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 are the previous posts:
Daily Activities – 20.04
Daily Activities – 21.04
Daily Activities – 22.04
Daily Activities – 23.04
Daily Activities – 24.04

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 – 995990
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 896366
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 506927
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 543040

Miss Relph will only be joining some of our games each week from now on.

Maths

Early Bird Maths

This week, you will have something called a “Flashback 4” in each of your maths videos. These are similar to EBM and therefore I will only be including 5 EBM questions.

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-Rounding-decimals-2020

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-Calculating-scale-factors-2020

Extension – Bar Models:

Bars 1&2
Bars 3&4

English

Reading

Here’s today’s chapter from Pax:

Writing

There are different types of nouns. See if you can colour this in (you can use different colours than stated if you wish):

Nouns

Here’s some notes if you need a reminder.

Common nouns are names for everyday objects – e.g. pen.
Compound nouns are names formed from two separate nouns – e.g. bedroom.
Abstract nouns are names for ideas, thoughts or feelings – e.g. happiness.
Pronouns are not actually nouns but can be used in the place of a noun – e.g. he.
Collective nouns are names for groups of things – e.g. herd.
Proper nouns are names for specific things – e.g. England.

Daily Video

Today’s animation comes as a recommendation from Alex:

Here’s some questions to get you thinking:

1.) What did the girl always want to be?
2.) What was the girl’s name?
3.) What did her father do for a job?
4.) What did her father do with the girl’s shoes when she broke them?
5.) What do you think the girl regretted?

Science

In science, we are going to look at “taxonomy” or the classification of living things. All living things fit into different groups. The video below tries to explain this:

Don’t worry if you found some parts of this video confusing – it discusses some quite tricky science.

Your task in science is to find the scientific name of 10 different organisms (try not to just have animals – plants, fungi and bacteria are living things too). An organism’s scientific name is based on the genus is from and the species of that genus. For example, humans are the species “sapiens” from the genus “Homo”; therefore, their scientific name is Homo sapiens (sometimes written as H.sapiens).

Here are the answers from yesterday’s questions:

EBM

Problems of the day

Bar Models

Challenge of the day

What you should have found with today’s challenge is that when you get to around 6 or 7 folds it’s impossible to fold in half again.

The reason for this is that each time we fold it in half, it becomes twice as thick – to point in which we can’t fold it anymore. We can all agree paper is quite thin (~0.1mm thick). However, folded in once it’s 0.2mm. Folded twice it’s 0.4mm. Folded three times it’s 0.8mm thick. Folded four times it’s 1.6mm thick. Folded five times it’s 3.2mm thick. Folded 6 times it’s 6.4mm thick. Folded 7 times it’s 12.8mm (1.28cm) thick.

The smaller a piece of paper is – the fewer times you will be able to fold it. Therefore, by using a large piece of really thin paper is going to be able to be folded more times.

Britney Gallivan holds the world record for folding a single piece of paper 12 times!

Interestingly, if you fold a piece of paper 10 times, it would be about the width of your hand. If you could fold a piece of paper 23 times, it would be about 1000m thick. If possible, 30 folds would get you to space (100,000m). 42 folds would be enough to get to the moon. 103 folds would, in theory, make the paper thicker than the whole universe.

With the dragon question, you should have found that if the dragon doubles in size each day, it will half fill the cave after 19 days. Well done to Elliot – who was the first person to send me the correct answer!

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
2.) Run-on
3.) Sentence
4.) Sentence
5.) Sentence
6.) Run-on
7.) Run-on
8.) Sentence
9.) Sentence
10.) Run-on

Geography / History

These 7 kingdoms along with the Green South-West region (now Devon and Cornwall) went on to eventually form the Kingdom of England. The Green region (excluding the Devon/Cornwall region) are the kingdoms which eventually went on to form the Kingdom of Wales – whilst the pink regions (along with some of Northumbria) went on to form the Kingdom of Scotland.

Lots of these names are still used regularly and they are all still considered regions (if no longer kingdoms) of Britain. The one which you will most likely to have seen is Mercia – as being in “West Mercia Police”.

Here are the answers from yesterday’s questions:

EBM

Problems of the day

Bar Models

Challenge of the day

I should have made it clearer in the question: the containers have no measurements along the sides so you can’t accurately measure out halves, thirds, quarter etc.

This problem has a few solutions – here’s mine:

• Fill the 3L container from water source
  [3 litres in 3L container]
• Pour the 3 litres from the 3L container into the 5L container
  [3 litres in 5L container]
• Refill the 3L container from the water source
  [3 litres in both containers]
• Fill the 5L container from the 3L container – as there are 3 litres already in the 5L container, you will end up pouring 2 litres from 3L container into the 5L
  [5 litres in 5L container and 1 litre in 3L container]
• Empty 5 litres from 5L container back to water source
  [1 litre in the 3L container]
• Pour the 1 litre from the 3L container into the 5L container
  [1 litre in the 5L container]
• Refill the 3L container from the water source
  [1 litre in the 5L container and 3 litres in the 3L container]
• Finally, pour the 3 litres from the 3L container into 5L (which already has 1 litre in it)
  [4 litres in the 5L container!]

Here’s a picture showing this:

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Sentence
2.) Sentence
3.) Fragment (relative clause – it would be a question if it had a question mark)
4.) Run-on
5.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
6.) Sentence
7.) Run-on
8.) Sentence
9.) Run-on
10.) Fragment (a very long noun phrase)

History

You could have had more answers for some of these questions but here’s the general answers:

Here’s some more new news articles from Aggie, Chloe, George Be, George Ba and Samuel.

Let me know if you’ve sent me one and I’ve missed it!

Here’s Elliot’s attempt at our PE challenge (the highest so far – I think!):

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

There could be other solutions – but I haven’t seen any yet.

Did anyone notice anything about the starts of each of the names in each puzzle?

Here’s some examples of the correct answers sent in:

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Sentence
2.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
3.) Sentence
4.) Fragment (could be an adverbial phrase or verb phrase – I think…)
5.) Fragment (adverbial phrase)
6.) Run-on (This was is really hard because I forgot to put the “friends” in the second clause – however, it should still be two separate sentences. I’d separate them with a dash, a semi-colon or a colon – rather than a full stop though.
7.) Sentence
8.) Run-on (full stop/semi-colon/dash instead of comma)
9.) Run-on (full stop/semi-colon/dash after “food”)
10.) Fragment (noun phrase)

Here’s some of yesterday’s work that was sent in: