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Needs of an animal. Can all animals be kept as a pet? Think about a particular animal and find out if that animal could be a pet. I have added more activities to Mathletics to support your maths learning this week. Please keep up the brilliant work on there. You will need a grid each, and two dice, and colouring pencils. Youngest player starts. On your turn, throw the 2 dice. Then colour in a rectangle using the numbers on the dice for the lengths of its sides. Fill your numbers in in the column on the right as a multiplication. You can colour your rectangle wherever you like on the grid as long as there is space. If you don’t have space, you miss a turn. I have set maths challenges using Mathletics today as I wanted you to have access to measuring lessons that wouldn't necessarily need a ruler. These activities will be ongoing and have been set for a week. I will still post more maths activities here for those of you who cannot access Mathletics but I do not expect you to do both. David Litchfield is the author of best-selling books including The Bear and the Piano, which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Illustrated Book Category in 2016 and has sold over 120,000 copies in the UK.

These lessons would follow nicely on from The Book of Hopes lessons at the start of the new year, these are also available via Learn how to compare number sentences involving addition and subtraction using the greater than, less than and equal symbols. When Beryl is fully grown her mass should be 10 times the mass she was when she first came to live with them. What should her mass be then? (multiply by 10)

Has your child got a favourite sportsperson? This could be their P.E. teacher! Ask them to write an information booklet about this person. They can research or use any facts they know. Try to use different sections like childhood, training and championships. An out-of-this-world picture book from David Litchfield, the best-selling author of The Bear and the Piano and Grandad’s Secret Giant.

Carry out some role-play activities in which one person imagines that they are Heather. What questions would you like to ask her? How might she respond? Talk to your child about a hero from a book they have read recently, for example Rapunzel or Mulan. Ask them to draw the hero or heroes from a story and list adjectives to describe their appearance and personality. They could also think about other types of heroes such as NHS heroes or Police Officers whomever inspires them. Select a number between 2 and 20. Make a poster showing how many different ways to make this number using addition, subtraction, multiplication etc. Design a machine that could help Heather communicate with her alien friend when they are separated.Look at the illustrations of Heather when she is turning her torch on and off. How is she feeling? How can you tell? Can you think of different words that can describe emotions? Lots of online videos that help keep children active inside and also teach mindfulness and meditation

Draw pictures of different animals. Sort the animals into two groups; suitable for a pet and not suitable for a pet. Explain why animals were sorted in a particular way. Can you Invent a New Olympic Game?- Challenge your child to invent their very own game for the 2021 (2022) Olympics. Look at a list of all of the sports that already compete in the summer Olympics here. Can they write a set of instructions for the new game or draw illustrations. Why not test the game out as a family? Nocturnal animals are more active at night than during the day. These animals sleep during the day, often in a burrow or den. They have special adaptations that help them survive in the dark. Over millions of years, these animals have developed traits that help them survive in the darkness. Nocturnal animals may have larger ears to hear better, bigger eyes to see better, and body parts that glow in the night. Which animals fit this category?https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/legacy_files_migrated/29982-wellcometrust_primary_bb_bodychallengecards.pdf Flags- ​Look at ​flags from around the world​ with your child. Discuss which are your child’s favourites and why? Ask your child to recreate their favourite; this could be through drawing, collaging etc.

Noun Phrases (2 adjectives to the noun): grubby, dirty rabbit, bright, warm day, cheeky, speedy bunny. For maths use the 6th of May bitesize lesson today on number facts. This should recap and sharpen those skills. The next lesson in the White Rose fraction maths can be found here if you have access to online learning. How is life different for the current queen, Queen Elizabeth II? Ask your child to create a list of the similarities and differences. They might focus on appearance, family and interests. They could show this using illustrations too.One is an introduction to Nigeria geography lesson as we were studying Africa and its Nations before the holiday: