Good morning, Mercury!

I hope you enjoyed the weekend and are looking forward to accessing our latest Remote Learning activities, this week! We continue with our All Creatures Great and Small!

Focus.

Please see, below, our remote learning tasks for today.

English

Enjoy today’s Anansi Story Time at: https://salesbury.primarysite.media/playlist/mercury-class and on facebook at 9am.

Year 4/Year 3/Table 2

This week’s Focus theme is Fun in the Forest! We will spend a week exploring stories and films set in different forests. You have stories to read, characters to meet, poems to write, facts to find and songs to sing!

• View and enjoy the story of Into the Forest by Anthony Browne at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgugbdwvMY  
• Discuss the story and create ideas for your own new story about a walk through a forest. Who might you meet? Are they characters from other traditional tales or nursery rhymes?
• Discuss ones you know such as The Gingerbread Man, Humpty Dumpty, the Three Little Pigs, Jack – from Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.
• Explore other traditional tales and nursery rhymes for character ideas. You can find some here or you may have some traditional tales in your house: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/storyteller-videos/storyteller-videos-traditional-tales/ or https://www.worldoftales.com/fairy_tales.html (Adult supervision required).
• Create a story plan for your new story by drawing pictures of each character you will meet, and labelling them.

Mathematics

This week we are working on Multiplication, Division and Geometry on MyMaths.  Remember to work carefully through the slides on each lesson, first, then have a go at all the practise questions, before attempting the tasks.

The tasks for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are set on your log in.

Please let me know of any problems and we’ll try and sort them! Please don’t worry and just do your best.

REMINDER:  To log on you need to do the following:

1. Visit https://login.mymaths.co.uk/login
2. Enter the school username salesbury and password cosine87
3. Once logged in there is a box on the right where you will enter your own personal user name and password (as seen on the email attachment which your parents received). 
4. You will then see the lessons that you need to log into. 
5. Complete the online lesson first and work through each slide. 
6. Once complete, then work through the online homework task.

Other Activities

Monday to Wednesday

Other activities you may choose to do today, could be:

• Art: Research African giraffes and then create your own piece of art. Use plenty of colour and a variety of repeating aspects. Use any materials you have available at home or even a computer. Use the example below for inspiration, if you like! Upload it to our facebook group!
• Poetry 1: Here are some forest poems for you to read and enjoy – you could write your own versions! https://www.kidssoup.com/craft-and-resource/forest-animals-books-rhymes-and-songs
• Have a go at today’s PE Activity from Lancashire School Games: https://lancashireschoolgames.co.uk/year-3-6-spar-lancashire-school-games-activity-timetable/  
• Sing a song a day at https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home-weekly/ . Select Week 2 and then the correct day of the week eg. Monday is ‘Clap Hands! Stamp Feet!’ and Tuesday is ‘A Little Bit Of Kindness.’