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Mrs Farmer
Good morning lovely Owls. Well, we survived our first full day on TEAMS! Let’s go for it again today but in case of technology problems, today’s work is below.
Again, I have included a suggested timetable for how you could organise your day below. Remember that you can work at your pace through the activities.
9.15am TEAMS meeting to introduce this morning’s activities.
Spellings
English lesson
10.30am Breaktime
11am Maths
12noon Lunch
1pm TEAMS meeting to catch up about the morning tasks and introduce the afternoon task
Science
Reading time and TT Rockstars
2.50pm TEAMS catch up
So, here is today’s work:
*Spellings – use your spellings as a means of practising your handwriting as well as learning how to spell them.
Year 5 Handwriting Practice – Cursive
Year 6 Handwriting Practice – Cursive
*English – continuing the Oak Academy unit. Using the link below, follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.
*Maths – Today, we are looking at fractions of an amount. Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the 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 6 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-22-PPT
Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-RPS-Fraction-of-an-Amount
Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-VF-Fraction-of-an-Amount
Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-RPS-Fraction-of-an-Amount
Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-VF-Fraction-of-an-Amount
If the above is a bit tricky, try the sheets below.
Y3-Spring-Block-5-ANS7-Fractions-of-a-set-of-objects-1-2019
Y3-Spring-Block-5-WO7-Fractions-of-a-set-of-objects-1-2019
*Reading – Make sure that you are spending at least 15 minutes per day reading for pleasure. Keep a log of the title and pages read in your book.
*Science – Last week, I asked you to look at the work of Carl Linnaeus and his classification system of living things. Hopefully, you thought about how important it is to have a system of classifying livings things and what it would be like without it. Think of it as a filing system that helps with identification or a gigantic family tree.
So today, we are going to look at invertebrates.
Take a look at the following and write down the most interesting fact from either.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmj8q6f
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/invertebrates/
Looking at the classification system, a wolf spider would fit as follows:
As you can see, a wolf spider is the species name but it also falls into the class of arthropods. This means it has some of the same characteristics as crustaceans like crabs i.e. a hard outside skeleton. Today, I would like you to us the sheets below to find out more about the characteristics of invertebrates. There are 8 different sections but you do not have to complete all 8, you can pick at least 4 of your choice.
ESResource6.3.3Invertebratesharder
*TTRockstars – spend any spare minutes rocking on through those tables.
Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and please send photos of what you have done to me at hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
Have a great day and I will hopefully see you throughout the day on TEAMS.
Mrs Hollis x
Good morning Owls. I hope you had a lovely weekend and managed to get out for some fresh air. It was fab to see so many of you on Friday for our first Teams meeting. Hopefully, you are joining our TEAMS meeting at 9.15am this morning; I can’t wait to see you all again. This week, we will be gradually getting to grips with using some of the features of TEAMS and holding 3 daily meetings. We will have a catch up TEAMS meeting at 1pm today to discuss the morning’s work and to go through the afternoon task with a final TEAMS meeting at 2.50pm to say goodbye and see how your day has gone. I have included a suggested timetable for how you could organise your learning below around the meeting and breaktimes.
9.15am TEAMS meeting to introduce the morning’s tasks
Spellings
English lesson
10.30am Breaktime
11am Maths
12noon Lunch
1pm TEAMS meeting to catch up about the morning tasks and introduce the afternoon task
PE time
Reading time and TT Rockstars
2.50pm TEAMS catch up
In case the technology fails (or the teacher in my case), I am also posting copies of all of the links and resources as usual each day so that if things go wrong with TEAMS or you can’t find something, you know where to look.
So, here is today’s work:
*Spellings – spend some time today continuing to learning your spellings for the week (Miss Horton posted them last Thursday and is planning a spelling test this Thursday on TEAMS). You could use the PowerPoint below to look at the pattern/meanings of words.
Year 5 Handwriting Practice – Cursive
Year 6 Handwriting Practice – Cursive
*English – we will be continuing the unit begun last week on Oak Academy. Using the link below, follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.
To write the opening paragraph (thenational.academy)
*Maths – Year 6:
Today, we are looking at the four operations and fractions (+-x÷). Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the worksheets. 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 6 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-21-PPT
Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step 21-VF-Four-Rules-with-Fractions
Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-21-RPS-Four-Rules-with-Fractions
Maths – Year 5:
Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-PPT-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers
Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-RPS-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers
Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-VF-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers
If either of the above are too tricky, try a bit more practice subtracting fractions using the PowerPoint and sheets below:
Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-PPT-Subtract-2-Fractions
Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-RPS-Subtract-2-Fractions
Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-VF-Subtract-2-Fractions
*Reading – Make sure that you are spending at least 15 minutes per day reading for pleasure. Elevenses with David Walliams is also back, starting with The Boy in the Dress. These are audio clips of his complete stories, a few chapters a day.
*PE – As this afternoon is one of our PE afternoons, I want you to find something active to do. As with the last lockdown, you may have to get a bit creative! So, with that in mind, how about going for a family walk/bike ride, trampolining in the garden, devise a garden circuit and test it out, set yourself some 60 second challenges such as how many star jumps can you do in a minute etc? Also, Joe Wicks is posting new PE with Joe workouts on a Monday, Wednesday and a Friday (live at 9am or catch up on his YouTube channel). Remember that physical exercise and fresh air is as important as schoolwork.
*TTRockstars – spend any spare minutes rocking on through those tables.
Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and please send photos of what you have done to me at hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk. We are working on ways of you saving your work in TEAMS to save you having to send evidence to us but that is a work in progress so bear with us.
Have a great day and I will hopefully see you throughout the day on TEAMS.
Mrs Hollis x
Here are the final bits of work from this week – WOW DRAGONFLIES! You are superstars.
Ella’s been busy with her story ‘The Stoneage Catastrophe’:.. check out her amazing expanded noun phrases all the way through! I love “knobbly root” and “battleship-grey”… fantastic Ella.
India’s brilliant delivery of her story – you speak so clearly India, very well-delivered.
Elliot’s fantastic ( and very long!) Stone Age story with a gripping opening! I’m sure lots of you will love this – it’s nice and gory! Make sure you’re not eating whilst reading 🙂
Elsie & Evan’s Front covers – super effort!
Skyler’s Axe & explanation – this looks like the real thing!
Andreas’ front cover:
Plus his choice of reading he’d like to share… May the force be with you!
Andreas’ story … ‘The Naked Woolly Mammoth’! Thank goodness there’s a happy ending.
Elliot had a very arty afternoon with Shropshire Rocks. I wonder if you can find any rocks this lockdown?
Dev’s Fab front cover:
Ella’s artwork using watercolours for her front cover:
Harrison took part in a general knowledge quiz – great score Harrison! This sounds fun 🙂 You will enjoy the task coming up from Amber over the next couple of weeks.
Harrison’s step count! As promised after our Teams Meeting, Harrison conquered his 10,000 step goal and hit 11,430! Wow!
India is continuing to wear her school uniform – looking very studious India 🙂
India’s story writing – I am sure all of Dragonflies will be so pleased to see you use your ‘new’ handwriting style. Well done you!
Click on the link below to see Luana’s brilliant movie making – you’ve delivered this brilliantly Luana!
Whilst she has also been busy designing the front cover to her story:
Skyler is also on a mission to take over her living room floor. You look like you’ve been SUPER busy Skyler! 🙂
Sophia got arty with her front cover:
To fit her story that she has really enjoyed working on:
Oh I was in for a treat with this home learning. I’m so impressed at how well you’ve told your stories orally. Thank you to everyone who has sent in their work so far! There are still some ‘stone age craft projects’ coming in too. 🙂
Ella’s audio story:
Harvey’s Stone Age project:
Out & about with the Incles!
India’s spellings conquered already:
Watch out Elliot… she looks fierce!
A very busy Bella & Amelia… 🙂
Hello Hedgehogs!
Hopefully we will begin today with a TEAMS meeting at 9am so that we can all say hello to one another.
I hope you had a good day yesterday and enjoyed the tasks I set for you. Remember, as long as you are trying your best I will be very pleased! We know that learning at home is very different to learning at home, so try not to worry if you’re not sure or can’t do something. I’m still here to help so please ask your parents to let me know if you’re struggling. All of the activities are there for your parents to support you with, and they can adapt them to suit you and your needs if they would like to.
Please find below your tasks and activities for today. If you need a workbook to do these in please let us know and we will put one out for you to collect from school. You DO NOT need to print the worksheets, all of the activities can be done using the sheets as a guide and then do the work in your book. If you can put some photos on to Tapestry for me to see what you have been doing that would be wonderful!
You can email me on a Thursday and Friday too if you need anything explaining – johnson.s@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
Keep safe and see you soon!
Mrs Johnson
English
In our book of the week, we are finding rhyming words and making lists of other words that rhyme with them too.
Can you make a list of words that rhyme? How many words can you think of for each list? They can be real or nonsense words, as long as they rhyme with the first word in the list!
Red group – please do cat, dog and pen on page 1.
Purple Group – please do pages 1 and 3.
Green group – please do pages 2 and 4.
Yellow and Orange Group – You have a rhyming word jigsaw today. You might also like to make a list of other words which rhyme with each piece. Rhyming word jigsaw
Maths
Red Group – Please practice forming your numbers to 5 Numbers to 5 formation
Purple Group – Our work today is all about finding ‘one more’.Play this game using a dice and a coin for a counter. You can make it harder by using two dice and adding dots to each square to create bigger numbers! One More Than Game
Green group – Use the blank and shaded number sticks to help find different ways of making 20. The final sheet is for those children who would like a challenge!
Orange and Yellow Group – Can you find the number bonds to 20 using the part part whole model? The whole is 20, and one part has been given to you. Can you find the other part so that the whole is 20? If you would like a challenge, there is an extension sheet too.
Part part whole number bonds to 20
Phonics
Red Group – Please practice writing your name and learn about the letters in it and the sounds they make.
Purple Group – Can you read these nonsense words? Phase 2 nonsense words
Green group – Sort the ‘er’ words in to real words and nonsense words Phase 3 er words
Yellow and Orange Group – read the words and see if you can break each word down into smaller parts (syllables) for example thundering is thun, der and ing Polysyllabic words
History
In history we are going to be finding out about Henry Ford. In your work this week, can you find some pictures of Ford cars? Either draw them or print some out to glue in your workbook. Look at this information about Henry Ford. Afterwards, can you tell an adult something you remember about him and what he did?
Geography
We are going to be finding out about North America over the next few geography lessons. Using a globe, map or the internet, can you find North America? Where is it? Where is it near? Is it big or small? Have you heard of any of the big cities there, or any famous American people?
Is North America where you live? Can you find England on a map or globe? Make a little booklet to show where you live. You can include the name of your country (UK and England), roughly where abouts you are in that country (i.e Shropshire). Draw a picture of your house and say what the name of the town/village you live in is called. Draw a picture of the people you live with and say who they are. You can use this booklet if you would like to. Where am I on the map
Reading
Choose a lovely book and snuggle up with an adult or your favourite teddy/doll. Share the book together and talk about what happened in the story. Look carefully at the pictures – what is happening in each picture? Can you use them to retell the story in your own words? Choose five words from the story and learn to read them by sounding out, or know if they are tricky words and cannot be sounded out.
Here are some of the updates I’ve been receiving 🙂 Remember – send me your favourite bits (if you would like to) at whittingham.j@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
Luke’s Living Room Floor Takeover! Who needs carpet anyway? Great work Luke with super presentation.
Devon’s Stone Age Weapons & Tools with object explanation… Great construction work Dev.
Amber’s Stone Age Museum! Looking VERY professional.
Harrison’s object explanation… You sound like a true historian!
Amber’s super maths…
English – story plans
I’m really pleased to see how well you’ve used these plans… keep a plan brief but make sure you’ve thought the whole story through.
Charley’s adventure plan…
Amber’s historical narrative…
Oliver’s brilliant brainstorm…
Harrison’s filled a page with ideas! Wow!
Well done and a huge thank you from me! 🙂
Hello Hedgehogs
Your spellings for the week are at the bottom of this page. You can use the sheet provided to practise your words, but don’t forget that you can have fun learning the words at home too. Here are a few ideas…
• Pairs: Create a double set of the words your child is finding tricky. Pick up two cards at a time until they find a pair. Can they verbally spell it out to you?
• Flip, Read, Letters and Write: Your child can learn their spellings in 4 quick steps. Have the child flip over a card, read it, spell out the letters and then write it down.
• Trace, Copy, Recall: Fold a piece of paper into three columns and label them trace, copy and recall. Write the word in the first column and have your child trace it. Next, get them to copy the word in the next column by looking back at the letters. Finally, get them to fold and hide the first two columns and practise writing the word in the final column.
• Pocket Cards: Make small cards to keep in your pocket or bag and when you are walking to school, making breakfast or sitting in the park ask your child to spell the words to you.
• Spelling Word Race: Create two teams with a player from each team taking the ‘pen’ at a time. Someone calls out the word and the two players race to write the word first.
• Spelling Puzzle: Make a home-made puzzle by writing the words in large on a piece of card. Get your child to cut it up and then can they piece it back together again?
• Stairs: Write the words as if they are stairs, adding one letter each time: S, Sp, Spe, Spel, Spell
• Chalk: If you have any chalk (and don’t mind getting your patio or the pavement a bit messy) get your child to write the words on the ground and then the rain will wash it away.
• Water Paint: Use water and a paintbrush to water paint the spelling words. On a sunny day the words disappear quickly so they need to paint fast! With a computer or tablet:
• Type it out: Open up a document to type on. Call out the word for your child to spell. They can then play around with the word; increase the font size, change the colour etc.
• Voice record: Using a recording device have your child spell out the word and get them to listen back.
CAN group – CAN 7.1.21
SHOULD group – SHOULD 7.1.21
COULD group – COULD 7.1.21
Hello Hedgehogs!
I hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday and that Santa came to your house. He very kindly gave me a new bike so I have been whizzing around the lanes in the holiday (wearing my helmet of course!).
I am missing being in class with you all but I’m sure we will all be back together again soon and hopefully I will be able to work my computer properly and see you all using TEAMS for some of your activities with me next week. I am hoping to do a ‘trial’ tomorrow morning at 9am with you all, so listen out for your TEAMS ring!
Please find below the tasks and activities for today. If you need a workbook to do these in please let us know and we will put one out for you to collect from school. You DO NOT need to print the worksheets out unless you want to – all of the tasks could be done using the sheets online as a guide but your writing in your book. It would be lovely to see what you do, so please put some pictures of your work on Tapestry if you can.
You can email me on a Thursday and Friday too if you need anything explaining – johnson.s@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
Keep safe and see you soon!
Mrs Johnson
English
Earlier in the week you thought about where you would go on a journey.Today I would like you to think about how you might travel there and what you would see when you arrived. Imagine what the journey would be like and the things you would see, hear, feel, smell and maybe taste on the way, as well as when you arrive. Draw a picture and record your sentences in your workbook or on the sheet. Don’t worry about spelling every word correctly, if you aren’t sure about how to spell a word just write the sounds you can hear in the word. Remember to leave a space between each word and older Reception and Year 1 children should start each sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop. Year 1 children should also think carefully about using the correct spelling patterns they know in words too. Choose one of the sheets below (some are lined, some not etc).
How would you travel on your journey
Now choose some words from your writing that you use a lot in your every day writing, common words like went, go, the or maybe some a bit harder. Ask a grown up to show you how to spell them and try to remember them for next time!
Maths
Red group – Sort the picture cards in to the correct place on the chart. Can you read the numerals? here are the Red Group 7.1.21 picture cards and the chart is here Red Group 7.1.21
Purple Group – Today we are comparing sets of objects. Use these sheets for your task today. Compare Groups of Objects
Green Group – using Page 2 of the document below, explore the different ways you can make 20. You can use the worksheet but you can also work practically. Get two plates and 20 pieces of pasta. How many different ways can you share the pasta between two plates? Can you record your findings, for example 12 on one plate and 8 on the other is 12 + 8 = 20. Remember, you can swap the digits around too, so 8 + 12 = 20 as well!
Green group 7.1.21 DO PAGE 2
Yellow and Orange Group – Using page 3 of the document below, explore the different ways you can make 20. You can use the worksheet but you can also work practically and make it a little more challenging if adding two numbers is a bit easy. Get three plates and 20 pieces of pasta. How many different ways can you share the pasta between three plates? Can you record your findings, for example 12 on one plate, 2 on another and 6 on the other is 12 + 2 + 6 = 20. Remember, you can swap the digits around too, so 6 + 2 + 12 = 20 as well!
Yellow and Orange groups 7.1.21 DO PAGE 3
Phonics
Red group – sort the pictures into the correct box depending on the sound they begin with. You can also collect real objects from around the house that start with one of the sounds s a t i p n.
Purple Group – Print out the words (or ask a grown up to write them on pieces of paper for you). Ask someone to hide them around the house and look for them together. If you can read them, you can keep them and get one point for each correct word. How many points will you get? Phase 2 Tricky Word Cards and Phase 3 Tricky Word Cards
Green group – Your sound today is ‘er’.
Yellow and Orange Group – Sort the words into groups depending on the sound the ‘ou’ makes in the word.
Then make your own roll and read game to play using ‘ou’ words.
Music
GREAT FUN WARM-UP VIDEOS!
Hedgehogs have all played these musical games before and are really really good at them:
https://youtu.be/dHxHNEQ84Cg (8 4 2 1 game)
https://youtu.be/M-rFGq2dHwk (coordination funk game)
In the video below, Mr Butler meets a friend of his, Gabriella.
Gabriella is very interesting because her job is to travel around the world and play ukulele and sing. In this video, Gabriella plays some songs and talks about the skills that she has that helped her become a really great ukulele player.
https://youtu.be/KhoidnqLUT4 (YouTube Link)
Children have a choice of activity after watching the video: they can either write Gabriella a letter to ask her any questions that they might have, or they can design a fantastic ukulele to send Gabriella as a thank you.
Spellings
Your spellings for the week have been published in a separate post today (Thursday).
Thank you to everyone who has sent me examples of home learning so far. You are doing brilliantly! Everyone is welcome to send things in each day – you don’t HAVE to but it will really help us keep in touch for now.
Check out these ideas below as it may inspire you with different ways of learning and doing your home schoolwork. Also, I think you will enjoy seeing some happy Dragonfly faces this morning 🙂
English (grammar task)
Ella (with some nice self-marking using the answer page)
Amber (challenging herself to two levels!)
Harrison’s hard-learned spellings:
Maths
Ella:
Stone Age Task
Ella’s Stone Age Weapons and Tools
Amber’s array of weaponry … pretty sure Stone Age Amber would be safe from bears and wolves with these in her possession!
Andreas the Mighty!
Sophia the Fierce! (Very smiley fierce person). 🙂
Charley the Mighty… that spear is almost bigger than you Charley!
Extra bits!
Amber’s choice of reading book today (hope sh’s not plotting anything…!)
Lucy & Thomas’ Dino School… PARENTS BE WARNED! The children are taking over in Ruyton… Poor Mrs Hudson even had an L-O, her work marked and next steps given. nice to see she earned some double ticks too 🙂 Well done Mrs Hudson!
Dragonflies – you rock! (Stone Age pun right there.)
Church Street
Ruyton XI Towns
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY4 1LA
