DISTANCE LEARNING – WEEK BEGINNING 7.6.20Sunday Science: Alive or Dead?

Introducing new topic - Living things and their habitatsToday the children will be looking at alive, dead or never lived.Discuss MRS GREN - The life processes that all living things must do to be alive.Identifying what is alive, dead or never lived.

Discuss how things are dead because they once were alive (e.g paper).Task 1 (group) - Children to sort the pictures into living, dead or never lived.

Task 2 (independent) - Children to create their own living, dead or never lived table and take pictures of items from around their house.

Key QuestionsWhat are the 7 life processes?

Sunday: To solve word problems.

Today the pupils will be using addition and subtraction to solve word problems.A word problem is a maths calculation written with words instead of numbers.

Pupils will be re-introduced to the bar model so they can use this to help with their calculations.Key questionsWhat is the word problem asking us?Which calculations should we use?Which words tell you this?Why are the bar sizes important?

Task:Maths no problem book page 1 and 2

Monday Grammar: To use time words. Monday: To solve word problems

The children will be shown a story about a little boy. The children will be asked what is interesting about the text; they may say the text has lots of adjectives and adverbs but there are also a lot of time words phrases used to start each sentence. The focus of this is to encourage the children to use time words and different sentence starters in their writing and explain that these time words describe when things happen in a story.

The next slide will show children examples of different time words and time word phrases. Explain to the children that the importance of going in order; first, finally, in the beginning and in the end as they describe when something starts or finishes.The children will do a short task together where they have been given a sequence of things that happen during the day and they have to add suitable time word phrases to the start of each sentence.

Task: The children will write sentences about their day and use different time words such as: First I wake up and brush my teeth. After a while I have my some cereal for my breakfast. Later on I play football little brother.

Key QuestionsWhat time words can you remember?Why is it important when we use the time words first and finally?Why do we use time words?

Tuesday: To identify rhyming wordsIntroductionThe children are identifying rhyming words. A rhyme is when words sound the same. The words ‘cat’ and ‘hat’ have similar letters in them which mean they rhyme. Sometimes, the letters can be different and the words still rhyme like ‘socks’

IntroductionToday the pupils will continue to use addition and subtraction to solve word problems.First the pupils will solve problems similar to yesterday’s task.

Pupils will create and use the bar model to represent the amounts in each word problem.

Key questionsWhat is the word problem asking us?Which calculations should we use?Which words tell you this?Why are the bar sizes important?

Task:Maths no problem book page 3 and 4:

Tuesday: To solve two-step word problems involving addition and subtractionIntroductionToday the pupils will be using

and ‘fox’.

The children will read and identify rhyming words in the text, ‘The Highway Rat’. The will read each page and underline and write down all the words that rhyme.

Challenge: The children will write down words that they know that rhyme with beast and feast.

Key questions:When do we use rhyming words?What are rhyming words?Do all the letters have to be the same?

addition and subtraction to solve two- step word problems.In this lesson all the problems use the term ‘more’ or ‘fewer’. The aim is to help pupils understand that they need to make a comparison when these terms are used.

Pupils will use the bar model to represent and help solve the word problems involving 2 steps.

Key questionsCan you think of vocabulary for addition and subtraction? What are the key words in the word problems?Which calculations should we use?What do the words ‘fewer’ and ‘more than’ mean?

Task:Maths no problem book page 9:

Wednesday: To use describing wordsIntroductionThe children are describing the personality of the rat in the book, ‘The Highway Rat’.In the book the author describes the rat as a baddie and a beast. The children have to use the website ‘Kid Thesaurus’ to find as many words as they can to describe the rats’ personality.

Wednesday : To solve multi- step word problems with increasing complexity

Today the pupils will continue to use addition and subtraction to solve multi -step word problems.

Key QuestionsWhat is an adjective?What is a synonym?What is a word bank of words?The children will create a word bank of words to describe the rat. They will then use this bank of words to aid them with their writing as they will be writing a wanted poster for the rat in the next lesson.

Key questionsCan you think of vocabulary for addition and subtraction? What are the key words in the word problems?Task:Maths no problem book page 10

Thursday: Spelling Practice

Today you are going to be practice your spelling words. When you practice your spellings you should use the method: Look and say the word, cover the word, write the word and then correct it if you need to. Remember to use your phonics sounds to help you if it is a green word.

Thursday: Mental Maths

Today you are revising your 2 times tables: