Good Morning Owls

It’s Miss Horton here, this wasn’t how I pictured my first day in Owls class being! Most of you will know me from being in Hedgehogs last term and I did manage to pop in to say hello to you all on the last day of term…but that seems like a long time ago now.

Mrs Hollis and I have been busy trying to get our heads round Microsoft Teams this week. We had a crash course yesterday and hopefully you will be receiving your log in details soon. If all goes according to plan we are hoping to do a Teams meeting with everyone in Owls at 9am on Friday. It will be lovely to see you all and a good test to see if I remember everyone’s names!

Here are your home learning tasks for today:

English:

Following on from the English work you have been doing this week the next lesson is about gathering evidence for a newspaper report. You will start by writing a complex sentence with a relative clause. Next, you will look at where you would be gathering evidence or information from if you were journalists writing your own newspaper reports. You will then learn how to take notes when gathering information. Lastly, you will practise how to use brackets in sentences.

To gather evidence for a newspaper report (the oak national.academy)

Maths:

Today, we are looking at dividing fractions by integers. You can watch the video or look at powerpoint – or both!  The stars tell you how difficult the sheet will be (*=developing **=expected ***=greater depth). If you are in year 5 do the developing sheet first, you may find it easy and want to try a harder sheet. You must do one reasoning & problem solving sheet and one varied fluency sheet. You can mark your work using the answers provided.

Powerpoint – Dividing Fractions by Integers

Y5/6 – Reasoning & Problem Solving – Dividing Fractions by Integers

Y5/6 – Varied Fluency – Dividing Fractions by Integers

If you’re finding it a bit tricky, have a go at these sheets on finding the fractions of a quantity:

Powerpoint – Fractions of a quantity

Y4 – Reasoning & Problem Solving – Fractions of a quantity

Y4 – Varied Fluency – Fractions of a quantity

Computing:

This term we will be developing our understanding of the importance of staying safe online. Over the next few weeks we will be writing, designing, filming and editing stop motion animations for younger children to educate them about the potential dangers online.

Today you are going to be doing some research in preparation for making your own video animations.  I would like you to watch this video Jigsaw – YouTube and think about these questions.

• Why should you only talk to people you know online?
• What should the girl have done differently in the video?
• What is the most important tip you will share in your video?
• What topic will you focus on?

Your video will be for children in year 3 and it needs to be about an online safety issue. It doesn’t have to be one of the topics from today’s video, it could be something you’ve looked at in the past and think it would be important to discuss with younger children, eg: keeping your password safe.

You will need to consider the age of your audience and ensure that the content you are planning is appropriate for this year group.

In order to ensure the information within your video is helpful and accurate, you will need to do some research. Here are some helpful websites:

• ‘CBBC’s Staying Safe Online site’
• ‘Newsround’
• The NSPCC sites: ‘Net Aware’ and ‘Share Aware’

Try to make some notes as you browse – these can be typed up on the computer or written down in books, it’s completely up to you!

Music:

In this video Mr Butler describes 3 different ukuleles that he likes to play. They are made of different materials and have different musical purposes. Your task is to watch this video twice. The first time, your task is simply to watch the video. The second time, you are allowed to take notes. Pay particular attention to any specific facts or figures that Mr Butler talks about… they might be coming up in the Special Mega Ultra Important Super Fun Quiz below…

3 Different Types of Ukulele – Music and Minds – YouTube

OWLS Super Mega Ultra Important Super Fun Quiz

1. What are the names of the three types of ukulele discussed in the video?

2. Can you order the ukulele types from smallest to largest?

3. Approximately how long is a concert ukulele?

4. Why is it unusual to make a string instrument from plastic?

5. What word describes how much a note ‘rings out’ from an instrument?

6. How old is the smallest ukulele used in the video?

7. Which company made the Soprano Ukulele?

8. What material was the finger board on the ukulele made from?

9. Why was this material used?

10. What happens to wood when it gets older? 11. What isn’t 100 years old on the Soprano ukulele?

12. What 2 animal parts used to be used when making ukuleles?

13. Approximately how long is a bass ukulele?

14. How long ago were bass ukuleles invented?

15. What is the approximate diameter of the thickest bass string?

16. Which instruments is the bass ukulele most similar to?

Answers will be revealed tomorrow!

Extras:

• Reading – spend at least 15 minutes reading a book today.
• Times Tables Rockstars.
• Practise your spellings

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to me at horton.z@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.

Have a great day,

Miss Horton 🙂

Good Morning Owls!  Well here we are again!  A huge well done to all of you that completed yesterday’s tasks and especially to those who sent work in for me to look at.  Keep it up – you are doing us all proud.  (Imagine that said in your favourite of my epic accents!)

Here are your home learning tasks for today:

*English – Today, we are continuing the unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 6 week beginning Monday 14th December and select Wednesday’s English lesson.  It is called ‘To explore word class’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – Today, we are looking at multiplying fractions by integers.  Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the relevant worksheets for your year group.  Remember that the question sheets are divided into 2 strands :Reasoning and Problem Solving (RPS) and Verbal Fluency (VF) and into 3 levels of difficulty (developing, expected and greater depth.  You only need to complete one of the three levels of difficulty for each strand i.e. Year 5 expected RPS and VF.  The answers are included at the back of each set for you to mark your work.

Year-5-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-17-PPT

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-17-RPS-Multiply-Non-Unit-Fractions-by-an-Integer

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-17-VF-Multiply-Non-Unit-Fractions-by-an-Integer

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-17-RPS-Multiply-Fractions-by-Fractions

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-17-VF-Multiply-Fractions-by-Fractions

If you find the work above too tricky, try a bit more on adding fractions with the activity below.

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-6-DP-Add-2-or-More-Fractions

*Reading – spend at least 15 minutes reading today.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*Art – I think today we deserve to do a bit of Art today!  Now don’t worry, I know my drawing ability is not going to win me any prizes so we will start slowly and work up to something a bit trickier later in the term.  For now, have a look at the very simple PowerPoint that I have attached below.  It covers a few basic techniques for sketching and adding tone to a sketch.  It does mention trying some of the techniques out in your sketchbook which I know you don’t, have, but you can use any paper that you do have at home or a page of your home learning exercise book.  You can also use an ordinary pencil and experiment with the different tones that you can achieve by pressing lightly or with more pressure.  Please send in a photo of your work and I will put them up in an Owl’s gallery.  (I won’t include mine as it may be too scarily bad to look at for long!)

Drawing-Techniques-PowerPoint

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good Morning Owls and Happy New Year!  I hope you have all had a great Christmas break. This is not quite the start that we were expecting to the Spring term and I am so disappointed not to see you all in class today but like last time, we will get through this together.  As the announcement to move to remote learning came out last night, today I am posting work here whilst we get to grips with the technology needed to do more face to face teaching.  Please bear with us whilst we sort it out; we will let you know when we are in a position to start this.

So, here are your home learning tasks for today:

*English – I have chosen the following unit from The Oak National Academy for both year groups to follow.  Using the link below, find Year 6 week beginning Monday 14th December. I would like you to complete Monday’s lesson today.   Begin by selecting Monday’s lesson which is called ‘To analyse the features of a newspaper report’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – Today, we are looking at multiplying fractions by integers.  Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the relevant worksheets for your year group.  Remember that the question sheets are divided into 2 strands :Reasoning and Problem Solving (RPS) and Verbal Fluency (VF) and into 3 levels of difficulty (developing, expected and greater depth.  You only need to complete one of the three levels of difficulty for each strand i.e. Year 5 expected RPS and VF.  The answers are included at the back of each set for you to mark your work.

Year-5-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-16-PPT

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-16-RPS-Multiply-Unit-Fractions-by-an-Integer

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-16-VF-Multiply-Unit-Fractions-by-an-Integer

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-16-RPS-Multiply-Fractions-by-Integers

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-16-VF-Multiply-Fractions-by-Integers

If you find the above a bit too tricky, here are is an activity on adding fractions that you could try instead.

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-6-PPT-Add-2-or-More-Fractions

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-6-RPS-Add-2-or-More-Fractions

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-6-VF-Add-2-or-More-Fractions

*Science – This half term, we are starting a new topic on the classification of living things.  I would like you to find out about Carl Linnaeus.  Who was he?  What is he best known for?  How does what he developed help us with our lives today?  There is a PowerPoint below to get you started.

Presentation Linnaean System

*Reading – spend at least 15 minutes reading today.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day and keep smiling. Sending lots of virtual hugs,

Mrs Hollis x

Hello Owl Class!  Welcome back to all of you; we can’t wait to see you all tomorrow.

Here is an overview of our topics for this term plus some information about PE and homework.

Owl Class Newsletter Spring Term 2021

Owl Class Topic Planner Spring Term 2021

Mrs Hollis & Miss Horton

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Today, spend some time editing your Nativity story begun on Monday (full explanation and resource on Monday’s post if you haven’t started it). You could also copy it out adding some illustrations too.  I would love to read what you have come up with.

*Maths – Today, have a go at the either the Christmas coordinates activity below or the Christmas mystery.

Christmas-Tree—Empty-Grid

Christmas-Tree—Instructions

Mystery sheets

Mystery Answers

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Today, spend some time continuing the Nativity narrative from the perspective of one of the animal characters as explained on yesterday’s post.  Remember, you can look at the PowerPoint to refresh your memory about the story.

*Maths – Complete the maths mystery posted yesterday or try to find the punchlines to the Christmas jokes below (there are 3 levels of difficulty for you to pick which one you want to do).

mixed-calculation-christmas-joke-activity

Or compete the fraction activities allocated on MyMaths.

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Over the next couple of days, I would like you to re-write the nativity story but this time from the perspective of one of the animals.  For example, you could write as the donkey that carried Mary or one of the lambs taken as a gift from the shepherds or even one of the camels ridden by the wise men.  Think about how to make it more personal to that character i.e. adding their opinions and feelings.  I would like you to write as descriptively as you can using some of the aspects that you have been learning about this term: expanded noun phrases, metaphors, similes, fronted adverbials and use of the senses.  Take a look at the PowerPoint below to remind you about the events of the story.

t2-t-10000362-ks2-the-christmas-story-powerpoint_ver_4

*Maths – See if you can complete the maths mystery below to solve the mystery of the lost presents.

Monday the-mystery-of-the-lost-christmas-present-maths-mystery-game-_ver_7

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*French – take a look at the PowerPoint below: one on Christmas in France and the other some Christmas French vocabulary.

t2-fr-20-french-christmas-vocabulary-powerpoint-english_ver_1

t-fr-1-christmas-in-france-powerpoint-english_ver_1

*PE – find a way to get active today.  That could be an indoor workout or time in the back garden.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis