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Year 6- Thursday 23rd April
Good Morning Super Year 6!
Good Morning Year 6. Haven’t we been lucky AGAIN with the weather this week?
We loved seeing you on Zoom yesterday – you have brought such smiles to the teachers faces and have made us feel great! We enjoyed meeting some of your pets too. We were glad it went well and hope you enjoyed our little quiz. Let us know if you have any good ideas for things we could try next time. We will arrange another class Zoom in a few weeks time :)
I hope that you’ve managed to get outside even if it’s just in the garden or maybe you’ve been for a short walk with your family. I have spotted so many beautiful flowers growing which I don’t always notice when I’m rushing about. Here are some pictures of some of the flowers that I have seen this week. Maybe you’ve taken some pictures of some of the things that you’ve spotted in your garden or on your walks. We’d love to see them!
Mrs Silvester, Miss Pettitt and Mrs Chapman
Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year6@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Ongoing Daily Activities
As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.
TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games + 5 studio games.
Reading – Read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Weekly spellings – Practise these everyday in your spelling booklets – your new weekly sheet will be uploaded each Monday. Week 1 Main Spelling List Week 1 Less Tricky Spelling List
Jae Malone, the author of ‘Silver Linings’ unfortunately could not visit us last month because of the Covid situation. However, she is incredibly keen to make sure we keep our imaginations fired and let our love of writing stories grow. Therefore, she has sent some fun ideas on how to create short stories. With these writing prompts you may be able to come up with a brand new story idea that no one else has ever thought of. You don’t have to write stories down, you may picture them in your mind or be a storyteller to members of your family.
Grid – Haunting things Grid One – People and Creatures Seaside Columns
As well as these fun story creating ideas, she has set us an exciting challenge. If you would like to win a signed set of Jae Malone’s trilogy, then why not enter her creative writing competition?
All you have to do is send your completed Indiana story from last term. If you have already sent us uploaded photos of your completed story or sent it as a Word document, then all you have to do is ask us to submit it to Jae’s competition. If you didn’t send us your completed story, you have until 4th May to complete your story and send it to us. Remember to use the year6@stmarksce.org.uk address for your entries.
Daily physical activity which you enjoy. Challenge yourself! Remember Joe Wicks is still there to keep us moving.
Maths
We are continuing to learn about Angles today!
Don’t forget to complete today’s Success in Seven first though – Success in 7 week 1
Once you have checked through your answers carefully, mark your work using today’s answers – Thursday answers Success in Seven
If you want to warm up your brain a little more, why not have a go on Hit the Button
White Rose Task
Today we would like you to use Summer Term Week 1 Lesson 4. It’s called Angles in a triangle – missing angles – we think you will be good at this one! Can you remember what degrees the angles in a triangle add up to before you open the website?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/
Here’s what the activity looks like:
Extra Challenge
You can find today’s Maths Challenge if you click here.
English
We have enjoyed seeing your robot designs – what creative inventors you are! Here are some of the drawings we were emailed after Art on Monday:
We hope you are proud of the introductions you wrote for your new robots yesterday. For today’s session, we would like you to finish writing your persuasive advert. Follow the guidance on the PowerPoint to help you and here are the two examples if you need them again: Two good examples
When you’re finished, feel free to add extra information around the edge e.g. price, discount, any special offers etc.
Send us your final advertisement and you may see it on the website!
Have fun!
Fantastic French!
Miss Stonehouse has made another fun video for you today! We know lots of you enjoyed her last French lesson and this one is great too :)
Have a look in the Video Resources at the bottom of the page to find today’s video.
Video Resources
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LINK HERE (just paste it with Ctrl-V)
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Year 5 – Thursday 23rd April
Good Morning Year 5!
We hope you had a fantastic day yesterday and are ready for another day of learning. Have you been keeping active? Us teachers are keeping active with walks, home workouts, bike rides and we hope you are too.
Did anyone look at the sky last night? Did you see anything? Mira continued to stargaze and spotted some more amazing things, such as a constellation called the ‘Big Dipper’. There are some pictures below, look carefully and see what you can spot. Have another look at the sly tonight to see what you can see.
Thank you again for sending in all the photos of your amazing work. It’s lovely to see everyone’s hard work. We were especially proud of all your blackout poetry. You were all amazingly creative and the results were lovely. Well done Year 5! Please keep sending them in to year5@stmarksce.org.uk – we love looking at them.
Keep up the good work!
Year 5 Team
Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year5@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Daily Activities
Today your jobs are Maths and English. We has also included and art lesson for today – thinking about Caribbean landscapes. Remember that you can also do:
- Maths Challenges Page – Remember to look at the Maths Challenges page that Miss Goddard by clicking here.
- TTRockstars
- Numbots – Use your TT Rockstars login and work through the easier levels to get to the trickier ones.
- Spelling Shed – Practise your spellings for this week. Email in for your username and password.
- Reading – Read for at least 20 mins and record in your reading log.
- Spellings – Look, say, cover, write and check.
Maths
Today you are going to be thinking about a new aspect of Maths – Percentages. This is something completely new, so it starts simple. Make sure you use the video to help you and to explain. We are on Week 2 – Lesson 3 – Understanding Percentages (remember we aren’t on the Summer Term yet).
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Today you are going to be reading another one of the poems from ‘The Lost Words’. There is also a video for you to watch linked to the poem. Then your job will be to write a description of the plant you will thinking about.
Art
For today’s art job, we are going to be thinking about Caribbean Landscape art. There are lots of examples on the PowerPoint and then you will be creating your own piece of artwork.
You can use whatever you want for your artwork – crayons, paint, coloured pens or pencils , whatever you have.
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Year 4 Thursday 23rd April
Good Morning Year 4!
We hope that you are all well and enjoying the fabulous weather, try to make the most of it whilst it lasts! Did you know today is St George’s Day? He is the patron Saint of England and is famous for his good deeds, especially the story of saving a young girl from a dragon. We were wondering if you could think of some good deeds you could do today. Perhaps you could do some extra chores at home or find a way to do something kind for someone else. Remember keeping a smile on your face even when something is tricky can brighten other people’s days; maybe you been allowed to cheer for the NHS. Let us know some of the good deeds you complete.
We are continuing to think about inventions today and are looking at how once an invention is created it is adapted and improved over time. You will be surprised how long ago some modern machines were first invented and the changes that have taken place, sometimes over hundreds of years and sometimes very quickly.
Miss Goddard, Miss Hardy and Mrs Happy
Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year4@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Ongoing Daily Activities
Use your digital logins to play the following:-
- TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games
- Numbots – Play for 15 mins
- Spelling Shed – Play 3 rounds of this week’s spellings
- Reading – Read for at least 20 mins
Maths – Hundredths on a Place Value Grid
Today’s Maths is all about placing numbers with 2 decimal places on a place value grid. During the lesson, you will be using the part-whole model to show you understand the value of each digit. To start with, partition the numbers using the exact number of ones, tenths and hundredths then later on in the sheet you can partition the numbers in lots of different ways as long as the parts equal the the original number when you add them together. Here is a the link to the White Rose video (Week 2, Lesson 4) to help you.
For children who are completing their Maths with ease, and who would like further challenge, Miss Goddard is started a ‘Daily Maths Challenge’ page on the school website where she will upload a new set of challenges everyday. If you complete today’s work and would like to access it, please click here.
English – How have inventions changed over time?
Today, you are going to focus in on one invention that you are interested in. Watch the Youtube video below where your task will be explained.
You can choose any invention you like to focus on – microwaves, glasses, canned foods, planes, books, games consoles, the internet, clothes, bikes – the choice is yours!
Once you have chosen the invention you are going to focus on, then you will need to do some research on the internet to find out what the invention was like when it was first created and how it has changed over time. When you come to do your writing, it might be an idea to write about the first ever invention, the present day invention and then somewhere in between. If you wanted to, you could give more information about specific years.
Ensure that you read the example below; you could copy the format or decide on your own way of presenting the work.
Topic – What is the future?
Linked to our English work from today, you have already looked into the history and the present of your chosen invention but what do you think the future design of this invention is?
How will your invention continue to evolve and improve to make it even better? Draw a sketch of what you think your invention might look like in 50 years time. Here are some photos to spark your interest!
Video Resources
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Year 3 – Thursday 23rd April
Good Morning Year 3
Wow, we are so impressed with your art work yesterday Year 3, you most certainly used our learning behaviour of creativity. Take a look at the pictures we received.
Looking at all your lovely art makes us think how lucky we are to have beautiful things around us all the time. Things that we shouldn’t take for granted. So why don’t you spent some time outside, watching, listening and taking in our fabulous world. These pictures were taken around school, doesn’t it look stunning?
Enjoy today’s learning
Year 3 Team
Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year3@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if:
1. You have a question
2. Need a password
3. Need some help
4. Send us your work
5. Or even just say hello!
Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We will reply ASAP but it may not be the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book. in your homework book (if you have it at home) or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents:
* Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do them independently.
* We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
* The work we have set should take about 2 hours maximum spread throughout the day.
* Please note the ongoing activities are optional and could be completed once a week or more depending on time.
Ongoing Activities
You may choose to complete these daily, weekly or a couple of times a week.
- PE with Joe – The Body Coach – 9am – Click here for link. or take part in just dance video below.
- TTRockstars – Click here for website.
- Numbots – Click here for website.
- Spelling Shed – Click here for website.
- Reading – What book are you reading today?
- Handwriting – You can download a sheet or copy onto a book. Year 3 – Handwriting 1 Year 3 – Handwriting 2
You can find lots of learning resources that we have collated on the Educating Home Page. Click here to be redirected.
Maths
Today, we are continuing our work on Fractions using the White Rose Maths Lessons. This will involve watching the video clip and completing the worksheet. There is an answer sheet to check your work.
Please watch the video from Week 2 – Fractions of a set of objects 3 – This lesson reviews the work of the last few days looking at real life examples.
Please note: This lesson is challenging and you can decide whether to challenge yourself and complete the worksheet to accompany the video clip or complete the fractions problems based on the first 2 examples in the video clip on the attached maths sheet – Year 3 – Maths – 23.4.20 easier worksheet
You can find the video and resources (if you are using them) for today’s lesson here https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Make sure you click on week 2, Lesson 4. Watch the clip and follow the instructions.
Resources you will need:
Please remember if you don’t have a printer you can copy into your maths book or onto paper. Try and complete as best as you can.
- Year 3 – Lesson 4 23.4.20 – Maths – Worksheet
- Year 3 – Maths – 23.4.20 easier worksheet
- Year 3 – Lesson 4 23.4.20 – Maths – Answers
When you have finished use the answer sheet to mark your work.
Things to remember
• Remember the denominator (the bottom number) tells you how many equal parts you divide the whole into. So if you are finding 2/3 the 3 will tell you how many rows you need in an array or that you will need 3 sections in a bar model.
• Perimeter means the distance all the way around the shape.
• Don’t forget to exchange a ten for 10 ones or 100 for 10 tens to help you divide numbers equally.
Want an extra Maths Challenge?
For children who are completing their Maths with ease, and who would like further challenge, Miss Goddard is starting a ‘Daily Maths Challenge’ page on the school website where she will upload a new set of challenges everyday. If you complete today’s work and would like to access it, please click here.
English/ Bookclub
Today you are going to read through the PowerPoint and decide which verbs and adverbs will best fit the scenes. Use the word bank to help you and you have the story so far.
Resources you will need:
- Verb and adverb word bank
- Book or paper to record your work.
- Book so far to help you: Year-3-23.3.20-Pages-2-7
Geography
In Geography this half term we are thinking about the world around us. We will be completing some map work and using the four cardinal points that we learnt about last half term. Work through the PowerPoint and follow the instructions on here for today’s task.
Resources you will need:
- A square piece of paper
- A pencil
- Colouring pencils
- Great observing eyes!
Other optional links to look at including teachers videos…..
Topic link:
Make yourself familiar with Google Maps.
Take a look using the link below – what features can you spot?
Just Dance/ Go noodle video:
Storytime:
Enjoy this story read by David Walliams
This week David has released the following stories: Miss Petula Perpetual-motion/ Fussy Frankie/ Bonnie Bossypants/ Vain Valentine/ Bertha the Blubberer/ Competitive Colin / Sofia sofa.
Find a quiet spot and enjoy one of his stories.
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses-catch-up/