Year 5 and 6 Home Learning Pack 2

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Week 3

Monday Reading – Mexican Beans

Writing – narrative

Maths – Puzzles and problems

Science – Space travel

Tuesday Reading – War horse extract 1

Grammar – sentence types

Maths – Multiples

Wellbeing – Jar of appreciation

Wednesday Reading – War Horse extract 2

Writing – play script

Maths – Tea Cup challenge

Jigsaw – the future

Thursday Reading – War horse extract 3

Grammar – Word classes

Maths – Multiplication

Science - bouncing balls

Friday Reading – War Horse extract 4

Writing – narrative

Maths – Division Non Core –Art

Don’t forget that you also have a log in to access Times table Rock Stars:

Online, you can also access extra maths home learning on the White Rose Maths site. Use the link below and click on your year group!https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Reading – Week 3 Monday – Mexican Bean Burger Recipe

Questions – Mexican Bean Burger 1.) According to the text, write one difference between Bean Burgers

and regular meat burgers________________________________________________________________________

2.) Which of these foods did the Maya people eat? Tick 2.BurgersCornCheese Beans

3.) Which of these ingredients do you need two teaspoons of for this recipe? Tick 1.

Kidney beans Breadcrumbs Mild chili powderSalsa

4.) What important thing must you do when turning on the grill? Explain why it’s important.____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5.) Explain why you would need to wet your hands before dividing the mixture into burgers. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.) What should you do while the burgers are under the grill? In your answer, explain why this is a good time to do it. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Writing – Week 3 Monday – Narrative

Maths – Week 3 Monday – Puzzles and problems

Science – Week 3 Monday – Space Travel Find out when the events below happened and add them (along with any other information you find to the timeline below.

Reading Tuesday Week 3

Michael Morpergo - War Horse – Read the text and then answer the questionsMY EARLIEST MEMORIES are a confusion of hilly fields and dark, damp stables, and rats that scampered along the beams above my head. But I remember well enough the day of the horse sale. The terror of it stayed with me all my life. I was not yet six months old, a gangling, leggy colt who had never been further than a few feet from his mother. We were parted that day in the terrible hubbub of the auction ring and I was never to see her again. She was a fine working farm horse, getting on in years but with all the strength and stamina of an Irish draught horse quite evident in her fore and hind quarters. She was sold within minutes, and before I could follow her through the gates, she was whisked out of the ring and away. But somehow I was more difficult to dispose of. Perhaps it was the wild look in my eye as I circled the ring in a desperate search for my mother, or perhaps it was that none of the farmers and gypsies there were looking for a spindly-looking half-thoroughbred colt. But whatever the reason they were a long time haggling over how little I was worth before I heard the hammer go down and I was driven out through the gates and into a pen outside. ‘Not bad for three guineas, is he? Are you, my little firebrand? Not bad at all.’ The voice was harsh and thick with drink, and it belonged quite evidently to my owner. I shall not call him my master, for only one man was ever my master. My owner had a rope in his hand and was clambering into the pen followed by three or four of his red-faced friends. Each one carried a rope. They had taken off their hats and jackets and rolled up their sleeves; and they were all laughing as they came towards me. I had as yet been touched by no man and backed away from them until I felt the bars of the pen behind me and could go no further.They seemed to lunge at me all at once, but they were slow and I managed to slip past them and into the middle of the pen where I turned to face them again. They had stopped laughing now. I screamed for my mother and heard her reply echoing in the far distance. It was towards that cry that I bolted, half charging, half jumping the rails so that I caught my off foreleg as I tried to clamber over and was stranded there. I was grabbed roughly by the mane and tail and felt a rope tighten around my neck before I was thrown to the ground and held there with a man sitting it seemed on every part of me. I struggled until I was weak, kicking out violently every time I felt them relax, but they were too many and too strong for me. I felt the halter slip over my head and tighten around my neck and face. ‘So you’re quite a fighter, are you?’ said my owner, tightening the rope and smiling through gritted teeth. ‘I like a fighter. But I’ll break you one way or the other. Quite the little fighting cock you are, but you’ll be eating out of my hand quick as a twick.’

Reading Week 3 Tuesday questions

1) ‘A gangling, leggy colt’, use a dictionary to find the meaning of these words and then try use each of them in a sentence.

2) What does the phrase ‘getting on in years’ mean?

3) ‘She was whisked out of the ring and away,’ what is the meaning of the word whisked in this sentence.

4) ‘The voice was harsh and thick with drink, and it belonged quite evidently to my owner.’ What is meant by the phrase, thick with drink?

5) Find a word in the text that means the same as thrust.

6) ‘But I’ll break you one way or the other.’ What does the horses owner mean by this?

Grammar – Week 3 Tuesday – Sentence types

Two simple sentences can be joined together using conjunctions (such as and, but etc) to create a compound sentence. Take these simple sentences and make them into compound sentences.

1. Maggie had completed her run. She was covered in mud.

2. The plant was dying. It was covered in greenfly.

3. The wind nearly blew Aaron away. He decided to shelter in a nearby church.

4. The rabbit hopped into the road. The car swerved into a bush.

Look at these complex sentences and underline and label the main clause and the subordinate clause. (Don’t forget the main clause is the part of the sentence which makes sense on its own!)

1. Michael hid the golden key under his bed so that he could keep it a secret.2. After she had washed her hair, Petunia applied thick layers of makeup.3. Trixie the cat was looking forward to a night out provided she found a way to get past the neighbour’s dog.4. Whenever he saw that coat, he fondly remembered his holiday in Norway.5. Hanif, before he’d even opened the door, knew that something was wrong.

Maths – Week 3 Tuesday –Multiples

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3.) Which number is the off one out? Explain why.

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Wellbeing – Week 3 Tuesday – Jar of appreciation It’s always important to remember that there are always positives things around you! Fill your ‘Jar of appreciation’ will pictures / words of things and people who are really important to you!

Reading - Wednesday week 3. Michael Morpergo – War HorseI was dragged along the lanes tied on a short rope to the tailboard of a farm cart so that every twist and turn wrenched at my neck. By the time we reached the farm lane and rumbled over the bridge into the stable yard that was to become my home, I was soaked with exhaustion and the halter had rubbed my face raw. My one consolation as I was hauled into the stables that first evening was the knowledge that I was not alone. The old horse that had been pulling the cart all the way back from market was led into the stable next to mine. As she went in she stopped to look over my door and nickered gently. I was about to venture away from the back of my stable when my new owner brought his crop down on her side with such a vicious blow that I recoiled once again and huddled into the corner against the wall. ‘Get in there you old ratbag,’ he bellowed. ‘Proper nuisance you are Zoey, and I don’t want you teaching this young ’un your old tricks.’ But in that short moment I had caught a glimpse of kindness and sympathy from that old mare that cooled my panic and soothed my spirit. I was left there with no water and no food while he stumbled off across the cobbles and up into the farm-house beyond. There was the sound of slamming doors and raised voices before I heard footsteps running back across the yard and excited voices coming closer. Two heads appeared at my door. One was that of a young boy who looked at me for a long time, considering me carefully before his face broke into a beaming smile. ‘Mother,’ he said deliberately. ‘That will be a wonderful and brave horse. Look how he holds his head.’ And then, ‘Look at him, Mother, he’s wet through to the skin. I’ll have to rub him down.’ ‘But your father said to leave him, Albert,’ said the boy’s mother. ‘Said it’ll do him good to be left alone. He told you not to touch him.’‘Mother,’ said Albert, slipping back the bolts on the stable door. ‘When father’s drunk he doesn’t know what he’s saying or what he’s doing. He’s always drunk on market days. You’ve told me often enough not to pay him any account when he’s like that. You feed up old Zoey, Mother, while I see to him. Oh, isn’t he grand, Mother? He’s red almost, red-bay you’d call him, wouldn’t you? And that cross down his nose is perfect. Have you ever seen a horse with a white cross like that?

Wednesday Reading – week 3 Questions

Wednesday Reading – week 1 Questions

1) ‘My one consolation as I was hauled into the stables that first evening was the knowledge that I was not alone.’ What does the word consolation mean?

2) ‘When my new owner brought his crop down on her side with such a vicious blow that I recoiled once again and huddled into the corner against the wall.’ – How do you think the young horse felt at this point can you explain why he may feel this way?

3) What made the young horse feel better?

4) Find 2 pieces of evidence in the text that show the horses new owner does not treat him very nicely?

5) What 2 things does Albert like about the new horse?

6) How does Albert feel about his father’s treatment of the new horse? Find evidence in the text.

Writing – Week 3 Wednesday – Play script

Every night two brothers travelled to a different town. Every night they revelled in the applause of ever-growing crowds that always seemed so fascinated and absorbed by their wonderful plays!You job is to write the script for their next performance!

Maths – Week 3 Wednesday – Tea Cup challenge

Aunt Jane had been to a jumble sale and bought a whole lot of cups and saucersThere are four sets: a set of white, a set of red, a set of blue and a set of green. In each set there are four cups and four saucers. So there are sixteen cups and sixteen saucers altogether.Just for the fun of it, you decide to mix them around a bit so that there are sixteen different-looking cup/saucer combinations laid out on the table in a very long line.

So, for example:a) there is a red cup on a green saucer but not another the same, although there is a green cup on a red saucer;b) there is a red cup on a red saucer but that's the only one like it.There are these sixteen different cup/saucer combinations on the table and you think about arranging them in a big square. Because there are sixteen, you realise that there are going to be four rows with four in each row (or if you like, four rows and four columns).

So here is the challenge to start off this investigation:Place these sixteen different combinations of cup/saucer in this four by four arrangement with the following rules:-1) In any row there must only be one cup of each colour;2) In any row there must only be one saucer of each colour;3) In any column there must only be one cup of each colour;4) In any column there must be only one saucer of each colour.

Remember that these sixteen cup/saucers are all different so, for example, you CANNOT have a red cup on a green saucer somewhere and another red cup on a green saucer somewhere else.

There are a lot of different ways of approaching this challenge.

Jigsaw – Week 3 Wednesday – The future

Reading Thursday Week 3 – War Horse by Michael Morpergo

Have you ever seen such a thing? I shall ride this horse when he’s ready. I shall ride him everywhere and there won’t be a horse to touch him, not in the whole parish, not in the whole county.’ ‘You’re barely past thirteen, Albert,’ said his mother from the next stable. ‘He’s too young and you’re too young, and anyway father says you’re not to touch him, so don’t come crying to me if he catches you in there.’ ‘But why the divil did he buy him, Mother?’ Albert asked. ‘It was a calf we wanted, wasn’t it? That’s what he went in to market for, wasn’t it? A calf to suckle old Celandine?’ ‘I know dear, your father’s not himself when he’s like that,’ his mother said softly. ‘He says that Farmer Easton was bidding for the horse, and you know what he thinks of that man after that barney over the fencing. I should imagine he bought it just to deny him. Well that’s what it looks like to me.’ ‘Well I’m glad he did, Mother,’ said Albert, walking slowly towards me, pulling off his jacket. ‘Drunk or not, it’s the best thing he ever did.’ ‘Don’t speak like that about your father, Albert. He’s been through a lot. It’s not right,’ said his mother. But her words lacked conviction. Albert was about the same height as me and talked so gently as he approached that I was immediately calmed and not a little intrigued, and so stood where I was against the wall. I jumped at first when he touched me but could see at once that he meant me no harm.He smoothed my back first and then my neck, talking all the while about what a fine time we would have together, how I would grow up to be the smartest horse in the whole wide world, and how we would go out hunting together. After a bit he began to rub me gently with his coat. He rubbed me until I was dry and then dabbed salted water onto my face where the skin had been rubbed raw. He brought in some sweet hay and a bucket of cool, deep water. I do not believe he stopped talking all the time.

Reading Thursday Week 3 – Questions1) ‘I shall ride him everywhere and there won’t be a horse to touch him, not in the

whole parish, not in the whole county.’ What does the phrase there won’t be a horse to touch him mean?

2) He’s too young and you’re too young, and anyway father says you’re not to touch him, so don’t come crying to me if he catches you in there.’ What is Albert’s mother trying to warn him of?

3) ‘He says that Farmer Easton was bidding for the horse, and you know what he thinks of that man after that barney over the fencing.’ What does the word barney mean in this sentence?

4) Find two examples of direct speech that show that Albert doesn’t respect his father.

5) ‘But her words lacked conviction.’ What is the meaning of this sentence?

Grammar – Week 3 Thursday – Word classesColour each word to show what type of word it is.

Maths – Week 3 Thursday – Multiplication 1.)

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Topic – Week 3 Thursday – Bouncing balls Conduct your own bouncing ball investigation. Collect a number of balls of different sizes, textures and materials. Carry out a fair test to see which ball bounces the highest.

Think about how you’ll measure the height each ball bounces, how you’ll make sure it’s a fair test and whether you’ll need to repeat any of the tests.

You may also want to consider as a further experiment, why balls of different materials bounce differently.

Reading Friday week 3 – Michael Morpergo – War HorseFinish reading the end of chapter oneAs he turned to go out of the stable I called out to him to thank him and he seemed to understand for he smiled broadly and stroked my nose. ‘We’ll get along, you and I,’ he said kindly. ‘I shall call you Joey, only because it rhymes with Zoey, and then maybe, yes maybe because it suits you. I’ll be out again in the morning – and don’t worry, I’ll look after you. I promise you that. Sweet dreams, Joey.’ ‘You should never talk to horses, Albert,’ said his mother from outside. ‘They never understand you. They’re stupid creatures. Obstinate and stupid, that’s what your father says, and he’s known horses all his life.’ ‘Father just doesn’t understand them,’ said Albert. ‘I think he’s frightened of them.’ I went over to the door and watched Albert and his mother walking away and up into the darkness. I knew then that I had found a friend for life, that there was an instinctive and immediate bond of trust and affection between us. Next to me old Zoey leant over her door to try to touch me, but our noses would not quite meet.

Questions and Task1) What has Albert decided to call the horse and why?

2) What reason does Albert’s mother give for not talking to horses?

3) What is the meaning of the word obstinate?

4) Why do you think Joey and Albert may have had an instant bond? Think about their relationship with Albert’s father?

5) Why do you think old Zoey tried to touch Joey’s nose?

Writing – Week 3 Friday – narrative

Continue the story!

Thump! He slammed his enormous, grass-covered foot into the middle of the road, sending shockwaves of dust in all directions.

With a loud grunt, the troll wrenched the entire, fully tiled roof off a nearby holiday home, with the owners peering helplessly and frightened out of the downstairs windows. He didn’t mean any harm, but he just couldn’t help himself…

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Maths – Week 3 Friday – Division

1.) Complete these division

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Topic – Week 3 Friday – Art (self portrait)Use the steps below to help you sketch a self portrait!

Week 4

Monday Reading – Time travelling with my Hamster extract 1

Grammar –commas

Maths – Multiplication

Non Core – Greek Gods

Tuesday Reading – Time travelling with my Hamster extract 2

Writing – narrative

Maths – Puzzles and problems

Science – shadows

Wednesday Reading – Time travelling with my Hamster extract 3

Grammar – Relative pronouns

Maths – Division Non Core –Ancient Egypt

Thursday Reading – Time travelling with my Hamster extract 4

Writing – newspaper

Maths –Cube investigation

Science – homemade lava

lamps

Friday Reading – Time travelling with my Hamster extract 5

Grammar – Pronouns

Maths – tables Non Core- staying healthy

Reading week 4 day 1 – Time travelling with a hamster By Ross Welford

Just across the road from the house where we used to live before Dad died (the first time) is an alleyway that leads to the next street with a patch of grass with some bushes and straggly trees growing on it. I called it ‘the jungle’ when I was little, because in my mind that was what it was like, but looking at it now I can see that it’s just a plot of land for a house that hasn’t been built yet. And that’s where I am, still in my full-face motorbike helmet, sitting hidden in a bush in the dead of night, waiting to break into my old house. There’s an old fried-chicken box that someone’s thrown there and I can smell something foul and sour, which I think might be fox’s poo. The house is dark; there are no lights on. I’m looking up at my old bedroom window, the small one over the front door. By day, Chesterton Road is pretty quiet – a long curve of small, semi-detached houses made of reddish bricks. When they were first built, they must all have looked exactly the same, but now people have added fancy gates, garage extensions, even a massive monkey-puzzle tree outside old Mr Frasier’s, so these days they’re all a bit different.

Now, at nearly one a.m., there’s no one about and I’ve seen enough films and TV shows about criminals to know exactly how not to behave, and that’s suspiciously. If you act normally, no one notices you. If I wandered nervously up and down the street waiting for the right time, then someone might spot me going backwards and forwards looking at the houses, and call the police. On the other hand, if I’m just walking down the street, then that’s all I’m doing, and it’s as good as being invisible. (Keeping the motorbike helmet on is a gamble, or what Grandpa Byron calls ‘a calculated risk’. If I take it off, someone might notice that I’m nowhere near old enough to be riding a moped; if I keep it on, that looks suspicious – so I’m still in two minds about it. Anyway, it won’t be on for long.) I’ve worked all this out on the journey here. About a year ago, when we still lived here, the local council turned off every second streetlight in a money-saving experiment, so where I’ve stopped the moped it is really pretty dark. As casually as I can, I come out of the bushes, take off the helmet and put it in the moped’s top box. I pull my collar up and, without stopping, walk over the road to number 40. There I turn straight up the short driveway and stop in the shadows, well hidden by both the hedge that divides number 40’s front garden from the one next door and the small Skoda that sits in the driveway.

Reading day 1 week 4 - Questions

1) Thinking about the title – how can the narrators dad die more than once?

2) Why did the narrator see the patch of land as a jungle when he was little?

3) Why is the narrator hiding on the patch of land in the dead of the night?

4) Keeping the motorbike helmet on is a gamble, or what Grandpa Byron calls ‘a calculated risk’ – what do the words a calculated risk mean?

5) What impressions do you get of the narrator just from reading the first part of this book?

6) Making predictions: Why do you think the narrator wants to break into the house he moved out of a year ago?

7) Making predictions: How old do you think the narrator of the story is?

Grammar – Week 4 Monday – Commas 1.) Insert the missing comma in the sentence below.

The  tree’s  long  rough  leaves  can  grow  up  to  30 cm  long.

2.) Insert a pair of commas in the sentence below to make the meaning clearer.

Computer  games  which  can  be  fun  to  play  are  also  very  time-consuming.

3.)Tick one box in each row to show how the commas are used in each sentence.

SentenceCommasare used

to separateitems in a list

Commasare used

to separateclauses

Butterflies, moths and bees are all winged insects.

   

Ana’s class, which is the largest, is usually the quietest.

   

When Dad bakes biscuits, Jackie always helps.

   

4.)Add three commas in the correct places in the sentence below.Ed  knew  he  had  P.E.  reading  maths  music  and  history at  school  tomorrow.

5.) Insert a pair of commas to clarify the meaning of the sentence below.

The  hotel  since  it  opened  has  become  very  popular.

6.)Tick the sentences that are punctuated correctly. Queen Victoria, was queen of England, from 1837 to 1901.

Queen Victoria’s husband, whose name was Albert, was born in Germany.

Queen Victoria reigned for longer than any other English monarch.

Queen Victoria, who had nine children, had 42 grandchildren.

Maths – Week 4 Monday – Multiplication

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Topic – Week 4 Monday – Greek Gods researchThe Ancient Greeks believed that gods and goddesses watched over them. These gods were a bit like humans, but they lived forever and were much more powerful. They felt human emotions, like love, anger and jealousy, and they did not always behave themselves. The Greeks thought the 12 main gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds. From here, they kept an eye on life below. From time to time, they would interfere in what was going on. They could send storms if they were angry and decide who was victorious in wars. Sometimes they even played tricks on humans too.Research the different Ancient Greek Gods and choose 1 to record in detail below.Greek God

Family?

Facts

Powers

Sketch

Reading – Week 4 Tuesday – EarthquakesTime travelling with a hamster By Ross Welford

So far, so good: the new owners of our house have not yet got round to fixing the garage doors. In fact, they’re even less secure than they were. There’s a brick in front of them to keep them shut, and when I crouch down and move it out of the way the right-hand door swings open, then bumps against the Skoda.

For a dreadful moment I think the gap will be too small to let me in, but I just manage to squeeze through, and there I am, in the garage, which smells of dust and old oil. My torch is flashing round the walls to reveal boxes that they still haven’t unpacked and, in the middle of the floor, the dark wooden planks covering up the cellar entrance.

Here’s another tip if you’re thinking of breaking in anywhere: don’t flash your torch around too much. A flashing light will attract attention, whereas a still light doesn’t. So I put my torch on the ground and start to lift up the greasy planks. Under the planks there’s a concrete stairway, and once I’ve gone down it I’m standing in a space about a metre square and to my right is a small metal door that’s about half my height with a dusty, steel wheel for opening it like you get on ships. The wheel is secured into place by a stout bolt with a combination lock. I try to give a little whistle of amazement, a “whew!”, but my lips are so dry with nerves and dust that I can’t. Instead, I set the combination lock to the numbers Dad instructed in his letter – my birthday and month backwards – grab the wheel with both hands and twist it anti-clockwise. There’s a bit of resistance but it gives with a soft grating noise, and as it spins around the door suddenly pops open inwards with a tiny sighing noise of escaping air.

I grab my torch and aim it ahead of me as I go through the little doorway, crouching. There are more steps down and a wall on my right and my hand finds a light switch but I daren’t try it in case it’s a switch for something else, like an alarm or something, or it lights up the garage upstairs, or … I just don’t know, but I’m too nervous to flick the switch so I look at everything through the yellowy-white beam of torchlight. The steps lead to a room about half the size of our living room at home, but with a lower ceiling. A grown-up could just about stand up. Along one long wall are four bunk beds, all made up – blankets, pillows, everything. There’s a wall that juts out into the room, and behind it is a toilet and some kind of machinery with pipes and hoses coming out of it. There are rugs on the white concrete floor and a poster on the wall. It’s faded orange and black with a picture of a mum, a dad and two children inside a circle, and the words ‘Protect And Survive’ in big white letters. I’ve seen this poster before when some guy came to talk about peace and nuclear war and stuff in assembly once, and he’d made Dania Biziewski cry because she was scared and he was really embarrassed.

Questions Reading week 4 day 2 questions

1) What tips does the narrator give to the reader to follow ‘incase you’re breaking into somewhere’?

2) How do you think the narrator is feeling while breaking into the garage? Can you find any evidence in the text to support your answer?

3) What information do we find out about the new owners of the new property?

4) What do you think is hidden down the secret stairway?

5) What information does the reader find out about the room at the bottom of the stairs?

6) What do you think was the greatest risk of breaking into the garage?

Writing – Week 4 Tuesday – Narrative

Maths – Week 4 Tuesday – Puzzles and problems

Science – Week 4 Tuesday – ShadowsLight can only travel in a straight line. A shadow is formed when something blocks light.Look at the shadow the ball makes below.

What do you think will happen if the ball is moved closer to the torch? What will happen if the ball is moved further away from the torch?When outside, what happens when the light source is directly above the object?

Use a light source and an object at home to answer these questions.

Reading – Week 4 Wednesday Time travelling with a hamster By Ross Welford

This is what people built years ago when they thought Russia was going to kill us with nuclear bombs. I turn round and see what’s behind me. The torch beam picks out a long desk with a chair in front of it.

On the desk is a tin tub, like you would bath a dog in or something. In it is an old-style Apple Mac laptop, the white one, and a computer mouse. There’s a lead coming out of the back of the computer leading to a black metal box about the size of a paperback book, and coming out of that are two cords that are about a metre long, with strange sort of hand grips on the end.

Next to the tub is a coffee mug printed with a picture of me as a baby and the words ‘I love my daddy’. The inside of the mug is all furred up with ancient mould. And beside the mug is a copy of the local newspaper, the Whitley Bay Advertiser, folded in half and open at a story headlined ‘Local Man’s Tragic Sudden Death’ above a picture of my dad.

I sit down in the swivel chair and run my hands over the underside of the desk. When I can’t feel anything, I get on my knees and shine the torch upwards, and there it is: an envelope, taped at the back, just as Dad said there would be. But there’s no time machine. At least, not one that looks how I imagine a time machine might look.

That’s how I end up staring at the tin tub and its contents.

Surely, I’m thinking, Surely that’s not it? But it is.

And the craziest thing? It works.

Questions

1) Why was the room at the bottom of the stairs, originally built?

2) Why do you think there was a picture of the narrator still on the desk in the room at the bottom of the stairs?

3) ‘Folded in half and open at a story headlined ‘Local Man’s Tragic Sudden Death’ above a picture of my dad. Who do you think placed the newspaper in the room at the bottom of the stairs? Could it have been the narrator? Explain your thinking?

4) How does the narrator know that time time machine works?

5) What do you think the time machine might look like – draw a picture of it in the space below.

Grammar – Week 4 Wednesday – Relative Pronouns Do you want to add some interesting information to your sentences? Try putting an extra information clause in the middle to make a complex sentence. You will need to replace the subject with a relative pronoun. Look at this example, which shows you how to do it:

Rearrange each pair of sentences so the relative pronoun (who/which) and extra information clause are in the middle. Write the new complex sentence in your book. 1. Jellyfish ____________________ have no bones at all. They live in the sea. (which) 2. Daniel Radcliffe ____________________ is a very famous actor. He played Harry Potter.

(who) 3. Polar bears ____________________ have translucent fur. They only live in the Arctic.

(which) 4. My brother ____________________ is always mean to me. He is two years older. (who) 5. Phillip Pullman ____________________ is my favourite writer. He wrote Clockwork. (who) 6. I like marmalade ____________________ on toast for breakfast. Marmalade is a sweet

spread. (which) 7. Your PE kit ____________________ has your name on it. Your PE kit is on the floor.

(which) 8. Class 3H ____________________ are having a special treat. They all have 100%

attendance. (who) 9. The Tooth Fairy ____________________ lives in an ivory castle. She is friends with Santa.

(who) 10. I try to eat lots of fresh vegetables ____________________ every day. Vegetables are

good for you. (which)

Maths – Week 4 Wednesday – Division 1.)

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Topic – Week 4 Wednesday – Ancient Egypt Research the Ancient Egyptians the hieroglyphics which they used. Write your name inside the cartouche below in hieroglyphics

Reading – Week 4 Thursday Time travelling with a hamster By Ross Welford

A week earlier

This whole thing – the breaking and entering, plus robbery, arson, stealing a moped and killing someone (sort of, anyway), not to mention time travel – started on my twelfth birthday.

That day, I got a hamster, and a letter from my dead dad. I suppose, if you were being precise – and precision, as Grandpa Byron says, is everything – it started when me and Mum moved in with Steve and The Stepsister From Hell, Carly.

That was just after Mum and Steve got married in the world’s smallest wedding (people there: Mum, Steve, Grandpa Byron, me, TSFH, Aunty Ellie.) If you were being super-precise, it kind of started when Dad died, but that was a long time ago and I don’t really want to get into that. Not yet, anyway.

So there we were, on my twelfth birthday, which is May 12th, so I was twelve on the twelfth, which only happens once in anyone’s life, and some people have to wait until they’re thirty-one by which time I guess it’s not so much fun. Steve is always trying to make me like him so he spent a lot of money on my present, a replica Newcastle United shirt with my name and age on the back: “Albert 12”. Except my name’s now Al, not Albert, and I don’t really like football. I’ve sat and watched a few games with him, because it makes Mum happy to see us ‘bonding’, but to be honest I don’t really see the point of the whole thing.

“Well, put it on, Al – see if it fits!” says Mum, and she’s smiling this too-smiley smile, and I’m smiling too to make up for the fact that I don’t like the present, even though I know it’s kind of him, and Steve’s smiling a sort of puzzled smile, and about the only one smiling properly is Carly, probably because she can tell I don’t like the present and that makes her happy. It’s on the big side, so no chance I’ll grow out of it soon, which is a shame.

Mum’s present is much better. It’s there on the countertop: a big box, wrapped up in coloured paper, with a ribbon and a bow, just like presents look in drawings, and I have no idea what it is until I unwrap it and the box inside says ‘Hamsterdam – The City For Your Hamster’. There’s a picture on it of tubes and boxes and a cage and everything, and I’m grinning so hard because I have guessed what’s in the small box that Mum’s holding, and sure enough there’s a hamster in there – a cute, small one that’s not fully grown yet, and he (or she, I don’t know how to tell yet) has got this twitchy nose and light brown fur and I love him (or her) already. I’m wondering what to call him, when Steve says, “I’ve got a great name for him!”

“Steve,” says Mum, “let the boy choose his own name.”

Reading, week 4, day 4

Use the outline of the boy, write down all the information we know so far about ‘Albert’ the narrator of the story. Use todays’ extracts and the ones you have read before to help you.

Writing – Week 4 Thursday – newspaper

A robot has invaded and rampaged through a local town! Write a newspaper article to report on the events.

Maths – Week 4 Thursday – Cube investigationA cube is a 3D shape consisting of faces, edges and vertices (corners).

Task 11.) How many faces does a cube have?2.) How many vertices area there?3.) What is the total number of edges on a cube?

The net of a 3D shape is what it looks like when it’s opened up and flat.

Task 2Here are the six faces of a cube - in no particular order:

Here are three views of the cube:

Can you work out where the faces are in relation to each other and record them on the net of this cube?

Science – Week 4 Thursday – Lava Lamp

What You Do:1. Fill two thirds of an empty plastic bottle with vegetable oil.2. Fill the rest of the bottle with water. ... 3. Add a few drops of food coloring; your choice of color. ... 4. Break an alka-seltzer tablet into a few small pieces, and drop them in the

bottle one at a time.5. Watch your lava lamp erupt into activity!

Reading – Week 4 Friday Time travelling with a hamster By Ross Welford

I’m wondering what to call him, when Steve says, “I’ve got a great name for him!” “Steve,” says Mum, “let the boy choose his own name.” Steve looks a bit disappointed, so I say, “It’s OK. What’s your idea?” “Alan Shearer!” Steve sees me blinking, blank-faced, so he repeats: “Alan Shearer. Greatest striker the toon ever had? Premier League’s all-time top scorer?” I still look blank. “Bloke on Match Of the Day?” I nod and force a smile, but as I’m doing so, it kind of turns into a real one, because whichever way you look at it, giving a hamster a proper name like ‘Alan Shearer’ has got to be better than ‘Fluffy’ or ‘Hammy’ which was as far as my imagination had got. So Alan Shearer it is.

I notice that Carly has stopped smiling. She comes over to me as I’m unpacking the plastic tubes and bends down close so that only I can hear. “A hamster?” she murmurs. “They’re just rats for babies.” You know what, though? I don’t care. Then Grandpa Byron arrives to give me a ride to school like he always does since Mum and I moved further away to live with Steve and Carly.

I open the front door and he’s standing there in his long saffron-coloured robes, grey hair in a braided plait, little round sunglasses and huge biker boots. Under one arm, the bad one, he’s holding his motorbike helmet, and in the other, the good one, is a birthday card in an envelope.

“Happy birthday, bonny lad,” he says, and I give him a huge hug. I love Grandpa Byron’s smell. It’s a mixture of the minty oil that he puts in his hair and these sweet-smelling cigarettes he sometimes smokes called beedis that he buys in boxes from a man who runs a Lebanese takeaway, even though he’s from Bangladesh, and the liquorice-flavoured toothpaste he uses, which I have tried and is pretty gross, but it smells nice.

As I hug him I take a deep breath. He waves through to the kitchen, which isn’t far from the front door. “Morning, Byron!” calls Mum. “Come on in!” Carly shimmies past me to go up the stairs. “Hi, Byron,” she says, sweetly. “Lovin’ the robes, dude!” It’s only when she has passed him and is out of his sight that she turns to me, wrinkles up her face and wafts her hand in front of her nose, as if Grandpa Byron’s smell is something bad, which it totally isn’t.

He’s got a funny way of talking, my grandpa: his Indian accent sounds Geordie and he uses Geordie expressions and old dialect words all mixed up together. He’s my dad’s dad, but my dad didn’t really talk Geordie, not much. Grandpa comes in and sits at the breakfast bar. “Sorry, mate – I wasn’t having a chance to get your present.” He wobbles his head in that Indian way, probably just because he knows it makes me laugh, and he’s smiling as he does it so I can see his big gold tooth. “S’OK,” I reassure him, and I open the card. Out fall two twenty-pound notes. “Thanks. Thanks a lot!” And I really mean it.

Reading, week 4, day 5 – Questions

1) What name has Albert chosen to call his hamster?

2) Find 2 examples in the text to prove that Carly is not very nice to Albert.

3) What is it about Grandpa’s smell that Albert loves so much?

4) Albert appears to really love and admire his Grandpa. Find 3 pieces of evidence to prove this statement.

5) What presents has Albert received for his birthday?

6) Find one piece of evidence to prove that Carly can be rather 2 faced.

Grammar – Week 4 Friday – Pronouns Pronouns are words we used to replace a noun in a sentence.For example: Miss Rizan teaches the Ospreys. She works at Gilberdyke Primary.

1.) Circle all the pronouns in the sentence below.

They bought new  jumpers  for  themselves  and  a  warm scarf  for  Dad.

2.) Complete the sentence below with a possessive pronoun.

They are _________________________________ .

3.) Look at the passage and change all the underlined nouns/noun phrases to appropriate pronouns

The children listened carefully as the naturalist explained to the children how to rear tarantulas, because, the naturalist said, tarantulas are tricky creatures outside their usual habitat.

Maths – Week 4 Friday – Tables 1.)

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Topic – Week 4 Friday – Staying healthy Being active and exercising is important in making sure we stay healthy.

Task 1: Design a poster which advertises the benefits of exercise. Think about: why it’s important, how our body reacts when we exercise, the different ways in which you can exercise, where people can exercise and other benefits of to exercising.

Task 2: Design your own fitness programme which you and your family can do! Make sure to include a warm up at the start and a cool down at the end.