brierley home learning overview week 9 (8.6.20)curriculum activity: science - heliocentric vs...
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Brierley Home Learning Overview
Week 9 (8.6.20) Monday
English activity: Handwriting/spelling activity
Reading activity: Author’s intent activity
Maths activity: Time comparison plus mathletics if finished
Curriculum activity: Science - heliocentric vs geocentric research task
Tuesday
English activity: Watch SPaG video on show not tell. Children to then complete activity.
Reading activity: Watch chapter four (part one) video OR read chapter four part one to an adult
Maths activity: Clock activity plus sumdog if finished
Curriculum activity: Science – create a poster showing the order of the planets
Wednesday
English activity: Go onto sumdog and complete the spelling and grammar activities that have
been set.
Reading activity: Watch chapter four (part two) video or read chapter four part two to an adult
Maths activity: Digital time activity plus TTRS if finished
Curriculum activity: Plants and animals project
Thursday
English activity: Children to write sentences using show not tell about the book they have been
reading in guided reading.
Reading activity: Questions on chapter 4
Maths activity: 24 hour digital time activity
Curriculum activity: Plants and animals project (continue)
Friday
English activity: Children to apply their neatest handwriting and SPaG work so far to write their own
ending to the story they have been reading in guided reading. Think about what has happened
so far – how can they build suspense? What is going to happen? How will it end? Email your child’s
work to their class teacher 😊
Reading activity: Children to review the book they have read in guided reading so far.
Maths activity: Arithmetic questions
Curriculum activity: Plants and animals project (continue)
Monday 8th June
English
Practise the following adverbs and use them in a sentence:
achieve, conscience , foreign, leisure, neighbour
Monday 8th June
Guided reading
Discussion point: What happened within chapter three- Edmund and the
Wardrobe.
I have underlined some lines from the last part of chapter three we read last week. I
would like you to tell me why you think the author included these bits of
information. I have done one for you!
Monday 8thJune
Maths activity- Time
Children can begin by making their own clock- using paper or cardboard. Discuss the different
parts of a clock and their importance’s e.g. hands on a clock and what they represent.
Look at past/ to- I teach this by physically showing the children on a clock
Closer look
Small hand (hour hand) is past the nine and the minute hand (large hand) is on the right hand
side (past side), count in 5minute intervals to start until you reach 4, then count the minutes.
Monday 8th June
Maths activity
Monda
y 8th
June
Scienc
e
What
do you
notice
about
these
two
theories
about
our
solar
system?
Watch
video:
https://
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks2-the-work-of-nicolaus-copernicus/z64skmn
Research the two models and write your findings below. Which theory do we use?
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Tuesday 9th June
English:
Show not tell is a technique authors use when they don’t want to give everything away straight
away. For example, rather than saying ‘she was scared’ they could write ‘her heart began to
pound’.
Write a sentence for each emotion using show not tell.
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Tuesday 9thJune
Guided reading (The chronicles of Narnia)
Chapter Three- Edmund and the Wardrobe
1 Compare how Lucy expected her siblings to react and how they actually reacted.
2
‘...Peter went in and rapped his knuckles on it to make sure that it was solid”
Questions 1 - 9 are about Chapter 3, taken from The Chronicles of Narnia.
What does the word rapped mean in this sentence?
3 Find and copy a phrase that suggests Lucy is acting a little crazy.
4 Find and copy the word has means peculiar and unusual?
5 ‘Lucy vanished into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself…. He wanted to
go on teasing her about her imaginary country.”
What does this suggest about Edmund? Use evidence from the text to support your
answer.
6 ‘You shall know us better hereafter...’
Which of the following is closest in meaning to hereafter?
Tick one
afterwards
In the future
From now on
As a result
7 What does the phrase ‘A jolly good hoax, Lu” mean and suggest about Peter?
What do you think will happen next?
Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
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Tuesday 9th June
Maths activity
2marks
Tuesday 9th June
Science
Using what you know from when we did it in class and any additional research, create a poster
showing the order of the planets in our solar system from the sun. You could also include your
research on the geocentric vs heliocentric model or any other facts!
Wednesday 10th June
English: SUMDOG SPELLING AND GRAMMAR TASKS
Guided reading:
Read chapter four from The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Chapter four- Turkish Delight (Booklet provided).
Wednesday 10th June- Maths activity
Curriculum Project: Plants and Animals
To be completed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Project: Plants and Animals
Read
Information about Plants and Animals has been included in your pack. Please
read through it and discuss together.
Research
Use google to research one of the following aspects of information about plants
and animals-
- How do plants reproduce?
- Habitats of different animals
- Food chains
- Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution
- Carl Linnaeus and his method of classification
The following website links / video clips will support you with your research. If you
do not have access to the internet, then please use the information sheet within
the pack to help you with your project.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn22pv4 Information and clips about
animals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy66fg8 Information and clips about plants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgssgk7 Information and clips about life
cycles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q Information and clips about food
chains and habitats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuKs9o1s8h8 Food chains video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw Information and clips about
adaptations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0B6os-6uuc A video explaining Charles
Darwin’s discovery
https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/what-is-the-theory-of-
evolution-year-6-wk1-3 A video lesson all about Charles Darwin and the theory of
evolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks2-the-work-of-carl-
linnaeus/zhnjf4j A video discussing Carl Linnaeus and his method of classification
Present
Present your research in one of the following ways: -
A PowerPoint presentation Completed PowerPoints can be emailed to your class teachers.
A poster representing information you have learnt about
plants and animals This could be hand-drawn, painted, collaged or done on the computer. You could
email / send photos of your completed poster to your teacher.
Make an information leaflet about an animal or plant of
your choice and how it has adapted to where it lives. EG
why does a penguin live in the Arctic and not the
rainforest? How do you know? This could be done using Microsoft Publisher and emailed to the class teacher or it could
be hand made and photos of your leaflet send to the class teacher.
Make a model to represent an animal or plant’s habitat.
You could include key facts about your animal/plant on
your model If you choose this option, please take photographs of the finished model and send to
the class teacher via email.
Thursday 11th June
English
Write five sentences that use show not tell (and your beautiful handwriting!) about how the
character feels in the book you have been reading in guided reading. EG: Her heart began to
pound; every hair on her body stood on end as she spotted the writing on the wall ahead of her.
Thursday 11th June
Guided reading- Chapter four- Turkish Delight
Edmund and the Snow Queen
Match up the adjectives with their definitions
rude scared respectful impatient nervous bad scared likes to eat angry dishonest deceitful not polite greedy not nice evil makes people feel scared unkind when you don’t feel safe threatening polite
Which adjectives describe Edmund? Which adjectives describe the Snow Queen? Write ‘E’ next to the adjectives that describe Edmund. Write ‘SQ’ next to the adjectives that describe the Snow Queen. Look at the quotes. What do they show about the character? Write a sentence underneath each quote. Start your sentence with ‘This shows that....’ "I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. _______________________________________________________________________. "I - I opened a door and just found myself here, your Majesty," said Edmund. _______________________________________________________________________. He seemed unable to move. _______________________________________________________________________. She rose from her seat and looked Edmund full in the face, her eyes flaming; _______________________________________________________________________. "My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, _______________________________________________________________________. The more he ate, the more he wanted to eat _______________________________________________________________________. She knew, though Edmund did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight _______________________________________________________________________. "There's nothing special about them," said Edmund
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Thursday 11th June
Maths activity
Friday 12th June
English
Pretend you are the main character from the book you have been reading in Guided reading.
Write a diary extract about what has happened recently. How would they talk? What would they
talk about? Remember to include different clauses and semi colons within your work. You can
either type your diary or write it neatly below. Once you have finished, ask your parent to email
your work to your class teacher 😊
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Friday 12th June
Guided reading: Write a review of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ so far. What did you enjoy? What did you
think? Would you recommend it? Who to? Email your review to your class teacher to put on twitter to share with the other classes!
Friday 12th June
Maths activity
1. Josh does English and Maths homework each week.
It takes him a total of 2 and half hours.
How many minutes is that?
He spends 80 minutes doing English homework so how
many minutes does he spend doing Maths homework?
2. This table shows the times when some children
start their swimming lessons. They are not in order.
Which two children have lessons between Harry and
Sita?
Friday 12th June
Maths activity (Extra)