Literacy week 4

This weeks literacy is geography based, all about mountains and rivers

Task 1: Reading Comprehension

Questions:
1. In your own words, explain how a river is made.


2. a) Why can the Nile river be seen from space?


b) Why do you think so many people are living by this river?


3. How do you think the Amazon rainforest might depend on the Amazon river?


4. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the text.  Rivers are _______for life as we know it. They carry  ____________ and important ___________all around the world and are         
____________for millions of __________ of plants and animals.
5. Name three ways in which humans use rivers.

6. a) Find and copy a caption from the text.

  b) Why do you think captions are important in this text?


7. a) What is the meaning of the word ‘contaminate’?

  b) Why has the author put some words in bold?


Task 2:

1. What was the tragic event that prompted Dashrath Manjhi to spend so long carving a passageway through the mountain?

2. What did other people initially think of Manjhi’s project when he first started?


3. Look at the first two paragraphs. Find and copy a word which means ‘remote or far away from other places, buildings or people’.

4.
'The labourer said that he never wanted anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife.’
 What does this suggest about Manjhi’s character?


5. What is meant by a ‘state funeral’ and what does this suggest about the way the government felt about Dashrath Manjhi’s actions?


6.  How do you think local people felt when the road through the mountain was finally completed?




7. Look at the Location Fact File. Which direction is Nepal from India?

8. Look at the section The Mountains of India. What are the positive and negative aspects of the mountains attracting tourists to the region?


9. Complete the information about The Mountains of India. The first one has been done for you.

Highest peak of the Kanchenjunga in number of feet: 28,000
Total number of peaks on the Kanchenjunga mountain
Number of species of birds in the national park
Number of countries over which the Himalayas are spread

10. Explain why the mountains in the Great Himalayan Range are important to India as a country.

Task 3: Re-write the passage 
This year we have worked on editing throughout the year. With that in mind, your task is to re-write the passage below correcting any mistakes. Make sure to consider: capital letters, punctuation, correct tenses and spellings.

Task 4: Story

Your final task of the week is to continue the story passed on the passage you re-wrote out correctly yesterday. Make sure to try and write descriptively so it draws the reader in. Here is a video to remind you how this can be done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4

Maths week 4

For this weeks maths you can visit white rose maths and complete week 2 on the year 5 section. Each day there is a video to watch and work for you to complete. If you do not have printer, you write your answers in your book.

Click https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ for the tasks

We Miss You!

Children of Edlington - You Are Awesome!

WATCH OUR MUSIC VIDEO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joYvarYaXTw&t=102s

Today the pupils coming to Hill Top created a music video to send their support to all of the children of Edlington and to celebrate how wonderful you all are!

We hope that you enjoy it!

From

Miss Robinson

Special thanks to Mrs Dyer, Mrs Rogers and Miss Wood for helping to make the video and for providing a wonderful week in school for our children.

Music

Miss Stavish knows that whilst we have not been in school we have all been missing our music lessons so she has created a log in for each of you so you can do some music lessons at home.

https://www.doncastermusicserviceonline.co.uk/yumu

Each of you have a username which is the first 3 letters of your first name and the first three letters of your last name. For example if your name was Alex Smith your username would be alesmi
Everyone's password is set as password.

Below is a video of Miss Stavish logging in to show you how it will look.

Literacy week 3

This weeks literacy will be linked to science this week.

Day 1 Task:

To complete the reading comprehension about the moon. Answers can be written in your workbooks.

Questions:

1. What is a rhetorical question ans why do you think the author choose to open the non-chronological report with a rhetorical question?

2. Find and copy the synonym for 'dry'

3. How long does a day last on the moon?

4. What does the word satellite mean? How many Satellites does earth have?

5. What does the word waxing mean?

6. How long did Niel Armstrong's colleagues stay in quarantine?

7. Explain using information from the text why the moon has different phases.

8. 'Only 12 people have ever walked on the moon!' Why do you think an exclamation mark was used at the end of this sentence?

9.Name one way in which the moon is similar to the earth and one way in which it is different

10. Why do you think so many people watched the moon landing?

11. Find and copy the word that means 'attached'


Day 2 Task:

There are many types of stars in our solar system. Research the types of stars and write a report on stars.
Consider: what types of stars are there? how are they different? what is the life cycle of a star? which star is the largest? what is the brightest star in the sky past, present and future? do stars move, if so how?
A great place to start is at https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/amnh/the-universe/stars/a/what-is-a-star

Day 3 Task:

Click on the links to watch the 2 videos about the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzchPx3yF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MP920xMC0Q

Using the information from the videos, reading from this week and your prior knowledge, in your books we would like you to justify in detail using scientific vocabulary what is special about the moon and how our lives would be impacted if the moon was to disappear.

Day 4 Task:

Image you are an astronaut sent to explore the depths of our vast galaxy, The Milky Way. Whilst exploring you come across a small planet that has yet to have been discovered until now. You decide to land on this planet and explore. Write a descriptive setting of the planet. Make sure to consider all five of your senses: see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

Maths Week 3

This weeks maths is all about angles.

Day 1

task 

Create an information poster all about angles. Here are some examples of what your poster could look like

Day 2

Task

 Day 3 Task

Day 4 Task

Day 5

Doncaster Stories

Hi all,

Doncaster Literacy Trust are organising some great competitions over the lockdown period.  I think this would be a great opportunity for your child to develop their creative writing skills and their love of reading.  

Here is a link to their facebook page - please take a look!

www.facebook.com/doncasterstories

This week the creative writing challenge is set at The Frenchgate Centre!  I could see some amazing creativity from this!  Please encourage your child to take part.  It is such a great opportunity for them.

Happy Writing!

Mrs Clark xx