Home learning Week beginning 15th June 2020

Hello Year 5,

We hope you have had an enjoyable week. Below you will find all of your home learning activities for this week – we hope you enjoy completing them. Don’t forget to email through your favourite piece of work so that we can see all of the great learning you have done.

This week’s tasks are as follows:

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick – Reading and Writing Unit

This sequence is developed around the two texts: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg and an extract from The Chronicles of Harris Burdick. Both texts are available online and can be found using the following links:

https://mrsgraveswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686140/the_mysteries_of_harris _burdick.pdf

http://onlinereadfreenovel.com/chris-van-allsburg/36746the_chronicles_of_harris_burdick_14_amazing_authors_tell_the_tales.html

Lesson 1: Response to Reading

Task 1: Explore the Mystery of Harris Burdick. Websites and PPTs are available at: https://mrsgraveswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686140/the_mysteries_of_harris _burdick.pdf

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/harrisburdick/

Task 2: Read the introduction letter (below) As you read make notes:

Is there any vocabulary you don’t understand?

Do you have any questions?

How does it make you feel?

Answer the following questions:

Q1: Who was Harris Burdick?

Q2: How many stories did he say he had written?

Q3: How does the introduction letter affect the way we read the book?

Introduction

I first saw the drawings in this book a year ago, in the house of a man named Peter Wenders. Though Mr. Wenders is retired now, he once worked for a children’s book publisher, choosing the stories and pictures that would be turned into books. Thirty years ago a man called at Peter Wenders’ office, introducing himself as Harris Burdick. Mr. Burdick explained that he had written fourteen stories and had drawn many pictures for each one. He’d brought with him just one drawing from each story, to see if Wenders liked his work. Peter Wenders was fascinated by the drawings. He told Burdick he would like to read the stories that went with them as soon as possible. The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again. Over the years, Wenders tried to find out who Burdick was and what had happened to him, but he discovered nothing. To this day, Harris Burdick remains a complete mystery. His disappearance is not the only mystery left behind. What were the stories that went with these drawings? There are some clues. Burdick had written a title and caption for each picture. When I told Peter Wenders how difficult it was to look at the drawings and their captions without imagining a story, he smiled and left the room. He returned with a dust covered cardboard box. Inside were dozens of stories, all inspired by the Burdick drawings. They’d been written years ago by Wenders’ children and their friends. I spent the rest of my visit reading these stories. They were remarkable, some bizarre, some funny, some downright scary. In the hope that other children will be inspired by them, the Burdick drawings have been reproduced here for the first time.

Chris Van Allsburg

Lesson 2: Vocabulary

Proverb: a short, well-known saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice

In ‘Under the Rug’, the author uses lots of proverbs to express the advice Grandma continually gives.

Can you match the proverb with the definition?

Challenge:

Can you think of 3 more proverbs that you have come across through your own reading? If not, ask you parents to help you. When you have identified your 3 proverbs you must now write each one in the context of a sentence showing that you can use it correctly.

Lesson 3: Exploring the Writing

Read the extract from ‘Under the Rug’ by Jon Sciezka (below)

The purpose of the writing is to entertain.

What is the effect the writer creates? Do they manage to:

develop a sequence of events?
build tension and suspense?
hint at the relationship between the characters?

How has the writer achieved this?

Collect examples that demonstrate how this has been achieved effectively in the text.

Extract from ‘Under the Rug’

You should always listen to your grandma. It might save a life. Grandmas say a lot of crazy things. Things like . . . Look before you leap. If the shoe fits, wear it. Sit up straight. So you never know what is really good advice and what is just crazy-talk. But grandmas know a lot. You should listen to them. I should have listened to my grandma.

It started on Wednesday, five Wednesdays ago. I know it was Wednesday because Wednesday is sweeping day. Every Wednesday we sweep the house. Grandma sweeps the kitchen. I sweep the living room. At breakfast that morning, five Wednesdays ago, Grandma told me: Hunger is the best sauce. Let sleeping dogs lie. That sweater and bow tie make you look like an old man. I was sweeping and thinking that I like my sweater, I like my bow tie. Which is probably why I forgot the other thing Grandma always says: Never sweep a problem under the rug. I finished sweeping the living room. I put away the dustpan. I was just walking into the kitchen… when I saw the dust bunny under the couch. I swept the dust bunny under the rug. And I didn’t give it another thought until the next Wednesday.

That morning Grandma said: Never say never. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. What happened to that cake that was on the table? In the living room, I swept up a trail of cake crumbs that disappeared under the rug. I lifted up the rug. The trail led straight to a clump of hair and crumbs and dust and two glowing red eyes that looked very angry. The dust bunny had grown into a Dust Tiger! I dropped the rug. I couldn’t tell Grandma, so I put the end table over the lump in the rug.

That worked sort of okay for about a week. Then the cat food started to disappear. Something got into the garbage under the sink. I tiptoed into the living room. I peeked under the rug. I saw a huge twisted knot of hair, dirt, liver-flavoured Kibbles ‘n Bits and pieces, coffee grounds, orange peels, two chicken bone horns… and those angry red eyes staring hungrily at me. The Dust Tiger had grown into a Dust Devil!

Lesson 4: Grammar Practice and Play

I dropped the rug in a panic.

The lump I had swept under the rug heaved. The lump growled.

I knew I had to take the bull by the horns. I had to strike while the iron was

hot. I had to make hay while the sun was shining.

I dragged the bookcase over and dropped it on the bulge in the rug.

Something squeaked. Something groaned. Then it was quiet. The

bookcase leaned against the wall a bit crooked, but everything was

fine. Everything was fine.

Task 1:

Explain the author’s use of:

1: Repetition

2: Short sentences

Task 2:

Change the underlined sections so that you replace the proverbs with effective alternatives

Task 3: Challenge

Add 3 more sentences:

Sentence 1 must start with an adverbial phrase (more information about the verb)
Sentence 2 must contain a semi-colon
Sentence 3 must contain only 3 words.

Lesson 5: Writing

Continue the story using the image and opening line provided by Harris Burdick.

Challenge:

Once you have completed your short story now write a second from the perspective of the ‘thing’ that was under the rug.

Extra challenge:

You are not allowed to use any word that has the letter ‘d’ in it.

Maths:

Task 1: 20 minutes of times tables work every day. Use TT Rockstars to help you practise.

Task 2: Arithmetic task and times tables task on Sumdog.

Task 3: There are 2 activities set on My Maths to complete. Use your log in details to get onto the website.

Task 4:

Taken from Oak National Academy

Lesson 1 – watch the video and complete tasks given within it

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/decimals-to-represent-decimals/activities/2