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Home Learning wc 25.1.2020

Hello everyone, we hope that you are all well and keeping safe. Please take a look at  the below copies of your English, Maths, History, Science, DT/Art and RE activities which are already on your Microsoft Teams.

You shouldn’t need to print anything (you can always write it  out if you need to)  to complete this work, though it would be useful for you to record your ideas down and keep them all together in a notebook or work book at home. You should be able to complete these activities on your own as we understand your grown ups may be working from home. During the live check in sessions, your teacher will suggest the activities you should complete for that day and give you the appropriate briefing. These live check in sessions will be three times a day, except Friday afternoons. We will set you new work for next week and this will be posted on Microsoft Teams every Monday so that you have a whole week to work through it from home. Thank you for your patience last week and well done for giving remote learning a go. The work that has been handed in is excellent.

A couple of polite reminders

  • Children are to choose a small selection of pictures of their work to upload onto Teams. This will then allow the teachers to view the work and give brief feedback.
  • Please remind your children to only use the chat bar for learning purposes only. If they have any questions once the live session has ended, they may message the teacher directly on Microsoft Teams.

Take care everyone, Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Mrs Cairns and Miss Hawley.

 

ENGLISH

Monday:

L.O: To learn about Maori culture.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-about-maori-culture-ccvpcc

Tuesday:

L.O: To investigate suffixes (-ify and –ise).

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-suffixes-ify-ise-6mt62t

Wednesday:

L.O: To revise simple, compound and complex sentences.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-revise-simple-compound-and-complex-sentences-6tgp2d

Thursday:

L.O: To develop an understanding of the main characters in a film.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-develop-an-understanding-of-the-main-characters-in-a-film-6xhp6c

Friday:

L.O: To develop a rich understanding of words associated with eyes.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-develop-a-rich-understanding-of-words-associated-with-eyes-6xjkgd

 

Support task:

Take a look at the image below from Moana. How are the settings and characters similar to those in the Whale Rider? Create a mind map of ideas.

 

Challenge Activity:

Can you complete a ‘shades of meaning’ for Paikea and Koro at the beginning of the Whale Rider? Which verbs could you use to show how they feel? Can you make the verbs become more powerful as you move up a space each time? You may need to use a thesaurus to help you.

Spelling:

Have a go at the following Y3/4 Spelling Words. Which strategies could you use to practise them? Choose two from the following list:

  • Writing blocks
  • Word search
  • Spelling doodle

 

Purify Apologise
Solidify Capitalise
Notify Glorify
Peculiar Advertise
Colonise Intensify

 

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT:  Please send a photo or upload a document of your work on Whale Rider so far. You will need to complete all 5 lessons we have set in order to do this.

 

Arithmetic

Remember you should be completing 10 minutes of daily arithmetic using the websites below. 

Daily ten – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

TTR – https://ttrockstars.com/

Sumdog – https://www.sumdog.com/en/

Bitesize – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39

Top mark – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Maths Frame – https://mathsframe.co.uk/

 

Maths

Lesson 1: To be able to read analogue and digital 12-hour clock.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-analogue-and-digital-12-hour-clocks-6xjk2d

Lesson 2: To be able to read, write and convert time between 12 and 24 hour clocks.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-writing-and-converting-time-between-12-hour-and-24-hour-clocks-6hj66t

Lesson 3: To be able to convert between hours, minutes and seconds.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-between-hours-minutes-and-seconds-6djket

Lesson 4: To be able to convert between years, months and weeks.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-between-years-months-and-weeks-70rk2d

Lesson 5:  To be able to solve word problems with time.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/solving-word-problems-with-time-6ct3gc

 

Challenge:

Have a look at the word problems below, think about what efficient ways could you answer these. Try using a number line working with inverse (backwards and forwards) to solve and check the answer. Could you draw two different clock faces to show the time difference. Are there any other strategies you could use?

 

Extra Challenge:

Support tasks:

Task 1: Here is a clock face. Each segment shows 5 minute intervals. Can you fill out the clock face (or draw your own). Once this is filled, it will help you answer the following questions in task 2.

Task 2:

What is the time? Can you write them in digital (for example 1:20). If you want to challenge yourself, can you write it in words. Twenty past One.

History 

Vikings were not that bad!

I need your help! A museum has asked me to get together a Viking exhibition that proves Vikings weren’t as bad as everyone says they are. It is important we get this write as the exhibition is being held for visitors from Sweden and Norway. I have been provided with pictures; however, they have no notes with them. The outcome of this lesson is I would like you help me create an exhibition with the pictures, and can you create accurate and positive captions for each picture. Before you can do this, you need to research the pictures (these are on the attached power point).

Task 1: Look at the statements made by other historians, can you look through the sources (pictures) that best support this statement. For example, one of the statement is ‘Vikings did not have horned helmets” – from looking at source 1, we can clearly see they did not have horned helmets. Therefore, this source fits the statement.

Below are 10 statements about the Vikings made by history books. Your job is to find the evidence to prove that the statements are correct. Sometimes there may be more than one piece of evidence, so choose the best and write that in the main source column. (The evidence is on the power point- remember to look at the source number. You can access the powerpoint on files on teams.)

 

Statements about Vikings. Main source Other sources
They did not have horned helmets! Source 1
They didn’t steal things! When they settled they paid for everything they wanted.
They settled in tows and villages.
They were farmers.
They has a special alphabet and writing runes.
They traded with other parts of the world.
They were skilled craftsmen.
The reason they were thought to be wild and violent was because in the early days they attacked monks.
Evidence has recently been found in Jorvik which shows they were settlers who lived normal peaceful lives with their families.
We have changed our mind about the Vikings in the last 25 years.

 

Support: Here are the answers to the above task. Now you know what source best matches each statement. Can you write me a sentence for each picture to show the Vikings in a positive light.

 

 

Music 

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/JHzqnNi2B57qxiy

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/G4MSynBJGXkJiyQ

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/6wfcEDy3oQXKx2y

 

Science

The last two weeks you have been looking at living things and their habitats. The big question is, what makes something a living thing?

Watch this video and see if you can spot the seven characteristics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HDJP10qSQ

Task 1: Thinking back to the last couple of weeks, how do the living things you found possess the seven characteristics. (For example reproduction in a bird – lay an egg/ human – live birth). Draw a chosen living thing and annotate around explaining how they show MRSGREN (aka MRS NERG).

Task 2: Read the poem by Trevor Parson. Can you identify the seven characteristic and annotate from it (for example- falcon swooping demonstrates movement).

When is a Thing a Living Thing?

If a thing is living it will move

however far or fast or slight,

a falcon swooping on a shrew,

the turning of a leaf to light.

All living things can reproduce,

remake themselves as young and new,

the growing of a rose from seed,

your mother giving birth to you.

A living thing must feed or die

so bats go hunting moths at night,

sheep must graze and insects nibble

and green plants conjure food from light.

And life means growth, things getting bigger,

from tiny sapling to enormous tree,

from foal to horse, from calf to cow,

you, from what you are to what you’ll be.

 

Support: Can you label the poem by drawings the seven characteristics. (For example Growth – tiny sapling to enormous tree) Write out the poem if you have not got access to a printer.

 

Challenge: Can you create your own poem that explains to people what makes something living.

 

Religious Education – Revelations of Christ

This week, we shall be thinking about the importance of light in our faith.

 

Starter:

Sit in a quiet room and switch the lights off. How do you feel when you are surrounded by darkness? Jot down three ideas and feelings.

 

Task 1:

Why do we need light in our daily lives? What does light help us to do every single day? Include a bullet point list for each part of the chart below.

How I use light at home How I use light at school
 

 

What was the same? What was different? How do we use light when we worship at St. Peter’s? Why?

 

Task 2:

Watch the story of the Presentation of Jesus on the following link. If you are unable to view the video, please select ‘Enable Flash’ on your site settings (which can be accessed via the small padlock next to the website bar at the top of the screen).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z2wmpv4

Can you write a post card from the point of view of Simeon? What happened at the temple and how did he feel when Jesus was presented to him?

 

Support:

Take a look at the image below. Can you draw a speech and thought bubble for Anna and Simeon?

 

Challenge:

Take a look at the Bible reference below. How does it describe the Lord?

Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Can you draw a picture to link with this part of the Bible? How would it look? Be as creative as you can!

 

 Art and Design Technology

This week, we would like you to have a go at designing and creating your very own Viking goblet, then using your cup to enjoy a Viking apple juice that you have prepared at home by yourself.

 

 

Home Learning wc. 18.1.21-22.1.21

Hello everyone, we hope that you are all well and keeping safe. Please take a look at  the below copies of your English, Maths, History, Science, DT/Art and RE activities which are already on your Microsoft Teams.

Please note: For Monday’s learning on English, please re-watch the video on how to practise speech with punctuation (you can find this on link 1 under the English assignment for this week)  – for today’s task, we would like you to apply this skill in order to create a conversation between Pod and the human being through the doll house window. Can you predict what each character would say to one another? Remember your speech rhyme and to use verbs and adverbs to add detail about the feelings of each character. 

You shouldn’t need to print anything (you can always write it  out if you need to)  to complete this work, though it would be useful for you to record your ideas down and keep them all together in a notebook or work book at home. You should be able to complete these activities on your own as we understand your grown ups may be working from home. During the live check in sessions, your teacher will suggest the activities you should complete for that day and give you the appropriate briefing. These live check in sessions will be three times a day, except Friday afternoons. We will set you new work for next week and this will be posted on Microsoft Teams every Monday so that you have a whole week to work through it from home. Thank you for your patience last week and well done for giving remote learning a go. The work that has been handed in is excellent.

A couple of polite reminders

  • Children are to choose a small selection of pictures of their work to upload onto Teams. This will then allow the teachers to view the work and give brief feedback.
  • Please remind your children to only use the chat bar for learning purposes only. If they have any question once the live session has ended, they are to message the teacher directly on Microsoft Teams.

Take care everyone, Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

 

An introduction from Miss Hawley:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I thought I would take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Miss Hawley and I am currently working in Kangaroo class with Miss Honeywell. I will be with the year four team for the spring term.

Most of Kangaroos would have met me briefly on the first Monday of school after Christmas (when everything was fairly normal). I have been teaching some of the children who have been in school for the last 2 weeks and have seen some of the children’s home learning, which has been fantastic! You may see me from time to time joining in with the online teaching with Miss Honeywell for some of the live sessions.

I look forward to seeing everyone soon, whether this be in person or on the Microsoft Teams live sessions.

Best Wishes,

Miss Hawley.

 

English –

Monday:

L.O: To practise speech with punctuation

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-speech-with-punctuation-68rp8e

 

Tuesday:

L.O: To generate vocabulary for the build up

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-generate-vocabulary-for-the-build-up-74v62d

 

Wednesday:

L.O: To plan the build up

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-build-up-crw64t

 

Thursday:

L.O: To write the build up

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-build-up-6dgp4e

 

Friday:

L.O: To analyse the climax and resolution

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-analyse-the-climax-and-resolution-71jkct

 

Support tasks:

Continue to use the PowerPoint PDF to support your writing of the story build up. Make sure you email us some examples of your sentences.

 

Challenge Activity:

Can you complete a chart to compare the feelings between Pod and Homily at this point in the story? What might each character be thinking during the build-up scene?

 

Pod’s thoughts and feelings Homily’s thought and feelings
 

 

 

Spelling:

Have a go at the following Y3/4 Spelling Words. Which strategies could you use to practise them? Choose two from the following list:

  • Rainbow Write
  • Spelling staircase
  • Writing pyramids

 

Regular Favourite
Various Forward
Particular Women
Peculiar Century
Bicycle Centre

 

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT: Please send a photo or upload a document of your work on The Borrowers so far. You will need to complete all 5 lessons we have set in order to do this.

 

Maths

Daily Maths Arithmetic:

Use the following links throughout the week (10 minutes a day) and choose different activity from the one websites a day.

Daily ten – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

TTR – https://ttrockstars.com/

Sumdog – https://www.sumdog.com/en/

Bitesize – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39

Top mark – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Maths Frame – https://mathsframe.co.uk/

 

Maths:

Lesson 1: To be able to read and construct time graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/read-and-interpret-time-graphs-6mvp6e

Lesson 2: To be able to compare time graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/comparing-time-graphs-64t3ad

Lesson 3: To be able to interpret time graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/interpret-time-graphs-cngkje

Lesson 4: To be able to construct a time graph.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/construct-a-time-graph-6rrkad

Lesson 5: To consolidate what we have learnt about time graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidation-lesson-time-graph-69jpat

 

Challenge:

Try this test question.

Have a go at writing your own questions using the data to test someone at home!

Support:

If you found the above work too tricky, then give this a go…

Activity – Last week you looked at bar charts. Your task is to create your own bar chart by collecting data. This might be how many different vegetables have you eaten in a week/ How many time the telephone rings in one day/ How many cars go past your house with in an hour. You could create a time graph and document the time you woke up/went to bed every day.

Once you have collected your data throughout the week, enter this onto a colourful chart. You can be as creative as you want (time graph / pictogram /bar chart) and then analyse your findings for example what was the most eaten vegetable, what was the most common car colour?

Please upload a small selection of photos (Max 5) to show your learning from this week.

 

Science Home Learning – Living Things Longitudinal Study

Have a think about where you found your living creatures last week – which habitats were they living in?

Now let’s have a think about the dangers humans may have posed towards these living things, including plants. How could you make the area safer to help protect the habitat in future?

Fill out your ideas below.

Support:

Can you draw what you noticed in the dangers column? Now add labels for further detail.

 

Challenge:

How much litter did you find in your chosen area? Record as a tally. Now can you write a letter to your local council to explain the threat to wildlife in your chosen area. Can you persuade them to make changes for the future?

 

Use the ideas below to help you.

Location:

Amount of litter:

What are the effects of litter in the area?

 

Religious Education – Christmas Messengers

 

For your final piece of learning on our Christmas unit, we would like you to think carefully about the angels in the Nativity story.

 

Starter:

Draw a picture of an angel.

  • On the inside, jot down the special jobs that the angels had to do and their caring qualities.
  • On the outside, record the messages they delivered and how they made other people feel.

 

 

Task 1: Write a job advert and job application, for one of the Christmas angels? What qualities are required? Why are you suitable for the role?

 

 

Support:

Can you write a postcard to deliver the Good News of the birth of Jesus? How can your postcard spread hope and joy to other people? Try to include the following key words:

Messiah, Saviour, Christ, New-born King, celebrate

 

Challenge:

How could you be a messenger of the Good News today? How can you show compassion, kindness, peace and forgiveness towards others? Use the following key words in your response:

Redeemer, Message, Followers, because, commandments

 

Design and Technology

LO: To be able to research, evaluate and gather information of the existing products to help inform your design criteria.

 

Last week you researched different money carriers. This week we would like you to use the information you gathered from last lesson and design the front and back of your own money carrier! Think about the purpose, your customer and what would appeal to them, the materials, how you’re going to make it, how you’re going to join it. Make sure you annotate your design with your ideas and materials. Hopefully when we return to school, we will be able to make our designs!

To challenge yourself, think about how you are going to join the pieces of material together? How are you going to fasten your money carrier so the money does not fall out?

Record your design on a piece of paper or if you need support use the purse format below. Remember use a ruler and ensure you have taken care when designing. Also be realistic with your designs.

Extra challenge: If you are able to and have the resources, can have a go at these different stitches. Make sure you are careful with the needle, you ask an adult for help and you are resilient. Stitching is very tricky! Just keep trying and see what straight stitch lines you can make.

If you have not got thread and needle, see what else you can use. For example, use string, a pencil and cardboard/Ribbon weaving.

 

History

LO: To give explanations for ‘cause and effect’ events

Today we are going to look at how did the Vikings try and take over England.

Below are the events that happened during the period of the Vikings raiding and settling from 789AD – 1066AD.

 

 

Your task this week is to create a living graph (See below) you need to compare when the Vikings were a large threat and in control of Britain to when they had little control. You will need to print and cut out the strips (Or write them out on strips of paper) and order them chronologically as well as the threat level. See answers below if you need support, if you cannot remember what a living graph is  or to see how accurate were you. (We have completed a living graph at school before).

 

 

 

ART Home Learning – Viking Weapons

Take a look at the sword handles and blades below. Can you create your own intricate design and add details to represent Viking tribes? Be as creative as you like – which patterns would you choose for them?

 

                

 

Music Home Learning Video Links

 

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/qcSWwYDxZwtRoEB

 

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/5i28jfbj2jGXwxN

 

https://resources.hantsmusic.org.uk/index.php/s/ETeZgP6LeFysAiN

 

 

Home learning 11.1.21-15.1.21

Hello everyone, we hope that you are all well and keeping safe. Please take a look at  the below copies of your English, Maths, History, Science, DT  and RE activities which are already on your Microsoft Teams. You shouldn’t need to print anything (you can always write it  out if you need to)  to complete this work, though it would be useful for you to record your ideas down and keep them all together in a notebook or work book at home. You should be able to complete these activities on your own as we understand your grown ups may be working from home. During the live check in sessions, your teacher will suggest the activities you should complete for that day and give you the appropriate briefing. These live check in sessions will be three times a day, except Friday afternoons. We will set you new work for next week and this will be posted on Microsoft Teams every Monday so that you have a whole week to work through it from home. Thank you for your patience last week and well done for giving remote learning a go. The work that has been handed in is excellent.

A couple of polite reminders

  • Children are to choose a small selection of pictures of their work to upload onto Teams. This will then allow the teachers to view the work and give brief feedback.
  • Please remind your children to only use the chat bar for learning purposes only. If they have any question once the live session has ended, they are to message the teacher directly on Microsoft Teams.

Take care everyone, Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

ENGLISH

Monday:

L.O: To analyse and interpret a setting description from an extract.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-analyse-and-interpret-a-setting-description-from-an-extract-c9k3jr

Tuesday:

L.O: To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes -ary/-ery

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-and-apply-knowledge-of-suffixes-ary-ery-c4r3ce

 

Wednesday:

L.O: To plan the opening

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-opening-6rrk0e

 

Thursday:

L.O: To write the opening

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-opening-6xk38d

 

Friday:

L.O: To practise speech with punctuation

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-speech-with-punctuation-68rp8e

 

Support tasks:

Continue to use the PowerPoint PDF to support your writing of the story opening. Make sure you email us some examples of your sentences.

 

Challenge Activity:

Can you draw a set of speech bubbles to show a conversation that may have happened between two of the borrowers? Now try to add speech punctuation.

 

Spelling:

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set.

 

Which Prayer
Were Special
You’re Through
Until Though
Believe Threw

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT: Please send a photo or upload a document of your work on The Borrowers so far. You will need to complete all 5 lessons we have set in order to do this.

Maths

Daily Arithmetic: 

Use the following links throughout the week (10 minutes a day) and choose different activity from the one websites a day.

Daily ten – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

TTR – https://ttrockstars.com/

Sumdog – https://www.sumdog.com/en/

Bitesize – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39

Top mark – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Maths Frame – https://mathsframe.co.uk/

Maths lessons for this week –

Lesson 1: To be able to read, interpret and comparing pictograms.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-interpreting-and-comparing-pictograms-6tjkgd

Lesson 2: To be able to construct pictograms.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/construct-pictograms-64w3ce

Lesson 3: To be able to read, interpret and compare bar charts.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/read-interpret-and-compare-bar-charts-cth3gd

Lesson 4: To be able to construct bar graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/constructing-bar-charts-6th3er

Lesson 5: To be able to construct bar graphs.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/consolidation-lesson-bar-chart-6nk6at

 

Support:

If you are finding these too tricky give these lessons ago –

Lesson 1: To be able to read and understand pictograms.  https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-and-understanding-pictograms-6xj62c

Lesson 2: To be able to construct pictograms

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/constructing-pictograms-6rw6ar

Lesson 3: To be able to read and interpret bar charts.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-and-interpreting-bar-graphs-chhk6c

Lesson 4: To be able to collect and present data using tallies, tables and graphs

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/collecting-and-presenting-data-using-tallies-tables-and-graphs-6wup6r

Lesson 5: To be able to interpret and present data in pictograms and bar charts.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/interpreting-and-presenting-data-in-pictograms-and-bar-charts-6tk3ar

 

Challenge:

Have a go at answering this question.

History

LO: To be able to describe how different interpretations about Vikings have been reached by evaluating different historical sources.

Why did the Vikings have such a bad reputation?

Task 1: Look at the picture… Can you predict what is happening?

The above picture is an illustration from the raiding at Lindisfarne. From an Anglo-Saxon Chronicle they gave a recount of what happened there. 

AD 793.

“This year came dreadful warnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons flying across the sky. These tremendous signs were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after,  the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-island, by slaughter.”

 

Later in 1965, Vikings were written about again.

“Rampaging Vikings, or Norsemen, from northern lands now known to us as Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, in their determination to (become) traders, merchants, and seamen, overran .. southern Europe, like a plague upon the inhabitants.

They shamelessly robbed the islands we now refer to as Great Britain and Ireland.  So fierce were these Norsemen that many of the priests were said to close their sermons with a prayer: “God, deliver us from the fury of the Northmen.”

So what were the Vikings really like? What sort of people does it say they were?

Your first task is to summarise what people felt the Vikings were like. Challenge yourself and only use 140 characters.

Task 2: Though not all people felt the same way about Vikings. The Vikings, similar to the Anglo-Saxons wanted a better place to live where they could farm and trade. They eventually settled around 870 AD. So looking at the two different extracts, can you use your visualise strategy and draw how you feel the Vikings are being portrayed.

Extract 1:

The Viking raiders came from the sea like hungry wolves, burning the treasures of the Church, putting captives to the sword and carrying off woman and children as unhappy slaves.

Extract 2:

Gunnar and his men had a good summer at sea. The trading was good and there was much adventures. Every man on the ship bent his back to the oar and all were brave when they had to pick up the sword. Each man had truly earned his reward.

 

Challenge: With your drawings, can you justify using vocabulary from the texts why you have drawn them in that way (for example… ‘like hungry wolves Vikings may be bearing their teeth)

Support: Can you annotate your drawings with suitable nouns, adjectives and verbs that match the description (for example ferocious, rampaging for the first recount, warriors, brave for the second)

Religious Education – Christmas

 

Starter:

Take a look at the selection of Christmas cards below. How many of them are religious? What do you notice? Do they present the Nativity accurately?

Task 1:

Watch the following two Bible stories, then try the questions below:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5m2GE6DFeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1LhnqROCM

 

What messages did the angels deliver? What did they say?

 

Task 2:

Who was the most important messenger – the angels, or shepherds?

 

Use the card and red key words listed below, to help you write a response to this question.

 

Challenge:

Suddenly a great army of Heaven’s angels appeared, singing praises to God: “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on Earth to those with whom He is pleased!”

 

Can you draw a suitable Christmas scene to go with this Good News announcement?

 

Support:

Draw a picture of an angel. Now add speech bubbles and include the key messages they delivered during the Christmas story.

 

 

Science- Living Things and Their Habitat

L.O. To be able to identify living things.

As part of our living things and their habitat unit, please can you go on a hunt around your house and local area. Record the living creatures that you see.

Challenge: 

Can you some sentences about what makes something living. Thinking about:

  • Does it grow?
  • Does it need food to turn into energy?
  • Can it sense the world around it?
  • Does it make more of itself or have babies?

 

Design and Technology  – 

Your task for this week is to research different money carriers such as purses and wallets. Think about the purpose, the materials, the features, the designs, what you like and what you dislike. You can use this format and write your ideas in the bubbles, or record your own notes and draw the money carriers.

Art: 

Your Task:

Starter activity – Research the artist Alberto Giacometti.

You are going to create your own tin foil person doing an action pose:

Here are some ideas:

TOP TIPS:

  • Play around with a piece of tin foil before starting of your figure. This will give you a feel of the material and how much you can manipulate it.
  • You may need to watch the video through once and then watch it again pausing it while you complete each stage.
  • Please don’t worry if you need more than one attempt! It took me four goes before I was happy with my figure!

Extension:

Use a piece of blue tac and stick your person onto a piece of paper.  Now draw the shadow of your person.

A message from Mrs Pearson:  Please send me you artwork by Friday 15th January. I look forward to seeing your fantastic tin foil action figures…and choosing an artist of the week!

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Home learning wc 5.1.21

Hello everyone, we hope that you are all well and keeping safe. Please take a look at  the below copies of your English, Maths, History and RE activities which are already on your Microsoft Teams. You do not need to print anything to complete this work, though it would be useful for you to record your ideas down and keep them all together in a notebook or work book at home. You should be able to complete these activities on your own as we understand your grown ups may be working from home. As we are beginning mid-week this time, please make sure you have had a go at each of the activities we have set today by Friday 8th January 2021 – we understand this is all very new to everyone so please don’t panic if you can’t do it all, just try to complete what you can. We will set you new work for next week and this will be posted on Microsoft Teams every Monday so that you have a whole week to work through it from home. If you cannot load the attachments or see any pictures properly, please take a look at the Year 4 school blog as we shall put everything on there too just in case you need it. Take care everyone, Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

 

ENGLISH

 

Monday:

L.O: To develop an understanding of key characters from ‘The Borrowers’

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-develop-an-understanding-of-key-characters-from-the-borrowers-cgt36c

Tuesday:

L.O: To investigate suffixes -ary/-ery

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-suffixes-ary-ery-68w6ce

Wednesday:

L.O: To revise our knowledge of word class

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-revise-our-knowledge-of-word-class-c9k6ct

Thursday:

L.O: To generate vocabulary for character description

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-generate-vocabulary-for-character-description-71h66d

Friday:

L.O: To develop a rich understanding of words associated with large objects

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-develop-a-rich-understanding-of-words-associated-with-large-objects-6ru68d 

Support tasks:

Continue to use the PowerPoint PDF to support your writing of simple sentences. Make sure you email us some examples of your sentences.

Challenge Activity:

Can you generate a Word Web using synonym words for ‘small’. Use your Word Web to write a short descriptive paragraph about one of the Borrowers.

 

Spelling:

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set.

Library bakery
February mystery
Primary bravery
Necessary scenery
ordinary nursery

 

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT: Please send a photo or upload a document of your descriptive sentence work on The Borrowers so far. You will need to complete all 5 lessons we have set in order to do this.

Maths

Monday:

Lesson 1: L.O: Recognising the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/recognising-the-place-value-of-each-digit-in-a-4-digit-number-cgup6r

 

Tuesday:

Lesson 2 : L.O: Ordering and comparing numbers beyond 1000.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/ordering-and-comparing-numbers-beyond-1000-cmr66c

 

Wednesday:

Lesson 3 : L.O: Ordering and comparing a set of numbers beyond 1000.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/ordering-and-comparing-a-set-of-numbers-beyond-1000-6nh36r

 

Thursday:

Lesson 4: L.O: Finding 10, 100 or 1000 more than a given number.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/finding-10-100-or-1000-more-than-a-given-number-cmu62c

Friday: 

Lesson 5: L.O: Finding 10, 100 or 1000 less than a given number.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/finding-10-100-or-1000-less-than-a-given-number-c8w3gc

Support tasks:

Task 1 : https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-and-writing-3-digit-numbers-ccrk4r

Task 2: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/partitioning-numbers-in-different-ways-cgw34d

Task 3: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/ordering-and-comparing-3-digit-numbers-68w68d

 

History Topic – The Vikings

 

As part of our learning on Vikings, please could you research the following areas to make your own fact file:

 

  • Food and drink
  • Celebrations / feasts
  • Houses and homes
  • Beliefs and Gods
  • Kings and Queens

Challenge: Can you choose one of the Viking settlers in the picture and make a diary entry for them.

 

Support: Can you label the picture above with the items and clothing that you can see?

Religious Education – Christmas

 

Christingle Epiphany Prayers of hope Advent Wreath Nativity

scene

Priest’s vestments White/Gold Altar Blessing of crib Midnight Mass Church

congregation

Starter Task:

Can you research what the following key words mean? Make your own mini glossary.

 

Task 1:

Now can you record your vocabulary labels for the pictures below?

 

 

Challenge:

Can you rank the following Christmas symbols from most to least important (1st – 5th)? Use ‘because’ to explain each choice you made…

  • Advent Wreath
  • White candles
  • The Altar
  • White / Gold vestments
  • Nativity scene

Support:

Can you design your own Christmas card for a family member? How many of the religious symbols can you include?