Previous Remote Learning
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 22.02.21
Weekly English Tasks
Focus: Journalistic Writing- based on Traditional Tales
Lesson 1: To identify the features of a newspaper report
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-the-features-of-a-newspaper-report-6rv30r
Lesson 2: To investigate compound nouns
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-compound-nouns-70t38c
Lesson 3: To revise speech punctuation
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-revise-speech-punctuation-cngp8t
Lesson 4: To identify the features of a newspaper report (2)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-the-features-of-a-newspaper-report-6dh3cr
Lesson 5: To develop a rich understanding of words associated with feeling surprised
Grammar
Have a look at the information on the webpage below:
https://www.naturalcurriculum.co.uk/year-4/fronted-adverbials/gorilla/screen-1/
Work your way through the webpage and have a go at the activities on the worksheet.
Please try and do at least one challenge a day, do not rush through them.
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus: Multiplication and Division
This link will help you with this week work.
Place Value Grid ( Set the decimal places to zero)
Base 10 (click table to Base 10)
Place Value Counters (show choose how you prefer to use these)
Lesson 1: Multiply by 10
Lesson 2: Multiply by 100
My Maths Task- https://app.mymaths.co.uk/130-homework/multiplying-by-10-and-100
Lesson 3: Divide by 10
Lesson 4: Divide by 100
My Maths Task – https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1423-homework/dividing-by-10-and-100
Lesson 5: Multiply by 1 and 0
Multiplication Lesson
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
Our book and reading tasks for this half-term will be based on Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. This week we will be focusing on pages 13-22.
Before watching Mr Armstrong read ‘Beowulf’, complete Lesson 1
Lesson 1: Prediction
Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Lesson 3 Retrieval questions.
- What is the name of the beast?
- How did the creature pick its victims?
- Where would the people not got to anymore?
- Find a word or phrase to describe the savage.
Lesson 4 Inference & Explain PEE
What is the problem that the Kingdom faces?
Lesson 5 Summarise
Can you summarise this section of ‘Beowulf’?
‘…these years of prosperity and plenty, Hrothgar decided he would raise for his people a huge mead-hall. It must, he declared, be the larger and more splendid than any mead-hall ever built.
Only the best timbers were used, only the finest craftsmen. At Hrothgar’s bidding they can from all over Denmark to construct it, so that in no time at all the great hall was finished.
Extract from Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo Page 15-16
Weekly Spelling Tasks
Again, this week’s spellings are on Ed Shed. You can get your login detail via Purple Mash 2mail. On the other hand, email Mr Armstrong or Mrs Lawrence-Wilson. Let us know what you think of Spelling Shed.
Click here to access Ed Shed Spellings
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
Spelling Frame
Guest code 87080
- therefore
- though
- although
- thought
- through
- various
- weight
- woman
- women
- Segmenting cards
- Play the free game – Spelling
- Practice
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings, complete:
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz
The spelling quiz will be there on Thursday 25th February
Other Learning Activities
History- Using your research skills select 10 questions from the Viking Research Quiz below and find the answers.
RE- What does a journey mean to us?
Watch the following presentation on What a journey means to us.
Create a map of your life journey so far.
Wellness Wednesday
Choose one of the following tasks
Create your own animal
Could you combine two animals? What would you call it?
What makes a good friend
Write a recipe for what makes a good friend
Music
Here is the music link for this weeks lesson.
KS2 Music – Wednesday 24th February 2.30pm: https://youtu.be/HTtkTFBd5gw
Please note that for this lesson, anyone taking part will need:
– 2 tubs or containers (bowls/saucepans/plant pots/tupperware box or any other containers) – no glass!
– 2 utensils (one for each hand!) – for example a wooden spoon or spatula for home learners, or large paintbrushes or sticks for school attenders.
Art- Anglo-Saxon Clothing
Watch the following presentation on Anglo-Saxon Clothing
Design your own Anglo-Saxon outfit based on the information you have been given
5. Computing – Simulations
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 08.01.21
Weekly English Tasks
Focus: Anglerfish
Lesson 1: To write the opening paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 2: To write the appearance paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 3: To learn about the Angler Fish’s diet
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-about-the-angler-fishs-diet-6mr32c
Lesson 4: To write the diet paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 5: To write the closing paragraph of a non-chronological report
Grammar
Have a look at the information on the webpage below
https://www.naturalcurriculum.co.uk/year-4/demarcating-sentences/black-bear/screen-1/
Work your way through the webpage and have a go at the activities on the worksheet.
Black Bears Demarcate Sentences Worksheet 1 (1)
Please try and do at least one challenge a day, do not rush through them.
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus: Solving measure and money problems
Lesson 1: Two point seven https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/two-point-seven-61h66d
Lesson 2: Fruit
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/fruit-c8u66r
Lesson 3: Souvenirs https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/souvenirs-64rkec
Lesson 4: Flag Pole 1
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/flag-pole-1-cmtkcd
Lesson 5: Flag Pole (Part 2)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/flag-pole-part-2-6ru32t
MyMaths Tasks
Word Problems
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1425-homework/word-problems
Try this one again
Converting Measures
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1699-homework/converting-measures
MyMaths Task
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/104-homework/money-problems
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to begin to read our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
Before completing any of these tasks, listen to Mr Armstrong read the extract first.
Task 1: Find and copy a synonym for happy.
‘… opened his eyes…’
What word class does it belong to? Can you use it in a sentence?
Task 2: Using your retrieval skills to answer these questions.
- How often does The Royal Tea Taster visit the plantation?
- How does the author describe the fruits?
- Who are the people that drink the Cloud Tea?
- What does Tashi do for the monkeys?
Task 3: Using you inference skills.
‘… a plump hand reached out of the purple shade and dropped a plump silk pouch…’
Who is this person? How do we know?
Task 4: If you could see, these characters face. What emotion would they be showing? Remember PEE
Task 5: Create a timeline of the main events of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ (You can include illustrations)
Weekly Spelling Tasks
Again, this week’s spellings are on Ed Shed. You can get your login detail via Purple Mash 2mail. On the other hand, email Mr Armstrong or Mrs Lawrence-Wilson. Let us know what you think of Spelling Shed.
Click here to access Ed Shed Spellings
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- recent
- regular
- reign
- remember
- sentence
- separate
- special
- straight
- strange
- strength
- suppose
12.surprise
Spelling Frame
Click for Spelling Frame word list
- Segmenting cards
- Play free game – Spelling
- Practice
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz
The spelling quiz we be there on Thursday 11th February
Other Learning Activities
Geography– Watch the Mountain Tourism Video
Complete the following worksheet about the impact tourism has on mountains and organise them into the table
Insert Mountain Tourism Statements
RE– Watch the Symbols and Meanings Video
Complete the activity by either cutting the pictures out and sticking them next to the correct meanings.
Re Symbols And Meanings Worksheet
PSHE– Following on from last week’s Children’s Mental health week, we would like you to share with us how you express yourself. Whether that is through art or dance, baking or through another hobby, we would like you to take a picture or video of you expressing yourself. Maybe you wear interesting clothing or you enjoy writing a story. Watch last week’s assembly to give you some ideas.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/childrens-mental-health-week-2021
French– Complete the word search below and match the animals to their French counterparts
Music- KS2 live lesson with Christina (Wed 10th at 2.30 pm) For this lesson you will need: a large plastic cup
5. Computing – Simulations
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 01.02.21
Weekly English Tasks
Focus: The Robin (Narrative)
Lesson 1: To plan the ending
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-ending-6wvkct
Lesson 2: To write the ending
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-ending-60w62c
Focus: Anglerfish (Non-Chronological Report)
Lesson 3: To identify the features of a non-chronological report
Lesson 4: To develop and generate subject-specific vocabulary
Lesson 5: To learn about the Anglerfish and their appearance
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-about-the-anglerfish-and-their-appearance-cthk8c
Grammar
Purple Mash
Complete the 2Do set on Purple Mash
Add Ice Cream tenses
Lesson 1: To practise using simple past, present and future tense
Following this lesson complete the activities here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/z3dbg82
Lesson 2: Understanding simple, compound and complex sentences
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus: Solving measure and money problems
This week we have 2 My Maths Tasks to complete after Lesson 4 & 5
This link may help you with Lesson 3, 4 & 5
Lesson 1: Marathon Training https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/marathon-training-6hjk0d
Lesson2: Ribbons
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/ribbons-74rp2r
Lesson 3: Stamps
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/stamps-6rwkge
Before beginning Lesson 4 if you have 7 1p coins, it may help the lesson
Lesson 4: Money Bags 1 https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/money-bags-1-c4u6ac
MyMaths Task
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/103-homework/money-calculations
Click the link to play
Before beginning Lesson5 if you have 15 1p coins, it may help the lesson
Lesson 5: Money Bags (Part 2) https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/money-bags-part-2-71jk6c
MyMaths Task
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/104-homework/money-problems
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to begin to read our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
Before completing any of these tasks, listen to Mr Armstrong read the extract first.
Task 1 Can you create a character profile of this person?
Task 2 Write a postcard of how Tashi is feeling about the visitor to the tea plantation.
Task 3 How do we know the visitor is important what words has the author used?
Task 4 Can you order the events 1 – 5 in the order that they happen?
Twirls the sprig with his fingers.
The visitor gets up from his throne.
Tashi did not dare to giggle.
Oxen arrive pulling the cart to the plantation.
Overseer follows the visitor.
Task 5 What do you think will happen next in ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
Weekly Spelling Tasks
New this week to Year 4, could you log in on
Ed Shed and try the games out for us. You should have your login detail via Purple Mash 2mail. Or email Mr Armstrong or Mrs Lawrence-Wilson. Let us know what you think of Spelling Shed.
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- particular
- peculiar
- perhaps
- popular
- position
- possess
- possession
- possible
- potatoes
- pressure
- promise
- purpose
- quarter
- question
Spelling Frame
https://spellingframe.co.uk/guest/word-list/82773
- Segmenting cards
- Play free game – Spelling Road Hopper
- Practice
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz
The spelling quiz will be there on Thursday 4th February.
Other Learning Activities
- Assembly This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. To kick off the week click on the link at 9 am on Monday morning to see what it is all about.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/childrens-mental-health-week-2021
- Geography Have a look at the video all about Mountain Climates
- Complete the worksheet and let us know whether you would like to live on a mountain
Activity sheet Mountain Weather
- RE Watch the following video about the Buddhist holy book
Complete the worksheet by filling in the missing words
- French Use the worksheet below to create your own sentences to play a game of Who am I?
Can you guess which animal this is?
Je suis feroche
J’habite en Afrique
Je suis un____
- Music This week. Key Stage 2 Live music lesson, via the link below on Wednesday 3rd February at 2:30pm.
5. Computing – Simulations
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 08.01.21
Weekly English Tasks
Focus: Anglerfish
Lesson 1: To write the opening paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 2: To write the appearance paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 3: To learn about the Angler Fish’s diet
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-about-the-angler-fishs-diet-6mr32c
Lesson 4: To write the diet paragraph of a non-chronological report
Lesson 5: To write the closing paragraph of a non-chronological report
Grammar
Have a look at the information on the webpage below
https://www.naturalcurriculum.co.uk/year-4/demarcating-sentences/black-bear/screen-1/
Work your way through the webpage and have a go at the activities on the worksheet.
Black Bears Demarcate Sentences Worksheet 1 (1)
Please try and do at least one challenge a day, do not rush through them.
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus: Solving measure and money problems
Lesson 1: Two point seven https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/two-point-seven-61h66d
Lesson 2: Fruit
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/fruit-c8u66r
Lesson 3: Souvenirs https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/souvenirs-64rkec
Lesson 4: Flag Pole 1
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/flag-pole-1-cmtkcd
Lesson 5: Flag Pole (Part 2)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/flag-pole-part-2-6ru32t
MyMaths Tasks
Word Problems
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1425-homework/word-problems
Try this one again
Converting Measures
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1699-homework/converting-measures
MyMaths Task
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/104-homework/money-problems
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to begin to read our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
Before completing any of these tasks, listen to Mr Armstrong read the extract first.
Task 1: Find and copy a synonym for happy.
‘… opened his eyes…’
What word class does it belong to? Can you use it in a sentence?
Task 2: Using your retrieval skills to answer these questions.
- How often does The Royal Tea Taster visit the plantation?
- How does the author describe the fruits?
- Who are the people that drink the Cloud Tea?
- What does Tashi do for the monkeys?
Task 3: Using you inference skills.
‘… a plump hand reached out of the purple shade and dropped a plump silk pouch…’
Who is this person? How do we know?
Task 4: If you could see, these characters face. What emotion would they be showing? Remember PEE
Task 5: Create a timeline of the main events of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ (You can include illustrations)
Weekly Spelling Tasks
Again, this week’s spellings are on Ed Shed. You can get your login detail via Purple Mash 2mail. On the other hand, email Mr Armstrong or Mrs Lawrence-Wilson. Let us know what you think of Spelling Shed.
Click here to access Ed Shed Spellings
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- recent
- regular
- reign
- remember
- sentence
- separate
- special
- straight
- strange
- strength
- suppose
12.surprise
Spelling Frame
Click for Spelling Frame word list
- Segmenting cards
- Play free game – Spelling
- Practice
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz
The spelling quiz we be there on Thursday 11th February
Other Learning Activities
Geography– Watch the Mountain Tourism Video
Complete the following worksheet about the impact tourism has on mountains and organise them into the table
Insert Mountain Tourism Statements
RE– Watch the Symbols and Meanings Video
Complete the activity by either cutting the pictures out and sticking them next to the correct meanings.
Re Symbols And Meanings Worksheet
PSHE– Following on from last week’s Children’s Mental health week, we would like you to share with us how you express yourself. Whether that is through art or dance, baking or through another hobby, we would like you to take a picture or video of you expressing yourself. Maybe you wear interesting clothing or you enjoy writing a story. Watch last week’s assembly to give you some ideas.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/childrens-mental-health-week-2021
French– Complete the word search below and match the animals to their French counterparts
Music- KS2 live lesson with Christina (Wed 10th at 2.30 pm) For this lesson you will need: a large plastic cup
5. Computing – Simulations
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 25.01.21
Weekly English Tasks
Focus: The Robin- Narrative
- To plan the climax
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-climax-6gtk4r
- To develop a rich understanding of words associated with the countryside (Part 2)
- To write the climax
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-climax-6gr3ac
- To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes (-tion, -ity, -ness) https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-and-apply-knowledge-of-suffixes-tion-ity-ness-6mwk6t
5. To practise editing skills https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-editing-skills-ccv64r
Grammar
The following clip will help you with your Purple Mash 2do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3
The following clip will help you with your Purple Mash 2do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zv4j7nb
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus: Solving measure and money problems
This week we would like to complete 2 MyMaths lessons after
Lesson 4 & 5 after the Oak National Academy
Before beginning Lesson 1, if you have these items to will help you a paperclip or a safety pin, bag of sugar or flour and a teaspoon and carton of juice. However, if you do not have them do not worry.
- Units of measure
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/units-of-measure-6tgk2c
- Converting Lengths (Part 1) https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-lengths-part-1-cgr3jd
- Converting Lengths (Part 2) https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-lengths-part-2-64ukar
- Converting Measurements https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-measurements-cdj62t
MyMaths
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/1699-homework/converting-measures
- Ordering Measurements https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/ordering-measurements-crt3cr
MyMaths Task
https://app.mymaths.co.uk/292-homework/measuring-lengths
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to begin to read our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
Before completing any of these tasks, listen to Mr Armstrong read the extract first.
Task 1: Using your retrieval skills, answer these questions. Read all the questions and identify which word will help you find the answer.
- Why was there no fire?
- What did the Overseer call Tashi?
- How many monkeys grabbed the basket?
- Who was watching Tashi?
Task 2:
Using your inference skills and PEE.
How is Tashi feeling at this point in the story?
Task 3: Vocabulary
Can you tell us the following about each word?
- Word class – noun, verb, adjective, adverb
- Meaning
- Use in context – in a sentence (you could write it in a different colour and underline it.
kettle dismayed headscarf desperately
We have helped you with the first one.
Word class: kettle: noun
Meaning: A contain to put water in and boil.
Sentence: Tashi could hear the whisper of the kettle as it can to the boil.
Task 4: Summarise the first two sections of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ Can you draw them?
Before answering these questions, watch both clips of Mr Armstrong reading the story.
Mr Armstrong reading clip 1
Task 5: Complete these questions.
- Find a synonym for talk.
- How does the Overseer make Tashi feel when he laughed at her? PEE
- Who vanished into the cloud with the basket?
Weekly Spelling Tasks
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- learn
- length
- library
- material
- medicine
- mention
- minute
- natural
- naughty
- notice
- occasion
- occasionally
- often
- opposite
- ordinary
Spelling Frame
https://spellingframe.co.uk/guest/word-list/80780
- Segmenting cards
- Play free game – Spelling Road Hopper
- Practice
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz.
Other Learning Activities
- Geography- This week, we are going to be looking at how mountains are made. Watch the following presentation to learn about the different mountains.
Choose from the following experiments to show how mountains are made. Do not forget to send in a picture or video of you doing it!
Click here for Worksheet – Mountain Formuations
- RE- In RE this week, we will be learning about special festivals for Buddhists. Watch the following presentation to learn about how Buddhists celebrate Wesak.
Use the following instructions to create your own Wesak Lantern
Click here for Activity Sheet Wesak Lantern
- French- Can you remember the French for: fish (le poisson), bird (l’oiseau), three (trois).
Say all three words together. Can you hear which sound is common to all three?
This sound is spelt ‘oi’ in French.
Can you think of other words with the same sound.
Maybe you came up with the following: au revoir, noir, moi, la voiture, l’histoire, froid.
Write the following poem on the board, and fill in the sound ‘oi’:
Coucou, Ant _ _ ne,
c’est m _ _ !
J’ai tr _ _ p_ _ ssons.
Et t_ _ ?
J’ai un petit _ _ seau.
Oh là là!
We would like you to say the poem aloud and learn it for the next session.
If you would like to, you may also like to write your own poem with some other ‘oi’ words.
- PE- Check out the challenges from Mr Jackson on the school website https://www.acklamwhin.co.uk/parents/pe-sports/
Get recording yourselves and email the videos in to show us how you are developing your PE skills
5. Computing
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 18.01.21
Weekly English Tasks
Narrative writing – The Robin.
1. To plan the build-up of the story https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-build-up-of-the-story-c8vkge
2. To write the build-up of the story https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-build-up-of-the-story-6mukae
3. To generate vocabulary for the climax https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-generate-vocabulary-for-the-climax-68vkge
4. To investigate suffixes (-tion, -ity, -ness) https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-suffixes-tion-ity-ness-6ngk6d
5. To develop understanding of complex sentences https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-develop-understanding-of-complex-sentences-crtpar
Grammar
Complete the following 2Dos: Harrys Party and Jane’s Monster
What is a fronted adverbial?
This will help you with your writing ‘The Robin’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3
Weekly Maths Tasks
Focus – Time 12 hour & 24 hour
- Reading analogue and digital 12 hour clocks https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-analogue-and-digital-12-hour-clocks-6xjk2d
- Reading, writing and converting time between 12 hour and 24 hour clocks
- Converting between hours, minutes and seconds https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-between-hours-minutes-and-seconds-6djket
- Converting between years, months and weeks https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/converting-between-years-months-and-weeks-70rk2d
Complete the My Maths Activity before lesson 5
- Solving word problems with time https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/solving-word-problems-with-time-6ct3gc
Keep your times table skills sharp by regularly going on TTRS. Do a sound check first when you go onto TTRS. If you all go on around 2 pm, you can battle against each other.
Weekly Reading Tasks
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to begin to read our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham
In Year 4, Mr Armstrong is going to start reading our class novel
‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ by Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham.
Before you watch Mr Armstrong reading the first section of the book, please complete Task 1.
Task 1: Sketch the front cover of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ using your prediction skills.
What do you think will happen within this novel?
How have you come to this conclusion?
After watching the clip, see if you can add any more detail to your prediction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCKHgtsQZk
Before completing any of these tasks, listen to Mr Armstrong read the first section.
Task 2: Using your retrieval skills, answer these questions. Read them all carefully and identify which word will help you find the answer. We have done the first one for you.
- What came to the boil?
- How many times did mother cough?
- Who came out, as the women arrived at the tea plantation?
- Why do the women squeal?
Task 3: Why was walking to the plantation, Tashi’s favourite part of the day?
Here we are using our inference skills; remember use Point, Evidence and Explain.
Task 4: Have you discovered any new words within this extract? Can you find out what it means?
E.g. burden
The sentence that this word, is used in is ‘…her back bent under the burden of her tea-basket.’
Task 5: In five-sentence, summarize the first section of ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’
Weekly Spelling Tasks
Spelling Remote Learning Activities
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- eight
- eighth
- enough
- exercise
- experience
- experiment
- extreme
- famous
- favourite
- February
- forward
- forwards
- fruit
Spelling frames
https://spellingframe.co.uk/guest/word-list/77528
Complete these activities
- Segmenting Cards
- Play the free game
- Practice spellings
- Test
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz.
Other Learning Activities
Geography The following picture is of a mountain range with various features labelled.
Draw your own picture of a mountain range and label it with some of the features shown here. (You do not have to include every feature)
RE. Lesson 3. Watch the powerpoint and create your own version of a Stupa or Pagoda. You might like to draw, paint or even construct out of recyclable materials.
PE – Complete Joe Wickes PE Workout 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGKGNzNbWjU
French- Using your knowledge of French numbers, choose the correct phrase for the clock shown.
Computing – Watch the video below for this weeks computing lesson.
Worksheet for our computing lesson
Weekly Remote Learning tasks – WC 11.01.21
Weekly English Tasks
English Remote Learning Activities
Narrative writing – The Robin
- To generate vocabulary
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-generate-vocabulary-ccwk2t
- To develop a rich understanding of words associated with the countryside (Part 1)
- To plan the opening of the story
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-the-opening-of-the-story-c4rpad
- To practise and apply knowledge of suffixes (-ate, -en)
- To write the opening of the story
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-the-opening-of-the-story-c4v34e
Weekly Maths Tasks
Maths Remote Learning Activities
Focus – Multiplication and Division.
- To multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number
- Multiplying 3 digit number by 1 digit
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/multiplying-3-digit-numbers-by-1-digit-numbers-60t6ae
- Multiplying 3 digit numbers by 1 digit
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/multiplying-3-digit-numbers-by-1-digit-numbers-6ctkjd
- Problem Solving choosing operations
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/problem-solving-choosing-operations-71h66t
- Dividing using knowledge of multiples
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/dividing-using-knowledge-of-multiples-cmt3ed
Remember: Timetable Rock stars keep those skills sharp.
Weekly Reading Tasks
Reading Remote Learning Activities
Serial Mash
Continuing with Chapter 2 of Bigfoot Adventure.
Complete these activities, which are in your 2do list.
- Chapter 2 quiz
- Expanded noun phrase sentences about Bigfoot.
Remember: Personal reading
Weekly Spelling Tasks
Spelling Remote Learning Activities
This week’s spellings: we are continuing to revise our Year 3 & 4 common exception words.
- calendar
- caught
- centre
- century
- certain
- circle
- complete
- consider
- continue
- decide
- different
- difficult
- disappear
Complete these online games to help your practice your spellings.
Spellzone
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-4506.htm
Once you are confident with your spellings complete
Purple Mash 2do: Year 3 & 4 Spelling quiz.
Other Learning Activities
- Geography. Look at the map of the UK. Can you identify where the UK mountains are? Where are the highest areas of ground in the UK? Which countries of the UK are these located in? Where do you think the highest peak in the UK might be located? Choose a mountain and create a fact file about it.
- RE. Lesson 2. Watch the power point and create your own board game to show the path to Nirvana for Buddhists.
- PE – Complete Joe Wickes PE Workout 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v-a_dpwhro&list=RDCMUCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ&start_radio=1
- French Using the list of animals an the descriptions, come up with your own sentences to describe the animals for example; Le Lion est feroce.
Try to come up with as many as you can
- Art- Use the following description and draw the animal you think is being described. It could be a mythical creature.
‘… described as having white shaggy fur and a lean muscular body like an ape. This “creature” could also live in the Asian mountains near the Himalayan snow line.’
5.Computing
Click here to download this weeks computing PowerPoint. (Please ignore my mistake on the first slide saying Years 3& 4)
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