Home learning tasks for Monday
Spellings: Use the powerpoint below with the children to explore the rules for adding the suffix 'ly' to root words. (Spellings _Rule 16_'ly' suffix). Then ask children to try to correctly add the ly suffix to the words on slide 6.
Read for pleasure: Spend 10-15 minutes (or more if you want) reading something for pleasure. It could be a story, poem, play, information text, comic, graphic novel or online text/kindle/e-reader. You could also read to a younger or older sibling.
English: Reading: Summarising the main ideas of texts.
Guidance: work through the relevant powerpoint below with the children (Note: there is a separate powerpoint for year 5 and year 6). They can record responses to the questions in their exercise books as they go.
Maths:
Daily 10
Pupils have also been using daily 10 in class to improve this recall of multiplication and division facts. They all know how this works. Click on the link below to access the website.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Year 5 Maths Week 2 Lesson 1: Rounding decimals
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/
Scroll down the page to access week 2 lessons. (You may need to click on the + symbol for them to appear on the webpage).
Guidance: watch the video tutorial, then complete the worksheet. If you can't (or don't want to) print the worksheet, write your answers in your exercise book. Make sure you number your questions to make it easy for your parents to check your answers! Hint: use number lines to help.
Year 6 Maths week 2 Lesson 1: Calculating scale factors
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/
Scroll down the page to access week 2 lessons. (You may need to click on the + symbol for them to appear on the webpage).
Guidance: watch the video tutorial, then complete the worksheet. If you can't (or don't want to) print the worksheet, write your answers in your exercise book. Make sure you number your questions to make it easy for your parents to check your answers!
Science: More about Microorganisms
Use the powerpoint to discover more about microorganisms.
1. Drawing conclusions from your mould experiment. Use the "mould investigation conclusions" document below to record what you found out from your investigation.
2. Make your own microorganism (you can use whatever you have available....plasticine, play-do, blue tack, or if you can't find anything to use, draw your own microorganism. Use the "Make your own microorganism" document below to record your work.
Daily Act of Worship/reflection
Click on the link below to take you to the bbc website.
Special Days: Easter