We hope you all had an enjoyable first week back after the Easter break. It was great to see so many letters being emailed to us and sent through the form. We really enjoyed reading these and hearing all about your Easter holiday. Lots of garden egg hunts and eating chocolate took place. We hope that you got our replies to your writing. We will be sending an email out to families later this week just to check in with everyone. Look out for that at the end of the week.
This week’s learning grid includes a task to find out about a British bird. You should try to find interesting facts about this animal. The video below will explain more. It’s a great time of year to complete a task like this as the birds are nesting and in abundance right now.
Every week we will upload a short video to explain a task or show you how to do something included in your learning grids. We are looking forward to sharing things with you this way. We hope you enjoy the videos and they help you with your home learning.
You can find the learning grid for this week below with information about the different tasks and extra resources to help you to complete the activities.
You will still find maths, spelling and grammar activities on Sumdog to do in addition to your grid.
We look forward to hearing from you this week.
From Miss Hall and Mrs Graham
Home Learning Grid:
You can find this week’s home learning grid by clicking on the link below:
P5 Home Learning Week Four Grid
Additional Resources:
The sheet below will help with the health and wellbeing task on the home learning grid:
I am an amazing person worksheet
Further Information and Additional Tasks:
Maths
- Four Operations:
It is important to continue to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies on a regular basis. Little and often works well with this. We have included activities on Sumdog to help with this. You can also ask your child to complete questions verbally.
- Time
This week’s time focus is on estimating and measuring time. To fully understand time and be able to confidently tell the time, children need to have an understanding of how long activities take. They also need to understand how long different units of time are.
Two minute challenges allow the children to estimate how many of a specific activity they can do in this time. It is good to do this for a variety of activities. You can then talk about what takes the longest amount of time? What takes the shortest? How do you know? For example, if I can only write 2 sentences in two minutes but can do 30 star jumps in two minutes, I know that it takes longer to write a sentence than to do a star jump. Additional practise of estimating how long activities take can be found by completing the worksheets below.
- Fractions
This week’s maths activities are based around Week 2. This is the second home learning option in the list. There are 5 lessons in this week. Each lesson has an introductory video which explains the concept and how to solve problems involving this. There is a follow up PDF activity sheet for each lesson. You can print off and complete the questions on the sheet or answer the questions in your jotters.
Follow the link: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Choose week 2 and you will see the following lessons:
Lesson 1 – Fractions on a number line
In this lesson, children are developing their understanding of what a fraction represents and the size of different fractions. Children will be expected to use a number line to show the number e.g. On the number line below children would identify ½ as being in between 0 and 1.
0 ½ 1
Lesson 2 – Fractions of a set of objects (1)
In lessons 2, 3 and 4 strategies to work out a fraction of an amount are shown, and practise examples of these problems are given. Children are shown how to work this out by sharing concrete materials, using pictures and by using division strategies. You can support further by asking children to work out fractions of amounts verbally and asking them to explain how they worked out their answers.
Lesson 3 – Fractions of a set of objects (2)
Lesson 4 – Fractions of a set of objects (3)
Lesson 5 – Equivalent Fractions (1)
In this week’s final lesson, children are introduced to different fractions that have equivalent values, for example ½ is the same as 10/20. The children are shown visual ways to work out if fractions are equivalent and to find equivalent fractions.
Literacy
- Spelling
This week’s spelling pattern is the ‘ier’ ending. The PDF to support this can be found here.
Children should try to identify words which follow this pattern. The rule for this pattern is that ‘ier’ is adding to a word ending in ‘y’ when comparing adjectives. For example: happy – happier, pretty – prettier. Children should complete the Pyramid writing task to help with this learning. You can extend this learning further by asking children to use their spelling words correctly in sentences. You can give them a starting adjective to change to a comparative using the ‘’ier’ ending rule. For example, ‘busy’ – can you change this to the comparative?
- Reading
Reading for enjoyment is very important. Reading texts that children enjoy can help to develop their comprehension skills. Reading aloud helps to build fluency, expression and confidence. Reading is also an important tool for developing the writing skills of children. Reading enables children to build vocabulary and knowledge of the structure and techniques used in different writing genres. As an extension, children can complete one of the book reviews below. If the children would like a ‘hot’ task, they can write their own reviews in their jotters.
- Writing
This week’s writing task is an acrostic poem. Children should link in their research about a British bird. These poems should be more than one word per letter. Children should try to use the comparatives in their spelling words this week, their knowledge of alliteration e.g. the slithering snake, kicking kangaroo and/or similes as cool as a cucumber, as busy as a bee in their poems to uplevel and add more detail to their writing.
Learning Conversation:
You can share information about your learning by filling in the P5 learning conversation. The forms are sent to Miss Hall and Mrs Graham. We love hearing from you.