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.

Thank you for the pictures of your work you sent in today. I’ve got quite a few letters for the care home – which I will pass on to Miss Relph, who will email them over. If you’ve still got a letter you wish to share, you can email them to the class 4 email address (class4@brownclee.shropshires.sch.uk) and I can pass them on.

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and here’s the most value players from each house:

Here’s some of your work from today:

Whilst I won’t be putting work on the website over the next two weeks (it’s the Easter holidays), if you still want to share any photos or videos of what you’ve been up to over the break, then email them to me and I can post them on the website for everyone else to see after the 2 weeks.

If you do start getting a bit bored over the break, remember, Rob Biddulph does his ‘draw-along’s every Tuesday and Thursday – http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob – and there’s always Spelling Shed, TTRS and ReadTheory to keep you busy!

Have a good 2 weeks “off”, keep safe and I hope to see you all soon!

Apologies, there’s (another!!) mistake in today’s answers for yesterday’s questions…

Here’s the correct answers for the blue problems of the day:

1.8kg was the mass of a sphere and not the mass of a cube – I really should make sure I read the question properly!

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. 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.

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 876630
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 511161
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 287580
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 303337

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize! We have 7 winners so far!

This week’s Battle of the Bands between Hawks and Falcons will end today (at 15:00).

Scores (and top 3 contributors) as of this morning:

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM Q

Problems of the day

Day-10-Friday-3rd-April-2020

Bar Models

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

Challenge of the day

By removing just three lines can you turn these 5 squares into 3.

There should not be any lines left over.

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) The blue and white house.
2.) His friend, Kevin.
3.) It’s over there don’t touch it.
4.) Why are you here?
5.) Pass me the salt it’s over by the pepper.
6.) In the dark wood.
7.) Without even thinking.
8.) We only have 30 seconds to get out you need to hurry up.
9.) Before the neighbours arrive.
10.) Whenever you’ve got time.

Writing

When you have finished your letters to the care home, email them over to me.

P.E.

Your P.E. task for today is to create your own game/activity/obstacle course (anything which would required significant physical activity to complete).

As always, send me any pictures or videos of what you complete.

As today is our last day before Easter, I will post the answers to today’s activities this evening (by 7:00pm).

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. 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.

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 761649
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 297612
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 410630
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 157041

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize! We have 5 winners so far!

A Battle of the Bands between Hawks and Falcons started yesterday- which will end on Friday (at 15:00).

Scores (and top 3 contributors) as of this morning:

Early Bird Maths

EBM – 02.04 

Problems of the day

Day-9-Thursday-2nd-April-2020

Bar Models

Questions 1 and 2 with bars

Questions 3 and 4 with bars

Challenge of the day

This question is much harder than it seems!

How many squares are there on a chessboard?

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) I haven’t got time.
2.) Could you pass me the salt?
3.) Until I’d seen it, I didn’t really quite how big Mt. Everest was.
4.) Before you go, put the chickens away.
5.) My brother, who is called Carl, had unfortunately run out of money because he’d spent it all yesterday whilst shopping with his friend.
6.) I’m here.
7.) I like ham sandwiches, but chicken is probably my favourite.
8.) The house on the top of the hill seemed like it actually had chicken legs…
9.) He’s upstairs, reading.
10.) I jumped.

Writing

Your writing task for English over the next few days will be very purposeful.

With the on-going isolating we are all having to do, it would be nice if as many of you as possible could write a letter to the residents at the care home.

Try and plan your letter carefully (think particularly about what you want to put in each paragraph). Remember, the first paragraph should introduce why you are writing (to see how they are doing).

As well as asking them questions about how they are doing, and how things might be different for them during these times.

You may choose to then talk about things you have done since school closed, what you like and dislike about it, what you’re looking forward to doing when it’s over

Ideally, I would aim for about one page of A4 for your letter.

If possible, please complete your letter on Word (or a similar word processing program) – as I will need to email them onto the care home.

If you have any questions about what to include in your letter or how to set it out, then feel free to email me.

Art

Some of you may have seen this already, but he’s some guides on how to draw a few (rather random) things by an illustrator (Rob Biddulph). Choose your favourite and have a go! You can have a got at as many of these as you wish. I’d love to see what you all create.

I hope everyone is doing well and thank you for all the pictures you have been sending in – they’ve been fantastic. Also, the mature approach towards your learning a lot of you have shown by regularly asking questions when you’re unsure of a question has been absolutely wonderful!

Remember, you don’t have to just send me in the work I’ve set. If you’ve been doing anything else interesting, send it in. I’m sure everyone else would love to see. We could also do with some more running/walking/cycling distances – even if it’s just running some laps around your garden. We’ve had another 10 miles towards out target, so we are 350 miles away from arriving back to Norway!

Have a look at some of the things sent in over the past couple of day.

Ben has made his own tray:

Here’s Maisie’s news report:

Here’s some of your maps of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms:

Here’s some of your maths and English work:

Well done to Maisie – who spotted a mistake in one of the answers for yesterday’s maths questions.

9 children didn’t walk on Tuesday.

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

There will be 4 hive games today, which will start slightly later than usual:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 218160
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 567384
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 477737
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 536130

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph (if she’s playing) will win a prize!  (I‘ll be there!)

A Battle of the Bands between Hawks and Falcons started yesterday- which will end on Friday (at 15:00).

Scores (and top 3 contributors) as of this morning:

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM – 01.04

Problems of the day

Day-8-Wednesday-1st-April2020

Bar Models

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

Challenge of the day

See how many times you can fold a piece of A4 paper in half.

What do you notice about the thickness of the piece of paper when you fold it each time?

If a piece of A4 paper is 0.1mm thick, how thick would it be after you have folded it in half 6 times?

Try seeing how many times you can fold a smaller piece of paper; is it easier or harder?

Do you think you could fold a larger piece of paper more or less times?

The investigation above should help you to solve this problem:

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) When you go.
2.) There must be at least 300 people in the forest, I don’t think we should go in.
3.) My dogs’ food always ends up on the floor.
4.) Until you reach level 17, you cannot go this way.
5.) When the door closes, you have 55 seconds to find a way to escape.
6.) I need help, this question is way too hard.
7.) The cat was angry, the dog had eaten its dinner.
8.) I need help because this question is way too hard.
9.) Since you’ve got more money, you can buy this!
10.) Suddenly, the door opened, a man appeared.

Writing

Your writing task for English over the next few days will be very purposeful.

With the on-going isolating we are all having to do, it would be nice if as many of you as possible could write a letter to the residents at the care home.

Try and plan your letter carefully (think particularly about what you want to put in each paragraph). Remember, the first paragraph should introduce why you are writing (to see how they are doing).

As well as asking them questions about how they are doing, and how things might be different for them during these times.

You may choose to then talk about things you have done since school closed, what you like and dislike about it, what you’re looking forward to doing when it’s over

Ideally, I would aim for about one page of A4 for your letter.

If possible, please complete your letter on Word (or a similar word processing program) – as I will need to email them onto the care home.

If you have any questions about what to include in your letter or how to set it out, then feel free to email me.

History / Geography

The Vikings invaded Britain between the end of the 8th Century (793) and midway through the 11th Century (1066). When the Vikings began invading Britain, the Anglo-Saxons had already divided Britain into 7 kingdoms – England didn’t exist as a country at this point (neither did Scotland and Wales).

Try and label this map with which kingdom is which. You can research this if you’re not sure. Be careful Britain has been divide into more than 7 parts. The regions which would later become Wales and Scotland had their own separate kingdoms (e.g. The Kingdom of Powys later became part of Wales whilst Pictland and Strathclyde later became parts of Scotland).

These 7 kingdoms eventually became the Kingdom of England (in the 10th Century). In the 18th Century, the Kingdom of England later “united” with the Kingdoms of Scotland and Wales to form the “United Kingdom of Great Britain” and in the 19th Century formed the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.

PDF 7 Kingdoms

Do any of these Kingdoms sound familiar to you? Are any of the their names still used today?

Keep on sending in your pictures so they can be shared on the website, and I hope you’re all well – and not too bored yet.