Good morning girls and boys,

We hope that you are doing well and staying safe at home.

Here are your tasks for today.

Love Mrs Curran and Mrs McHugh xx👩👱‍♀️💗

Literacy

Today I would like everyone to read the poem below about the bug and then write your own poem about any animal you like.

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Remember not all poems have to rhyme but sometimes it’s easier to include some rhyming words to help you  get started !

Here’s a link to the BBC Bitesize page to give you some help to write your poem.            BBC Bitesize Poetry

Send  your poems to  Mrs McHugh and I to read either to the comments box or to our Teams page.

Have fun and we’re  sure that there are a lot of budding poets in our class! 📝😀

 

Numeracy 

All groups:

• Log onto Sumdog and complete the new Maths Assessments that I’ve set for you to revise all our number work so far this term.

• Challenge : Here’s are a  few little brain teasers  for you to keep you thinking!!! Can you work out the answers with some help?

Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?

A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be?

It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it?

 

General Knowledge Quiz 2

It’s general knowledge time again!!🤔😎😁📝

Ask an adult to help you find out the answers to these general knowledge questions, but you will  know some of the answers without any help I’m sure!! .

I will post the answers here later on today! Good luck! 👍😁

 

1. What is the name given to an animal that only eats plants?

2. What is a mammal?

3. What is Dr Who’s time machine called?

4. What is the name of the organ that pumps blood around the body?

5. What two colours make up the flag of Spain?

6. How many hours are there in one day?

7. In “The Jungle Book”, what kind of animal is Baloo?

8. What is a Venus flytrap?

9. What is the currency  in Turkey ?

10. What is a baby goat called?

 

 

 

Update – Here are the answers to the brain teasers and the general knowledge quiz: 

Brain Teasers –

Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks? They weigh the same because they are both a pound!

A man was walking in the rain in the middle of nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet. How can this be? The man was bald! 

It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest person can’t hold it for more than five minutes. What is it? It is your breath. 

 

General Knowledge Quiz Answers:

1. A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants.

2. A mammal is an animal with a backbone,  breathes air and grows hair. Humans are mammals too .

3. Dr Who’s time machine is called a tardis.

4. The heart is the organ that pumps blood around the whole body.

5. Red and yellow are the two colours make up the flag of Spain.

6. There are 24 hours in one day.

7. Baloo from the Jungle Book is a bear.

8. The currency that is used in Turkey is the Turkish Lima

9. A Venus fly trap is a meat eating plant.

10. A baby goat is called kid.