Primary 4O Tasks for Monday 15 March 2021

Hello boys and girls. I hope you enjoyed your weekend and are all well. It is going to be a shorter week, as we are off on Wednesday for St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ Remember to wear something green on either Tuesday or Wednesday and send a picture to me so we can post them on the School website. This week is also part of this year’s Integrated Education Month. The theme for this year is ‘Together’. I would like you to send me a sentence telling me what being in an integrated school means to you.

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 week, stay safe and as always try your best 😃

Literacy

In  your New Wave English in practice booklet complete Day 16 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 16 today.

Our main task today is a comprehension called, The summer holidays, which you will find in your learning pack. You will complete this comprehension in your literacy book. Read the comprehension text carefully a couple of times and think about what it is telling you. Remember to number the questions, date your work and give it a title. Remember to answer your questions in full sentences using capital letters, full stops, neat handwriting and take a new line for each answer.

In your pack you will also find your weekly spellings for this week. Please practice and learn them through the week. Test yourself and get an adult to test you each day.

There is an activity to go along with your spellings in your learning pack which can be completed during the week.

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

Numeracy

In your learning pack you will find your mental maths workbook for the next four weeks. Complete Monday’s tasks for the fourth week.

We are looking at money. We are looking at the coins in our currency, how we use them and how we can use our addition, subtraction and multiplication skills that we have been learning this year with money.  

Remember we only have the following coins in our currency or money 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2. Other countries will have different coins. 

In your learning packs select Book 2 and complete the next two pages, 50 (Values up to 20p) and 52 (Shopping with 20p). Complete both pages on the worksheets. 

On page 50 Part A you have to find the missing amount that will make up 20p. In Part B you have to find out how much needs to be added to the amount to make 20p.

On page 52 Part A you need to workout the cost, change from 20p and the coins that would be given in the change. In Part B you need to show the coins that would be used if the exact money was given. Remember you can only use 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p coins for this task.

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

World Around Us

What do Mammals Eat?  

There are about 5000 species of mammals ranging from rhinos to wolves to sloths to humans to whales. Mammals are quite different in their feeding habits; as a whole they’ll eat practically anything. Protein fuels their energy, while fat insulates them from cold weather and carbohydrates store energy and provide vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Mammals rarely stick to a certain type of diet. Their environment often is the reason what mammals will eat. If a certain food becomes scarce, they have to change their habits in order to survive.

  First I would like you to watch the attached video on what animals eat. Think back to our Diet topic, earlier in the year and the different types of diets.
  Carnivorous mammals eat a diet of mostly animal tissue, whether from vertebrates or invertebrates. Carnivores possess unique physical characteristics that enable them to kill and consume their prey, or in the case of scavengers, that enable them to locate and devour a carcass. It’s true that carnivorous mammals can consume vegetation, but they do so voluntarily, either to supplement a deficient diet or to use the plant matter as a way of being sick. In marine environments, sea lions, walruses, and seals eat a diet of fish, octopi, crustaceans, mollusks, and other sea creatures. Dolphins prefer fish. Killer whales will eat fish, but they will also attack marine mammals, even other whales. 

The term “meat” doesn’t merely include tissue from mammals and fish. It also refers to the soft inner bodies of insects and spiders. For instance, anteaters derive all their nutrients from ants, termites, and other insects. Most bats feed at night on hundreds of insects, such as mosquitoes. Shrews, hedgehogs, moles, and aardvarks also eat insects as their main source of food. All of these animals can be classified as insectivores.

Foxes and hyenas present probably the best examples of carnivorous scavengers. They will eat whatever they can find.

In contrast to carnivores, herbivorous mammals eat a diet of mostly plant matter. They have bodies specially designed to consume and digest the cellulose which is contained in plants. These animals must look for food and will sometimes cover great distances to find it, but they don’t have to hunt and kill their food as carnivores do.

An omnivorous mammal e.g. pigs, hedgehogs,squirrels,badgers, has the anatomy of either a carnivore or an herbivore, but has developed physical adaptations that enable it to feed on another form of food. In other words they eat both meat and plants.

Bears consume fish, meat and other animal tissue they may find. When not hunting for prey, they generally eat berries, plant roots and legumes. However, polar bears are mostly carnivorous. Raccoons present another good example of omnivorous behaviour as they have the physical ability to feed on fish, bird eggs, amphibians, insects, and worms, but can also eat and digest fruits and nuts.

Contrary to what most people think, humans actually have the anatomy of herbivores but we have evolved the behavior of eating meat. Like our primate cousins, we are omnivores. Though primates consume a large amount of fruit and leaves, they also eat insects as their “meat.”

Some mammals feed on a single kind of food. Whales eat only crustaceans, such as krill; koala bears only eucalyptus leaves; and giant pandas only eat bamboo.. Actually, giant pandas possess the anatomy of a carnivore, but rarely eat meat. In addition, some bats consume only fruit, or nectar and pollen from flowers.

So it’s difficult to classify most mammals in a diet group, as seasonal and environmental changes influence their feeding behavior. However, the more we study the eating habits and of our fellow mammals, the better we will understand ourselves and what we must do to not only survive on this planet, but to live in health and harmony with nature.

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.