Hello, Mercury Class!

I hope you are enjoying our tasks, this week! I hope you enjoyed meeting your new teacher, yesterday.

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

• Do you know the story of Robin Hood? Watch this film clip which summarises the story of Robin Hood: https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories/robin-hood  
• Now watch The Legend of Robin Hood and have a go at the quiz on the website underneath the clip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx339j6/articles/zcxmb82  What do you know about Robin Hood after watching the film clips?
• Read the following story about one of the adventures of Robin Hood: https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/robin-hood-and-the-golden-arrow-story-legend-stories-for-kids/  (Note: text may contain some American spellings).
• Think about all you have found out about Robin Hood. Create a poem about him. Choose either an acrostic poem or a shape poem. Here are some examples of each to help you:

Shape Poems: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-shape-poems.html  You could use the shape of an arrow or Robin Hood’s hat or something different relating to Robin Hood.

Acrostic Poems: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/ztdvw6f You could use the words ROBIN HOOD or SHERWOOD FOREST or any other words that you think are suitable about Robin Hood.

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 Thursday and Friday 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

Thursday and Friday

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

• Poetry 2: Watch and enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELI3T-gxKxE Discuss what you see when you go into a forest or park. You could write your own forest poem based on this one.
• Computing: Have a go at the latest activity sheet below, to further develop your Online Safety skills.
• Spend time working on the Times Tables websites listed on the Class Web Page and then work through the tests you need to do, also listen on this page to me reading questions out. Have a go at Times Tables Rockstars!
• 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.’