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Geography

Use an atlas/globe/google maps or google earth to create and label your own world map. Make

sure it includes the hemispheres, poles, continents, oceans and seas!

Science

Label the bones of a human skeleton. Find or draw a pictures of a skeleton and label the bones. Alternatively stick some bone labels on yourself

or someone else!

Geography

Explore and research the countries of the world. Can you locate them on a map?

Make a list of the countries you find. Can you find a country for every letter of the alphabet?

Science

Make an x-ray of your hand! You will need to make 27 bones—you could use cotton buds, straws, match sticks, pipe cleaners, pasta.

Geography

Learn the capital cities of the world. Can you match them to the countries?

Science

Can you make a life size skeleton of yourself?! You could measure parts of your body and make the bones the correct length.. You could draw bones and cut them out or use/make tubes to make it 3D. What position will your skeleton be in?

Geography

Find some fascinating facts about climate change.

Design a poster to inform others about climate change

and how we can help!

Bonus Activity

Complete the 1 minute of gratitude challenge! You have 1 minute to list all the things you are grateful for. You can record yourself and upload to seesaw/twitter or you can write your list on paper.

Science

Make a poster telling people how to look after their teeth. You could include a diagram showing the different types of teeth; incisors, molars, pre molars, wisdom, canines. What jobs do the

different teeth do? KEY SKILLS

Typing

Practise your typing skills using https://thetypingcat.com/ Practice using the online lessons and then see if you can beat your

high score in the 1 minute test.

Spelling Shed and Maths Shed Practice makes perfect. Can you be top of the leader board

this week and win the medal? Log on and find out! https://play.edshed.com/login

Subject Online Activities Activities Which Don’t Require a Device

Maths

The children started the year by working on place value. This was done in a practical /concrete way using apparatus (numicon ,dienes and place value counters) before moving onto pictorial methods and then finally abstract ways.. We then moved onto looking at coordinates,. Autumn term two saw us focussing on addition followed by subtraction. Please click on the following link for our school calculation policies on addition and subtraction.

http://www.malinbridgeprimary.co.uk/maths/

For place value see the Gareth Metcalfe links or see the no device required section.

For coordinates see the no device required section.

Here are some activities and games that the children could do at home:

Place Value

- Make you own place value counters, Thousands, Hundreds, Tens and ones, turn 6 over, what number have you got? 1122

Choose three or four number cards eg 2,7,4,9, Using all the cards make the smallest number that you can, make the largest number you can ? How many numbers can you make ?

-Draw a place value grid. Write a number in each column , what number have you got? How many tenths? How many tens ? etc. H T 0 .Tth H th

7 3 9 . 2 6

Coordinates -Draw a coordinates grid, on the grid label the X and Y axis. Now choose what you would like to draw on your grid. Draw them on the grid and also underneath. Get someone in your house to write the coordinate's for each thing. Mark their work. -We have done some brilliant pictures using coordinates.. Draw yourself a coordinates grid; create a shape or a picture and note down the coordinates of the corners. Then challenge someone in your house to recreate the picture just using the coordinates! (Make sure you make it tricky!)

Addition—Make some digit cards numbers 1—9. -Keep practising your addition skills, using the digits 1 to 9 (only use each number once) make two 3 digit numbers. Add them together using column addition. Challenge Using the 3 digits that are left and add them to the answer. - It the answer is 453, what 2 numbers could you add together to get 453? Try and think of as many different solutions as you can. Use different 2 , 3 and 4 digit numbers for the answers.

- Can you make up your own addition worded problem for your family to solve.

Subtraction

- Use some grains of rice. Take a handful, count them. Subtract a small amount. How many are left?

- Using digit cards 1 to 9 make a 3 digit number and then underneath make a 3 digit number. Subtract the second amount from the first amount column subtraction.

- Can you make up your own subtraction worded problem for your family to solve.

Below is the link to see the Gareth Metcalfe maths challenge videos. These are brilliant just make sure you do them in the right order because he gives the answers away for previous challenges in the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfyh0qIIwTEV8ktNRI0x5-g/videos

In school, we do the daily 10 to practise multiplication tables. There are loads of levels of challenge for the daily 10 and the children will love showing you their skills.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

There are lots of free, extended challenges on following website that the children can work through. Some of them are really tough so make sure that you choose the appropriate level:

https://nrich.maths.org/10334

Of course one of the best resources that the children should definitely take advantage of is Maths Shed. The children love this and are brilliant at it too.

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login?return_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathshed.com%2F

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Subject Online Activities Activities Which Don’t Require a Device

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LITERACY SHED IDEAS:

Watch the short film ‘Origins’ (https://www.literacyshed.com/origins.html).

Write a diary entry for the robot focusing on the events in the film.

Watch the short film ‘The Present’ (https://www.literacyshed.com/the-present.html)

Write a diary extract as the boy in the film. Explain how the boy felt about the dog and how he felt about it in the end.

Watch the short film ‘Bubbles’ (https://www.literacyshed.com/bubbles.html)

Write a diary entry as the girl in the film. Describe how the girl felt; where she went; what she saw.

POBBLE365

‘Journey to school’ (https://www.pobble365.com/journey-to-school) Complete the given start to the diary.

‘Upside down’ (https://www.pobble365.com/upside-down-2) Write a diary entry for the snow boarder.

‘The vacation’ https://www.pobble365.com/the-vacation Write a diary extract from the perspective of one of the characters.

VIRTUAL TOURS

Go on a virtual tour and record the trip as a diary. For example:

Chester Zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53Glw5Nzro&list=PLezrh9gR8RL3kkND8Pz2zOHHZPRk-a2VC

Alton Tours https://www.altontowers.360hdtours.co.uk/index.html

STARTING POINTS FOR PARENTS: TES

TWINKL https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-41665-lks2-diary-writing-differentiated-activity-pack

THE CHILDREN COULD:

Read a diary extract and look how a diary is written using the ‘how to write a diary sheet’.

Write a personal diary of what they do each day throughout a week in lockdown and create a mini diary storybook in the style of diary of a wimpy kid ‘The diary of….A week in lockdown!’

Write a diary extract about a day at school; a school trip; a day from one of your holidays; The BEST day ever; The WORST day ever

Watch a clip from their favourite movie and write a dairy extract from the point of view of one of the characters. For example; the first day Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts; When Aladdin enters the Cave of Wonders. Mowgli meets Shere Khan

Write a diary from the point of view of one of the characters in their favourite picture book or chapter book. For example: When Charlie finds the golden ticket;

Invent their own character or turn themselves into super heroes and write a diary extract explaining what they do in a day: ‘A day in the life of…’

SUPPORTING RESOURCES

The children are familiar with using different sentence types in their writing. The sentence type examples on the following page will help remind the children of how different sentences are structured and help them to remember to include some of them in their writing.

The children know that they should periodically check their work when writing to minimise spelling errors, errors with punctuation, or to look for improvements. The checklists on the next page will help them structure their diary and help them to re-member what to include. They could then read Their diary extracts to someone else at home.

FINALLY…

Practise handwriting. The letter formation that we follow in school is attached for the children to use.

Extras Find out about how an author writes a diary: Jeff Kinney ‘Diary of

a Wimpy Kid’

https://www.worldbookday.com/online-masterclasses/telling-funny-stories/

Sentence Types for Diary Writing

Subject Online Activities Activities Which Don’t Require a Device

PE

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-collection/zr4ky9q

This is a link to the brilliant BBC Super Movers website. Not only is this great for keeping you healthy but you can learn maths, English, science and many more subjects all at the same time! A brilliant resource for when learning your times tables sat at a desk isn’t right for you.

https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups?filter=the-incredibles#shakeups-hub

This is a link to another great website with games to play based on your favourite Disney films! Why not try the Mr Incredible workout or Simba’s Jungle Skills workout. They are all great and lots of them are games so you can challenge your parents to work out with you!

We get 1 hour outside of our homes or gardens every day. Don’t waste it! Instead of walking try running for a part of your walk or jumping or skipping! Whatever you fancy. Just make sure you are breathing more heavily by the end and you will be fitter in no time. One of my favourite games to play is to put on one of my favourite songs really loud and dance like no one is watching for the full song! Dance monkey is one of my favourites at the moment because Charlie in my class taught me the dance (it’s on Mr Lewis’s twitter if you’re interested!) This isn’t a half hearted shuffle from one leg to the other either. GO FOR IT! You will soon be out of breath and feeling happy!

Online Safety

Think you know—Online Safety at home

Activity 1 :

Use the following questions to chat about the cartoon: o What did you think? What did you like about Play Like Share?

o What different things do Sam, Ellie and Alfie do online? o What problem did Alfie face at the beginning of the cartoon?

o How did the gamer make Alfie feel? o What did Alfie do when he realised something wasn’t right?

o What happened when Selfie’s video was made public? How did it make them feel?

Activity 2: Design a poster for Selfie

Ask your child to create a poster for Sam, Ellie and Alfie’s new band Selfie.

Encourage them to come up with a design that shows off each character’s talents and personality.

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR BOOK?

FICTION & NON-FICTION

Write a book review about your reading book by answering these questions.

Is your book fiction or non-fiction What is the title of your book?

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator? What genre does your story belong to?

Would you recommend this book? Who would you recommend this book to?

Fiction

Describe the characters of the book. Where is the story set? Can you describe the setting?

What is the main event in the story? What made it happen? What was the result?

Can you confidently sequence the story? What happened first? Next?

How did the story finish?

Non– Fiction What is the book about?

Three new words you have learnt Can you give a definition for each new word?

What was your favourite page– what was it about? Two new facts you have learnt are?

This link has many other ideas for learning activities you can do at home:

https://medium.com/pobble/simple-and-fun-non-screen-activities-that-children-can-do-at-home-115543cb3b9c

Sam quickly ran out of his house, heading for the bus stop.

Alex the ferocious Lion chased anxiously after Marty.

In the deep, dark woods there live an old, ugly witch who was conjuring magic spells.

Surprised, Alex woke up in a small, cramped crate and he felt like the darkness was creeping in all around him.

Challenge: identify the adverbs.

Identify the Nouns, verbs and adjectives in these sentences by

underlining in the correct colours.

Think of 5 adventurous adverbs to describe the verb shown in this picture.

This could be for the little girl or the ostrich.

Here are a bank of adverbs. Organise each one accordingly into categories of how, where and when.

quietly weekly here

sadly sometimes tomorrow

far slowly neatly

today here quickly

patiently first away

nowhere nearby loudly

somewhere carefully happily

daily close anywhere

Now Write:

Write 5 different sentences using your adven-turous adverbs to tell me where, when the great race happened!

Example: Somewhere in the mountains the Ostrich stood silently at the start line.

The Great Race