Good morning, Mercury!

I hope you are well and enjoying the routine of our class work.

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

I am in school today, so please note I may not be able to respond quickly to emails.

English

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

This week, we are working through the Talk for Writing Booklets in English, found below. You may go at your own pace or follow the suggested page numbers below. Please note that these are the page numbers on the document itself, not necessarily on the computer screen. Year 3 answers are found at the back of the document.

Year 3: Trolls (pages 8 to 10)

Year 4: Aliens (pages 6 to 9)

Table 2: Spiders (pages 7 to 8)

Mathematics

This week we are using a different set of resources, for a change. Each day, we need to work through the activities below – either by looking at the screen and writing the answers down or by printing off the sheets. Follow the instructions carefully and make sure you look through the sheets before you begin, so you can find the answers, extra support materials and the different levels of task - Mild (easier) and Hot (harder). There may also be activities to work with somebody else on. If there is a PowerPoint Presentation, then watch this first, listening to the teaching at the same time.

Year 3: Fractions/Time

Year 4: Fractions/Tables

Table 2: Numbers/Place Value

Other Activities

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

• Develop your art skills with Rob and post to our facebook page: http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob  
• Computing: Access this webpage https://www.barefootcomputing.org/homelearning?mc_cid=b8b438bf50&mc_eid=0aa7f9dec3 and have a go at Hand Jive Sequence, to help you with decomposition!
• RE: Brother Lawrence was a monk who lived in a monastery (a place where people dedicate themselves to prayer for their whole lives) in France.  He said: 'We do not need to be in church to be with God. We can make a chapel of our heart, to which we can retreat from time to time to spend time with him'

What do you think he means when he says 'We can make a chapel of our heart'?  Do you think we can still be in touch with God by imagining him in our hearts, inside of each one of us?  How would that make you feel if that were how we can be in touch with God?

Activity: Draw a large heart (or cut one out if you have some red paper / card).  On top of that heart place a picture of a church that you have drawn on another piece of paper.  Can the door of your picture open (cut carefully down one side & the top of the door) and make some people out of paper too so that the people of the church are going in and out of the place where God is ......in the big heart.