Good morning, Mercury!

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How’s it going? I hope you are all well and working hard!

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

English

Year 4/Year 3/Table 2

• Read Anansi stories from books, the list below or the internet and pick two.
• List similarities and differences you find, between the stories.
• Anansi and The Alligator https://mocomi.com/indian-folk-tales-anansi-and-the-alligator/
• Why Anansi has 8 Thin Legs https://africa.mrdonn.org/anansi.html
• Anansi and the Turtle https://mocomi.com/indian-folk-tales-anansi-and-the-turtle/

Mathematics

Today’s work:

Year 4:  Solve scaling problems. Convert from centimetres to metres.

Year 3:  Revise halving numbers to 100 using partitioning.

Table 2: Tell the time to the half hour; find the time half an hour later.

Please work through the activity document files – 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. All the answers are provided.

Other Activities

Monday to Wednesday

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

• Geography: Use the map of Europe, below.  Colour the land green and the waters blue. Add on the names of countries, capital cities and places you have visited or would like to visit.

• Computing: Develop your Online Safety skills, by having a go at the Activity Sheet below.
• 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 6 and then the correct day of the week eg. Monday is ‘Moving To The Music’ and Tuesday is ‘Sing Together.’
• 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!