also has other pages that go into these explanations in more detail and there are practise tasks provided. A great one to do at home – enjoy!
Welcome back to school!
Project
Our project this half term is about Microevolution, Adaptability and Inheritance (Science project). We have collected research about these areas this week and have begun to think about characteristics can be inherited within families. For your home learning task, you have a choice as to whether you chose to use your own family or a different family that you know well (it could be a famous family, e.g. the Beckhams).
Create a family tree using images (drawings or photographs) of each member (going to back to grandparents if possible and ending with your generation) and annotate to clearly show the relationships within the family. Then please include writing which explains all of the characteristics that you can see have been inherited in this family. Explain who has received which characteristics; and from whom. These could be physical characteristics, skills/talents or personality traits. This needs to be presented beautifully so that they can be displayed in your classroom in the reading corner.
Maths
Each maths group will be given different tasks to complete:
Miss Snowdon’s group – using your ‘properties of 2D shapes’ revision from this week please create a song, poem or rap which you can teach to others to help them to learn/ remember properties of 2D shapes. It is intended to be used as a revision tool. If you struggle, look back at the ‘Word class song’ we used in SPAG last term (on the school website) to give you ideas. The Bitesize and Mathisfun websites will be useful too.
Miss Bold’s group – you have got a ‘find the shapes’ activity to do. Read the instructions carefully!
Mr Peters’ group – complete the shape revision guide sheet
Spelling
Complete the –cious & -tious and –cial & -tial spelling rules word search
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Snowdon, Mr Peters and Miss Bold.
This week we have begun to build on our independence and personalise our own learning journeys through using our morning timetables that we created for home learning last week. This week for home learning we would like you to review your home learning timetable and make any changes that you feel would benefit you utilising this time effectively e.g. you may wish to add in an opportunity to mark the questions you have answered; edit the activity you planned for yourself; change the gap you are closing as you may have already achieved closing your original gap.
Use the timetable below to plan next week’s morning time table:
| Monday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Tuesday (8.30 – 8.45am) | Wednesday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Thursday (8.30 – 8.55am) | Friday (8.30 – 8.45am) | |
| What am I going to do? | |||||
| What resources will I use/need? | |||||
| What gap is this going to close? |
Project
Next term our Project is going to be ‘Microevolution’. For home learning we would like to find out everything that you already know about microevolution, natural selection and adaptation. The purpose of this home learning is to establish what you already know so that in school we don’t teach you something that you already know. Please do not google any of the above as we will be researching and collecting this knowledge after Christmas.
Please complete this task in your home learning book.
Maths
Each maths group has been set their own home learning task by their maths teacher.
Miss Bold – order of operations
Mr Peters – addition
Miss Snowdon – multiplication
As always you can complete your home learning in our Tuesday lunchtime club.
As the morning timetable is for all of next week we are asking for this piece to be in school on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Snowdon, Miss Bold and Mr Peters
This week the home learning has two parts. First, everyone has been asked to make a red strong and powerful decoration to go on to the year group tree that is arriving on Monday.
Second, we are beginning to introduce a new element of independence and self responsibility to the children. After completing their assessments this week, they all have conducted a detailed analysis to identify an area that they need to grow- the ‘gap’ in maths, reading comprehension and SPAG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar). Using these gaps, the children will use their timetable provided to complete personalised plan for how they will use their early morning work time to independently complete tasks to ‘close their gap’. They are required to consider what types of activities they would like to do, what resources they require and what specific gap will each activity close.
Teachers have been involved in this dialogue for every learner and are so are aware or very ones gaps. We will have activities prepared to get them started on Monday morning. The children are encouraged to reflect on how they are improving across the week and adjusts their morning plans accordingly.
Both these tasks are required to be completed by arrival on Monday morning (8:30) so we suggest that Tuesday lunch is used as additional ‘close the gap’ time instead of home learning time.
Finally, the teachers have provided a list of recommended reads for year six learners for any parents looking for stocking fillers or something produced to keep their children occupied during the two weeks off of school. We hope it is useful!
Literacy
Please see separate World Book Day sheet for full details
Answer the question ‘Where does your reading take you?’
You can answer this as creatively as possible and in any way you choose.
Spelling
Over the last two weeks we have been practising spelling ‘able and ably’ and ‘ible and ibly’ words. Next week we want to be able to check our understanding of both of these spelling rules together. We are sending both spelling lists home again to give everyone another chance to grow their spelling learning before this check.
Maths
Miss Bold’s maths group are to choose one of the measure problem solving challenges (double sided sheet) to complete at home.
Miss Snowdon’s and Mr Peters’ maths groups are to answer the question sheets on multiplying by 10, 100, 1000.
Mr Peters’ group do not do questions 6 and 7.
Don’t forget that you can complete your home learning in Tuesday’s lunchtime club.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Snowdon, Miss Bold and Mr Peters
