You may have heard this riddle poem before. It's very famous, although we no longer know who wrote it. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? Now, I'm going to spoil the answer for you. The answer is one. We only know that the original person is going to St Ives but we don't know where the rest of them are going. It's tricksy isn't it? It is designed to catch you out!
These questions are not tricksy though... 1. How many living things are in the poem? 2. How many legs are in the poem? 3. If a sack costs £1.12, how much money has been spent on sacks? 4. How many felines (cats/kits) are in the poem? 5. If each cat and each kit eats seven tins of cat food, how many tins of cat food are eaten altogether? 6. How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) are in the poem? 7. Write your own poem in the style of "As I was going to St Ives" and ask your own questions for a friend to solve.
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After Easter, we will look at making a game using the Scratch 2 application, which you can download here.
Today, I would like you to practise using the application. Can you work out how to change your sprite? How to make it move up, down, left and right? How to increase the speed? How to change your background? Have a play with it and familiarise yourself with it. We will make a computer game next week! Have a look at a door in your house. It could be your front door, your bedroom door, your wardrobe door or your fridge. It might be the door to your rabbits' hutch, or where the electric meter is kept. Choose one and look at it.
Describe the door in detail. The size of it. The colour of it. The details. What it is made of? Is it clean or dirty? Is it old or new? Big or small? Now, imagine that you can walk (or squeeze) through that door and end up somewhere else entirely. What place might you end up in? Can you describe that place? How does it compare to where you have just left? How do you feel about that place? Have a go at writing about your adventure through the magic door, from the ordinary into the extraordinary. Your job, here, is to write imaginatively to entertain somebody. Think about who you might wish to entertain. A child younger than you? Somebody your age? A grown up? Have fun writing! Please feel free to share it with us! Sometimes you will see word problems in which you will need to do one or more steps to solve it. This investigation, “Mrs Green is having a party”, is full of these little challenges. Can you work out how much the party costs? If you want a challenge once you have your answer, why not have a go at this greater depth question?
Music is fantastic, isn't it? It can make us feel so many different emotions - excited, heartbroken, joyful, uplifted, downbeat. And the lyrics in songs are often short stories, aren't they, where there are characters and things happen to them?
Well, your task, should you choose to accept it (please accept it!) is to turn the book you are reading (or the last book you read) into a song. You may decide to tell the entire story and write your own lyrics. You may decide to use the words of just one page and sing them aloud to a tune. If you play an instrument, you could add backing music. Or if you don't, you could find household items to play as instruments (saucepans make great drums!). Get creative and enjoy yourself! Write a 'creative response' to this picture.
A creative response is when you write something imaginative about a given picture. You may choose to write a story, a stage play, a poem, a film script, a page from a catalogue, a web-page devoted to arrows, a setting description or... well, anything you like. I look forward to reading your brilliant ideas. Some people say that “time is money”. By that, people mean that in order to make money, people should use their time wisely.
Now, some people get paid by the hour for the work they do. Khadijah gets paid £3 per hour for her paper round. It takes her four hours per night. How much does she get paid in one night? How much does she get paid if she works every weeknight (Monday to Friday)? Geoff also delivers papers. He gets paid £3.10 per hour for his paper round and works the same amount of time. Khadijah doesn’t think this is fair and so wants to complain to her employer. She needs to know how much more money Geoff will earn than her in one night, how much more he will earn in five nights, and how much more he will earn in twenty nights (which is one working month). -- A full time working day is seven and a half hours. A part time working day is three and a half hours. Amy earns £14 per hour and works full time, five days a week. How much money does she earn in one week? Together with her boyfriend Tim, they earn £875. How much does Tim earn in one week? How much does Tim earn in a day? Tim gets a new part time job, but earns the same hourly rate as Amy. How much does he earn in one week. Is this more or less than he earned before? If Tim keeps his new job and Amy keeps her job. How much money will they earn working 5 days a week for a whole year? Pixie Rae from The Magical Lair of the Craft Pixies made the most wonderful "under the sea" inspired bookmark, yesterday. If you'd like to make one, pop over to her website!
Yesterday, you wrote in the present tense. How did you find it? What I'd like you to do today is to write the story in the video below in the present tense. Think about thoughts, feelings and use descriptive language that details more than just what can be seen. Think about all of the other senses too. Smell, Touch, Taste, Hearing. The video is called "Something Fishy" and is available with further resources on the Literacy Shed website. Crabs have ten legs. Lobsters have eight legs. Starfish have five legs. Turtles have four legs. Humans have two legs. Fish have no legs. If there are seven crabs, nine lobsters, fourteen starfish, eleven turtles, two humans and twenty fish, how many legs are there altogether? Here is an equation for you. L stands for the number of legs. The value of X, Y and Z changes. L = 4X + 3Y + 2Z Looks scary doesn't it. I promise you, it isn't! Let's work out what it means together. Here is an example question for you to show you what to do. Let's say that X is humans, Y is turtles and Z is fish. What is L in this case? L = 4X + 3Y + 2Z <---- Begin by writing out the equation. L = (4x2) + (3x4) + (2x0) <--- Now substitute in the values you know for X, Y and Z and pop them in brackets. You will do the multiplying before you do the adding. L = 8 + 12 + 0 <---- Answer the multiplications and pop your answers into the equation. L = 20 <---- Solve the problem. In this case L = 20. That means there are 20 legs. Here is a different way of doing the same question. You may prefer this method. Lots of people do. It is called using a 'bar model'. Now have a go at answering these questions using either method. Look at the examples to help you if you get stuck.
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