Thank you for your pieces  of writing you have shared with us this week . Focusing on a paragraph at a time and specific success criteria has helped you produce some quality work – well done. Today  is the final piece written in the third person but again focusing on different sentence starters .

Don’t forget to catch up with Shrewsbury  Bookfest  which you can watch live at 10:00am or catch up later in the day.

Enjoy

I know lots of you love doing Scratch. Mrs Bernasconi recommended some great activities for you to try.

.Scratch activities

Some parents were struggling to find the full and half arithmetic papers from Twinkl so I am attempting to add these to the website! Half arithmetic papers take 15 minutes and full arithmetic should take 30 minutes. Answers are on the back page.  I hope these help

Y5-Arithmetic full test

Y5-Arithmetic-Half-Test

Year 6 full arithmetic

year 6 half arithmetic

I am attempting to attach Day 2,3,4,5 English as a word document. I hope it works!

Day 2, 3,4,5 English The Lighthouse

English

The next two week’s work is based on The Lighthouse – a short film.  Most of the unit has a writing focus which I know is harder to do at home without modelling etc. However, we are only asking for one or two  quality paragraphs a day . This work is non- negotiable as writing is an area that you all need to focus on

Day 1

Using one of the links below, watch the film until the point when the lighthouse keeper smashes the lamp.  PAUSE THE FILM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-lighthouse.html

Now answer the questions in your work book. It may be helpful to watch the film again with an adult and discuss the questions like we do in class.

1. Where do you think this story may be set?
2. What is the purpose of a lighthouse?
3. As the beam of light shines across the village, the villagers cheer. Why do you think they do this?
4. The lighthouse keeper slams the window shut. What does this tell us about how he feels about the villagers?
5. How does the director of the film build the tension in this part of the story?
6. Why is the lighthouse keeper looking in the lamp?
7. Write down 2 words that the lighthouse keeper may have been feeling when the bulb smashes? Explain why eg He was …..because….
8. Predict what could happen next?
9. Watch the rest of the short film.
10. How do you think the lighthouse keeper felt when he saw the ship approaching? How does the director show this without using words?
11. Why do you think the keeper went down the steps?
12. What do you think he felt as he opened the door?
13. At the end of the film, how has his attitude to the villagers changed?
14. If you were writing a story of The Lighthouse film, what part of the story is the build up?  Which part is the climax/ problem? What is the resolution? How do you think the story ends?

Day 2 ……. coming tomorrow

Also keep up with your reading and spellings. How many/ what books have you read since lockdown?

Maths

 Year 5

Keep up with your timetables. You need to aim to be fluent  ie know times tables facts out of sequence  for your return to school!

This week we would like to follow the white rose home learning week 2 spring term which focuses on rounding decimals. If you have done this in the holidays, start on week 1 summer term which focuses on adding decimals within 1.  Watch the video for each day and do the activities; these are really valuable and there are answers so you can check your work at the end.

If you need some more maths, why not try a daily warm up of 5 calculations in 5 minutes? By the end of year 5, you should be able to add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits using the formal column method; multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one or two- digit number; divide whole numbers up to 4 digits by a 1 digit number. Squares you are still working multiplying by a single digit.

Year 6

This week we would like to follow the white rose home learning week 2 spring term which focuses on scale factors and angles. If you have done this in the holidays, start on week 1 summer term which focuses on more angles.  Watch the video for each day and do the activities; these are really valuable and there are answers so you can check your work at the end.

There is also KS2 problem of the day which now has answers! These are fantastic at testing your reasoning skills and keeping you  focussed on all the things we have learnt this year. You can also fill in missing pages of your standard/ advanced work book if you want more practice.

 Year 5 and 6 Arithmetic

Can all children complete one half or one whole arithmetic test for their year group from Twinkl each week. The answers are at the back of the test.  Remember no one should be on the ‘daftometer’ for silly mistakes!! 

History

This half term we were meant to be focussing on

changes in an aspect of social history eg crime and punishment from the Anglo-Saxons to the present or leisure and entertainment in the 20th Century ( national curriculum 2014)

I thought you may like to choose an area  of interest you could focus on eg changes in transport, music, communications, fashion, flight over the years. Obviously, some projects can’t start in the Anglo-Saxon times. This is an on-going project and we don’t expect you to complete it in one week.  You can present it in any way you wish eg powerpoint/a booklet but it would nice to share with the children when we come back to school (which hopefully will be in May sometime?!)

Art/DT

I know lots of you have been doing lots of amazing art and DT projects at home with your parents so this is not compulsory. Over the next 2 weeks we will be focussing on the lighthouse film. Why don’t you try and make your own lighthouse?

French

Before we broke up, we were looking at breakfast and cafes in French. Go onto Espresso, French, On- Mange  which is all about food. Have a go at the exercises and learn some new vocab.

Spellings

This spelling pattern crops up in your writing quite often so I thought we would have  go at sorting it out.  Here are the words

swimming   hopping   getting   clapping   tipping   stabbed   hopped  clapped   tipped   stabbing

The rule is  – if the word has 1 syllable, 1 vowel and it ends in 1 consonant, double the final consonant before adding -ing   -ed   -er  -est

Identify the root words for this week’s spelling eg swim.  Identify the vowel and the final consonant.

Find some other words which fit the same pattern – doubling the final consonant before adding the -ing   -ed   -er  -est

Some of you may prefer to work on this spelling list:

hawk  paw   saw   jaw   claw   fawn   dawn   draw  drawn

Science

How did you get on with the last experiment?

You should have seen that the paper and rock hit the ground at the same time (allowing for slight differences in height or letting go)  All objects are pulled toward the Earth by the force of Gravity.  The acceleration of an object due to gravity is the same on everything, regardless of the object’s weight.  This means you could drop a piano and a marble from the same height at the same time and they would hit the ground at the same time!  (Top tip for surviving lockdown – don’t throw a piano out of the window).

Newton’s Law

So, Sir Isaac Newton was a scientist a long time ago.  He came up with three basic ideas which are still used all the time today.  We are going to do an experiment this week which focusses on his third big idea, known as Newton’s Third Law.

Newton recognised that for every action or movement (force), there is an equal and opposite action or movement (force).

For example, when you sit on a chair, you are putting force down on the chair, but the chair does not collapse because it is exerting an equal and opposite force upwards.

Try this experiment to see this in action.  You will need permission to use the bath and you will need some old towels or kitchen roll on hand in case you make a mess.

Materials

Plastic bottle with pop up cap (sports bottles or some washing up liquid bottles have this)

Measuring spoons

Food colouring (ideally but not critical)

Toilet paper (only a few sheets – don’t use it all it is precious at the moment)

1 !/2 cups vinegar

1 tablespoon baking soda (bicarbonate of soda from the cooking cupboard)

(note – if you use  a massive bottle you will need more vinegar and baking soda)

Method

1.  Fill the bath until it is about 15 cm deep
2. Make sure the cap of the bottle is popped up meaning it is open.
3. Unscrew the cap and add the vinegar to the bottle.
4. Add a few drops of food colouring.  This makes the action/reaction easier to see.
5. Take 2 sheets of toilet roll and lay them flat.  Put the baking soda on the squares and fold it up to make a little pouch.
6. Hold the bottle over the bath.  You will need to be quick for the next bit – Drop the baking soda such into th vinegar in the bottle and quickly screw on the lid.
7. Let the bottle go in the water and watch what happens.

Record what happened in words or pictures or a diagram if you prefer.

Experiment with different amounts of baking soda and vinegar to see if you can make your bottle propel itself for longer.

Questions to ponder

Why does the boat move forward?

What is the action? (think about the bubbles)

What are the bubbles pushing against?

What is the reaction or what is pushing back against the bubbles?

Explain your thoughts to an adult.

DON’T FORGET TO TIDY UP THE BATHROOM WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED, INCLUDING TOWELS OR KITCHEN ROLL AND RINSING OUT THE BATH.  TRUST ME, IT WILL NOT GO DOWN WELL, IF YOU LEAVE THE BATHROOM IN A RIGHT OLD STATE!!

Have fun!