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Monday
English: We are orally retelling our story 'The Pirate Cruncher' in class. Can you watch the video of the Pirate Cruncher using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5S_UdvWkI Then use this story map in the picture below to create actions to the story. This will help you to retell it in your own words next week!
Maths: Watch this video to practise counting back from 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMmZaFvRpE Then count back (using your fingers to help you!) to work out the answers to these questions:
65 - 1 = ____
36 - 5 = ____
50 - 4 = ____
70 - 2 = ____
26 - 7 = ____
95 - 3 = ____
55 - 6 = ____
89 - 8 = ____
55 - 8 = ____
99 - 10 = _____
Enquiry: Go on the SS Great Britain website and explore the ship virtually to see what first class passengers would have experienced on board. If you are really intrigued look at W.D.Grace's diary entry to find out about his journey! https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/story/passenger-stories
Tuesday
English: Can you sequence the story of the Pirate Cruncher? Put the pictures from the gallery below in the correct order on the 'S timeline' and add time adverbials to the pictures to explain the time they happened (e.g. first, then, next, soon after, finally.)
Maths: Can you use your dienes to subtract? Remember to draw how many tens and ones you start with and then cross them out to takeaway.
65 - 10 = ____
56 - 30 = ____
50 - 40 = ____
72 - 20 = ____
76 - 30 = ____
95 - 60 = ____
65 - 50 = ____
89 - 80 = ____
85 - 65 = ____
99 - 30 = _____
Enquiry: Use this video in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovFQQ2SwBc and pictures in the gallery below to infer how people felt about the Great Western Railway being built. Write a sentence explaining how you think they felt and why.
Wednesday
English: Can you make a prediction? We are going to use the story of the Pirate Cruncher to help us predict what will happen in other stories. Watch this story by the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4qmlFAQTw and pause it at 3 minutes 55 seconds. What do you think will happen next and why? Draw a picture to show your thinking and write a sentence for your prediction. Remember to think about how the story is similar to books we already know!
Maths: Can you use your dienes to subtract again? Make sure to check how many tens and how many ones you need to cross out carefully.
65 - 12 = ____
56 - 35 = ____
58 - 46 = ____
72 - 21 = ____
76 - 33 = ____
97 - 64 = ____
65 - 53 = ____
89 - 78 = ____
85 - 65 = ____
99 - 39 = _____
Enquiry: We are comparing the experience of passengers on the Great Western Railway. Look at the pictures of the different carriages in the gallery below and infer which was first class and which was third class. Then can you sort the descriptions into the correct class on the table?
Thursday
English: Here are some words linked to the our story The Pirate Cruncher: booty, bellowed, trudged, sneered, shanty, loot, fiddler, unfurled. Draw a picture of each to show what they mean. Challenge: Can you write synonyms for each word?
Maths: Answer these subtraction questions. Think about which strategies are best to use for each (fingers or dienes)
65 - 2 = ____
56 - 12 = ____
58 - 4 = ____
72 - 40 = ____
76 - 33 = ____
97 - 7 = ____
65 - 45 = ____
89 - 10 = ____
85 - 22 = ____
99 - 60 = _____
Friday
English: Write a character description of Captain Purplebeard from the Pirate Cruncher. Can you describe what he looks like (beard, hair, face, clothes) and his personality?
Maths: Answer these addition and subtraction questions. Remember to look closely at the symbols + or -
65 + 20 = ____
56 + 22 = ____
78 + 14 = ____
40 - 30 = ____
76 - 53 = ____
97 - 70 = ____
45 + 45 = ____
23 + 16 = ____
75 - 21 = ____
98 - 32 = _____