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.
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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.
This fun activity is so simple to do and you won't believe me when I tell you that it begins with you scribbling all over your paper like this! I know, ridiculous, right? The next step is to colour in the blocks left behind by the scribble. Choose two or more colours from the colour wheel below to colour your blocks in. We recommend that you choose colours that are opposite one another on the colour wheel, as these will really stand out. Here is our example. As you will see, no coloured block should touch another coloured block of the same colour. Why not have a go with 1 colour, then 2, 3, and 4? Or see if you can make a picture out of your scribble blocks? Why not make a rainbow pattern or use shades of the same colour? Go crazy! Enjoy it! For other fantastic arty ideas, head over to The Magical Lair of the Craft Pixies!
The past, the present and the future all got into a brawl. It was tense. Hopefully this activity will be better than my jokes...
Today we will learn about writing in the present tense. Naturally, I think we learn to write stories in the past tense “he said”, “she said”, “they did” etc... but writing in the present tense can be quite effective too. Read the following story to see what I mean: Crisis Aboard The 42 By Jack Green A man and a woman are sitting on the top deck of a bus. It is the last bus home and is crammed with people, some wild and animated, some not. The couple are in their early 20s. She is gesticulating widely as she talks to him. He doesn’t respond but merely traces a shape on the misty window next to him. She is carrying a bag of shopping, he has a rolled up newspaper in his hand but he does not read it. The bus departs, slowly at first as it meanders its way out of the bus stop, and then it gathers pace. It dodges and it weaves in and out of the traffic, sliding between other vehicles like a snake. The woman looks distressed now. He isn’t talking to her and she is nervous and doesn’t like being around other people. She looks around, and quickly turns back. There was someone looking at her, she could feel their eyes on her. The man beside her looks like he simply doesn’t care. As the bus swerves around another corner, the woman clings on to the metal rail in front of her with all her might. She is clawing to it, like people claw to the bar on a roller coaster, not wishing to let go in case the worse happens. The man remains unmoved, quite content to continue tracing his shape on the window. She looks at him. He doesn’t look back. She nudges him slightly with her elbow. Still nothing. She clears her throat suggestively, trying to spark off a conversation. Still unmoved. She starts to become aware that there are people around her again. To the woman’s displeasure, the bus seems to stop at every stop along the way; rarely letting people off, and more often than not letting more people on than the capacity allows. She tries to take her mind off her phobia by looking in the bag with her shopping, presents for Christmas. She has to be careful though, as his present is in there too - not that he’s paid her a blind bit of notice so far on this journey. She’s bought him a pair of gold cufflinks and a watch. He likes cufflinks; she always says he almost looks sophisticated wearing them. She begins to debate in her head why she bothered to buy them for him. He’s been really ignorant today, and even more so on the bus. What was it she actually likes about him anyway? He doesn’t seem to ever smile, so it can’t be that. He doesn’t have a job; she was the main money earner. So what does she like about him? As she racks her brains trying to think, they come to the penultimate stop before theirs. She neatly puts everything back in her bag and waits. She carries on waiting. The bus was at a halt. The bus was emptying, although to the woman it seems as full as before. All she knows is that there are lots of people aboard. People scare her. She’s heard rumours that late night busses can be dangerous. At least she has him to protect her. But would he? Can she trust him to step in if anything happened? She doesn’t know. That thought makes her cling on to the rail even harder, almost welding her hand to the metal. She wills the bus forward. Eventually, after what seems like hours of waiting, it carries on. She is about to nudge him to get his things together when she realises all he has is that scruffy newspaper. She presses the bell as the bus pulls into the stop. She trembles as she gets up and then looks at him furiously. “DO YOU EVEN LOVE ME?” She shouted. That is when she sees the heart etched into the mist on the window, with her name in the centre. She looks him in the eyes and they both smile. -- You task is to write the story of your day yesterday, but in the present tense (as if it is happening now). Remember, it won’t be “I got up” it will be “I get up”. It won’t be “ate” it will be “eat”. If you catch yourself reverting to the past tense, go back over your words and change them to the present. Enjoy! Sometimes in maths, we use letters to represent numbers. Look at the code below.
Using the code, try and answer the following questions.
Do you notice anything? Now have a go at working out the following multiplications. You will notice that I have removed the x sign. So C x Y is written as cy =. That’s because when you use letters you don’t need the multiplication symbol.
How did you find that? You may not have realised it, but you have just taken your first step into the world of algebra, a way of working out problems by substituting numbers for letters.
My friend Toby is a good dog. His tail is constantly wagging, which shows he is always in a good mood. He likes nothing more than to go walking to the playing fields and play fetch with his favourite tennis ball. Would you like to learn how to draw him? If so, head on over to The Magical Lair of the Craft Pixies now!
Sometimes, when you want to tell a story it is hard to get started. It's hard to think up your characters out of nothing. It's hard to think up the plot. Well, with this activity, you can draw characters, plots and settings at random, leaving your brain to do the truly creative bit and come up with the story! Choose two character cards, one plot card and one setting card. These will make up the bare bones of your story. Take a look at the story valley below to remind yourself how stories are structured. Why not write down your story or act it out? Create a book cover and a blurb. Write an Amazon review of it! Have fun with it! To make your story card, print the PDF file below. Cut the two horizontal lines first, fold along the dashed line in the centre, cut out the vertical lines, and stick the front of each card to the back of each card.
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