Daily English Sessions - Theme - ‘The Dream Giver’

1 20 minutes reading for pleasure. Either reading own book or ActiveLearn Bug Club book.

The Dream Giver Silently, a group of orphans sleep in an orphanage. Quietly, the window shutters open and in crawls a mysterious creature.

He doesn't look too friendly at first but we soon see what his plan is. This is the Dream Giver and by cracking his dream eggs he makes sure the childrens' nights are pleasurable. He creates the dreams by cracking the eggs

onto stories, posters and ballet shoes. But what will happen if an egg is accidentally spilt on something not so nice?

Watch the clip ‘Dream Giver ‘https://www.literacyshed.com/dreamgiver.html Create a story map of what happens in the clip

2 20 minutes reading for pleasure. Either reading own book or ActiveLearn Bug Club book

The BFG Sophie, an orphan in London, lies wide awake early one morning, afraid of the witching hour. Out of the blue, she sees a giant from the window of her orphanage

blowing good dreams into the windows of children. Suddenly, the giant snatches Sophie and takes her to the distant Giant Country. The BFG and Sophie soon become great friends and Sophie learns of his job as a dream catcher. Together, they travel to Dream Country where they capture dreams in a butterfly net,

transfer them to jars before blowing them at children to give them a pleasant night’s sleep.

Watch the trailers for The BFG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6zR4Ctp9k Compare the storylines of The BFG and The DreamGiver. What is the same and what is different? Present your ideas in a Venn diagram

3 20 minutes reading for pleasure. Either reading own book or ActiveLearn Bug Club book

Study the character description of the beast from the clip ‘Dream Giver.’ Highlight any adjectives/expanded noun phrases that describe the beast’s appearance in one colour and those that describe its personality in another colour. Highlight similes in a different colour. Make sure you create a key!

4 20 minutes reading for pleasure. Either reading own book or ActiveLearn Bug Club book

Create your own beast from The Dream Giver or giant from The BFG. Annotate with interesting adjectives and similes. Banned adjectives - big, small, huge, tall, fat, nasty, scary

5 20 minutes reading for pleasure. Either reading own book or ActiveLearn Bug Club book

Using the character description you studied on day 3 as a model, write a character description of your beast/giant. Remember to include:

Sophisticated, precise adjectives to describe its appearance and personality.

Similes that reflect the atmosphere of your writing.

Daily Maths Sessions - Theme - Subtraction

1 Number Fact practice.

How many of the subtraction questions can you complete?

Consider what the most effective method is.

2 Number Fact practice.

Be the teacher. Mark Mrs Roscoe’s work. If she has made any mistakes, circle the error and work out the correct answer

3 Number Fact practice.

Decide whether each statement is always, sometimes or never true.

When you subtract an odd number from an even number the answer is odd.

When you subtract one number from another number the answer is smaller.

When subtracting three different numbers you can do the subtractions in any order.

Justify your answer with examples

4 Number Fact practice.

Can you work out the value of each symbol?

Beat the class! Create your own symbol number problem. Send it to me via Class Dojo to see if you can beat the class.

5 Number Fact practice.

Use the clues to work out what A and B are in the function machine.

Wider Curriculum Tasks

1 Knowledge Mat Challenge: The Stone Age As you know, the people that lived in The Stone Age were hunter gatherers and had to use tool and weapons to kill and prepare their food. Like Om and her family used, make a Stone Age tool or weapon. Look at the resources for inspiration.

2 Active Activity: Become the Dream Giver or BFG. Every night for a week, run around your street pretending to give dreams to the children that are asleep. How many laps can you do?

3 Life Skill: The Dream Giver used eggs to give the children a pleasant night’s sleep. Learn how to cook an egg. This could be boiled, scrambled, poached or fried but all are best served with a buttery slice of toast .

4 Well-being activity: Think about your own dreams for the future. These might be for tomorrow, next month, next year or when you’re much older Create your own dream jar (I’ve made these before in plastic bottles and they worked well - https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/how-to-make-a-bfg-dream-jar) Decorate and label the outside of the jar with your dreams.

5 Spelling activity: Learn these statutory spelling. Your adult may want to test you at the end of the week

accident

accidental

actual

actually

address

answer

appear

arrive

Check out this websites for lots of tips on the best way to

make spellings “stick”.

https://www.theschoolrun.com/teachers-tricks-make-

spelling-easy

English Challenge 1

Watch the video ‘Dream Giver ‘ https://www.literacyshed.com/dreamgiver.html

Create a story map of what happens in the clip.

English challenge 2

Watch the trailers for The BFG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6zR4Ctp9k

Compare the storylines of The BFG and The DreamGiver. What is the same and what is different? Present your ideas in a Venn diagram.

The Dream Giver The BFG

Both

English Challenge 3

The boy turned around slowly as the colossal shadow loomed over him.

There, in front of him, stood a muscular creature. Its blood-red, protruding eyes scanned the landscape for its next kill.

Its long, brawny tail thumped the ground whilst its jagged claws tapped impatiently.

Its razor-sharp teeth shone like knives waiting to pierce the flesh of its harmless prey.

Greedy, evil, impulsive, it stood on its powerful hind legs and let out an almighty roar. It had spotted the innocent boy...

Key

Feature Colour

Adjectives to describe appearance

Adjective to describe personality

Similes

English Challenge 4

English Challenge 5

Using the character description you studied on day 3 as a model, write a character description of your beast/giant.

Remember to include:

Sophisticated, precise adjectives to describe its appearance and personality.

Similes that reflect the atmosphere of your writing.

Maths Challenge 1

How many subtractions can you complete? Consider what the most effective method is.

A. 49 - 5 = B. 67 - 9 = C. 158 - 6 = D. 245 - 8 = E.569 - 23 =

F. 465 - 27 = G. 756 - 78 = H. 456 - 123 = I. 746 - 218 = J.475 - 286 =

K. 605 - 129=

Maths Challenge 2

Be the teacher.

Mark Mrs Roscoe’s work. If she has made any mistakes, circle the error and work out the correct answer.

Maths Challenge 3

Always, sometimes or never.

When you subtract an odd number from an even number the answer is odd.

When you subtract one number from another number the answer is smaller.

When subtracting three different numbers you can do the subtractions in any oder.

Justify your answers with examples

Maths Challenge 4

How much is each symbol worth?

Beat the Class! Create your own symbol number problem. Send it to me via Class Dojo to see if you can beat the class.

Maths Challenge 5

Knowledge Mat Challenge