Primary 4O Tasks for Friday 19 March 2021

Hello boys and girls. This hopefully this will be the last day for remote learning as we are back to school 🏫 on Monday. It is very important that your parents have read Ms.McAuley’s return to school letter. We will be continuing with all our hygiene routines, staggered starts and finishes, one class playtime, lunches/dinners in our classroom and keeping to our class bubbles. Please remember to bring in your learning packs on Monday, along with your reading books.

These are your tasks for today. Remember to upload your finished work so I can view it and give you some feedback.

Have a good weekend, get rested and see you all on Monday 😀

Literacy

In your New Wave English in practice booklet complete Day 19 of the booklet. Read the questions carefully making sure if you are asked to write an answer you write it in the box provided, if you’re asked to circle an answer you circle it, or if you are asked to tick a question, you tick it. Only do Day 19 today.   Today we will be watching our BBC Look and Learn literacy programme called Spywatch. So far, Polly and Dennis narrowly avoid being killed by the German plane's bombs. Norman later spies Grainger giving a package to Vivienne Belling. Mary tries to uncover evidence to prove Grainger's a spy. Also, Norman's mother comes to visit him on his birthday. The next day, however, an even bigger surprise awaits the kids in their secret meeting place, the greenhouse at Westbourne Hall.   I have attached the next episode below so click on Episode 8: The Pilot. Watch the programme carefully as it sets the scene for future episodes in the story. Your literacy tasks 8a and 8b can be found in your learning pack.

You can complete  your tasks on your task sheets.

Task 8a: What would you have done?

In this task, I want you to think about being in the Spywatch story. What would you have done or said differently? Write your thoughts about these moments in the story on your worksheet. You will see some parts of the story, you need to complete what you would have done or said on the lines provided.

Task 8b: I spy spellings

Many words can be built up from roots or words that have a similar pattern. In part 1, write the common root word from which each of these words is built. Use your dictionaries to help you. The first one is done for you - heavily, the root word is heavy, in other words the word heavily can be formed from the root word heavy.

In part 2, we are going to look at longer words. Longer words come from other words; for example long can become longer. In this task you look at the table and think of the longer words that come from each of the words shown on the table.

In part three, you have to try and write three words that have similar letter strings. Look at the underlined the letters in the example, bush  - push, crush and slush. ush are the common string letters. Have a go with the words written on the table.

Once you have completed your Spywatch task you have an opportunity to continue learning and testing yourself on your weekly spellings which you received on Monday. How have you got on?

Numeracy

Complete Friday’s mental maths tasks for this week.   For this part of the term we are looking at length. Length is a way of measuring things. By measuring things we can find out about the size of something. We can find out how big or small, how tall or short how long or short, how deep or shallow, how long or wide, how high or low, how thick or thin, and how far or near something is. Length is a way of measuring that we can use everyday in so many different ways. When do you think you would use length to measure something? When we measure something we can often see straightaway the difference in length, height and distance between two or more things or places. For example, I am taller than each member of the class. The cloakroom is shorter than the classroom. The Spar is nearer to our school than Sainsbury’s.   Today we are using a standard measure, a ruler, to complete our task. Look at your ruler and see how it is divided up into equal sections of centimetres. Compare it to another ruler the centimetre sections will be exactly the same.📏   In your Learning Pack you will find your Topic Maths Length booklet. I would like you to complete the two pages titled, Orca Measuring and At Home. You will need your ruler to help you with the task. Follow the instructions carefully.  In Orca Measuring, you need to measure 📏the orcas 🖍 and record their length.  In At Home, you will need to cut a piece of string or wool which is 1metre (100 centimetres) long. If you have a tape measure at home, you can use that. First estimate or guess what the width, height or length of the object is. Then measure to see if you are correct.   Remember to upload your finished work so I can view it and give you some feedback.

World Around Us 

We have been looking at mammals in this part of the term. We have seen where they live, what they eat and how they are divided into different types of mammals those that live on land, in the sea or water, and in the air. We have also looked at unusual mammals such as marsupials who have pouches, and monotremes which are egg laying mammals. We have also looked at extinct and endangered mammals. We have looked at the mammals that are local to us, here in Northern Ireland and on the island of Ireland.   With all this information and knowledge we have, we are now going apply it and do a project on mammals. I would like you to choose one mammal to focus on and complete some research on that mammal and present a project. This can be done in your project book or separately if you wish. If you have a pet such as a dog or cat you might wish to focus on them. In your projects I would like you to give me researched information on their characteristics, where they live, what they eat, any unusual habits or features they might have, if they are endangered etc. I would also like you to draw or take some pictures of them (if they are your own). Please do not download tons and tons of information from the internet; make sure you understand what you are writing.   The project can be done from today and over next week for handing in after we return from our Easter holidays. So get researching and enjoy your fact finding.

Diary

I would like you to complete a diary entry for today. Remember to date your entry and answer the following questions:

How do I feel today? What did I like doing? What’s the weather like? What is happening in the world today?

For the last question you will have to listen to the news or ask an adult. I had some interesting replies to this question last week, so keep them coming.

Remember to upload your work so I can view it and give you feedback.