Tuesday 24th March – Home Learning

 

Hi everybody it’s Mr. Prior here…I’ve outlined the learning that needs to take place today below. Give it your best shot, do the best you can for your mum, dad, granny, grandad and goldfish as I will look at your wonderful work when we are back together at school. The aim is for children to at least be doing some form of: reading, writing and maths every day.

Parents, if you need any help with anything please do not hesitate to email me. I am more than happy to help in any way that I can, explain things in a different way or even offer up other suggestions if you want to do more. Additionally, I would love to see your child’s work, pictures and even videos of their accomplishments so please feel free to email them to me as it would really cheer me up.

Stay safe and have fun! 🙂

 

Reading

 

Please ensure your children reads daily for, at least, fifteen minutes. A combination of them reading independently, out loud to an adult and letting them listen to the story being told by the adult is advisable. Simply record any reading in your child’s reading record book. Remember to also quiz your books.

Writing Task – Betty the Skydiving Granny 

 

Watch the following video clip of 96-year old Betty…

Imagine you are Betty. Your task, over the next two days, is to write a diary entry as Betty. Think about what each of your paragraphs might be about, for example:

 

Diary entry 1- The night before the skydive drinking tea, eating biscuits and watching Corrie!

Diary entry 2- Just after the skydive. How is she feeling?

Diary entry 3- What is Betty planning for her next thrilling adventure…

 

Remember, diary entries need: chatty language, to be written in the first person (you are Betty), impressive vocabulary, to start with ‘Dear Diary’, to be written mostly in the past tense and describe Betty’s thoughts and feelings throughout. 

 

TOP TIP- plan your diary entries on a scrap piece of paper today. Then tomorrow, when you’re happy with what you’ve written and you’ve proof-read it, you will be able to write it up in your neatest handwriting into your writing exercise book. Three diary entries = three paragraphs.

Arithmetic Task- Swift Speed Tables

 

You know the drill…7 minutes to complete the grid! If you do not complete the grid in 7 minutes, look at the times table questions that are left and focus on learning those before having another go at the grid! If you did finish in 7 minutes, note down your time and try to beat it next time! Parents…feel free to also have a go and join in! However, remember to not be too competitive!

 

Maths No Problem Task- Time to Tell the Time

 

Focus on the clock- Recap the basics of telling the time. The small hand points to the hour and the big hand points to the minute. What does AM and PM stand for (before midday and after midday). Ask the children how many minutes are in an hour and what does each small line/dot (increment) stand for on the clock…1 minute. Show them how they can also count round in 5’s.

Using the yellow clock, move the hands and see if the children can tell the time. Start with simple questions and progressively get harder until you’re happy that your child is quite confident at reading a clock face.

Textbook- When you feel the children are ready, open up the ‘Maths No Problem Textbook’ onto page 51 and see if the children can match the clock-face to the digital time. Keep reinforcing the small hand tells us the hour and the big hand the minute. Perhaps discuss how the hour hand is slowly making its way to the next hour as the minute hand goes round.

Workbook- open the workbook to page 38. Write the name and date at the top and let the children have a go at the questions. Perhaps go through the first couple of questions together. Even if you work through every question together, that’s fine. Simply put a small s (supported) in a circle next to each question that you helped your child on.

I will post up the answers tomorrow so that you can mark it together 🙂

 

Topic-based task 

 

As you know, we’ve been looking at Mr William Shakespeare in our topic this half term, focusing mainly on his play, Macbeth! In the exercise book, have a go at creating an Acrostic Poem using the letters MACBETH. You have all week for this so please take your time and, remember, high-quality sentences.

Adults- you may wish to write the MACBETH letters for the children in order to help spread them out down the page. This will give your child plenty of room to construct a sentence for each letter. I have written an example below:

Macbeth mischievously murdered King Duncan as he was sleeping…

All of Scotland bowed down to their new king (apart from Malcolm and Macduff of course).

Cackling witches brewed potions on the Heath and told Macbeth of a prophecy.

Banquo remained loyal to Macbeth and his loyalty cost him his life!

Even though Macbeth got away with treason, he began seeing the ghost of Banquo.

The doctor stared in astonishment as Lady Macbeth began having night terrors.

How does the story end? I hear you ask. It ends with Macbeth’s head on a spike!

 

Encourage children to think of different parts of the play and a range of characters. See if they can think of and use impressive word choices and a wide range of punctuation ? ! … , (  ) –

 

Other Fun Ideas and Activities

 

Keen to do more?  Not ready to call it a day? Then why not give some of the activities below a go (who knows, you might enjoy it)…

 

• Audible- a great app which you can download and contains many free books (great to listen to before bedtime)

 

• Sumdog- Online maths and literacy questions delivered through entertaining games. Simply create a login totally free of charge, create an avatar and let your children explore and play. You can either login through the internet or download the Sumdog app. Mr Prior’s favourite game…JUNK PILE! It’s addictive- be warned. Parents you can also set certain questions on there for your children to focus on. Any questions, please email me.

 

• LEGO Construction- Can you create Macbeth’s castle totally out of LEGO?

 

• Lexia- If you have a Lexia account, please make sure you login for at least 15 minutes per day!

 

• The Daily Mile- If you have a garden big enough (or a quiet field nearby) why not head out for the Daily Mile as part of your daily exercise that the government have suggested? 15 minutes…how many laps can you do?

 

• PE- Dance like nobody is watching. Have a go at one of the following dance routines (or both).

 

Other possible activities are optional and will be updated regularly.

 

Have an amazing day everybody.

 

Mr. Prior 🙂