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Week commencing Monday 13th July

 

RE– weddings

Find out about what happens in a Christian wedding. Look at the different types of Christian weddings.

Then look at a Hindu wedding. Can you compare how the two are different and how they are the same?

A Hindu wedding

Another example of a Hindu wedding

Have a go designing some Henna patterns, like they put on for Hindu weddings.

   

Week commencing Monday 6th July

 

The Titanic

  • Can you make your own porthole like one of the examples here?
  • Can you find out more about the different parts of the Titanic and design your own first class cabin?
  • Look at the different menus for first, second and third class passengers. How do the differ? Can you make up your own menu for these passengers. Use a supermarket website to cost up the price. menus here.
  • Can you investigate which objects sink and float and look at how boats are designed? Can you design and make your own boat and test it to see if it works?
  • Watch this video of the Northern Lights. Can you find out more about them? Make your own Northern lights picture.

Week Commencing Monday 29th June

 

Life in the Polar Regions

 

  • Imagine that you were going on an expedition to the arctic. What would you need to take? Can you make a list of things that you need and why you need them?
  • What sorts of clothes would you need? What would it need to be? What might be the best material for it? Could you design your own suit for going to the Arctic? You need to investigate what material it would need to be made out of.
  • Can you find out more about the people that live in the Polar regions. Look at how they live and make a report about what you have found out.
  • investigate what an igloo is and how it is made. Can you draw or make a model of an igloo? Some ideas here.

Week commencing Monday 22nd June

 

This week we are looking at how the Polar regions are change because of climate change.

Read the power point about climate change and the Polar regions. Read this information.

Find out more about how climate change is affected the polar regions and our world. Watch this video here.

Find out different ways we can stop this.

Write a letter or make a poster  explaining what is happening and how we can help stop it.

Week commencing Monday 15th June

 

Music - Carnival in Brazil and Samba music

  • Read the powerpoint about the carnival in Brazil. 
  • Use the internet to find out more about Carnival and produce a powerpoint to explain what it is about. Remember to put photos and captions too.
  • Listen to the samba music and explain how it makes you feel. 
  • Write an acrostic poem with the letters CARNIVAL / SAMBA.
  • Find out more about the instruments that are used in samba music. samba drumming.
  • Design you own samba mask and head dress.
  • Design and make your own model carnival float.

Week commencing Monday 8th June

 

Geography - Comparing forests

Read the information about Sherwood Forest and the rainforests. Can you explain some of the differences between them?

 

Week commencing Monday 1st June

 

Life in the rainforest

This week we are looking at food in the rainforest. Here are som activities to have a go at:

 

Geography (linked to science) - Food from the rainforest

Can you guess the names of the different foods from the rainforest? 

Can you find out more about some of them?

ICT - Can you make a powerpoint of the information you have found?

Try to taste some of the foods you have never tried. Complete a taste review sheet.

Art - Can you try to sketch in detail one of the foods. Use you pencil in different ways to put on the detail. 

Dt - Can you make one of the recipes? Give a review of what it tasted like.

Week commencing Monday 18th May

 

Topic / art - Animals of the rain forest - Henri Rousseau

 

Henri Rousseau was a famous artist who painted pictures of animals in their habitat.

  • Look at the pictures below. What do you see? How do they make you feel?
  • Read the power point and find out more about Henri Rousseau
  • Can you use pencils or paint to re-create one of these pictures?
  • See if you can find more examples of his work.
  • Can you make your own rain forest animal picture in a similar style to Henri Rousseau?

 

 

ICT

 Practice your coding

Go to the website: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/

Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password

Username – Student27480

Password - coding

Children should start from year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables

Try to complete lesson 6

 

 

Week Commencing Monday 11th May 

 

Living things in their habitat - ART and DT

 

This week we are going to link to our science and literacy work.

  • Can you make a collage / 3d model of the rainforest or rainforest layers – you can use anything you can find around the house

  • Can you make a bug hotel for creatures in your garden?                                  https://www.redtedart.com/simple-bug-hotel-for-kids/

  • Can you find out about Andy Goldsworthy's art and have a go at creating your own nature art work?

 

ICT

 

 Practice your coding

Go to the website: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/

Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password

Username – Student27480

Password - coding

Children should start from year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables

Try to complete lesson 5

 

 

Week commencing Monday 4th May

see activities in literacy on BOOK WEEK

 

VE DAY

On Friday, it is a bank holiday in England because it is a special day - we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of VE Day. 75 years that marks the end of World War Two. Our topic last term was World War Two so you already know lots about it. Your task this week is to prepare for a party to celebrate VE day. Have a go at some of these activities.

  • Find out more about what VE day is 
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr
  • Explain how it was celebrated  in 1945
  • Plan your own VE house party - make invites, bunting, posters and other decorations
  • Design your own VE day picnic for your family. Can you use supermarket websites to work out how much it would cost?
  • Design and make a cake for VE day
  • Draw and colour the Union Jack.
  • Find and listen to music in WW2 times. Vera Lynn was popular them Choose your favourite song and explain why you like it.
  • Make a VE day card
  • Design a coin or teacup to celebrate the day
  • Create a piece of art work inspired by the war
  • Find out about a war hero
  • Design and make your own medal
  • find out about the games they played during war time and have a go at one

Week commencing Monday 27th April

 

Topic -rain forests week 2 –rain forests around the world

Geography (also see literacy work)

  • Find out where other rain forests can be found in the world and put them on the map
  • Can you find out the difference between tropical and temperate rain forests?
  • Write an information report about a different rain forest of your choice. Make sure you include; headings, facts, paragraphs and a fact box

 

Art

  • Find a famous place or monument in Brazil. Can you draw, sketch or paint a picture of it?
  • Romero Britto is a famous Brazilian painter. Can you copy one of his pictures in a similar style?

 

ICT

•        Practice your coding

Go to the website: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/

Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password

Username – Student27480

Password - coding

Children should start from year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables

Try to complete lesson 4

Online safety

Think about how we behave on line. Read the sheet about what cyberbullying is. Can you give two examples of cyberbullying of your own?

 

Week commencing Monday 20th April

 

Topic -rain forests week 1 –the Amazon Rain forest

 

Geography

  • Find out and write a definition of what a rainforest is.
  • Explain in writing and pictures what makes them different from our forests
  • Locate the Amazon rainforest on a map. Where is it?
  • Can you make a fact file about the Amazon rainforest? You could do this in writing, as a power point or as a video

Examples: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgU7gsBOhUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwgpA4ReEc

 

 

Art

  • Can you use the pictures from the book ‘Where the Forest Meets the Sea’ and other pictures of the Amazon rain forest and draw, colour or paint a rain forest picture? (see the pictures in files)

 

 

ICT

  • Practice your coding

Go to the website: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/

Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password

Username – Student27480

Password - coding

Children should start from year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables

Try to complete lesson 3

 

  • Online safety - stay SMART

    S- stay safe

    M- never meet anyone you have met online

    A- Don't accept messages from people you don't know

    R- reliable is the source/ app/ game/ site reliable

    T- tell Always tell an adult or someone you trust if you see something online that makes you feel uncomfortable

  • Can you make a poster to make everyone aware how to stay smart when on the internet?

 

 

 

Week commencing 30th March

 

RE - Worship in different religions

 

 

ICT

  • Practice your coding
    Go to the website: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/
    Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password
    Username – Student27480
    Password - coding
    Children should start from year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables
    Try to complete lesson 1, 2 and 3

 

French

  • Can you create your own handwashing poster in French. There is an example to have a look at.

Week commencing 23rd March

 

Topic –World War 2

  • Write a letter from an evacuee to their mum, explaining what their new life is like
  • Write a diary of a fisherman going to rescue solders from Dunkirk
  • Draw a picture of one of the boats that was used in Dunkirk
  • Write a fact file about Winston Churchill
  • Draw and label an evacuee’s suitcase
  • Write a quiz about World War 2

 

French

Crickweb

 

RE

Find out and re-tell as a comic strip the Easter story

 

ICT

Practice your coding

Go to the discovery education website

Go on to the coding bit and put in the user name and password

Username – Student27480

Password - coding

Children should start from Year 4 – unit 4a introduction to variables

 

Art/ DT /music

  • Can you make an Easter card?
  • Could you design an Easter bonnet?
  • Design your own Easter egg.
  • Could you learn some World War 2 songs such as: the white cliffs of Dover, We’ll meet again, run rabbit run, pack up your troubles, keep the home fires burning, it’s a long way to Tipperary.
  • Could you make a recipe from World War 2?
  • Can you draw or paint a picture of a World War 2 plane?

Topic work for week commencing 23rd March

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