Daily Maths Practice

White Rose Maths:

The White Rose Maths Team, part of Trinity Multi Academy Trust, whose maths scheme we use in school, has prepared a series of daily maths lessons for each year group from Years 1-8. Every lesson comes with a short video showing you clearly and simply how to help your child to complete the activity successfully.

The lessons are all available on the White Rose Maths website at www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning where you’ll also find clear instructions on exactly how to access and use the right material for your child’s year group.

White Rose Maths is all about helping children to love maths by really understanding what it’s all about, so you can certainly expect to enjoy these learning sessions with your child!

A regular daily learning routine will help your child to learn more effectively at home, and just one 20-30 minute White Rose Maths session each day will really help your child to keep them learning and motivated. What’s more, the White Rose Maths Team will be online each weekday between 10.00 and 11.00am – great opportunities for your child to show and share their work, questions and ideas every day via any of the White Rose Maths social media channels.

Problem-Solving opportunities:

Gareth Metcalfe, a well-respected maths consultant, has also produced engaging problem-solving lessons for KS2 and maths games for KS1 with accompanying videos. These will enable children to practise and apply essential arithmetic skills. These lessons are available at https://garethmetcalfe.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/the-plan-primary-maths-lessons-during-school-closures/.

For those of you who like to work on problems with your child, nrich have an excellent set of problems that can challenge the children to think about maths in a variety of ways and can easily be extended or simplified - https://nrich.maths.org/

Times Tables Rock Stars:

Having instant recall of your times tables and related division facts is a key skill that underpins many areas of maths so a short daily session on TTRS will be invaluable.

SUMMER 1 - WEEK 1:

Here is a suggested outline for the activities that the children would have been completing in class. We would have continued with our Jurassic Park topic in class so please continue to complete the homework activities on the grid too.

We have suggested alternatives or changed activities to suit home learning needs as well as thinking about resources at home. We understand that some of these things may not be possible and you are more than welcome to change them based on personal need at home. We have now added specific worksheets that you are able to use if you have access to a printer, but please edit them to suit needs and resources that you have at home if you don’t. Practical learning experiences are more important and allow children to learn at their own speed.

Phonics:

Use www.phonicsplay.co.uk to access games and other resources at home. They are currently offering a free subscription so that parents can access the games and resources to support your child’s learning.

Here is the log in details:Username: march20Password: home

Spellings:

Please use the common exception word list that was sent home to practice spellings. Perhaps you could hold your own spelling tests at home. These words need to be spelled correctly as well as read on sight and now need to be placed into context. Please read out whole sentences including the chosen common exception word to check that your child can spell when writing whole sentences and not just particular words.

e.g. The children picked some beautiful flowers in the garden.

Literacy:

Now that you have written a non-chronological report about dinosaurs, we would have moved on to writing one about the significant historical figure: Mary Anning. I would suggest conducting some research about Mary using the following websites:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/mary-anning-facts/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd8fv9q/articles/zf6vb82

https://kidskonnect.com/people/mary-anning/

You could also watch the BBC video again and then begin grouping the information you have gathered into different sections:

- What her childhood was like- Where she lived- What she found- What her adulthood was like- How is she remembered today?

We have used a spidergram template to gather information in class and one has been attached below. Once the children have gathered the information, they are to write this up in best onto the non-chronological report template. They are to write the sentences into their own words and any extra detail that they can.

Please get in touch if you need further help with this.

Maths:

This week we would have moved on to looking at measuring the length and height of different objects. We would have started by looking at using centimetres to measure objects around the classroom. If you don’t have a ruler, you can measure using non-standard units such as using coins (the same coin), chocolate buttons, leaves, stones etc. Choose some objects from around your home and measure using these non-standard units. If you do have a ruler, then repeat the same activity measuring the objects to the nearest cm, starting from 0 not from the end of the ruler.

Once we were secure with this, we would have moved on to measuring objects using metres. Now we don’t expect you to have a metre stick at home, but if you have a tape measure, have a go at measuring the members of your family and then record using metres and centimetres.

Our final activity for this week would have been to compare lengths in both cm and m.

We have attached a set of worksheets that you can use at home to help with this, but if you were to only focus on the language associated with length: long, longer, longest, short, shorter and shortest and look at comparing objects that would be great.

Here are some other useful websites for discussing length:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-length-height/zdrx92p

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/measuring-in-cm

Please also look at the Whiterose Maths resources that you can access online. We have looked at some of these units in class already as we move units of work around in order to prepare the children for the KS1 SATs: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

If you look at Week 1, 2 or 3 and click on the accompanying activities, it will guide you through the tasks. We are aware that some people might not have access to a printer so you could always talk through the questions with your child and record the answers on a separate piece of paper.

Reading:

It would be great if your child could read for at least 20 minutes every day (spread this out and by all means read for hours!) Any reading material is fine!

We have outlined some activities that the children do in class that they could do themselves at home:

- Write down words that they aren’t familiar with and find out their meaning using an online thesaurus. Can they use these words in their own sentences?

- If reading a chapter book, they could make predictions for what they think will happen next. Write these down and check if you were correct!

- Go on a word hunt! Look for adjectives, verbs, adverbs or contraction words such as didn’t. How many can you find?

- Write some questions about what has been read so that your adult has to answer them. Don’t make them too hard!

- Summarise the story be retelling what has happened using a story map.

Topic:

Use the sheets provided to have a go at some topic activities:

- Dinosaur labelling – we have attached a dinosaur picture for you to label. By all means change the dinosaur you’d like to use. If you would like to label a different dinosaur, then please look on Sparklebox as they have a wider range of dinosaurs available. Please type in ‘dinosaur labelling Sparklebox’ into Google if you’d like to change from the Apatosaurus.In class we would have been talking about some of these features and perhaps why the dinosaurs would have had them. E.g. why did a triceratops have a frill? Why did an Apatosaurus have a long neck?

- Dinosaur measuring – carry out some research into the different heights of dinosaurs. How tall was the biggest dinosaur? How tall was the smallest dinosaur? We would have also looked at the size of the dinosaurs’ footprints, teeth and the size of their biggest bone. Have a go at the challenge questions.

- Compare a carnivore’s tooth to a herbivore’s tooth. Why are they shaped the way they are? How did this help them? Then record how they are similar and how they are different? Could you even make a carnivore or herbivore’s tooth out of clay or other materials that you might have at home?

- Music: Listen to the Jurassic park soundtrack without any image of the film and complete the listening and responding sheet to explain how the music makes you feel and what it makes you see in your head.

- Maths: Position and Direction. Use the BeeBot app to work your way through the different levels.

PE:

Cosmic Yoga is a great way to keep the kids active. There are many yoga stories available all for free.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga/videos

Joe Wicks (The Body Coach) is also delivering a PE session each morning via YouTube. He has a range of child based work outs available too so have a look for these online.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

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QFL: Can I plan out information to include in a non-chronological report?

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Where did she live?

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What did she find?

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These are the objects I will measure:

Object My Estimate Measurement in cm

Which item is the longest? _____________________________________________

Which item is the shortest? ____________________________________________

What is the difference between the shortest and the longest item? _____________

What is the total length of all of the items together? ________________________

Can you think of another item that is longer than the longest item in your table?

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Can you think of another item that is shorter than the shortest item in your table?

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Measure the people in your family:

Person Height in m and cm

Who is the tallest in your family? How tall are they?

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Who is the shortest in your family? How tall are they?

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What is the difference in height between the tallest and shortest members of your family?

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Do you know anyone that is shorter than you?

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Use the words longer than, shorter than or the same as to complete these sentences:

15 cm is 60 cm

Sixty metres is 60 m

96 m is 69 m

80 cm is 80 m

1 m is 100 cm

Can you use the symbols < , > and = to compare the lengths?

7 m 17 m

18 cm 18 m

32 cm 32 centimetres

16 m 16 cm

56 centimetres 56 cmMe Teacher

QFL: Can I label the main features of a dinosaur?

Feature 1:

Feature 2:

My dinosaur is: _______________________________________

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QFL: Can I compare dinosaur sizes?QFL: Can I measure footprints, teeth and bones?Dinosaur size: Footprint:

Teeth: Biggest bone:

The music creates this image in my mind:

Did you like this piece of music?

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What instruments can you hear?

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How does this music make you feel?

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QFL: Can I listen and respond to a film soundtrack?