Hello, Mercury Class!

I hope you are enjoying our tasks, this week! We are off school tomorrow, so I will check in with you again on Monday.

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

English

Enjoy today’s Poetry Time from Please Mrs Butler at: https://salesbury.primarysite.media/playlist/mercury-class and on facebook at 9am

Ask an adult to give you your Spelling Test (as seen on the Class Web Page at https://www.salesbury.lancs.sch.uk/mercury-year-3-4/): special; straight; strange; strength; suppose; surprise; therefore; though; although. Mrs Murphy’s group use your words taken from the HFW List.

Y3/4/Table 2

Read together and/or listen on YouTube to Chapter Four - The Museum Thieves

Both links below:

Flat Stanley to read:

https://kingauthor.co/books/Jeff%20Brown/Flat%20Stanley/Flat%20Stanley%20-%20Jeff%20Brown.pdf

Flat Stanley – version on YouTube (from 13:50 – 23:59mins):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsiFx9ZyFo  

• After reading this chapter, discuss what happened together. Start to think about creating a newsflash script for Flat Stanley and the museum chapter.
• See below a newsflash example from Sesame Street to help with ideas as to how to create a newsflash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWE3uF9u9-g  
• Use these sentence starters to help write your newsflash:

• Good morning and welcome to….
• Today we have some breaking news about…
• Flat Stanley is a hero because…
• He helped the museum owner by…
• Flat Stanley is here now to explain what happened…
• Interview Flat Stanley
• “……………………………….”
• Thank you very much for helping the police.
• That’s all for now… etc.

• Write, perform and record your own newsflash.

As we have no school tomorrow, due to VE Day, there are only 4 days to cover this 5 day unit. If you’d like to continue with Flat Stanley today or over the weekend, then feel free! Here is the Friday plan:

Read together and/or listen on YouTube to Chapter Five - Arthur’s Good Idea

Both links below:

Flat Stanley to read: https://kingauthor.co/books/Jeff%20Brown/Flat%20Stanley/Flat%20Stanley%20-%20Jeff%20Brown.pdf  

Flat Stanley – version on YouTube (from 24:00 – 30:28mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsiFx9ZyFo  

• After reading this chapter, discuss how Arthur helped Stanley. Write instructions for how to help Stanley get back to himself.
• Use these sentence starters to help:

• First of all…
• Next…
• After that…
• Then…
• Don’t forget to…
• Finally…
• If it hasn’t worked then try…
• Remember to…

• Check all sentences for spelling and punctuation together.
• Now discuss and consider other ideas to help Stanley return to himself if he becomes flat again!
• Write some more instructions just in case!

Mathematics

Y3/Y4/Table 2

We continue with our fractions work on MyMaths. See Monday’s notes for logging in and expectation details.

Other Activities

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

• Music: Sing ‘The Planets’ (Week 2 – Thursday) at https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home/?utm_source=homepage&utm_campaign=ootamathome2&utm_medium=banner
• Revise your French vocabulary with the video below on Food
• Develop your art skills with Rob and post to our facebook page: http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
• VE Day! (Set yesterday and today) Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnh7sq4pvdY&feature=emb_title&safe=active and have a go at the workbook below.