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ENGLISH MATHS: Money & Calculations KS2 Week beg 11.05.2020 Activities to try this week.

Post your learning to your Class Dojo portfolio so we can see it too and be amazed by all your work! Thanks to all that posted

in your portfolio last week!

THEME: Fossils and Dinosaurs ENGLISH Use the attached poem and guidance ‘Recipe for a Wolf’ to write your own recipe poem about a dinosaur – made up or real! This is a chance to use lots of similes and metaphors to describe the colour, size, shape etc.... You may want to draw your dinosaur too and write the poem with your drawing

MATHS . Using your skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division can you answer the following questions? Show your workings! Radio £15, 8 pack of paper £32, batteries £2.20, model aeroplane £1.55 Q1) Cost of 9 radios. Q2) Cost of two packs of paper. Q3) Change from £5 when buying a model aeroplane and pack of batteries.

Topic: Fossil hunt

There is an excellent fossil hunting spot in Ilminster – if you follow the footpath up Old Road (next to The Bell pub) until you get to the Beacon. The fields around there are full of ammonites and belemnites. Good luck exploring (safely)!

THEME: Computing: Log into Purple Mash (contact the school office if you cannot find your log in). There are a variety of activities based on dinosaurs. Some of these will be set as 2do by your class teacher. Give them a go!

ENGLISH When you write about someone else this is called biography. Use the attached sheet to write about Mary Anning – the famous fossil hunter from Lyme Regis. This should be in CHRONOLOGICAL order, going through the events in her life If this is too tricky, make it a fact file for younger children – use headings and subheadings like when you’re writing a non chronological report Use the attached sheet to help but DO NOT just copy the facts – remember to put it into your own words, the correct order and interesting sentences.

MATHS: Challenge 1: Explain: Sometimes when paying for something that is £6 I pay for it with £10 and £1. Why might this be?

Challenge 2: How many ways? I spend 70p at the shop. I pay with exactly 5 coins. Which coins do I use? Level 1: I can find one way Level 2: I can find more than one way Level 3: I know and can find all the ways Challenge 3: Prove it Which total 30p or less has the most different ways to be created using coins? Prove it.

PE: Virtual Dance Challenge! SASP (Somerset Activity and Sports Partnership) have launched a Schools dance competition. All you have to do is film yourself doing 3 short dance moves to Koo Koo Kangaroo ‘Dinostomp ’ and upload the clip (max 10 seconds) to your portfolio. We will then edit the clips together to create our dance entry. The competition will appear on SASP’s Facebook and other Social Media Sites, so please only take part in this one if you have permission to appear on Facebook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imhi98dHa5w

THEME: Science & Engineering: Design your own dinosaur. First, think if it is to be a carnivore of herbivore. Think about defences eg protective armour, plates on back or around neck etc. Think about attacking features eg horns, spikes or a club on the tail, teeth etc. Think about colours for camouflage or waning and skin texture. It could be feathery, scales or more like the skin of an amphibian. Also, what is its habitat? - forest, jungles, deserts, swamps, volcanic landscape, rivers or aquatic.

SCARF: Online Safety at home. How to keep safe when chatting online. Activities from Thinkuknow which is the Online Safety Education Programme from the National Crime Agency. You can find lots of help and advice for parents and carers on keeping your child safe online at https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/

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MUSIC Have a look at the bbc clip about how sound effects are made for films/ video clips about dinosaurs https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4vs34j Now you’ve got a few ideas, you can think about creating your very own sound clips! Watch the ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ clip with the sound turned off on your device https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00b9px4 and think about what is missing. What should you hear? Feet stomping on the track? Dinosaur noises? Water perhaps? If you’re stuck, watch it again, with the sound on to give you some ideas for the background noises. Think about how you could make these sounds yourself and practise putting them to the video clip at the right time to make them most effective. Will they be loud, quiet, soft, fierce? Be creative with what you think you’d hear and how you will make the sounds too! Once you’ve practised lots, you could record/video yourself ‘performing’ your sounds/music to the film clip or you could find a way to write/ draw the order you will perform it in and at what time during the film clip. Either of these could be uploaded o Class Dojo.

Maths Challenge 4: _______________________________ Online Maths game: Money: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money different difficulties.

PE Sock Sporty Silliness! How many different activities can you create using just socks and maybe a few other household items? Ideas to get you going:

• target practice. Aim balled up socks at a target – use different types of throw.

• Keepy uppys using your hand like a tennis racket or your foot like in football.

• Juggling

• Sock bouncing. Place a pile of socks in the middle of the floor and see how many times you can jump over them in one minute.

Upload videos of your ideas or videos of you trying these ideas out to your portfolio.

Fossil Art: Salt Dough Fossils Make your own salt dough fossils. There are so many resources available online to help you make your own salt dough fossils. If you don’t own any dinosaur figures you can use shells or plants. Find out more here: https://www.kiwico.com/diy/Science-Projects-for-Kids/3/project/Salt-Dough-Dinosaur-Fossils/543 Once you have finished, why not paint your fossils?

Milk Bottle T-Rex - See guidance below (make a tea-rex) The T-rex was the largest known carnivorous dinosaur, why not use an old milk bottle t-rex skull? See the instructions below.

Religious Education: Hinduism Explore the BBC bitesize pages on Hinduism at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh86n39/articles/zmpp92p take the short quiz at the end. What can you find out about Holi or Divali festivals? What is special about these times? Here is a website that may help...

Holi - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/t

opics/zh86n39/articles/z4qqy9q Divali - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06ptdgh

FRENCH: If you designed your own dinosaur can you label some of the parts of the body, number of scales/limbs/eyes/etc and the colour of these parts in French.

Maths Can you remember how you have been taught to add/subtract/divide and multiply? Guidance below! Y3s – 3 digit addition / subtraction Y3s – 2 digit x 1 digit /2 digit division by one digit with no remainder Y4s – 3 and 4 digit add/subtract Y4s – 2 or 3 digit x 1 digit Y4s – 2 or 3 digit division by one digit Create your own challenges! Word problems, exchanging in subtraction. Use the ‘bus stop’ method for division.

PE Check out the SASP May challenge calendar. How many can you do this week?

ENGLISH Read with someone else – you could even do this over the phone or using facetime/skype/zoom (other providers available!)

SOMERSET DAY: Monday 11th May 2020 Tell us why you love living in Somerset. You can show us through a piece of your own art, dance, song or written words.

ENGLISH Listen to the story read by your teacher on classdojo and record your answers back to questions given by the teacher.

We would love it if you can try to do a range of activities from the columns above but we fully understand that every household is different and most of all we

want you all to get through these times together and in harmony. The Year 3 & 4 team.

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Other learning sites and resources you may wish to use: PE: We now have access to ‘Jasmine’ an online PE platform. Give the activities a try here: home.jasmineactive.com Parent email: parent@greenfylde-9.com Password: greenfylde

ISEEMaths – Home learning http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons34/ updated with a new 7-10min video daily of excellent number problems and reasoning (explaining) skills. Usually begins with a warm up

activity, then some explaining before a couple of challenges.

Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) and Numbots – Each child has a login for this from school. If you do not have it, contact the school on greenfylde@educ.someret.gov.uk or 01460 52686. Teachers have set

particular times tables based on the year group they are in. The idea is to practise again and again to improve their score and to get a better ‘rock status’. Play 10 studio games to get a baselines score. Numbots

is great for reinforcing key number skills. There is an app available.

Hit the button: Great website to practice all forms of number facts for children in EYFS to Y6 and beyond. Especially number bonds, times tables and division facts. One minute games. Who can get the best score? https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Purple Mash – Each child has a login for this from school. If you do not have it, contact the school on greenfylde@educ.someret.gov.uk or 01460 52686. Purple Mash has a range of activities to do for different

subjects including art, history and computing as well as English and Maths.

White Rose – We use some White Rose materials in our Maths lessons at school. They have created some lessons and activities for home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ There is a video and

questions to complete – just click on your child’s year group to access the learning.

TTS – It's great to balance the amount of activities that involve screen time and TTS have made a 100+ page booklet of things your child can do. Go to this website and click on the pack for Early Years/KS1/KS2.

https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html

Twinkl are giving parents/carers a free month of access. It would be worth downloading a bulk of activities so that you can access them once the access has expired. Go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the

code UKTWINKLHELPS

Phonics Play - We use phonics play a lot in our phonics lessons and they are giving free access for home.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ and then username: march20 password: home

DK Find Out - https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/ This website has information about a range of topics.

Oxford Owl - Lots of ebooks on here for your child to read. You can filter books by their book band colour too.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ https://www.storynory.com/archives/stories-for-younger-children/ - Audio stories

Audible – Amazon have made their book site free for children’s books. All stories are free to steam on your desktop,

laptop, phone or tablet. https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

PSHE (personal, social and health education) – SCARF - https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary -

Harold the giraffe is doing a daily diary with activity ideas and opportunities to write to him.

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ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE:

SUBJECT & ADDITONAL GUIDANCE / TEXTS

Maths – calculation guidance

Division ‘bus Stop’

Computing – Online Safety activity.

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English

Poems

Recipe for a Wolf

Take the rushing of a storm cloud, the growl of a dog in a corner and the song of a whale adrift

for her voice.

Take the shrug of drifting mist, a bonfire’s smoke swirling

and an old man’s beard for her coat.

Take,

the strength of an elephant’s tusk, the jagged tip of a rat’s bite

and a slice of slate for her teeth.

Take,

the speed of a squirrel’s dash, the softness of a dove’s feathers

and the fire’s fine ash for her eyes.

Take,

the stab from a heron’s beak, the flick of a dolphin’s tail

and the strength of cement for her claws.

This first verse is about the SOUND of

a wolf

- Speed as it runs

- The growl

- The howl

This verse is describing the

colour/feel/look of the wolf’s coat

This describes its eyes

- Alert

- Care

- colour

This verse describes the strength

and its teeth

This describes the claws

- The strength

- The speed

- The power

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For your dinosaur poem you could write some ingredients to describe the following things: try to include three descriptions for each, just like the poem above.

Its eyes

Its skin/scales Its claws Its size

Its teeth Its colour The way it moves The sound it makes

Mary Anning Facts Here are some facts about Mary Anning, the fossil collector and paleontologist. Mary Anning was born on 21st May 1799 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Her father, Richard Anning, was a cabinetmaker and amateur fossil hunter. When she was only fifteen months old, Mary Anning survived being struck by lightning. She was in the arms of a neighbour under an elm tree, when a bolt of lightning struck the tree. The lightning killed the neighbour who was holding Mary, and it killed two other women, but Mary was unhurt. Mary attended a Congregationalist Sunday School and she learnt to read and write. Her father often took Mary and her brother, Jospeh, fossil hunting around the cliffs of Lyme Regis. They sold their finds to tourists. When Mary’s father died in 1810, the remaining family members focused on growing their fossil hunting / selling business. Mary became an expert fossil hunter. She spent days looking for fossils in the cliffs around Lyme Regis. Fossil collecting was dangerous work. The cliffs could collapse at any moment and landslides were common. Mary’s dog, Tray, was killed when he was hit by falling rocks. She found her first complete Plesiosaurus skeleton on 10th December 1823. She also found various pterosaurs and a Squaloraja skeleton. Mary had an incredible understanding of fossils and dinosaur skeletons. It was said that she could just glance at a fossil and immediately work out what it was and which dinosaur it came from. Mary Anning and her family sold fossils to museums and collectors all over the world. She was good friends with the geologists Henry De la Beche, William Buckland and Richard Owen. Mary was also in contact with the geologist Adam Sedgwick, one of Charles Darwin‘s tutors. Although she knew more about fossils than many of the experts who visited her in Lyme Regis, because she was a woman and because she was a member of the working class, she wasn’t completely accepted by the 19th century British scientific community. Mary Anning died on 9th March 1847. Charles Dickens wrote an article about Mary, celebrating her life and achievements.

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Apparently, Mary Anning was the inspiration for Terry Sullivan’s tongue twister, She Sells Seashells. Mary was good friends with Elizabeth Philpot, another fossil collector from Lyme Regis.

Mary Anning was born in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, in 1799. Although her parents had ten children, only

Mary and her brother Joseph lived to adulthood. It’s said Mary had a lucky escape when she was a baby. The lady holding her

was struck by lightning. Miraculously, little Mary survived. Phew!

Mary’s father didn’t earn much in his job as a cabinet maker, so he boosted the family’s earnings by looking for fossils (known as

‘curiosities‘ back then) at the beach and selling them to holidaymakers. Young Mary and Joseph would join him, and they

developed a deep love of fossil-hunting.

After their father’s death in 1810, Mary and Joseph carried on fossil hunting, to support the family. In 1811, when Mary

was 12, they uncovered a strange 5.2-metre-long skeleton! At the time, people believed that any unrecognisable creatures

must have travelled from far-off lands, so scientists simply thought it belonged to a crocodile. Eventually, though, they realised it was an ancient species, and

it was named Ichthyosaurus – meaning ‘fish lizard‘.

Mary continued to scour the beach and crumbling cliffs of Lyme Regis with her dog Trey, and in 1823 she made another important discovery – the first

ever Plesiosaur skeleton! This long-necked sea creature (above) looked so odd that many people thought it was fake at first!

Mary died in 1847. Although she was well-known for her discoveries, Mary wasn’t taken seriously as a scientist in her lifetime because of her gender and poor

background. Some of the male scientists she worked with claimed her findings as their own! But today, Mary is recognised as a pioneer in the field

of palaeontology (the study of fossils) and is celebrated as the greatest fossil hunter of all time! You will find lots of information on the web if you have access! Try to find out about the dinosaur skeletons that she found. You can add that to the biography as an appendix (an extra bit at the end). If you think you may need a glossary to explain some of the technical words, make sure you add one!

PE. SASP May Challenge Calendar.

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