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Health Week (8th-12th June)
All activities this week will be through Seesaw.
Tuesday 26th May (HWB Transition)
Last week we focused on Friendship as an important part of transition to secondary school. Today we will focus on conversation starters and the importance of communication. Please complete pages 4-7 of the booklet.
Tuesday 26th May (Literacy)
1. Read the following Daily News article & answer the comprehension questions.
1a Spinosaurus Skeleton Discovered Daily News Story – Rowling + Dahl
1b Spinosaurus Skeleton Discovered Daily News Story – Walliams
2. Solve
A Spinosaurus could grow up to 15 metres in length. What is that in centimetres? What is it in millimetres?
Challenge: A large T. rex was only 80% the length of a Spinosaurus. What is the size of the T. rex in centimetres?
3. Discover
Fact: The Spinosaurus is the only known swimming dinosaur.
Question: What other creatures lived in the sea at this time? Do any still exist?
HOLES – Chapters 10, 11, 12
Tuesday 26th May (Numeracy)
Today I am setting you 7 Problem Solving challenge questions.
Challenge 1
Jane is standing in a queue.
There are 5 people in front of her.
There are 2 people behind her.
How many people are in the queue?
Challenge 2
Rosie gives Mo 25 pence.
How much more money does Rosie have than Mo now?
Challenge 3
If
What is the value of the blue square?
Challenge 4
The perimeter of this regular hexagon is 42 cm.
Four of these hexagons are put together to make this shape.
What is the perimeter of the shape?
Challenge 5
Charlie has a tin of paint.
The tin is half full and weighs 5.8 kg. Charlie paints a wall in his house.
The tin is now a quarter full and weighs 3.1 kg.
How much does the empty tin weigh?
Challenge 6
A spinner has 5 equal sections. The sections are labelled A to E.
The arrow is pointing to the centre of section A.
Tom rotates the arrow clockwise so that the arrow is now pointing to the centre of section D.
What angle has the arrow been rotated through?
Challenge 7
4 congruent triangles are shown inside a rectangle.
What is the area of one of the triangles?
*Remember to calculate the area of a triangle the formulae is 1/2 (BXH)
Tuesday 19th May (Science)
Science Fun with Eggs
Choose 1, 2 or all of the science experiments in the link to complete. The 3 experiments are as follows:
- How to make an egg float
- How to make an egg bounce
- Fun with rolling eggs
Tuesday 19th May (Literacy)
Having read chapter 7 & 8, I now want you to read chapter 9 and answer the following questions. You will be using INFERENCE as your reading strategy.
- Why is it so hard to dig?
- Why did Stanley find it hard to sleep?
- How has Stanley’s weight helped him?
- Why does Stanley nearly faint?
- Why do you think Elya just told Myra to marry Igor?
- Magnet says ‘make sure nothing’s living in it’. What might he be referring to?
- Why was it surprising that Zero finished his hole first?
- Why did Stanley enjoy the shower so much?
Extension Task –
Finish writing Stanley’s letter. Think about the character, emotions, thoughts and how the setting/environment is impacting him.
Tuesday 19th May (Maths)
Maths Starter
Pizza Hut Challenge
Today our maths is going to focus on applying numeracy and money handling skills into a real life context. There are 3 Chilli Challenge cards in the files below. Mild, Hot and Spicy. Choose one and work through the questions reading them carefully to see which number operations should be applied➕➖➗✖️. Click to see the menu below as well.
Pizza Hut Chilli Challenge cards
Extension – Sumdog Challenge
Monday 18th May (Maths)
L.I – revise strategies for multiplication and division.
Mental Maths Starter – Time yourself to see how long it takes you to complete all 25 questions on division. Remember there will be some questions that require remainders.
Main Lesson
Today we are going to practice our multiplying and dividing using formal methods. You will also use mental maths strategies for multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Watch the 2 videos below to remind you how to do this.
Jotter Work – Complete the following questions. For Q15 each question requires a different number operation.
Extension – Sumdog Challenge
Monday 18th May (P7-S1 Transition HWB Friendship)
Question time!
What animals can you see in the picture?
In what ways are these two animals different?
In what ways might they be similar?
How do you think the two animals discovered each other?
How have they become friends?
What do you think makes a good friend?
How can you show other people that you are a friendly person?
What kind of people do you like being friends with?
What kind of people would you not want to be friends with?
Complete P1-3 of P7-S1 Friendship Workbook below
