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Work pack – Group 2 – Week 6 – 8th – 12th February

Week 6 Timetable:

Day Core Foundation

Monday Reading – The Big Blue Whale Writing- Eye witness statements Maths – Add equal groups

Science- Dissolving

Tuesday Reading - The Big Blue Whale Writing – Present tense Maths – Add equal groups

Geography - Volcanoes

Wednesday Reading - The Big Blue Whale Writing – Speech Punctuation Maths – Multiplication sentences using the symbol

PE- Stances Spanish- Los Meses

Thursday Reading - The Big Blue Whale Writing – Write a newspaper report Maths – Multiplication sentences from pictures

Art- Creating Volcano Replicas

Friday Reading - The Big Blue Whale Writing - Evaluations Maths – Make arrays

Music- Simple rhythms

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Monday 8th February

Reading - The Big Blue Whale

Zoom in

Read the introduction from the text ‘The Big Blue Whale’ and answer the questions below.

Vocabulary

STAR: ‘mammal’- Mammals include humans and all other animals that are warm-blooded

vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) with hair. They feed their young with milk and have a

more well-developed brain than other types of animals.

1. Name two other mammals.

1.__________________________________

2. __________________________________

2. Find and copy the word that tells the reader how their numbers are growing.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Retrieval

1. What sort of animal is a whale?

_______________________________________________________________________________

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2. How many whales remain in the ocean?

_______________________________________________________________________________

Inference

1. Why are you ‘lucky’ if you manage to see a whale in the wild?

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

2. Why are the numbers of whales growing?

_______________________________________________________________________________

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Writing - Eye witness statements

Watch the video lesson by clicking on the link or scanning the QR code here.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-eye-witness-statements-74u34d

An example of how to create a speech sentence:

Information:

We stopped the fire because we arrived in time.

A tired firefighter, Tom Jones.

Speech sentence:

“We stopped the fire because we arrived in time,” said Tom Jones, a tired firefighter.

Using the information below, make speech sentences and write them in your book.

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Remember to share your work with me on Dojo so that I can provide some feedback.

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Maths- Add equal groups

To start your Maths work for today, log on and do 5 minutes of Times Tables Rock Stars.

Today’s Arithmatic Starter:

Today’s Activity:

Follow the link to watch the explanation video: https://vimeo.com/480212584 and complete

questions 1 – 6 below.

In this lesson we are going to add equal groups.

Here there are 6 equal groups of socks, each group has 2 socks. We can add 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2

to find out that there are 12 socks. We could also find that 6 x 2 = 12.

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If you don’t have any counters for questions 5, you could use pencils or lego blocks or any small

objects. Otherwise, you could cut out and use the counters at the back of this pack.

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Remember to share your answers with me on ClassDojo – you may see your answer featured

later!

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Spelling

Can you find the un- words in the grid?

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Science – Dissolving

Match up the word with its definition.

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Tuesday 9th February

Reading- The Big Blue Whale

Read the section titled ‘What do they look like?’ from the text and answer the questions below.

Retrieval

1. Find and copy two facts about what a blue whale looks like.

1. ______________________________________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary

1. ‘The blue whale has dark eyes that look like deep pits…’

The word ‘pit’ has different meanings. Tick the meaning below that relates most to the word ‘pit’

in this sentence.

a w A wide, deep hole that either is dug or already in the ground.

the The worst or most terrible

To To set against one another.

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Inference

1. ‘The blue whale has dark eyes that look like deep pits…’

What does the writer mean when he says a whale’s eyes are like deep pits?

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

2. Why would ears that stick out get in the way when swimming?

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

Writing - Present tense

Watch the video lesson and then complete the work below by finishing the sentence scaffold.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-final-paragraph-of-newspaper-

report-6wv3cd

Remember to share your work with me on Dojo.

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Maths- Add equal groups

What do all the numbers you have highlighted end in?

Today’s Arithmetic Starter:

Today’s Activity:

Follow the link to watch the explanation video: https://vimeo.com/488110327 and complete

questions 1 – 6 below.

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A number sentence is a calculation. For example, look at the groups below:

There are 4 equal groups of 2.

A number sentence to show this could be 2 + 2 + 2 + 2.

Remember to share your answers with me on ClassDojo – you may see your answer featured

later!

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Handwriting

Geography– Volcanoes

Recap – match the name of the plate boundary with its description:

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Today, we are going to look at volcanoes. To start, watch:

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/science/101-videos/0000016f-7d09-dc46-a77f-

7fad40050000-11

The transcript for the video is below – you can watch the clip a second time or read the below

after watching the clip.

Key vocabulary:

Portal – an entrance or gateway.

Molten – metal or rock in a liquid state because of great heat.

Emission – the act of sending out gas, heat, light or other materials.

Erupt – to explode, blow up.

Fertile – able to produce crops.

Classified – put into categories or groups.

Decimate – to destroy.

Transcript:

Portals into the heart of the Earth, they burn. Bottomless cauldrons fuelled by an ancient wrath…

bubbling and boiling thousands of miles beneath the surface just waiting to burst through.

Volcanoes are scattered across the planet. About 1,500 active volcanoes can be found around the

world, but countless ones are on the ocean floor. Most volcanoes – whether on land or

underwater – are located where tectonic plates meet.

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In fact, the Ring of Fire, a path that traces the boundaries between several tectonic plates around

the Pacific Ocean, contains about 75% of the planet’s volcanoes.

There are several types of volcanoes, primarily classified by shape and size.

Major types include stratovolcanoes, which often appear as tall, steep mountains; shield

volcanoes, which are flatter and dome-shaped; calderas, which are large depressions in the

ground; and mid-ocean ridges, which are underwater chains of volcanic mountains.

No matter their shape or size, all volcanoes are areas in the Earth’s crust that release gas and

molten rock. The journey of these emissions begins deep underground in the Earth’s core. The

core, which can burn as hot as the surface of the Sun, transfers its heat to the surrounding rocky

mantle. In doing so, the heat melts some of the rock. This molten rock, or “magma”, is lighter

than the surrounding solid rock layer, so it rises through the mantle. The magma then escapes

through vents in the Earth’s crust, causing volcanic eruptions. Now above ground, this magma is

referred to as “lava”, and it can reach temperatures of over 2,000°F.

In addition to lava, volcanoes may erupt with hot gas formed in the mantle. This gas (combined

with hot ash) can race down the sides of a volcano as fast as 100mph, burning everything in its

path. This is called “pyroclastic flow”.

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To measure and classify eruptions, scientists developed the Volcanic Explosivity Index, or VEI. The

VEI considers factors, such as the amount of lava, gas, and other materials which erupt from the

volcano, along with the height of the eruption cloud above the volcano. The VEI scale begins at 0.

The VEI scale does not have an upper limit, but the most catastrophic eruptions measured are

categorized as VEI 8. These eruptions occurred thousands and millions of years ago.

The most destructive volcanic eruption ever witnessed occurred in Indonesia in 1815 when

Mount Tambora, a large stratovolcano, erupted with a VEI measurement of 7. The blast caused

earthquakes, tsunamis, and pyroclastic flows that decimated the land and took tens of thousands

of Indonesian lives. The eruption even destroyed the top of Mount Tambora itself, turning the

13,000-foot tall mountain into a 3,640-foot depression, or “caldera”. (Remember – our Class

Book ‘Kick’ is based in Indonesia and Budi experiences the effects of an earthquake in the story).

While volcanoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature, they have also helped make

life on Earth possible. Volcanic ash provides nutrients to nearby soil, making the land fertile; and

lava, when it cools, hardens into rock and creates new landforms. With heat from the heart of

the Earth, volcanoes have helped terraformed the planet, making it the rich, dynamic landscape

we see today.

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Answer the following questions:

1. How many active volcanoes are there on the Earth?

2. What is the nickname of the area that contains 75% of the Earth’s volcanoes?

3. Why are there so many volcanoes here?

4. Match the type of volcano to the picture:

5. What do scientists use to measure Volcanoes?

Now, let’s have a go at labelling the parts of a volcano using the information below:

1. The magma reservoir sits under the Earth and is a large chamber or space full of molten rock.

2. The conduit is the tunnel up which the magma travels to erupt from the top of the volcano.

3. The crater is the dip or dent in the top of a volcano.

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4. The main vent sits just below the crater and is where the magma and ash erupts from the volcano. Sometimes there are also side vents.

5. The lava flow is the molten rock that flows out of a volcano. Lava is the word for magma once it has reached the Earth’s surface.

6. The ash cloud is the cloud of ash which erupts out of the top of the volcano into the air.

7. Layers of ash and solidified lava (this is lava which become hard once it cools outside of the volcano) run down the side of the volcano.

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Wednesday 10th February

Reading- The Big Blue Whale

Zoom in

Read the section titled ‘How does it live in the ocean?’ from the text ‘The Big Blue Whale’ and

answer the questions below.

Vocabulary

STAR: ‘equator’- the imaginary circle around the earth that is halfway between the North and

South Poles.

‘odour’- smell or scent.

1. The whale’s odour is described as ‘stale’. What does this mean?

It smells unclean, old and musty.

It smells fresh and fruity.

It cannot smell anything at all.

Retrieval

1. Tick the correct facts.

Blue whales breathe air.

They have blowholes on their backs.

B Blue Whales travel great distances.

It’s spray smells like fish.

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2. What do blue whales do in the winter?

_______________________________________________________________________________

Inference

1. Why do blue whales have to travel great distances to stay alive?

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

2. Why do you think blue whales have their babies in the warmer seas?

_______________________________________________________________________________

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Writing- Speech Punctuation

Watch the video lesson and then complete the editing activity below:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-edit-a-newspaper-report-60wkac

Punctuate this speech.

Remember to share your work with me on Dojo.

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Maths – Equal groups and multiplication

To start your Maths work for today, log on and do 5 minutes of Times Tables Rock Stars.

Today’s Arithmatic Starter:

Today’s Activity:

Watch today’s explanation video: https://vimeo.com/488111269 and complete questions 1 – 5

below.

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The picture below shows how, instead of adding the equal groups, we can multiply them.

We have 4 dice, each with 2 spots so this shows 4 groups of 2.

We could add the equal groups of spots together like this:

Or we could do a multiplication calculation to show we have 4 groups of 2:

We can multiply the 4 and 2 in any order so we could also do the calculation the other way

around:

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Spelling

This week we are going to look at some spellings. Practice the following words used the look,

cover, write, sheet below. Remember to use some of them in sentences at the end:

Door, because, find, behind, child, climb, wild, only, both, old.

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Spanish- Los Meses

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PE - Stances

Go to https://real.jasmineactive.com/login.

Log in with the details sent to you via Class Dojo and click on KS2. Go to the stance set of

activities. Watch the video and then, have a go yourself.

Use the colour tabs to change the difficulty of the challenges and share pictures on ClassDojo of

you completing them at home.

If you’d like some extra activities, how about a Just Dance workout or some Cosmic Yoga. The

links are below:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyfM2o0d0IE

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Thursday 11th February

Reading- The Big Blue Whale

Zoom in

Read the last section, ‘What do they eat?’, from the text ‘The Big Blue Whale’ and answer the

questions below.

Retrieval

1. What is the name of the food that blue whales eat?

_______________________________________________________________________________

2. What does krill look like?

_______________________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary

STAR: ‘swarm’- a group of people, animals, or things in motion.

1. What are ‘baleen plates’? Describe them in your own words.

_______________________________________________________________________________

Inference

1. Why is it surprising that the food blue whales eat is tiny?

_______________________________________________________________________________

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Writing- Write a newspaper report.

Watch the following video lesson:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-newspaper-report-6gvked

Using the skills you have developed over the last 4 weeks, write a newspaper article using the

following success criteria.

Success Criteria:

1. Headline

2. 5Ws

3. Facts

4. Speech

Remember to share your final piece with me on Class Dojo. I will share some of the work with

the class.

Maths - Multiplication

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Today’s Arithmatic Starter:

Today’s Activity:

Watch today’s explanation video: https://vimeo.com/488113679 and complete questions 1 – 4

below. You might want to use the number square or times table square in the back of the back to

help you.

Look at the picture below. There are 4 bags of apples and each bag has 5 apples in it.

We can explain this in the following ways:

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Handwriting

Art- Creating Volcano Replicas

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Friday 12th February

Reading- The Big Blue Whale

Reread the text, ‘The Big Blue Whale’, and answer the questions below.

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1. True or false? Read the statements below and complete the table. Look back at the text to help

you.

True False

Blue whales are the bigger than Giraffes.

Blue whales can breathe under water.

Blue whales eat a tiny amount of food.

Blue whales swim towards the equator to have babies.

2. Why are sub-headings useful in an information text?

_______________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________

3. Draw lines to match the sub heading to a quote. Use the text to help you.

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Writing- Evaluations

Yesterday some good examples of newspaper articles were shared on Dojo. Choose one and give

the student some feedback. Remember the success criteria. Give the student two stars and a

wish. Make sure your wish includes an example of how you would improve their work.

Share your feedback with me on Class Dojo.

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Maths- Make arrays

To start your Maths work for today, log on and do 5 minutes of Times Tables Rock Stars.

Today’s Arithmatic Starter:

Watch today’s explanation video: https://vimeo.com/480212725 and complete questions 1 – 3

below.

Look at the next page for some support and remember, there is a number square, times table

square and number line at the back of the pack.

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An array is a picture which shows things in columns or rows. For example, look at the arrays

below:

In the first array they are 4 columns and 2 rows of windows.

This shows us that:

4 + 4 = 8

2 + 2 + 2 = 2 = 8

2 x 4 = 8

Look at this array:

This shows us that 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 and that 3 x 3 = 9.

Remember to share your answers with me on ClassDojo – you may see your answer featured

later!

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Spelling

This week we are going to look at some spellings. Practice the following words used the look,

cover, write, sheet below. Remember to use some of them in sentences at the end:

Floor, because, most, find, children, cold.

Complete the rest of the rows which words that you found tricky when you did this exercise on

Wednesday.

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Music- Simple rhythms

Complete the lesson on reading simple rhythms by watching and joining in with the online video

from Oak National Academy:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-simple-rhythms-c5h3ad

Can you draw all of the notes you have learnt and, next to them, write the number of beats they

represent?

For example: = 1 beat.

You could use this table to do so:

Picture Beats Name

1 beat Crotchet

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Perhaps you find out the musical names of the notes by doing some research? For example, the

note I have drawn is called a crotchet.

Share your work with me on Class Dojo and keep it in a safe place as we will add more notes to it

as we learn more.

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Maths Resources – number square

Number Line

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Times Tables square

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Counters