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Home Learning Tuesday 21st April

Please see below for Tuesday's home learning.

Happy Tuesday Team Gunson. Here is your suggested learning for today:

Maths: Adding decimals, Crossing the Whole

As usual, have a look at the video lesson then try the learning task. Get as far as you can on it. If you can't complete all of the sections that's fine, just try your best.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

Reading: Read the attached first chapter (pages 3-5) of 'There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom', then answer the following questions -

1. Why do you think Jeff lied about not having visited the White House?

2. Do you think Mrs Ebbel cares about Bradley? How do you know that?

3. Why does Mrs Ebbel let Bradley do what he wants to in class?

4. Why does Bradley cut up his test paper with scissors?

5. Do you think that Bradley and Jeff will become friends or enemies?

English: Write a powerful, supportive letter to your future self. You might want to talk about your good qualities, what life is like in lockdown and how well you have been coping with no school to go to and cut off from all of your friends. Now, go to this website -

https://www.futureme.org/

Paste your letter into the box, provide an email address and choose to send it to yourself in 1, 3 or 5 years time! The website will send the letter as an email to you.

Topic: IK: the life cycles of birds

A life cycle is the journey an animal takes from birth to death.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgssgk7/articles/zwn6mnb

Scientists study life cycles in order to understand more about animals’ growth at different stages. Some life cycles are more complex than others, with living things sometimes making changes as they grow.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zp62tfr

Here is a time lapse of how a butterfly changes -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2d9XDn1bSg

The changes in insects from an immature create to an adult insect are known as metamorphosis. This isn't the same for all animals. Some animals begin life in an egg and some animals are live born.

Birds have a life cycle that goes form Adult bird to egg to embryo to chick to adult bird, then the cycle begins again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMH1yViOGYE

Yout task is to draw and label the life cycle of a chicken. Here is a link to show how to draw it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQtmTIu5wnk