Good morning everyone! I hope that you are all well and are keeping busy at home. Have you played any tricks for April Fools yet? I haven’t but I’m on guard in case anyone tries to play one on me! 🃏
Literacy:
Today we will be continuing to work on the skill of making inferences! 📖
Wednesday 1st April
Comprehension
I can demonstrate my understanding of a text by making inferences and justifying them with evidence.
Warm Up:
Reminder: Making an inference is all about using what you have read in the text to make an educated guess. Watch this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqdI5JMJnM. The actress in the video was not told that her character was feeling unhappy but she used what she had learned about her character’s day to guess that was how she was probably feeling.
Main Task:
Excerpt taken from ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell, Chapter 10, p.134-7. 🐉
Eventually Stoick came out of the Huddle and stood before the boys, who were hanging their heads in shame, their dragons at their feet.
If Hiccup had been able to look at his father, he would have seen that Stoick was not his normal, merry, violent self. He looked very solemn indeed.
“Novices of the Tribes,” he bellowed grimly, “this is a very bad day for all of you. You have FAILED the Final Test of the Initiation Program. By the fierce Law of the Inner Isles this means that you should be cast out from the Tribes into exile FOREVER. I do not want to do this, not only because my own son is among you, but also because it will mean that a whole generation of warriors is lost from the Tribes. But we cannot ignore our Law. Only the strong can belong, in case the blood of the Tribes should be weakened. Only Heroes can be Hooligans and Meatheads.”
“Under normal circumstances,” said Stoick, “the ceremony of exile would start now. But going to sea in weather like this would mean certain death for all concerned. As an act of mercy, I will allow you one more night of shelter under my roof, and first thing tomorrow morning you will be set ashore on the Mainland to fend for yourselves. From this moment forth, you are all banished and may not talk to any other member of your Tribe.”
The thunder crashed all around the boys as they stood, heads bowed, in the rain.
“Pity me, for this is saddest thing I have ever had to do, to banish my own son,” said Stoick sadly. “A Chief cannot live like other people,” said Stoick, looking almost pleadingly at Hiccup. “He has to decide what is for the good of the Tribe.”
Suddenly Hiccup was very angry.
“Well, don’t expect ME to pity you!” said Hiccup. “What kind of father thinks his stupid Laws are more important than his own son? And what kind of stupid Tribe is this anyway, that it can’t just have ordinary people in it?”
Stoick stood looking down at his son in surprise and shock for a moment. Then he turned round and trudged off.
“I’ve lost my t-t- tooth,” Toothless complained whinily. “C-c-came out when I hit that F-f-fireworm dragon.”
Hiccup took no notice.
Write down as many adjectives as you can for how the Stoick, Hiccup and Toothless are feeling at this moment in the story. Beside each adjective write a quote from the text to justify your choice.
For example:
Stoick the Vast
Sad – “He looked very solemn indeed”
Try to get 3 inferences for Stoick and Hiccup. 1 inference is enough for Toothless as he does not play a big part in this scene.
Extension:
Gather as many words from the text as you can find which suggest to the reader how the character is feeling. You may be able to find more than one word/words from the text that show the same thing (I could find 4 different parts of the text that suggested that Stoick was miserable).
For example you can tell that the boys were feeling embarrassed because it says that they were “hanging their heads in shame”.
Yesterday’s short story by David Walliams came from his book ‘The World’s Worst Children 2’ and is entitled ‘Humbert the Hungry Baby’. It’s really funny – have a listen!
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
Maths
Warm Up: Mental Maths
- 6 x _____ = 42?
- Write down a multiple of 10 between 37 and 47.
- 32 ÷ 4 = ?
- 2,327 = 2,000 + 300 + ____ + 7
- Write down seventy-six thousand and twenty-nine
- What is the next number? 13,210 12,210 11,210 10,210 _______
- How many 3’s make 18?
- Round 53,865 to the nearest thousand.
- How much money is 2 twenty pound notes, 3 ten pound notes and 5 five pound notes?
- 1,112 – 14 = ?
- The time is 11:35. What time will it be in half an hour?
- How many 5 pences are in £2.05?
- A pen costs 70p. How much would 4 pens cost?
- Which of these numbers can you divide by 9 without getting any remainders? 81 76 45 20 32
- I set off at 9:30am. My journey takes 1 hour and 25 minutes. When do I arrive?
- 8 x 50 = ?
Main Task: Halves
01.04.20 Halving
I can separate a number into parts in order to halve it.
Activity 1: Simple Halving
Find half of these numbers:
- 16
- 20
- 18
- 30
- 40
- 50
Activity 2: Halving by Partitioning
Split the following numbers into tens and units. Half the tens, half the units then add them both together.
Activity 3: Halving 3-digit Numbers
Split the numbers into hundreds, tens and units. Half the hundreds, half the tens and half the units then add all three numbers together to calculate the answer.
Traffic Light today’s work and leave a comment to say how you found halving by partitioning today. 🚦
Extension:
If you are up for a challenge try to solve these riddles!
| I think of a number.
I half it and subtract 10. The answer is 10. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and add 5. The answer is 20. What was my number? |
| I think of a number.
I half it and add 3. The answer is 9. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and add 10. The answer is 16. What was my number? |
| I think of a number.
I half it and add 10. The answer is 18. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and add 5. The answer is 9. What was my number? |
| I think of a number.
I half it and subtract 1. The answer is 11. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and add 5. The answer is 20. What was my number? |
| I think of a number.
I half it and add 4. The answer is 12. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and subtract 3. The answer is 4. What was my number? |
| I think of a number.
I half it and subtract 15. The answer is 29. What was my number? |
I think of a number.
I half it and add 12. The answer is 33. What was my number? |
Create 3 of your own riddles for someone in your house to solve.
Lastly, I know we have some lego wizards in our class. Why don’t you have a go at this 30-day challenge? I bet you could come up with some really creative designs!
Miss Donaldson 👍🏼
