Challenges

SALT DOUGH CHALLENGE

Have you ever made salt dough? It is really easy and a great alternative to clay. Here is a recipe to make your own salt dough to do some modelling. Make sure that you ask an adult to help you.

Ingredients:-

 2 cups plain flour

 1 cup salt

 1 cup cold water

Method:-

1. Mix flour and salt together in a bowl. Slowly mix in the water until the dough is smooth and easy to handle. 

2. Knead the dough for 10 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).

4. Model your dough into your desired shapes and place on a baking tray.

5. Bake in the oven until dry and hard (2-3 hours).

6. Allow to cool completely.

7. Paint / decorate your model. 

If you make any amazing models, email pictures to us at y5@holytrinity.manchester.sch.uk - We would love to see them...

The classic Sudoku game involves a grid of 81 squares. The grid is divided into nine blocks, each containing nine squares. The rules of the game are simple : each of the nine blocks has to contain all the numbers 1-9 within its squares. Each number can only appear once in a row, column or box. 

Have a go at the puzzle above. Can you solve it using the Sudoku rules? :) 

2 METRES CHALLENGE

Just remember it's:

The length of a musk ox or fully grown llama,

Three Rubik's cubes plus one Keir Starmer,

Eleven seven-inch singles by Bananarama,

That's what two metres is.

Alternatively it's :

1/192,199,930th of a single moon beam,

2.2 times greater than Munch's The Scream,

About 10 and a half packets of custard creams,

That'll be two metres.

If easier, think:

Thirty-three pairs of dragonfly wings,

The length of a yoga mat belonging to Sting,

Two one-metre long pieces of string,

That comes to two metres.

Or failing that, imagine:

0.00000091 of the coast of mainland Wales,

18.2648402 cricket bails,

One and a quarter Prunella Scales,

That's two metres.

by Brian Bilston

This poem made me chuckle. At the moment, when we go out, we need to try and stay two metres away from people. Try writing your own poem that tells people how long two metres is.... (To help you out, Mr Spotwood or Mr Brown are almost two metres tall. My ceiling is about two metres.) 

Extra challenge - Find out who is Munch and why is he famous? What is a musk ox? Who are Bananarama? 

The Lion King Challenge

Watch the following link and then try one of the following activities.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TavVZMewpY

1. Watch with the volume off and write a 'voiceover' for what you see - remember to use a range of writing skills: relative clauses to add detail; adverbials ; similes, metaphors and personification.

2. Write an information page for one of the animals in the clip - use your science knowledge and a range of writing to inform skills. Try including pictures with captions. 

3. Write a playscript for some of the characters in the clip. 

SUPERHERO TREATS

http://www.pobble365.com/superhero-treats/

Look carefully at the picture on the link.

LOOKING QUESTION - What are the superheroes doing?

CLUE QUESTION - Who is the host? Why?

THINKING QUESTION - Why might this be happening?

FOLLOW UP TASK - Use the picture as a starting point or a finishing point of a cartoon strip.