Check out the main school blog for today’s virtual sports day!

Enjoy and send me some photos of what you do!

Language

 

Last day to complete the sumdog spelling challenge!

FUNday Friday – Virtual Sports Day

Today is our yearly sports day. Just because we are at home, it does not mean we can’t have a super sports day! Here is our virtual sports day agenda for you and your family to take part in at home.  There will also be a whole school Sports Day next week. There are 6 main events listed below. Please share your photos and videos of your participation. Good luck!

Egg and Spoon Race · Use a boiled egg or potato, race against someone in your house over a set distance. · If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself to travel the distance and try and beat your highest score each time. The aim is to complete the race without dropping the egg.

*Challenge* Make it an obstacle egg and spoon race.

Welly Boot Toss OUTDOOR · Decide on your starting point and use an underarm throw to toss the welly as far away as you can. · Each person has 3 turns, with the furthest throw being the winner.

Sack Race · Find an old carrier bag or a strong bin bag. · Hold the bag by the handles and put your feet inside the bag ready to race. · Hop from the starting point to the finish line. If you have no competitors in your house, time yourself over a set distance and try to beat your score.

Standing Long Jump · Agree on a starting point. · Bend your knees and swing your arms to propel yourself forward into a long jump. · Measure your distance using a measuring tape or by counting footsteps. Each member will have 3 jumps. The furthest jump wins!

 

‘Shot Put-tato’ OUTDOOR · Normally a real shot put will be used. However, we will use a potato for the ‘Shot-Put-ato’ event! · Decide on a starting point and throw the potato as far as possible using an over arm throw. Each member will have 3 throws and the furthest throw wins!

 

Create your own obstacle course ·

Option 1 – Basic Course ·

Start > Bottle Flip > Crawl under a blanket > Jumper ·

Step 1 – Balance: Balance a plastic cup on your head. ·

Step 2 – Flip a bottle ¼ of water before you move on. ·

Step 3 – Crawl under a big blanket. ·

Step 4 – Put on a jumper to finish the race. ·

Or

Option 2 – Challenge Course

Start > Bottle Flip > 10 sit ups > Plastic Cup Balance > 10 Burpees > Jumper and Shorts:

Step 1 – Bottle Flip Challenge ·

Step 2 – 10 Sit Ups and hop one footed to next station. ·

Step 3 – Balance Plastic cup and move to next station. ·

Step 4 – Complete 10 burpees and run to next station. ·

 

We are focusing on Health and Wellbeing for the rest of the week and today, we are focusing on connecting with other people.

It can be so easy to spend time near someone or inside a house with them, but not actually spend time WITH them.

Today is all about connecting in a positive way with the people close to you.

Here are some ideas:

Post a Hug- Cellotape paper together.  Lay down on top of it and put your hands out to each side.  Ask someone to draw your outline.  Colour it in. Post your hug to someone special.

Family and Furry Four-Legged Friends – Who or what do you enjoy spending time with? Is it a family member or a pet? Spend 15 minutes giving this special person or four-legged friend some love and attention.

Write a Poem or Draw a picture for someone you love.  Think about a special person in your life. This could be a friend, family member or someone else. · Write a poem or draw a picture for one of these special people.  Share it with that person once you have completed it. You have no idea how much this will make their day and improve their own mental health and wellbeing.

Feel Good.  Do something this week that makes you or someone in your house feel happy.  It could be drawing, baking, exercising, dancing or simply giving someone a big hug! Ask someone in your house what their favourite thing to do is and then do it with them, even if you don’t enjoy it yourself.

***Sumdog maths competition today at 11am! Be there or be square***

 

For the rest of the week, we are going to focus on some health and wellbeing.

You still have your sumdog spelling challenge to complete, but apart from that, let’s focus on our health as we get ready for the summer holidays.

 

Work Out Wednesday

Family Boot Camp: Each member of the family chooses 5 exercises. These can be any move such as a dance move, martial arts or a fitness exercise.  On your next family walk stop every 5 minutes and do one of the exercises for 30 seconds.

Film yourself doing a short workout of 5 exercises.

Just Dance

give some just dance a go with the family. Here are some of my favourites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCzgc_RelBA

 

 

Wicked Workout Have you tried any of Joe Wick’s work outs? Try a Joe Wicks workout online:

 

 

Super Skip Skipping is a fun way of exercising.  Many athletes use skipping as part of their training regime to keep them fit.  Use a skipping rope, hula hoop or simply skip in a large space to get your heart beating faster.

 

Enjoy exercising and take some time to relax this week, you’ve done a great job this year.

 

 

Spelling

We are doing a few different mixes of spelling words for this week.

• Plural words ending in o e.g. pianos, videos, photos.
• The suffix (ending) –ly e.g. suddenly, finally, really, hardly.
• Words with ph and kn e.g. phone, knock, knot.
• Some trickier homophone e.g.muscle, mussel, principal, principle.

You have a 200 word challenge on sumdog this week, that’s 40 words per day!

 

Here is also a countdown language game. Try and make the longest word possible using each letter only once

http://happysoft.org.uk/countdown/wordgame.php

 

Langauges

Here is a fun Italian language game. You can select any topic and explore the way the words are pronounced and try to remember some of them.

https://www.learn-italian.net/italiangames/four-in-a-row?topic=Food%20-%20fruit&level=primary

 

Holes

Did you read yesterday’s reading pages? If not, go back and take some time to read them.

Choose a page in this week’s reading. Re read the whole page and count how many different types of punctuation there are.

.    ,  !  ?  :  ;  –  _  ‘  “ ”  (  )  \  /

Which punctuation mark is used the most? Was it a full stop? Or maybe a comma or speech marks?

Were there any punctuation marks that you didn’t recognise or don’t understand what it’s job is? If so, ask someone to explain, email me about it, or look it up online.

 

Then repeat this on another page. Compare what you found on the two pages. Did they have similar punctuation marks, or were they different?

 

Finally, take a minute to think about all the different punctuation marks that you were able to find. What was the purpose of them? Why is the author using them in the writing?

Commas revision

If you would like some revision of using commas in different ways, check out this lesson:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdy8qnb

 

Maths

 

Mental Maths

Try countdown again. Explore the different levels to challenge yourself.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=countdowntimerv3

 

probability

Yesterday we looked at how numbers can be used to help us describe probability. Another way to think about probability is using the phrase 1 in 4 or 2 in 6.

This shows you how many chances there are for the thing you are looking for and how many different possible outcomes there are.

For example, the chances of getting a tails when you flip a coin is 1 in 2, because you are only looking for one outcome (tails) and there are only 2 possible outcomes (heads or tails).

The chances of getting a 2 on a dice is 1 in 6, because you area only looking for one outcome (a 2) and there are 6 possible outcomes.

The chances of getting an even number on the dice is 3 in 6 because there are 3 options that are even (2,4,6) and 6 possible numbers you could roll.

Try this game to learn more about describing probability using this language

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activity23

This can also be written as a fraction so 1 in 2 is ½, 1 in 6 is 1/6 and 2 in 6 is 2/6.

Give this challenge card a go

 

extra challenge = here is a page with lots of different probability games if you want to explore this further

https://nrich.maths.org/8494

 

Language

Spelling

We are doing a few different mixes of spelling words for this week.

• Plural words ending in o e.g. pianos, videos, photos.
• The suffix (ending) –ly e.g. suddenly, finally, really, hardly.
• Words with ph and kn e.g. phone, knock, knot.
• Some trickier homophone e.g.muscle, mussel, principal, principle.

I have set a huge 200 word challenge on sumdog. That is 40 words a day! Spend some time every day working through these spelling words.

 

Modern languages

Let’s learn some food vocabulary in Italian. If you would like to recap the French food vocabulary, check out the food section on digital dialects.

 

Vegetables

 

Fruit

 

Have a look at these videos and record some to learn. If you want to find out other food words, you can look them up.

 

You can try the food game for Italian on digital dialects as well

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian/Fruit.htm

 

Extra Challenge = Design a menu in Italian or French – starter, main and dessert with at least 3 options for each.

 

Holes

We are getting a good bit through Holes the book. The story is really picking up and getting exciting.

One of our key language skills is fluency and reading for an extended period of time. Today you need to try and read these pages in one focused session. Get rid of all distractions and focus only on reading the pages of the story. These will then be used for the language lessons for the rest of the week. If you want to take notes or write a summary after that’s great as well.

Maths

 

Mental maths

Countdown maths game = choose numbers and try and make the target number by using add, subtract, multiply, divide and only using each number once.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=countdowntimerv3

 

 

Probability

We looked a little bit at probability on Friday, so let’s look again at what some probability words mean.

 

Certain means that it 100% will happen. It has to happen. For example, you will get older every week is CERTAIN. You cannot get younger.

Impossible is the opposite. It means that it absolutely CANNOT happen. It does not mean the same thing as unlikely. It means that it has 0% chance of happening and cannot happen. For example, I will swim to the moon. This cannot happen.

 

These words help us to put a number on how likely something is to happen.

Impossible is 0 and certain is 1 or you can use 0% for impossible and 100% for certain

That means that if something is almost impossible, but has a small chance of happening, a number to represent how likely it is to happen would be 0.2 (or 20%) for example.

And if something is very likely to happen, but not certain, then a number to represent it would be 0.8 (or 80%)

If something had a 50/50 chance of happening for example, heads when you flip a coin, then it would be 0.5 or 50%.

 

Put the events on the line where they are between certain and impossible.

 

 

Language

 

Spelling

 

Final chance to do this week’s spelling sumdog challenge.

 

Modern langauges

Today in Italian, we are learning colours!

Check out this excellent video to learn colours, then try a digital dialects colours game.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOIpxE8lHM

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian/Colour.htm

Extra challenge = create your own colours with paint or digitally and then create an Italian sounding name for them

 

Writing

A limerick is a fun type of poem. It is usually silly and sometimes a little bit rude. Today we are going to learn to create a limerick.

The rules of a limerick are

• 5 lines long
• Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each other
• Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other

The rhyming goes AABBA. The end of lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme e.g. Jack, Black, Track. The end of lines 3 and 4 have a different sound from lines 1, 2 and 5 but rhyme with each other e.g. smell and fell.

https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-a-limerick/

https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Limerick

check out the pages above for more details on how to create a limerick.

 

 

 

 

There once was a boy called Sam

He loved to eat loads of Ham

He ate too much food

It did him no good

And he exploded with a big KABLAM!

 

Try and make your own limerick about a person or a place. Send me any you come up with.

 

Maths

 

Hit the button is an excellent way to test your progress and explore new challenges.

Have at least 3 goes at times tables, number bonds and division. This will help keep your mental maths skills developing and help your quick recall.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Data handling

Earlier in the year, we looked at probability and what different words mean about how likely something is to happen.

You need to think carefully about what probability words mean. For example the word “Certain” means that something will 100% definitely happen. It HAS to happen. However, the word “probably” means it is likely to happen, but there is the chance it might not happen.

 

Try this probability activity to refresh your memory about how likely something is to happen. Remember 0 means it CANNOT happen and 1 means it HAS to happen. Think about it lie 0% to 100%

Language

 

Spelling

 

Final chance to do this week’s spelling sumdog challenge.

 

Modern langauges

 

Today in Italian, we are learning colours!

Check out this excellent video to learn colours, then try a digital dialects colours game.

 

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian/Colour.htm

Extra challenge = create your own colours with paint or digitally and then create an Italian sounding name for them

 

Writing

A limerick is a fun type of poem. It is usually silly and sometimes a little bit rude. Today we are going to learn to create a limerick.

The rules of a limerick are

• 5 lines long
• Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme with each other
• Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other

The rhyming goes AABBA. The end of lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme e.g. Jack, Black, Track. The end of lines 3 and 4 have a different sound from lines 1, 2 and 5 but rhyme with each other e.g. smell and fell.

https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-a-limerick/

https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Limerick

check out the pages above for more details on how to create a limerick.

 

There once was a boy called Sam

He loved to eat loads of Ham

He ate too much food

It did him no good

And he exploded with a big KABLAM!

 

Try and make your own limerick about a person or a place. Send me any you come up with.

 

Maths

 

Hit the button is an excellent way to test your progress and explore new challenges.

Have at least 3 goes at times tables, number bonds and division. This will help keep your mental maths skills developing and help your quick recall.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Data handling

Earlier in the year, we looked at probability and what different words mean about how likely something is to happen.

You need to think carefully about what probability words mean. For example the word “Certain” means that something will 100% definitely happen. It HAS to happen. However, the word “probably” means it is likely to happen, but there is the chance it might not happen.

 

Try this probability activity to refresh your memory about how likely something is to happen. Remember 0 means it CANNOT happen and 1 means it HAS to happen. Think about it lie 0% to 100%

Enjoy your weekend!

 

Langauge

 

Have you done the Sumdog 30 word spelling challenge yet this week? If not give it a go today.

 

Italian

 

Have a go on some of the digital dialects games for Italian. There is an option to learn the words first, or just try the game and see if you can guess some of the words using your big brain.

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian.htm

 

Main task

 

We have previously discussed the “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” book in class. There was a discussion about whether this book was interesting or not. Some people thought that the mythology was interesting, for others, it was boring.

 

Here is a great lesson using Percy Jackson as the text. Give it a go and see if you enjoy the text or if you prefer other types of books.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkmkd6f

 

Maths

Factors and multiples are a great way of checking if you know your times tables.

A factor is the times table that a number is in

A multiple is the answers of the times tables

This game was a great challenge earlier in the year and we tried to see who could make the longest chain.

Give it another go to test your knowledge of times tables and see if you can get a chain:

Bronze 5 numbers

Silver 10 numbers

Gold 15 numbers

Platinum 20 numbers

Uber platinum 30 numbers

 

https://nrich.maths.org/factorsandmultiples

 

 

Data handling

Have you tried the data handling challenge on sumdog yet this week? If not try it today and see if you can answer 50 questions correctly!

 

Databases and Venn Diagrams

Yesterday we explored Venn diagrams. Today we have a Database about animals, which can then be turned into a Venn diagram.

Remember, the overlap area in a Venn diagram is for things that have both characteristics e.g. it is a bird and it can fly

On the left would be things that are birds but can’t fly such as a penguin and on the right is things that can fly but aren’t birds, for example, a bee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

***sumdog competition today at 11 am***

Language

Spelling

Have you done the Sumdog 30 word spelling challenge yet this week? If not give it a go today.

Italian

Lets refresh our numbers to 10 and learn up to 20

And if you want to learn 1-20 check out the video below:

 

After watching the videos, go on digital dialects and try the numbers games:

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian.htm

 

Holes reading pages

 

 

Answer these questions about this week’s reading pages.

These questions are designed to help you to practice giving an opinion on what you have read. Think about what you have read and what your opinion about the characters and main events is. What do you enjoy about this text? What would you change? Why are the characters interesting? Why is the storyline interesting?

1. How do you think Stanley feels when he goes into the cabin with the Warden?
2. Why is the Warden a good character?
3. Is Stanley a brave character? Why do you think this?
4. What do you think of the way the Warden treats Mr Sir?
5. How do you think Mr Sir feels after the argument with the Warden?
6. Why do you think Zero is helping Stanley by digging his hole for him?

 

 

Maths

 

Perimeter revision

We briefly learned about perimeter earlier in the year. Check out this BBC bitesize lesson about measuring perimeter.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfhkd6f

Why not use this learning and measure some areas of your house to calculate the perimeter – e.g. your bed, bedroom, garden, front door.

 

Data handling

Today’s data handling is Venn diagrams.

A Venn diagram is made of circles which overlap. Each circle has a label which tells you what the things inside it have or are.

The overlap area is for things which have both of the things. That means that you could put them in both circles, so you put them in the middle bit instead.

 

Try this Venn diagram for letters. Remember the vowels are A  E  I  O  U.

 

 

Language

Have you done the Sumdog 30 word spelling challenge yet this week? If not give it a go today.

Italian

We all know 1-10 in French, so let’s learn it in Italian.

We all know and love the French numbers song and the Italian one doesn’t disappoint!

 

Holes pages

 

Tricky words

Predicting, checking and understanding the meaning of unfamiliar words is an essential reading skill.

Read the above pages from “Holes” and predict the meaning of the following words, then look them up.

Remember, you should be able to replace the word with your prediction and the sentence should still make sense.

• unthinkable
• unearthed
• burlap
• condemned
• unclasped
• latch
• hearth

 

Maths

 

Sumdog – data handling challenge. Answer 50 questions today on sumdog – don’t forget to click on the challenge.

 

Main task

 

Below is a table of data about football teams and what times goals were scored.

Tally marks are a way of counting how many times something happened while you search for it. Every time you see the thing you are looking for, you put down a mark and every 5^th mark is horizontal. This means that you are recording in groups of 5 and makes it easier for you to count.

Frequency is how many times something happened. So for example, the frequency of days in the week beginning with T is two – Tuesday and Thursday. It happens twice.

Draw out and fill in the table to help you practice using tally marks and to understand the meaning of the word Frequency.