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Tuesday 21st April 2020

Posted: Apr 21, 2020 by: Sarah Kendal (SKendal) on: Class 4

Well what an exciting night I had last night! We decided to stay up late and watch the Starlink Satellites moving across the night sky. As an extra treat, we got to see a shooting star (Sophie's first so she was very pleased). 

I have also discovered Geocaching - using maps and clues to search for hidden 'treasure' boxes. We found our first yesterday on our daily walk around our village (making sure we sanitised our hands before and after) and we are now eager to find our next one. 

Have you done anything for the first time over the last few weeks? I'd love to hear if you have - I might just steal some of your ideas! 

Here are today's suggested activities: 

English: 

Hopefully, you have found out lots of interesting facts about Sir David Attenborough. Today we are going to use them to make a start on a biography.

What is a biography? 

• Biographical writing is about someone else's life. It is about a real person but written by someone else. 
• A biography highlights the key events that have happened in their life, sometimes talking about their childhood. 
• A biography can be written about someone who is dead or alive. 

Today I would like you to write the introduction. Your introduction is very important if you want to grab the reader's attention. Try and include this information: 

• Who is the person? Full name.
• What is he famous for? 
• When and how did he become famous? Keep this short as we will add more detail later. 
• Why is he famous today? 

When you have written your introduction, read it aloud to someone. Does it grab their attention? Do they want to know more? 

Maths:

Here is a grid to help you remember the values of roman numerals. 

Can you make me some calculations to solve using roman numerals? You can either write them down or get creative using sticks, straws, pencil crayons or even your body! Email me your creations and i'll try my best to solve them (you'll need an answer sheet to check whether i'm correct or not). 

Music: 

As we are going 'wild' this half term can you imagine yourself in the middle of a jungle? Use the following link to hear for yourself what it would sound like (you don't need to listen to it all - there's 11 hours of jungle sounds!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE_jOCqKE3w

Find things around your house to shake, tap, rustle or scrape to make the sounds of the jungle. It would be great if you could record your music and play it back so you could listen. 

Have a lovely day. Missing you all.

Love from the year 4 team. 

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