Thank you to all those of you that have so far completed yesterday’s daily challenge. Your ideas have been really creative and you have written some excellent poems in line with the original structure. Well done.

Click on the below to view some great examples:

10 things found in the pocket of….

Read the short poem below:

Ten Things Found in a Wizard’s Pocket

A dark night.
Some words that nobody could ever spell.
A glass of water full to the top.
A large elephant.
A vest made from spider’s webs.
A handkerchief the size of a car park.
A bill from the wand shop.
A bucket full of stars and planets, to mix with the
dark night.
A bag of magic mints you can suck for ever.
A snoring rabbit.

By Ian McMillan

Challenge:

What 10 things would you find in the pocket of who?

What would be in the pockets of a teacher? a footballer? a pop star? a scientist? a film/book character?

Choose someone and decide what 10 things would be found in their pocket. Try and use the structure of the original poem to help. The poet uses some short lines but also uses some longer more detailed lines. He also links some of the lines together where he links the dark night with the bucket full of stars. Can you make links in your poem?

I really look forward to reading what you come up with and it would be great to share some of your work on the school website. Send your work in via dojo and will put a presentation together showcasing your work.

Good luck

Hi Everyone,

Here are all the links to this week’s home learning tasks. As well as completing some of these activities it is important to read daily and practise your x tables as much as possible.

Please click on the link below to access the Rhino Class Learning Project for this week:

Week 7 Learning Project – Celebrations

This week’s project again includes weekly tasks for Maths, Reading, Writing and Spellings and a cross-curricular / topic project. All web links and instructions are included in the document. Please choose at least one activity from each section per day. 

Use the links below for some Reading Comprehension Activities:

Diwali Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Easter Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Passover Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Ramadan Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

The Queens Birthdays Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Weekly spellings – please access the spellings to learn this week below. Week 7 is used as an assessment of the spellings over the last 6 weeks. Choose a random selection of spellings to test from the previous 6 weeks.

Year 3 Summer 1       Year 4 Summer 1

Please click on links below to access Year 3 and 4 Common Exception words and activities:

Common Exception Words – Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 crosswords

Year 3 and 4 word searches

To reinforce the spelling of common words, then please access the high frequency word resources below:

1st 100 High frequency words

2nd 200 High frequency words

It is also a good idea to try and write each word into a sentence to ensure understanding of each word and practise using capital letters and full stops.

BBC Bitesize have some great daily activities in a range of subjects. If you would like to have look and try out some of the activities, then follow the links below:

Year 3 BBC Bitesize

Year 4 BBC Bitesize

Oak National Academy has also put together some amazing resources to support learning at home. There are lessons to follow for each day of the week which can be accessed using the links below.

Year 3 – week 5   Year 4 – week 5

The academy is currently on week 5 of these resources but if you find them useful in supporting your child at home then you can also access weeks 1 – 4 by scrolling down the web page.

You can also access some video lessons on fractions for lower key stage 2 on the NCETM website. Use the following link access week 5 and lessons 11 – 15:

LKS2 Fraction lessons – week 5

There are also some great maths lessons on the White Rose website.

Videos can be accessed via the following links:

Year 3 Multiply & Divide      Year 4 Multiply & Divide

Corresponding worksheets can be accessed here:

Year 3   Lesson 1  Lesson 2  Lesson 3  Lesson 4

Year 4   Lesson 1  Lesson 2  Lesson 3  Lesson 4

Again, if fancy being active, then click on the link below for a daily workout from the body coach Joe Wicks. Each day, he will continue to stream a live 30 minute PE lesson for pupils access at home at 9 am. There are also a wealth of 5/10 min workouts specifically aimed at children which are great.

Joe Wicks – Workout Sessions

It was great last week to see so many examples of the work the children had completed as well as photos of them working, so if you like to share your child’s work with me (for rewards and feedback), again this can be done via the Class Dojo portfolio. As usual, if you have any queries, please continue to contact me via the Class Dojo app.

I will also set some daily challenges on a Tuesday and Thursday and send the link out via Class Dojo around 8am each day.

Kind regards and keep well

Mr Glover