Early Bird Maths

Please complete one, two or all three of the following:

Maths

Please choose from the two activities below:

or…

Abundant Numbers

To find the factors of a number, you have to find all the pairs of numbers that multiply together to give that number.

The factors of 48 are:

1 and 48

2 and 24

3 and 16

4 and 12

6 and 8

If we leave out the number we started with, 48, and add all the other factors, we get 76:

1+2+3+4+6+8+12+16+24=76

So …. 48 is called an abundant number because it is less than the sum of its factors (without itself). (48 is less than 76.)

See if you can find some more abundant numbers!

Here is the solution to this activity:

https://nrich.maths.org/1011/solution

Word Power

Adding ing, er and ed.

If the final syllable of the root word is stressed and ends with one consonant and one vowel before that, then double the last consonant.

English

Free write day – please use the following link to find out more information about the picture below https://www.pobble365.com/mr-wolf/

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Reading Plus

***New KS2 Home Reading Platform***

I am very excited to say that our new home reading platform for KS2 is now up and running. Please read the attached letter which has all the information you need.

Reading Plus Letter

Please login with the following details:

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Please have a look through the subjects in the above link and complete as you like. There are many exciting activities to do on here, so have fun exploring them.

Bedtime Stories:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Three-day creative tasks:

You don’t need a mindfulness colouring book when you’ve got some kitchen towel to hand. Using fine felt tips you can colour in the dots in different colours. Who knew kitchen roll could look so good!

Who doesn’t like watching the birds feed outside, especially when there’s little else happening at the moment? Use a large four-pint milk bottle and felt tips to colour the plastic, you could also stick paper, feathers and other things on to make them bright and colourful.

It’s always lovely to get hand prints and foot prints to capture that moment in time. Why not get the whole family involved and create a picture from hand prints of everyone in the house?

Early Bird Maths

Please complete one, two or all three of the following:

Maths

A conjecture is a statement that appears to be true but it hasn’t been proven. Have a go at answering these conjectures by explaining, convincing or justifying.

The sum of four even numbers is divisible by 4

Word Power

Adding ing, er and ed.

If the final syllable of the root word is stressed and ends with one consonant and one vowel before that, then double the last consonant.

English

Your first task is to re-read your writing from yesterday and check it against the following criteria and make changes if you need to:

Fronted adverbials  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3

Capital letters and full stops

Joined handwriting

Check for spellings that you know (try and correct at least 4 spellings if you have them!)

Take the rest of this time to complete your voice over and perform it to someone in your household! Well done everyone!

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Reading Plus

***New KS2 Home Reading Platform***

I am very excited to say that our new home reading platform for KS2 is now up and running. Please read the attached letter which has all the information you need.

Reading Plus Letter

Please login with the following details:

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Please have a look through the subjects in the above link and complete as you like. There are many exciting activities to do on here, so have fun exploring them.

Bedtime Stories:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Three-day creative tasks:

You don’t need a mindfulness colouring book when you’ve got some kitchen towel to hand. Using fine felt tips you can colour in the dots in different colours. Who knew kitchen roll could look so good!

Who doesn’t like watching the birds feed outside, especially when there’s little else happening at the moment? Use a large four-pint milk bottle and felt tips to colour the plastic, you could also stick paper, feathers and other things on to make them bright and colourful.

It’s always lovely to get hand prints and foot prints to capture that moment in time. Why not get the whole family involved and create a picture from hand prints of everyone in the house?

Good morning everyone!

Rocky came into school yesterday to help me with my work and to also yap at everything that moved! He did enjoy taking Harry for a walk though..

Early Bird Maths

Please complete one, two or all three of the following:

Maths

LO: To solve missing digit divisions

To work out what goes in the missing box, we need to work out the inverse. 

For example for the first one I would do: 884 = 22

I can count in 4s until I get to 88 or I use what I know and that is 4 x10=40 and 4x20=80, then 80+2 lots of 4 = 88 so there are 22 lots of 4 in 88.

There is a mistake in these calculations, well done Martha for spotting it! Can you find out which calculation is incorrect and why? 🙂

Word Power

Adding ing, er and ed.

If the final syllable of the root word is stressed and ends with one consonant and one vowel before that, then double the last consonant.

English

Today I would like you to use your box up plan from yesterday to draft your voice over for the following clip:

In the above clip you will hear a gentleman’s voice, you are going to take over his role today and write down information about what you can see on the video. This will be a challenge and the reason we did this so successfully last time is that we followed the structure of the box up plan. You don’t need to be speaking throughout the whole video so when you’re writing your transcript remember this.

Please ensure you include the following:

Fronted adverbials  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3

Capital letters and full stops

Joined handwriting

Check for spellings that you know

Here is the voice over for NeverBelieve to give you some inspiration – please note you do not need to record the voice over for me. You performing this to your family would be great!

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Reading Plus

***New KS2 Home Reading Platform***

I am very excited to say that our new home reading platform for KS2 is now up and running. Please read the attached letter which has all the information you need.

Reading Plus Letter

Please login with the following details:

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Please have a look through the subjects in the above link and complete as you like. There are many exciting activities to do on here, so have fun exploring them.

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Fing – chapter 5 and 6

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Three-day creative tasks:

You don’t need a mindfulness colouring book when you’ve got some kitchen towel to hand. Using fine felt tips you can colour in the dots in different colours. Who knew kitchen roll could look so good!

Who doesn’t like watching the birds feed outside, especially when there’s little else happening at the moment? Use a large four-pint milk bottle and felt tips to colour the plastic, you could also stick paper, feathers and other things on to make them bright and colourful.

It’s always lovely to get hand prints and foot prints to capture that moment in time. Why not get the whole family involved and create a picture from hand prints of everyone in the house?

Good morning everyone! I hope you settle back into the week well yesterday, as ever, if you need me throughout the day then please drop me an email: s.butterworth@meadowsideacademy.org

Have a nice day!

Early Bird Maths

Please complete one, two or all three of the following:

Maths

LO: To divide numbers with remainders

Please watch the following link that shows you what to do when you divide a number and there are some left over. Remember we call these remainders!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zrpfgk7

Remember to count in groups of the divisor until you reach the dividend. Then state how many are left over as the remainder.

Complete the following calculations in your book:

215 =

325 =

545 =

35  2 =

53  7 =

  Good morning everyone! Here is a little message from your Meadowside family…

Early Bird Maths

Please complete one, two or all three of the following:

Maths

LO: To divide numbers by ten

This week we are going to focus on division. Here is a video explaining how to divide numbers by ten. Remember, each digit in the dividend moves right once when dividing by ten. Don’t forget to put in your decimal point!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zcnyr82

Complete the following calculations:

43210 =

86510=

543210=

971110=

733610=

When dividing a decimal by ten, the same rules apply and each digit moves right once. Remember to put your decimal point in. Complete the following calculations:

43.110=

654.210=

52110=

754.110=

8765.810=

6329.5410=

4573.1910=

Word Power

Adding ing, er and ed.

If the final syllable of the root word is stressed and ends with one consonant and one vowel before that, then double the last consonant.

English

Today I would like you to write a letter to our friends at The Cuttings Care Home. I believe this will make them really happy as I know they loved hearing from you last time and unfortunately we won’t be able to visit them in the summer term so i’m sure  these letters will brighten up their day. You could write about:

• what life is like for you under lockdown,
• what you have been doing at home to keep busy
• anything you like!

Please ask them questions as well as i’m sure they would love to write back to you! The best way to do this would be to post the letter yourself, you will need a stamp to put on the envelope and find your local post box during your daily exercise.

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Reading Plus

***New KS2 Home Reading Platform***

I am very excited to say that our new home reading platform for KS2 is now up and running. Please read the attached letter which has all the information you need.

Reading Plus Letter

Please login with the following details:

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

Please have a look through the subjects in the above link and complete as you like. There are many exciting activities to do on here, so have fun exploring them.

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Fing – chapter 1 and 2

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

Pebble art has been quite a think over recent years, with people decorating rocks and leaving them in parks and other places for people to find. Given the current climate, people aren’t sharing them at the moment, but that shouldn’t stop you from having fun decorating your own and you could always leave them outside on your daily exercise outside!

Early Bird Maths

Friday Fast ten

1. ½ of ______=
2. 3214+3333=
3. 6532×4=
4. 1/4 of _________=
5. __ +120=225
6. 5x______=_______
7. ½ of 226=
8. 125+3000=
9. 872-122=
10. Double ________ =

For question number 3, you might want support with grid method:

Maths

On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs.

Word Power

English

Free Write day – please use the following picture to complete a piece of creative writing. Remember your fantastic joined handwriting, capital letters, full stops and use of conjunctions…and fronted adverbials! 🙂

https://www.pobble365.com/watery-world/

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Brian Wong, Who Was Never, Ever Wrong

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

Hello Year 4!!

Mrs Bennett has been a busy baker over the Easter holidays. I thought you might like to try making some simple biscuits. You could experiment by adding additional ingredients, for example, lemon rind or even broken bits of left over Easter eggs.

These are some of the biscuits I made. They didn’t even last 24hrs in my house!

HAPPY BAKING 😋

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easiest-ever-biscuits

Good morning everyone!

Early Bird Maths

Thursday Fast ten

1. ½ of 1500=
2. 8761+1255=
3. 5555×5=
4. ½ of 1002=
5. __ +110=671
6. 6x__=1800
7. ½ of 188=
8. 292+1950=
9. 296-108=
10. Double 552 =

For question number 3, you might want support with grid method:

Maths

I have a jigsaw for you all to complete today.

This is not a 100 square however. This is a multiplication grid. If you follow the numbers down and across the number that you will meet is the total of the two numbers times together.

To complete this grid, it will test your creativity as you will need to create a 100 square grid. You can use squared paper or you can create your own on lined or blank paper. You can then test yourself on times tables using this as your own resource.

Word Power

English

Im sure you will agree, this was a great prank by Mrs Twit! Please don’t get any ideas for when you’re next having spaghetti!!! Your family will tell me off for giving you inspiration!

I do however want you to create a new chapter for this story. The chapter title is ‘Mr Twit’s Revenge’. I want to know how you would ensure Mr Twit gets his own back on his wife. Please be as creative and mischievous as you like! Remember though, the skill i’d like you to include is fronted adverbials.

Fronted adverbials are words or phrases placed at the beginning of a sentence which are used to describe the action that follows. Here are some examples:

Before sunrise, Mr Twit ate his breakfast.

After the rain stopped, Mrs Twit went outside into the garden.

Suddenly, he shouted at the top of his voice.

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Cruel Clarissa

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

Good morning everyone – I hope everyone is okay. Id love to see some of your learning this week so send over some pictures if you get chance! Have a nice day!

Early Bird Maths

Wednesday Fast ten

1. ½ of 550=
2. 1233+1910=
3. 6511×5=
4. ½ of 1600=
5. __ +130=220
6. 5x__=850
7. ½ of 280=
8. 33+1303=
9. 186-38=
10. Double 650 =

For question number 3, you might want support with grid method:

Maths

We are now going to use a written method to help us solve larger multiplications. we are fantastic at using the grid method, but please use the above link if you need reminding of how to use it.

1234 x 3 =

5225 x 5 =

5555 x 2 =

3821 x 6 =

7532 x 8 =

Word Power

English

LO: To use fronted adverbials to describe an action

Fronted adverbials are words or phrases placed at the beginning of a sentence which are used to describe the action that follows. The following link explains it with a video:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3

Here are some examples for our story:

Before sunrise, Mr Twit ate his breakfast.

After the rain stopped, Mrs Twit went outside into the garden.

Suddenly, he shouted at the top of his voice.

Have a go at creating your own for the following picture:

Activity:

I want you to have fun watching the following video of Mr and Mrs Twit. Your challenge to follow will be to recount what happened between the odd couple using fronted adverbials like the examples above.

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Gruesome Griselda

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all okay and settled back into the routine of home learning well yesterday. If you need me at all today, then please get in touch.

Early Bird Maths

Tuesday Fast ten

1. ½ of 220=
2. 1010+2338=
3. 1449×6=
4. ½ of 1100=
5. __ +110=225
6. 5x__=590
7. ½ of 1000=
8. 89+2500=
9. 675-183=
10. Double 190 =

For question number 3, you might want support with grid method:

Maths Activity

Using arrays to help you, choose from the two challenges below. Remember factor pairs are the two numbers you times together to make your answer. For example 4×3=12. 4 and 3 are the factors.

How many different factor pairs give a product of 16. Show this in your books using arrays.

Which of the following numbers has the most factor pairs?

60, 72, 48, 20 or 12

How do you know you have got them them all?

Convince me or justify how you know you are correct by using the reasoning prompts below.

Word Power

English

The Twits – one of my favourite books to read.

I wanted to share this with you because I know you will enjoy it. Some of you may have read it already which is great, this will help you over the coming weeks. First of all, I’d like you to read the book. If you don’t have the book at home, here is a link to an audio of it which you can listen to over the next couple of days.

For today, I want you to draw a picture of Mr Twit and Mrs Twit (if you don’t know what they look like, you may  have to use your imagination after watching the above trailer to create your own image). After this I want you to create a mind map full of words to describe the two characters.

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Garden/ Living Room Gymnastics:

Please only complete the following gymnastics tasks if you have a safe area to do so. Please check with an adult before completing. Have fun!

Both of these challenges work best with a partner but if you do not have one available, you can complete the balances against a wall. Remember to hold the balance for at least 10 seconds!!! Like a statue! 🙂

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Boastful Barnabus

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

My Dream Home Competition, judged by Lucy Pittaway

Please draw, paint, sketch or create a collage out of recycling of your dream home. If you email me a picture of this I will forward this onto the Estate Agents ready for judging. The deadline is Monday 27th April at 5pm.

The winners and runners up will be revealed live online on Friday 1st May. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will win vouchers for the Darlington Hippodrome and a goodie bag from the artist Lucy Pittaway. Have fun and be as creative as you like!

Hello!!!

I hope you’ve all had a lovely break from home learning, eaten lots of chocolate and managed to get outside when possible for some fresh air! It will be good to get back into a routine over the coming weeks, so I will set home learning every day (I will post it on here by 5pm for the following day) for you to follow. There is room to be flexible with the learning I am posting – ultimately your family at home are in charge so please listen to how best they want to organise this! 🙂

As ever, if you need to contact me then please drop me an email. Mrs Meynell, Mrs Bennet and myself will be ringing round you all this week to check in with you to see how you are getting on and if you need support with anything.

Early Bird Maths

Monday Fast ten

1. ½ of 360=
2. 3374+115=
3. 4432×4=
4. ½ of 3600=
5. __ +110=885
6. 3x__=105
7. ½ of 156=
8. 45+1000=
9. 156-88=
10. Double 550 =

For question number 3, you might want support with grid method:

Maths

The above link (grid method) can be used to complete larger multiplications, so please refer to this throughout the week if needed. Today I want you to recap a practical method that will help you understand what multiplication means. An easy way to show this is through arrays. Rocky wanted to make an appearance too!

Please make your own sets of arrays using whatever you can find in and around your home for the following totals:

_ x _ = 20

_ x _ = 21

_ x _ = 32

_ x _ = 45

Challenge: How many different factor pairs and sets of arrays can you create for one calculation?

Word Power

English

Free Write day:

I would like you to write about one special moment you’ve had throughout the last two weeks. Tell me what you did? Why was it so special? Who was involved? Where was it? Draw a picture to go with it with labels or captions.

At the start of the Easter holidays, I asked you to try and achieve a personal goal; for example ride your bike, bake a cake, tie your laces complete a run under a specific time etc. My personal goal was to achieve 1000 kick ups…however I haven’t quite made it! I will keep going until I do. Here is a video of my best attempt. Can you count how many I did?

Other tasks to create throughout the day

Joe Wicks daily workout from 9am on his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Listen to a David Walliams story:

Walter Wasp

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

GoNoodle: 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Many online videos that help keep children active inside and teach mindfulness and meditation.

Newsround:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround 

Two-day creative task:

My Dream Home Competition, judged by Lucy Pittaway

Please draw, paint, sketch or create a collage out of recycling of your dream home. If you email me a picture of this I will forward this onto the Estate Agents ready for judging. The deadline is Monday 27th April at 5pm.

The winners and runners up will be revealed live online on Friday 1st May. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will win vouchers for the Darlington Hippodrome and a goodie bag from the artist Lucy Pittaway. Have fun and be as creative as you like!