Wednesday 1st April – Home Learning 

 

There will be no home learning set for today…APRIL FOOLS! Of course there is!

If there’s a piece of your child’s learning you would like to share, please feel free to send me a picture or video 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- Who Am I? 

 

See if the children can figure out which character I am describing (don’t show them the picture).

I love going on daring adventures.

People would probably describe me as lazy, however I am a quick learner.

Interestingly, I have escaped certain death a number of times.

I have an intelligent sister and a funny brother.

Sadly, I lost my noble father at a young age.

I was given a magical, precious weapon to help protect me and my family.

Annoyingly, I lost my fluffy ear whilst trying to escape from a bunch of evil, monstrous, iron creatures.

Who am I?

 

Of course, Mr. Prior is describing Podkin One-Ear. Your challenge today is to sketch a picture of a famous storybook character and then use a piece of paper to make a flap over the top so that it cannot be seen. Then, using impressive vocabulary, you need to write clues as to who the character could be. I have put impressive words that I have used in bold to show you the kind of vocabulary you should be aiming to use.

Notice how I start my clues very vague (you don’t want them to work out the character after just one or two clues).

Arithmetic Task- Ordering numbers 

 

First of all, here are the answers to the subtraction questions set yesterday…

 

1)  478 – 222 = 256
2) 893 – 743 = 150
3)  249 – 147 = 102
4)  867 – 378 = 489
5)  555 – 446 = 109
6)  561 – 383 = 178
7) 675 – 656 = 19
8) 300 – 152 = 148
9) 542 – 399 = 143
10) 1000 – 741 = 259

 

How did you get on? I would love to know.

 

The mental arithmetic task for today requires you to order the follow numbers into ascending order (smallest to biggest)

1) 876       342        902

2) 654      432        495

3) 321       123        278

4) 871       879       873

5) 2231     3531     999

6) 543        54       2312

7) 4521     4531    4511

8) 323       233      322

9) 852        899     801

10) 23,432        22,453        22,001

 

Maths No Problem Task- Measuring Time in Hours 

Workbook Answers from Tuesday- pg 44 and 45

Measuring Time in Hours- Begin by looking at the ‘In Focus’ task on page 71. Take a look at the two clocks. Ask the children if they can calculate how many hours have gone by. Feel free to allow the children to use the yellow clock in order to solve the problem. Set a few more problems for children to solve, e.g.

 

How long has passed between the following times:

6.00am – 11.00am = 5 hours

2.00pm – 9.00pm = 7 hours

9.00am – 3.00pm = 6 hours

4.15pm – 11.15pm = 7 hours

 

Textbook- Take a look at the questions on page 72. Remind children that they are focusing on the hour hand (not the minute). Can they solve the problems?

 

Workbook- Children to have a go at the problems on page 46. If the children found this activity relatively simple, se them a few more questions involving both hours and minutes.

 

I will post up the answers on Thursday 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)…

 

Super Simple Science Experiments- Rummage around in the cupboards and you may like to have a go at some of these wicked science experiments!

Create a bouncing egg, make your own slime, make a hovercraft balloon or even a skittles rainbow.

Get the children making predictions as to what may happen then carry out the experiment. Want to know how to do these experiments? Visit the following website…Super Simple Science Experiments 

 

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- Namaste…time to relax after all that dancing!