Hello, Mercury Class!

I hope you are all well – and enjoying the story videos!

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

English

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

Year 4/Year 3/Table 2

Today we look at Mr Stink!

• Read the extract below. Find these words in the text: stench, justice, residence, luxuriated, elaborate, impatiently, vagabond, authoritatively
• Can you work out what they mean? Read the sentence they are in, the sentence before and the sentence after to help you work out the meaning.
• Write down what you think each word means, then look up the definition of the word using a dictionary or https://www.wordhippo.com/. See this table to help create your own.

Now answer these questions:

• What are your first impressions of Mr Stink? Use evidence from the text to support your answer, like this: I think Mr Stink is …. I think this because in the text it says … Try and write more than one impression.
• What are your first impressions of Chloe? Use evidence from the text to support your answer, like this: I think Chloe is … I think this because in the text it says … Try and write more than one impression.

Mathematics

Year 4/Year 3/Table 2

This week 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. All the answers are provided.

Y4: Column Subtraction, perimeter, area

Y3: Adding and Subtracting Multiples, symmetry and shape

Table 2: Counting, multiples, shape

Other Activity

For this few days, I am giving you a small topic that all KS2 classes will be getting involved in:

Design, Make and Evaluate a Nature Picture Frame (then take a selfie inside your frame!)

• Using the Design Booklet and Examples below, you need to look at different types of picture frames to decide on the type you would like to design.
• Think about structures and how picture frames stand.
• Explore and collect natural materials for creating a picture frame.
• Make and evaluate the fame, using the criteria you came up with.  Please send me a picture of the completed product.
• When we return to school, all children will bring their frame into school with their favourite Lockdown photograph in it and we will create a big display of them all!