Monday 30th March – Home Learning
A new week, another set of fun activities.
Parents- What a fantastic first week (I hope you agree). Keep up the amazing work you are doing with your kids. If you need help with anything please do not hesitate to email me over the course of the week. 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.
If there’s a piece of your child’s learning you would like to share, please feel free to send me a picture at t.prior@southill.dorset.sch.uk. If you have any videos or other fantastic pictures to share with the school about anything else you are doing at home, simply email them to Mrs Symonds at media@southill.dorset.sch.uk.
As always, stay safe and have a great day.
Spellings
Remember to keep learning your spellings…
weight
woman
women
accidentally
actually
Challenge- can you use a dictionary in order to find the meaning of each word and write them in your very own impressive sentences?
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 – Animal Occupations
It would be great if animals could do the jobs that humans could do, right? Well, it’s time to let your imagination run wild! What jobs would animals be good at? Here are a few to get you started…
An octopus would make an excellent lifeguard because it could save 8 lives all at once.
A kangaroo would be an excellent Olympic athlete as it would win the high jump event easily.
An elephant would make an excellent firefighter because it already has it’s own hose to extinguish fires!
How many more can you think of? What about these animals…
Cheetah, owl, gorilla, giraffe, zebra, rhinoceros, snake, dolphin, cow, sheep etc… I’d love to know which animal could replace me as a teacher!?
Be as creative as you can and remember to use the conjunctions ‘as’ and ‘because’ in order to explain your answer.
You will have two days to complete this so, once again, take your time, perhaps plan it first and be ready to proof-read and write-up tomorrow.
Feel free to use mine to get your started. Remember to also start on a new line for each animal.
Arithmetic Task- Speed Tables
You know the drill…7 minutes and 100 questions. See if you can beat your score (or your time). Best of luck everybody!
Maths No Problem Task- Measuring and Comparing Time in Seconds
Workbook Answers from Friday- pg.42
Stopwatches- Today, the children will be learning all about time in seconds, milliseconds and rounding to the nearest hundred. Begin by looking at the ‘In Focus’ task on page 60. Draw a small table and see how many times you can clap in 15 seconds. Feel free to have as many goes as you like at this. Who can clap the most times in the family? What other competitions could you do in 15 seconds? Get the children using the stopwatch and help with their understanding of seconds, milliseconds and recording information in a table. Top tip- most mobile phones have a stopwatch app (on iPhones click on the clock).
Textbook- Turn to page 63 and have a look at the questions. Children will need to understand that there are 100 milliseconds in 1 second. The answer to question a is ‘The time has taken more than 5 seconds but less than 6’. Repeat for the remaining questions.
Workbook- Page 43- Children will need to know how to round to the nearest hundred. Inform children that if the milliseconds are 49 or lower, we round down. If the milliseconds are 50 or above, then we round up to the next second.
I will post up the answers on Tuesday so that you can mark it together 🙂
Topic-based task
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
This week, we are sticking to the theme of poetry and we would love for the children to create their own witch (or wizard) poem. The aim of this is to keep the first two sentences and the last two sentences the same (Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ However, we would like the children to innovate the rest of the poem and start getting creative with the ingredients!
Notice how the last two words rhyme? Can you do the same? If you would like to make your poem rhyme, the website RhymeZone is really helpful. Simply pop in a word and it will offer up suggestions of what it could rhyme with.
I’ve written an innovated poem to give you some idea of how it could look.
Remember, poetry takes time. You won’t finish this today. Play around with the words, think of disgusting ingredients and be resourceful.
Here is an example that you can read and magpie ideas from – Witch poem
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).
Prior’s Top Audible Picks- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
-The World’s Worst Teachers- David Walliams
-Diary of a Wimpy Kid- The Meltdown – Jeff Kinney
Alternatively, if you’re a real keen Walliams fan, he is currently releasing a lot of chapters of his books for free! This includes an audio story from The World’s Worst Children every day for the next 30 days! Check out this link- David Walliams
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. 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.
Maths Factor- KEEN FOR EVEN MORE MATHS? Carol Vordeman has made her website free during this strange time…feel free to login and check out some of the activities- https://www.themathsfactor.com/
ICT- Fancy becoming quicker at typing and brushing up on your fine motor skills? Why not have a go at BBC Dance Mat Typing…Dancing for your fingertips…you know the drill…follow the link- DanceMatTyping
D&T- Feeling crafty? Then why not making racing caterpillars? It’s very fun (and can become very competitive). All you need for this is: paper (15cm by 15 cm), two straws, scissors and a pen. 🙂
LEGO Construction- What other scenes from Macbeth are you able to create out of LEGO?
Lexia- If you have a Lexia account, please feel free to login and try to do it for at least 15 minutes.
The Daily Mile- If you have a garden big enough (or a quiet field nearby) why not head out for the Daily Mile? 15 minutes…how many laps can you do?
PE- Has Mr Prior’s dancing inspired you to learn your own- or put you off for life? Well, if you’re keen to learn a routine, why not give one of these a go…