PE – Clap and catch! – This week you are going to be carrying out one of Specsavers 'Virtual' School Games challenges!

This week your challenge is the clap and catch challenge, using a ball to throw in the air you have to see how many times you can clap while the

ball is in the air but you have to catch the ball in order for your claps to count! Here’s a video to help demonstrate the challenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mAAxrWcmJc&feature=youtu.be

Why not try the challenge with someone at home to see who can do the most claps while the ball is in the air? The challenge is all about

throwing accurately, watching the ball and using coordination to catch it again. There is no point throwing the ball as high as you can and

clapping 20 times and not catching it because the claps won’t count. Build up slowly trying to beat your claps each time, it’s trickier than you

think! For an extra challenge try doing the clap and catch with different sized ball a larger ball if you are finding it tricky or a small ball if you

feel confident, good luck!

Reading challenge 1 Non-fiction reading – Hubble Telescope: Amazing images of stars going wild -This week your reading challenge is to

read the article ‘Hubble Telescope: Amazing images of stars going wild’. Here is a link to the article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53126138#comments

After reading the article answering in full sentences and using evidence from the text can you:

1. Explain the most interesting thing you read from the reading and why it stood out for you. Be specific and reference the text.

2. What are two new pieces of information that you learnt from the reading?

3. What is your opinion of the article and the topic of space and stars? Does it interest you? Is it something you’ve read about before and

you’d read about for pleasure?

4. What is the main idea or the article, can you summarise it in a sentence or two? Use what, when, where and why to help you.

5. After reading the article what are two questions you have that you could research to find out more about?

6. Would you recommend reading the article to a friend? Explain your reasons.

English challenge 1 – Setting description – After having read the start of The Weather Tree and planned the

rest of the story last week, this week you are going to write a setting description!

In the story board you created last week you had to include at least 2 different settings this week you will be

writing a description for both of them!

Things to include: - A name for the 2 different setting, are you describing up the tree and the town?

- You need to include details to make it believable to allow the reader to feel as if they are really there.

- Use your senses like we have done in class to walk the room,

imagine you are there: what does it feel like underfoot? What

does it smell like? What can you hear? What can you see? Use

colour to be specific.

- What powerful adjectives can you use to describe the

atmosphere/mood? What simile, metaphor, personification could

you use?

Sample sentence:

The massive tree surrounded the town like…

The crumbling quiet town sat….

As I cautiously clambered down the ancient oaky path…

Earthy floral scents drifted through the…

Here’s a link to help remind you of what a setting is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpccwmn/articles/z8mqsrd

You might also find it helpful to draw both the settings in your story to give you ideas and details of what to include in your description!

Spelling – Words with the ay sound spelt eigh, ei, ey. – This week we are going to be looking at different

spellings for the sound ay. Can you correctly fill in dots and dashes?

Can you sort these word changers using rootwords and suffixes?

Use the words from dots and dashes to write sentences,

how many ‘ay’ words using the spellings eigh, ei, ey can you

get into one sentence?

At eighteen years old, while obeying orders I had a freight, a

sudden neigh, eight horses attached to a sleigh by a grey rein

they were led by an eighty-year-old woman in a veil.

Can you think of any other words that include the ay sound

that are spelt eigh, ei, ey? Use these in a sentence.

Art/Science challenge- A constellation creation– To go along with your star/space reading challenge I thought for art this week we

could be inspired by constellations! Constellations are groups of stars that make a shape that people have given names to.

Here are some video links and the NASA space page for more information on what constellations are and different constellations that exist:

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZ15SUeS9w

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zdspyrd

This week you will be using your own astrology constellation or choosing a constellation you like to create some art work. You constellation depends on your birthday so my

birthday is February 8th so my constellation is Aquarius. You could create your constellation art work using string like a dot to dot, or thread it like a dream catcher or sewing or

even by painting on a washed background, however you want to be creative, I look forward to seeing them!

Aries - March 21st - April 19th

Taurus - April 20th - May 20th

Gemini - May 21st - June 20th

Cancer - June 21st - July 22nd

Leo - July 23rd - August 22nd

Virgo - August 23rd - September 22nd

Libra - September 23rd - October 22nd

Scorpio - October 23rd - November 21st

Sagittarius - November 22nd - December

21st

Capricorn - December 22nd - January 19th

Aquarius - January 20th - February 18th

Pisces - February 19th – March 20th

Reading challenge 2: Inferring and predicting. Your second reading challenge for this week is to look at the picture and use your

inference skills and creativity to answer in full sentences:

1. Where did the UFO come from? I think that the UFO came from……. because…

2. Who – or what – is controlling it?

3. Why are they taking the tricycle?

4. Who does the tricycle belong to?

5. Why was the child here alone?

6. How is the child feeling?

7. What will happen next?

As an extra challenge can you:

- Explain how the picture made you feel?

- Does it remind you of something else you’ve seen or

read?

- If you had to give the picture a caption or title what

would it be?

Maths – Column addition and subtraction – This week we will be recapping column addition and subtraction. Watch these videos to help you

remember: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/articles/z3kmrwx

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/articles/zc78srd

Use your knowledge of column addition and subtraction to layout and solve the following, be careful to look at the operation you are being

asked to use:

1324 + 9654 =

2546 + 6956 =

4862 – 1546 =

14659 – 2381 =

1009 + 3096 =

6342 – 1568 =

7896 – 4907 =

1358 + 2864 =

8000 – 2431 =

975 + 6420 =

1029 +3847 =

9128 – 3802 =

Can you write an explanation to go along with your column additiona and subtraction of the steps you have to take to be

succesful? What do you have to do first? Why do you have to line up the numbers? Where do you start? When do you have

to carry?

It’s really important to regularly practise your times tables and to become more confident in

being able to quickly recall them accurately.

Here is a link to games which you can use daily to practise and try and beat your score and

improve your speed and accuracy, good luck!

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/

See MyMaths activity – Mixed tables 2 to 12

English challenge 2: Sentences – This week as your second writing challenge we are going to focus on our handwriting and forming

full sentences. Watch this short video and complete the activity to recap our knowledge of sentences:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z88t97h/articles/zsv64qt

As you all know sentences must have a capital letter at the beginning and a punctuation mark at the end, like a full stop (.), a question

mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!). They must also contain a verb; verbs are the words in a sentence that show action or tell you what

the subject is doing for example: The boy screamed. I tiptoed slowly away. Sometimes when we are writing, especially when we are

exciting about our ideas and getting them down on paper we forget that the sentence needs to make sense on paper and not just in our

heads! Using some of the powerful verbs in the grid can you write 15 sentences related to the picture underneath: an astronauts view

from the space station.

Handwriting - Using your best handwriting copy the following spellings:

Mindfulness – Take time to relax and be still and complete this space colouring.