Reading comprehension

Please see the Guided Reading pack, attached below. We would like you to read through the ‘Enormous Eruptions’ article and then have a go at the retrieval and ‘vipers’ questions on the following page. Watch out! They are tricky

Enormous Eruptions Guided Reading

• For those who do separate work for Guided Reading, please see the ‘Song of the Seasons’ activity card, attached below. Read through with an adult first before having a go at the tasks…

Song of the Seasons Activity Card

In addition, please continue to read 20-30 minutes daily. Try and read a range of texts too.

 

Writing activity

Below is a link to a picture of a tsunami. To continue our learning on complex sentences and subordinate clauses, use the photo and story to create your own conjunction sentences that describe what happened during this natural disaster. Try the conjunctions: because, although, whenever, as a result, consequently, since.

Challenge: could you write from the point of view of one of the car passengers? For instance: Whenever the waves crashed down beside us, several jets of salty water had sprayed across our car windows.

http://www.pobble365.com/the-tsunami

 

Spelling

This week, we would like you to revise the following Y3/4 spelling homophones from our list:

there     their    they’re    write    right     reign    rain

Pick one of the following strategies, to practise your words: silly sentences, clapping syllables or spelling spirals. Now draw each word.

 

Please note: for those working on Y2 common exception words, use the following online ‘Bouncing Anagram’ game (use ‘single player’ mode).

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-32308.htm

 

Maths

To consolidate our learning on multiplication, division and the inverse, please click the ‘x and ÷’ tab on the weblink below, for a fun game to make related number facts. How big can you make your fact family?

 

Here is an example…

4 x 3 = 12       3 x 4 = 12      12 = 4 x 3

12 ÷ 3 = 4       12 ÷ 4 = 3      4 = 12 ÷ 3

 

Challenge: What if one of your numbers was ten times bigger? How would your answer change? Can you represent each fact on a bar model? For a challenge, select ‘2 to 12 times tables’. If it’s tricky, try ‘2 to 5 times tables’ on the website.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

 

Remember that sumdog, times table rockstars and My Maths have also been updated with activities.

 

Science

To recap our learning on animals including humans, use the website below to have a go at creating your own hybrid creature! Label each part of the body in your books and describe how your creature has been adapted to live in one of the following habitats…

Desert     Rainforest   Mountain   City

When you are ready, have a go at the game! Don’t forget to read the ‘how to play’ instructions first, to help your new creature to survive…

http://www.blueplanetdiaries.com/createacreature/create_creature.html

 

Family STEM activity – Miss Stapley

Fizzy Bottle Rockets

Click on the links below to view a video and download the information sheet:

https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/fizzy-bottle-rockets

https://www.rigb.org/docs/fizzybottlerockets_infosheet_v2_0.pdf

 

Questions to ask children:

When the tablet is put in the glass of water – what do you think is in the bubbles?

Where do you think the bubbles are coming from?

What do you think would happen if we used more than one tablet? Why?

What do you think would happen if we used warm water? Why?

 

Before making rocket:

What do you think will happen if we put some tablets and water in this bottle and close the lid? Why?

What things could we change to make the rocket go higher?

 

Going further:

Experiment with different sizes of bottle and different combinations of water and tablets to find out what combination gives you the highest flying rocket.

• Does it matter how many tablets you use?
• What about if you break the tablets into smaller pieces?
• How does the temperature of the water affect things?
• Watch a flame powered bottle rocket: http://bit.ly/FlamingBottleRockets
• Learn more about propulsion by building a balloon powered car: http://bit.ly/BalloonCars

 

Topic

Now that we have been learning about lots of earthquakes and volcanoes, can you make your own set of Natural Disaster Top Trump cards to play with your family? Use the link below to help. You could include information about your favourite volcanoes and earthquakes that we have studied. For more of a challenge can you include some of the following natural disasters and research them to find out more?

hurricane     tsunami      tornado      storm

 Natural Disaster Top Trump cards

 

Religious Education – Miss Honeywell

As part of your RE learning and reflection upon Easter, we would like you to complete ONE of the following activities, in order to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Church calendar…

• Design your own Easter Egg and include as many symbols for new life as you can!
• Create a comic strip cartoon of the key events that took place in the Easter story.
• Write a journal that includes the thoughts and feelings of Mary and the disciples, when they had discovered the empty tomb.
• Draw your own Good Friday crucifix and fill it with prayers for Jesus, as well as those around the world who have been working hard and making sacrifices for the good of others.
• Make a prayer station at home, for moments of peaceful reflection. Choose an Easter prayer as part of your worship, from https://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Prayer-resources/Easter-prayers
• Build your own Easter word search and include as many religious key words as you can, e.g. Resurrection, Sacrifice, Miracle, New Life, Tomb.
• Decorate your own Easter postcard with a Biblical image. Record your own Happy Easter message and spread the Good News to one of your friends!

 

Music – Mrs Sumba

Musical Trailblazers – Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who

Go to the website below and watch Segun Akinola’s video about Delia Derbyshire. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme/zfh792p

Why was she a musical trailblazer?

Can you use everyday objects to recreate the Doctor Who theme tune?

Challenge-can you play around with your sounds and find a way to record them?

 

Art Home Learning – Mrs Pearson

The title for your art this week is ‘NEW LIFE’.  You can be as creative as you like.  It could be a drawing of yourself as a baby,  a baby animal made out of kitchen roll tubes, a photograph of a tree with buds, an Andy Goldsworthy inspired piece of art made out of natural things in your garden or when you have been on a walk.  Impress me with your creativity!

Please email your artwork to me:

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Thank you!

Keep creating and keep safe!

Mrs Pearson