Good morning everybody!
We hope you enjoyed learning about the incredible Great Wall of China yesterday. Remember when you have completed any of your work, please email it to your class teacher. We would love to see the work you are doing!
Here are our email addresses below:
Mr Bashford: woodpeckers@knowle-plymouth.co.uk
Mr Young: kingfishers@knowle-plymouth.co.uk
Have a good day!
From Mr Bashford and Mr Young 😊
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English: The Chinese are famous for their myths and legends. Click on this link below to find out what a myth is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx339j6/articles/ztxwsrd After that, you will be looking at two Chinese myths. The first one is called ‘The myth of Nian’ which is in the form of a PowerPoint or a word document attached below. You just need to read this one.
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The other myth is called ‘The Chinese new year story’. This one is attached below as a PDF. We would like you to read the story and then create a story map in your book to represent the story. Remember your story map needs to:
The story is in 13 parts on the PDF file. We recommend you follow this structure for your story map, so therefore your story map has 13 parts.
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Maths:
Today you will be practising more arithmetic questions. If you find any difficult have a look at the video clips at the bottom of the page to help you. Complete the arithmetic challenges below. You may want to start with the mild challenge or if you are feeling confident go straight on to the arithmetic challenges. |
Now use your arithmetic skills to try these mastery challenges:
In the top corner of your propeller board, you will have a space to write your number.
Range 10-20: 18
Range 30-60: 53
Range 350-450: 365
Range 30-99:44
Don’t forget to keep practising your times tables on TTRS.
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Topic: Today you will be finding out more about Chinese new year. Have a look at the video below and the word document attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtbp32YyuCs
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Your poem should spell out the words ‘Chinese new year’ as shown below. I have also added an example of what each line should like.
Celebrate with family and friends
Houses decorated with lanterns
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Reading: Please do your daily reading and record it in your reading record. You can now also go on: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html to do your online reading and quizzes too! We can see how many books you have read and how you are doing on your quizzes. So go on, let’s get reading!
Spellings: Please practise your spellings daily. This week’s spellings are below. You will need to see which ones you want to work on. If you can spell all of the Year 2, then do the Year 3/4, if you can already spell all of those, then do the Year 5/6. We will be focusing on 10 spellings every week. On Friday, get someone at home to do your spelling test with you! |
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Year 2: wild climb most only both old cold gold hold told
Year 3/4: breath breathe build busy business calendar caught centre century certain
Year 5/6: available average awkward bargain bruise category cemetery committee communicate community |
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Arithmetic help
X and ÷ by 10, 100 https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/z2fkwxs
Column addition https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/z3kmrwx
Column subtraction https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/zc78srd
Multiplying mentally https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/zwghk2p
Multiplication written method https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-5-week-3-multiplication-using-formal-written-methods-monday/
Short division method https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/zgxdfcw
Square numbers https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyhs7p3/articles/z2ndsrd
Add and subtract fractions https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfr3nrd/articles/z9n4k7h
Multiplying fractions https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbh6hbk