First of all, here’s some clues/a starting point if you’re stuck on the challenge question:

The most useful clue to start with is that the Irishman lives in the first house. Therefore, he cannot live in any of the other four houses, can’t be a bus driver (as the American is), can ‘t drink tea (because the Welshman does) and can’t have dogs (because the Scotsman does).

The 2nd most useful clue is that the Irishman lives next door to the blue house – and, as the the Irishman is in the first house, the 2nd house must be blue. If the 2nd house is blue, all the rest can’t be blue and the Englishman can’t live in the 2nd house as his house is red.

Here’s the start of my workings:

Secondly, a reminder that if you want to take part in any of our Hive Games today, the codes / times are below:

There will be 3 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:00pm – 594304
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:10pm – 799752
Game 3 (hard) – 1:20pm – 388369

You can join any of these hive games at any point; however, the game will not start until the time above, so make sure you’re ready to join in time.

You may want to use this frame to help you (instead of the other):

5 Houses Problem Frame full

Before you start today, check out yesterday’s answers.

As always, you don’t have to do these activities at a set time or in a set order – that’s all up to you.

There will be 3 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:00pm – 594304
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:10pm – 799752
Game 3 (hard) – 1:20pm – 388369

You can join any of these hive games at any point; however, the game will not start until the time above, so make sure you’re ready to join in time.

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM – 26.03

Problems of the day

A quick heads up for question 3 on the blue sheet – as we hadn’t yet covered this at school this year yet – the angles inside a triangle add up to 180°. The inside angles in a square are 90°. If you’re not sure, it doesn’t matter – you don’t have to complete every question – but it’d be great if you gave it a go.

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Bar Model Questions

Questions 1 and 2 with bars

Questions 3 and 4 with bars

Challenge of the day

Today’s challenge is a variation on a famous puzzle called “Einstein’s Riddle”.

To help you with this puzzle, here’s a grid to help structure your ideas:

What you need to do is work out:
– Which man lives in which house?
– Which man drinks which drink?
– Which man has which pet?
– Which man has which job?

I’d also suggest drawing a row of five boxes (each represent each house) to help with this – as the houses in the grid above are not in the correct order. You’ve got lots to work out with this challenge – so be patient!

5 Houses Problem

5 Houses Problem Frame

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

Remember, a fragment is part of a sentence (or an incomplete idea) and a run-on is when there are two (or more) sentences not separated by a full stop, semi-colon, colon or dash.

1.) He’s over there!
2.) I love ham, I hate cheese.
3.) If you’re going out, make sure you lock the door.
4.) The cat’s got out again, make sure you bring him back this time.
6.) Running as fast as he possibly could.
7.) Silently, the shadow crept in through the window.
8.) He jumped.
9.) The princess, wearing blue trainers.
10.) Who noticed I missed out question 5?

Writing

You should all be close to finishing your newspaper article. When you do, you can have a go with this:
choose a character from any book, story or film and write a small (about half a page) character description about them. You can draw a picture of them if you like. Your character doesn’t necessarily have to be human.

P.E.

Keep sending me your attempts at the P.E. challenge!

Art/Dance/Music

This one is very open ended. I would like you to produce a piece of art (which could even be dance or music) on whatever you want using whatever you want. It could be a drawing, painting, a sculpture, a piece of music being played, a dance, a picture made from leaves or whatever you can come up with.

Be as creative as you wish!

Remember, if you missed an activity from a previous day, and feel like doing it today, you can do so and send me a picture. I’ll keep updating the class page with all your fantastic work which is being sent in!

I hope you’re all doing well. Hopefully, we’ll all be back in school as soon as possible!

Here’s my attempt at today’s PE challenge (or should I say Lexie’s).

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I’ve had a few videos in. If you can keep sending more throughout this week and next, I’ll start posting them on the website (if you’re happy for me to). If you want to send in more than one video, please feel free. The most I’ve had so far is 40 from Alex with a tennis racket and ball!

Game 1: top 3
1.) Elliot
2.) Bebe
3.) Leia

Game 2: top 3
1.) Samuel
2.) Bebe
3.) Leia

Remember, these Hive Games will only show the top 3 – not everyone taking part.

I’m going to trial doing the hive games a different way tomorrow. There will be three games – each game will get slightly more difficult. You can take part in as many as you like – as they all start at different times. The times and codes for each is below

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:00pm – 594304
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:10pm – 799752
Game 3 (hard) – 1:20pm – 388369

You can join any of these hive games at any point; however, the game will not start until the time above, so make sure you’re ready to join in time.

Here’s some more work from yesterday sent in by Chloe and Ellowyne

Challenge of the day update: 
Miss Relph has already sent in the correct answer to the first part of our challenge!

Also, Mrs. Fox has discovered that Audible (Amazon) are offering access to hundreds of free audiobooks! I’ve spotted three great books in there already (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, White Fang and Anne of Green Gables). There’s no sign-up required – just head to https://stories.audible.com/start-listen.

There will be another Hive Game this afternoon: the code will be up at 12:55pm and the game will start at 1:05pm – make sure you’re on the waiting screen at 1:05pm (otherwise you’ll miss the start!!)

As always, if you wish, send me in any question or pictures of what you’re doing at home.

Before you start today’s work, check out yesterday’s answers.

As always, you don’t have to do these activities at a set time or in a set order. There will be another hive game – same time as before: the code will be up on the website at 12:55pm and I will start it at 1:05pm.

We could do with some more running/walking distances to reach our target – we still have 400 miles to go!

Keep on emailing me any questions and pictures!

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM – 24.03

Problems of the day

Problems of the day

Bar model questions

Bar Models – 1&2 Bar Models – 3&4

Challenge of the day

Before you start this one, the circles are the “nodes” and the “edges” are the lines between the circles.

If you finished the first, have a go at this one:

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

Remember, a fragment is part of a sentence (or an incomplete idea) and a run-on is when there are two (or more) sentences not separated by a full stop.

1.) The fox stood proudly.
2.) Until Alva gets here.
3.) Are you there?
4.) Running quickly.
5.) As quick as a flash.
6.) She’s my best friend, we have been since I was 5.
7.) Whilst you’re swimming, your brother will be playing hockey.
8.) There’s a snake in my shoe, I hope it’s not poisonous.
9.) Pizza is my favourite food it tastes delicious.
10.) The plant, which was a eerie shade of purple.

Writing

Some of you have finished your newspaper articles. If you haven’t sent me yours yet, I’d love see them.

If you do finish your newspaper article, you can have a go with this: choose a character from any book, story or film and write a small (about half a page) character description about them. You can draw a picture of them if you like. Your character doesn’t necessarily have to be human.

P.E.

You have two tasks for P.E..

Task 1

Your first is to research any sport (e.g. sprinting, skiing, badminton, shot put, swimming, show jumping) and design an exercise circuit.

Here’s two examples of circuits (the first for netball and the second for football):

Think about:
–  what type of exercises they would need to do for their sport
–  how long they need to do each exercise for (do they need short fast bursts or longer slower one)
–  how many activities you wish them to do (aim for at least 7)
– how you’re going to show this (you could draw pictures with small captions next to them)

Task 2

Your second task is a physical one. You need to film yourself keeping a ball in the air without it falling to the ground as many times as you can and send me the video – and the amount of times you kept it up!

The rules:
– you have to be hitting the object to keep it up (you could be using your arms/hands, head, feet, a tennis racket, a cricket bat or a combination of more than one thing)
– you don’t have to send me the first video you do – you can have practice goes
– the ball can be any size you want it to be . If you can’t use a ball, you can use something which is like a ball – except for a balloon…

Here’s a clip of tennis player, Rafael Nadal, keeping up a tennis ball (yours doesn’t need to be this good!)

Here’s a clip of footballers, Neymar and Messi, keeping up footballs.

If you can’t send a video, a picture would be fantastic instead!

Keep up the fantastic work – and keep on sending me what you’ve been doing at home – I especially look forward to seeing your PE challenge attempts.

Here are the answers from yesterday’s questions:
(Click the images to enlarge them)

EBM

Problems of the day

Bar Models

Challenge of the day

This is how Alex showed how she solved this problem (much clearer than my long worded explanation):

The video was very tricky – if you watch this all the way to the end, it has the solution.

Ben got the closest to solving this.

Spot the mistakes

Here’s some of today’s work sent in:

I have another hive game planned for today.

It will be the same time as yesterday’s: the code will be up at 12:55 and the game will start at 13:05. For those who have already emailed me today or yesterday, I will also send the code to those email addresses.

I have a had few questions about the Geography work for today – this will take quite a while to complete (I’d say at least an hour).

I’ve had some brilliant ideas and suggestions about the challenge questions – well done to Ben, Alex and Samuel who had some particularly creative solutions. Same as yesterday, I will post the relevant answers to all of today’s activities tomorrow morning for you to check. If you email me in your work, I can help with any errors then and there

This was the start of Alex’s working for the challenge question about the farmer:

We’ve also had another newspaper article in – have a look at Elliot’s below:

Check out Ellowyne’s fantastic newspaper article – especially if you’re stuck for ideas with your own.

Well done for yesterday’s work – I was sent some fantastic pieces!

Here are the answers.
Check your work from yesterday – if you’re not sure about any answers, send me an email. The time in which I will respond to emails has now been extended to include the whole school day (09:00 – 15:15).

Click the images to enlarge them.

EBM

Problems of the day

Bar Models

Challenge of the day

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Fragment (noun phrase)
2.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
3.) Sentence
4.) Sentence
5.) Run-on
6.) Run-on (this one was really tricky as “though” is not being used as a conjunction)
7.) Fragment (noun phrase)
8.) Sentence
9.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
10.) Sentence

Here are some examples of the work sent in yesterday:

I’ve had some answers for today’s challenge question; however, no-one (apart from Alex – who got there in the end with some help) has got it correct yet.

This problem is harder than it looks (it’s not 30).

Here’s a hint:
Remember that it climbs up the well before it slides back down.

We’ve just completed our first hive game from home. It worked reasonably well and we had quite a few taking part!

Here’s today’s top 3 (based on score):
1st Place – Elliot – 617,976
2nd Place – Chloe – 573,918
3rd Place – Samuel – 108,042

Here’s today’s top 3 (based on correct answers):
1st Place – Chloe – 18
2nd Place – Elliot – 16
3rd Place – Samuel – 13

Well done to all of those who took part. If you missed out, don’t worry – I’ll set one up each day at the same time!

The code for today’s hive game is 134058.

I’m not sure if this will work first time – but we’ll see…

It will start at around 13:05!

These are today’s specific activities – click any pictures to enlarge them, or you can use the pdf version link next to the pictures. There’s no set time or order you need to complete these in; however, I am going to try a hive game on Spelling Shed at 1:05pm – I will post the code needed to join 10 minutes before at 12:55am and then post the results when we have finished (depending on whether it works…).

Any relevant answers will be posted tomorrow before the day’s activities.

Remember, you should also be reading your book and using TTRS, Spelling Shed and ReadTheory throughout the day – see the class’s information page for info on this.

It would also be great if you could complete some running/walking each day – which, if you could email me your distance, I can add to our termly running challenge . We have completed 724km (450 miles) so far – meaning we are on our return journey back to Norway and have 676km (420 miles) to go.

Maths

Early Bird Maths

pdf version EBM

Have a go at solving these. If you can’t remember how to do any, please ask.

Problems of the day

The blue problems are slightly harder.

pdf version Problem of the Day

Bar model questions

1 & 2 – pdf 3&4 – pdf

Challenge of the day

If you’re up for a challenge, see if you can solve this:

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

Remember, a fragment is part of a sentence (or an incomplete idea) and a run-on is when there are two (or more) sentences not separated by a full stop.

Decide whether each of these below is a sentence, a fragment or a run-on:
1.) The blue and white cottage on top of the hill.
2.) If you have the time.
3.) Can you pass me the salt?
4.) Before you go, make sure the dog has been walked.
5.) My favourite sport is swimming, we don’t get to go often.
6.) The dog loved ham sandwiches, she would always get told off for eating them though.
7.) My sister, who is called Ellie.
8.) My sister is called Ellie.
9.) When the door opens.
10.) When are you going to get here?

Writing

Your writing task in English will likely take the whole week. You need to design and write a newspaper article on the video we watched a couple of weeks ago (Pigeon Impossible). If you can’t remember, here is the video again:

Remember, if you have any questions whilst writing this, then please don’t hesitate to ask.

Science / Design Technology

Your task for science is to design (through investigation) something which takes the longest possible time to fall. Have a think about all the things we have discussed in science about gravity and air resistance to help you with this and be a creative as you wish!

Once you have designed your “product”, time how long it takes for your object to drop (from a height of exactly two metres) three separate times and email me your results. Feel free to send in any pictures of your investigation and your “product” – whatever it may be.

If you have any questions/queries or you would like to share anything you have done at home, you can send emails to me at any time; I will respond to these between 10:00 and 12:00. Also, if you missed it, I have set all of Class 4 up on their on emails: see here.

I hope you’re all doing well. Hopefully, we’ll all be back in school soon as soon as possible!