Thank you to George R, who spotted there was a slight mistake on the blank map of English counties. Herefordshire and Worcestershire were merged together on the original map – which must been an older map.

Here’s an updated map:

Map of Counties 2

Good morning. Before you check out today’s activities, here are yesterday’s answers.

If you missed a maths video/lesson or want to revisit something, here’s yesterday’s post:
Daily Activities – 20.04

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. Also, you don’t have to be doing work all day! Feel free to send in some pictures or videos of some of the other things you have been doing at home.

Spelling Shed

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 494376
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 996090
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 624921
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm –  646848

Remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize!

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM Q

Year 5 maths:

Y5 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

Y5 maths activity:

Y5 Activity – 21.04

Year 6 maths:

Y6 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

Y6 maths activity:

Y6 Activity – 21.04

Extension – Bar Models:

Bars 1&2

Bars 3&4

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) He’s here.
2.) We don’t have enough time.
3.) The fox slowly.
4.) It over there by the oak tree.
5.) My tail was stuck, I didn’t know what to do.
6.) Peter was my human, but I was sure about his father.
7.) Pax slowly peered out from behind the fallen log, he still had mud on his ears.
8.) As quick as a flash.
9.) Do we have time to do it?
10.) I jumped, he jumped higher.

Reading

As mentioned yesterday, I will be sharing a chapter of the book Pax every day – which did mean I had to very brave and record myself reading.

Here’s today’s chapter:

Writing

Based on what you’ve just listened to from chapter 16, write a short diary entry as if you were Peter on that day. Think about what things you’re going to write in your diary entry and how it would have made you (Peter) feel.

Daily Video

As quite a few of you said you enjoyed yesterday’s short animation, I thought I’d try to include them more regularly – along with some questions to get you thinking.

Here’s today’s:

1.) In this clip, there are two scenes. Who do you think the two young Chimpanzees are?

2.) The two Chimpanzees play in two different styles; which of the two Chimpanzee’s playing is more formal?

4.) What do you think the relationship between the two chimpanzees is?

5.) How do you think the lives of the two chimpanzees have been different?

6.) Rank the four character’s (the gorilla caretaker, the chimpanzee caretaker, the chimpanzee pianist and the monkey piano teacher) from 1 – 4 (one being the most and 4 being the least) for each of the following characteristics:
a.) Funny
b.) Talented
c.) Strict
d.) Happy

7.) Interestingly, although this animation is called “Monkey Symphony”, there is only one monkey in it. Gorillas and Chimpanzees are actually apes (like humans). How do you think that we know the piano teacher is a monkey and not an ape?

Geography

Our topic this term is going to be “Tudor Shropshire”. Shropshire is a county of England. England has 48 counties.

Your Geography task is a bit of a challenge: see how many counties you can label on the map below as possible – you don’t need to find them all. You can use an atlas and/or any web resources as you wish.

Don’t worry about the coloured counties as these are not part of England. The pink counties are Scottish, the yellow are Welsh and the green are Northern Irish.

Map of counties PDF version

Bonus question: does anyone know why the Republic of Ireland has not been included on this map?

Here are the answers to yesterday’s work:

EBM:

Year 5 maths:

Please note that for some of these, there is more than one answer and an example is given. If you’re still not sure whether you’ve got it correct, send me an email.

Year 6 maths:

Please note that for some of these, there is more than one answer and an example is given. If you’re not sure whether you’ve got it correct, send me an email.

Bar models:

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on:

1.) Fragment (noun phrase)
2.) Sentence
3.) Sentence
4.) Fragment (prepositional phrase)
5.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
6.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
7.) Fragment (noun phrase)
8.) Sentence
9.) Fragment (verb)
10.) Fragment (subordinate clause)

I hope you’ve all had a good Easter.

This term, the set up of our activities has changed slightly – as I’m looking to try and include some of the content which had not yet been covered in school this year. This will be most noticeable in maths, where there will be a video for you to watch and some activities to follow. Year 5 and Year 6 will have different videos/activities to complete – it is important you stick to your year group. The Year 5s’ activities will, to begin with, be a recap of some of the work we did before the school closure. There will still be some EBM questions and, if you’re still up for some more maths after you’ve done your activities, there will still be some bar model questions available as an extension task.

I’ve tried to make this as easy as possible to follow and will try to include everything needed on a single post. If you have any questions about anything, feel free to email me (class4@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk).

Although a new “maths lesson” will be available every day, please don’t feel pressured to keep up – especially if you feel that you need to spend more than one day on a session.

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. Also, you don’t have to be doing work all day! Feel free to send in some pictures or videos of some of the other things you have been doing at home.

Spelling Shed

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 613543
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 448025
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 481165
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 815482

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize! We have 8 winners so far!

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM – Q – 20.04

Year 5 maths:

Y5 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

Y5 maths activity:

Y5 activity – PDF version 20.04

Year 6 maths:

Y6 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

Y6 maths activity:

Y6 – activity PDF version – 20.04

Extension activity – Bar Models:

Questions 1 and 2 with bars
Questions 3 and 4 with bars

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) My friend called Dennis.
2.) My friend is called Dennis.
3.) There are three of them in the forest.
4.) Behind the car.
5.) Before we go.
6.) Although we haven’t had the time.
7.) The blue door with a pink handle.
8.) Could you pass me the salt?
9.) Had broken.
10.) When the door opens.

Reading

As always, you should be regularly reading your own reading books; however, the author and publisher of last term’s class read (Pax) have given permission to do some readings. To start with, I thought it would best if we recapped what had happened so far (as it was over 4 weeks since we last read it together). Starting from tomorrow,  I will include a video of a reading from Pax.

Fitting with the theme of foxes, here’s a short animation called “A Fox and A Mouse”.

After watching this video, see if you can answer these questions:

1.) At the start of the clip, what did you think the fox was trying to do to the mouse?
2.) What made you think this?
3.) How was this different to how you felt at the end of the clip?
4.) In this clip, what could the fox do that the mouse couldn’t?
5.) In this clip, what could the mouse do that the fox couldn’t?
6.) What country do you think this animation is set in? Explain your answer.
7.) Choose one word to describe each of the characters.

Science

Our science topic for this term is going to be “Living Things and their Habitats”, so it would be fantastic if you want to do anything outdoors at home to do with living things and the habitats in which they live in. Remember to send in any photos you wish to share.

To get you started, here is a couple of vocabulary jigsaws on living things and their habitats. Don’t worry if you find these tricky (particularly the second one); we’ll try and cover some of the aspects over the rest of the term.

Activity Sheet Living Things Jigsaw

If there are any questions, or you’re finding anything difficult, please don’t hesitate to contact me (class4@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk). I look forward to hearing from you all.