Hawk Owls’ Home Learning

Term 5 Week 5: Monday 18th May 2020

Hello lovely Hawk Owls!

We hope you are all doing really well and staying healthy and happy! Having spoken to many

of you and your parents on the phone or via email, we can see that you are continuing to work very

hard. We have been so impressed with the work you have completed over the last few weeks. If, like

many, you are starting to lose motivation, try and give yourself one last push; we have a week off for

May half term next week! Just try to do a little bit of learning each day; if you only manage the ‘must’

that’s fine, but keep those brain cells ticking over!

You will be excited to know that we have all put our hoodie orders in now and the company have

started to make them. We are hoping they will be with us by the beginning of July at the latest. Mrs

Taylor and I have ordered one too and we very much hope to be able to wear them with you in

term 6!

The secondary schools have been in contact with us and you will be reassured to know that we

are talking to them via email and ‘Google Meet’ (video meeting) to discuss transition and tell them

all about your learning at Great Milton ready for starting in Year 7. The Heads of Year 7 are working

hard to get everything in place for you so that you can ‘reach for the stars’ in September!

The learning for this week is below, with some extra resources to help you on our class page. As

always, please get in touch if you need help with anything.

We are very proud of all of you.

Mrs Ray and Miss Taylor lray@gmilton.org or staylor@gmilton.org

How about trying one of these methods of

learning your spellings this week?

Our spellings this week:

Word families based on common words,

showing how words are related in form and

meaning

signature

assign

design

designate

significant

resignation

resign

insignificant

assignment

signal

We have enjoyed creating these rainbows using buttons in the Ray household this week. We also

went on a lovely social- distancing walk this weekend and saw a gaggle of geese and goslings!

We hope you’ve all done something fun too! Let us know on our class blog!

Writing Challenge:

You must: Complete the Weekly Writing Challenge (you could dedicate a session a day to

each step).

LO: To develop initial ideas through reading and research to produce a narrative

- I can use an image to develop a narrative set within Victorian times

- I can develop characters and settings using my previous learning and research

- I can plan the structure of my story using a story mountain planning sheet

- I can edit and improve my draft before my final write.

As this is our final week learning about the Victorians, we would like to see you use the

information you have learnt this term to write your own creative piece of writing set in the

Victorian period.

STEP 1: Develop ideas

Look at the images provided. You are going to pick one of these photographs to base

your story on. Jot down some notes around your chosen image to help you build ideas for

your story e.g. the young chimney sweep:

You might find it helpful to return to some of the websites we have used this term to help

you develop your initial ideas further.

STEP 2: Plan

Use the story mountain template attached to plan the structure of your story. You might

find using bullet points an easy way to jot your ideas down.

STEP 3: Draft

Have a go at drafting your story. This is a great time to play with different sentence

structures, openers, connectives, adverbial phrases, similes and adjectives to extend your

sentences.

STEP 4: Edit and improve

Once you are happy with your draft, read it aloud to yourself and edit using a different

coloured pen like we usually would in class. This will help you up-level your vocabulary,

check spelling using a dictionary and add description.

STEP 5: Present

Write your story in neat using the corrections you made in your draft. Don’t forget to share

your story on our class blog for us all to enjoy

Extension: You could read your story to a family member in your house or over the phone

to celebrate your writing.

7 years

old

Has 3 sisters and 2

brothers

Master sweep

scrubbed knees to

harden them for

climbing up the

chimneys

Owned by master sweep –

tried to run away once but

was caught and beaten

by master.

Beaten by master

sweep if mistakes were

made or customers

were unhappy with

service

Always hungry and

sleeps on top of the

blackened bags used

to collect soot.

Been stuck in a chimney

before and one of the other

boys was sent up to get him

out.

Maths: To use division strategies to solve problems

Must: Abacus Active Learn: The Activities (in red) below have been allocated to your account:

Activity 1: Watch Pupil Video 6.17 Dividing 3 digit numbers by 2-digit numbers

Activity 2: Complete Resource Sheet 1753 Long Division and then open the answer sheet

to self-mark.

Activity 3: Complete Resource Sheet 1792 Long Division Stars and then open the answer

sheet to self-mark.

Activity 4: Play Robot Blaster game.

Activity 5: Practising mental division (QM 6.29.4): Answer the division questions on the

screen and then click to reveal the answers.

Should: Abacus Active Learn:

Activity 1: Watch video 6.26 Solving word problems using long division.

Activity 2: Complete 6.26 Homework Sheet and then open answer sheet to self-mark.

Activity 3: Practising division (QM 6.26.3): Work out the missing numbers by using division.

Activity 4: Complete p38 below, then use answers at the bottom to self-mark.

Activity 5: Complete p39 below, then use answers at the bottom to self-mark.

Could: Abacus Active Learn:

Activity 1: Solving long division problems (Mastery Checkpoint 6.21.33)

Activity 2: NRich Curious Numbers (Short division investigation).

Activity 3: NRich Divide it out (An enquiry using divisibility tests).

Activity 4: NRich Forgot the Numbers (FE 6.13.3) (Investigation associating fractions with

division).

Activity 5: Log in to Parallel Maths for further challenge! (The link is on our class page).

Answers:

English Skills You should: Complete at least 2 out of 3 English Skills activities per week.

Activity 1: Correct the spelling mistakes

Activity 2: Reading Starter

Activity 3: Modal Verbs

Now have a go at writing your own sentences using the modal verbs you

have identified.

Maths Skills: You should: Complete at least 2 out of 3 Maths Skills activities per week.

Activity 1: Mental Arithmetic

1. 0.2 ÷ 10 = 8. 371 ÷ 100 =

2. 225 x 4 = 9. 7.2 x 100 =

3. 62 + ____ = 97 10. 3/4 + 2/8 =

4. 3.67 + 1.451 = 11. 4987 - 360 =

5. 7834 + 5461 = 12. 17.8 – 3.5 =

6. 9732 - 451 = 13. 1/4 of 320 =

7. ___ - 39 = 18 14. 5 + 7 x 3 =

Activity 2: 12x12 times table grid

See how much of the 12x12 times table grid you can complete in 15 minutes:

Activity 3: Problem Solving