Hello everyone!
We hope you’re doing well and have enjoyed the beautiful, hot sunshine during the half term last week. We also hope you have had a well deserved rest because home schooling and being in lockdown can be challenging and tiresome! It was lovely catching up with you these last few weeks and seeing your fantastic work! We are hoping to put a blog post up very soon to show case all the fantastic work you have completed whilst at home. So if you are really proud of something you have made, wrote or even cooked, send a picture using the class email!
Miss Jackson-Nash has kept up with her walking. Her and her fiancé have now reached over 1,200,000 steps! We only have 500,000 to go and then we complete the challenge! She has also enjoyed making yummy breakfasts before school this week!
Miss Honeywell enjoyed her half term. She also went on lovely walks and spent time in the garden with the BBQ! Though is happy to be back at school seeing some of your lovely faces.
Reading –
This week, your learning focus is based on key language and why the author chooses particular words to create an impact upon the reader. Take a look at the following link from Oaks Academy and complete lessons 1-3 of the character description section on the website. (scroll down to the ‘Character description’ topic)
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-4/english#subjects
Support: For those who work on separate guided reading tasks, take a look at the following link from Oaks academy and complete lessons 1-3 and look at the character description module.
Lesson one: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-make-inferences-year-2-wk2-1
Continue with your 20-30 minute daily reading. It has also been wonderful to hear that so many children are reading and finishing books. So as a challenge, can you write a book review? Tell us what you liked and dislikes about the book, who your favourite character was. Can you summarise the book?
Writing:
Now you are going to revise subordinate clauses in lesson 4 from Oaks academy which you will be able to add into your own character description which is detailed in lesson 5.
Can you write your own character description? Think about what your creature might look like; where it lives; what features it has; what it eats and what personality and traits it has.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-4/english#subjects (Scroll down to the bottom and click on the topic ‘Character description’
Lesson 4: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/character-description-spag-focus-subordinate-clauses/
Lesson 5: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/character-description-write-a-character-description-bceff8/
Please note:
Those who are in a separate group fro guided reading, continue with Oaks academy lessons you focused on during the reading comprehension task. (character description lesson 4-5) https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/english#subjects
Lesson 4: To identify and use expanded noun phrases. Watch the video and the teacher will explain what you need to do. https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-expanded-noun-phrases-year-2-wk2-4
Lesson 5: Can you write a short character description about the White elephant using expanded noun phrases? Look at the example to help you remember what an expanded noun phrase is. https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-character-description-about-the-white-elephant-year-2-wk2-5
Here’s an example of expanded noun phrases – It was a bright, sunny day. The trees were swaying in the cool, fresh breeze and the birds were tweeting. The little boy could see a tiny, red boat moving across the shiny, sparkling water.
Do not forget the comma!
Spelling/Vocabulary –
This week’s spellings are words that we are challenging you to use within your character descriptions. (if you have already completed your character description, have a go at editing them in). Word meaning is very important for character description, so along with practising these spellings, research each word so you have a clear understanding of each. Use this template for each word.
Please note:
For those working on Y2 common exception words, use the following online ‘against the clock’ game (use ‘single player’ mode).
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-32308.htm
Maths –
This week, your learning focus is based on shape and symmetry. Take a look at the following link from Oaks Academy (scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see the topic Shape and Symmetry) and complete lessons 1-5.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-4/maths#subjects
Lesson 1 :
Support: If you find this too tricky try these links:
Lesson two: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-right-angles-in-shapes-year-2-wk1-2
Lesson three: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-recognise-lines-of-symmetry-within-2-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-3
Once you have completed the three lessons can you complete the work sheet-
Remember that Sumdog, Times Table Rockstars and My Maths have also been updated with activities.
Maths frame, bbc bitesize, topmarks are also fantastic maths sites with loads of free mathematical games!
Topic:
On Saturday 30th May 2020 you may have been lucky enough to see SpaceX rocket that was launched into Orbit about 250 miles above Earth! It is extraordinary how advance our technology is and that we are able to explore space and potentially in the future visit others. I was thinking about how lucky Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and few others are to have been given the opportunity to visit and walk on the moon!
That’s when A big ‘What if?’ question popped into my head.
What if you lived on the moon?
Can you design your own home if we lived on the moon? Think about what we would need to survive.
If that doesn’t take your fancy, look at this big ‘What if question?’
Last term we were talking about the dangers of global warming and the impact it would have on our planet. This included the sea levels rising which could cause us many problems! Can you imagine in a thousand years’ time there might be some countries that have engulfed by the sea? How would keep humans and animals safe? That’s when a big ‘what if?’ question popped in my head.
What if we lived under water?
To live under the sea, you’d need access to air, food, energy, and protection from many things that could harm you: high pressure from the water, strong currents, predators, lava from under water volcanoes, hot acid from vents in the crust, and possibly, very cranky krakens!
Learn more about the ocean by researching deep-sea facts. Once you have done this, use your facts and knowledge to design your Deep Sea Dwelling (Under water home/city)
DT/Science:
Sound: As we have been studying lots about sound, Can you make your own musical instruments? What about a musical box? Think about the pitch and tempo you want to create. What materials could you use?
Here is an example of a guitar you could make. The guitar and violin are both string instruments. Here’s an experiment to see how strings make musical notes.
You will need – shoe box with lid, scissors, some pencils that are the same thickness, larger elastic band.
Watch this video to help you –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3KGrxmic6k
Music:
Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video about Heitor Villa Lobos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-heitor-villa-lobos/z4nsmfr
Why was Heitor Villa Lobos considered a musical trailblazer?
Now listen to the whole piece on the 2nd video.
Choose your own form of transport. What is the main rhythm it makes? (For example what rhythm might the pedals on a bike or the oars on a rowing boat make?)
How could you play this rhythm? (Perhaps you could recreate the rhythm of the oars by splashing your hand in a bowl of water.)
What other sounds does your transport make? How can you add these? Could other members of your family join in so you can layer the sounds?
Art:
Read all about it! St Peter’s are IN THE NEWS!
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you to produce some art using old newspapers or magazines! It can be anything from cutting out shapes and creating your own abstract art, or landscape, to making something using Paper Mache. What you make can be left black and white or even painted (using watercolours is very effective). Whatever you create I’m sure you will ‘Make the headlines’ on the Art Blog!
Ideas to inspire you:
However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson
Stem:
Homemade Lava Lamp
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/homemade-lava-lamp
ExpeRiment with objects of different shapes and sizes. See what makes a difference to whether something sinks or floats in water.
Learn how an object’s density affects if something is likely to sink or float.
https://www.rigb.org/docs/lavalamp_infosheet_0_1.pdf
Questions to ask children:
- Before each activity: can you predict what will happen? Why do you predict that? (For example, can you predict what will happen when we squash the tin foil really tightly?
- Can you predict what will happen if we use metal spoon instead of a plastic one?
- Can you predict what will happen if we peel the fruit?) Why does the diet drink float while the non-diet one sinks?
- What do you think will happen when we pour the oil into the glass of water? Why?
- What do you think is in the bubbles that are rising up in the lava lamp? Why do you think they sink back down again?
Going Further:
- You can give your child or children a lump of plasticine and explore how to mould the plasticine into shapes that float. Discuss what the floating shapes have in common compared to shapes that sink.
- The density of an object affects its buoyancy. You can learn more about this and how density affects whether something sinks or floats here: http://bit.ly/
- Buoyancy You can try to make a ‘density tower’ by floating liquids of different density on top of each other, as shown in this video: http://bit.ly/DensityTower
- Here’s a quick lava lamp using fizzy water – http://bit.ly/FizzyLavaLamp