WANTED!

We would like you to design a wanted poster for at least one of Robin’s Merry Men.

Your poster should, of course,  include a sketch of the character but the main part of the poster should be:

  • a physical description of the character
  • some reasons that they are “wanted”.  What have they done?  How have they helped Robin?
  • appropriate vocabulary, your poster should sound ‘ye olde’ (old) through the old fashioned vocabulary you use

Remember!  This is a wanted poster for a criminal!  You are not on their side, you want them to be caught and arrested for their crimes so make them sound bad!

 

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Online art lesson at 1:30

Here are some illustrations (by Charles Keeping) from the Highwayman book that the Year 5/6 blog will be covering over the next couple of weeks.We shall use these as inspiration for today’s art lesson at 1:30

Yesterday we made our own ink during an online Zoom lesson.  All you have to do is crush up some berries with a splash of vinegar and a pinch of salt.  I had a go at a quick portrait last night using some of the ink I made in the lesson…

Wednesday 1:30 portrait drawing

Zoom Meeting ID: 990 7137 5354

Password:  art

You will need:  paper (preferably a3 art paper but whatever you have will work!) your home-made ink from yesterday, either a stick of charcoal or some ash (you can just have an adult light a few matches and let them burn out, they work just as well)

 

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Making our own ink!

This afternoon, we will use some very common household ingredients to make our own ink and quill.

We shall use our ink to draw a portrait of one of the characters from the highwayman on Wednesday.

The ink making and the art lesson will be both be online lessons through Zoom.  I will start the connection from 1:15 both days for you to log in.

Tuesday 1:30pm ink making lesson

Zoom Meeting ID: 951 3096 3816

Password:  ink

You will need:  salt, vinegar, a few handfulls of dark berries such as blueberries or blackberries.  (You can make other coloured ink with the appropriate color berry or veg!)  You will also need either a fine sieve, muslim cloth or old babric to strain them through.

If you would also like to make a quill, you will need a feather or a thin straw and some scraps of paper & glue.

 

Wednesday 1:30 portrait drawing

Meeting ID: 990 7137 5354

Password:  art

You will need:  paper (preferably a3 art paper but whatever you have will work!) your home-made ink, either a stick of charcoal or some ash (you can just have an adult light a few matches and let them burn out, they work just as well)

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White Rose Maths-Properties of shape

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Answers:

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Who was Dick Turpin?

We are going to begin our new topic ‘Hero or Villain?’ by researching who Dick Turpin was.

Watch the following music video: Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants.  What impression do you get of highwaymen from this video?

The following websites will be useful:

Dick Turpin: Facts and Information About the Famous Highwayman

https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Dick_Turpin

 

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Making our own ink!!

This afternoon, we will use some very common household ingredients to make our own ink and quill.

We shall use our ink to draw a portrait of one of the characters from the highwayman on Wednesday.

The ink making and the art lesson will be both be online lessons through Zoom.  I will start the connection from 1:15 both days for you to log in.

Tuesday 1:30pm ink making lesson

Zoom Meeting ID: 951 3096 3816

Password:  ink

You will need:  salt, vinegar, a few handfulls of dark berries such as blueberries or blackberries.  (You can make other coloured ink with the appropriate color berry or veg!)  You will also need either a fine sieve, muslim cloth or old babric to strain them through.

If you would also like to make a quill, you will need a feather or a thin straw and some scraps of paper & glue.

 

Wednesday 1:30 portrait drawing

Meeting ID: 990 7137 5354

Password:  art

You will need:  paper (preferably a3 art paper but whatever you have will work!) your home-made ink, either a stick of charcoal or some ash (you can just have an adult light a few matches and let them burn out, they work just as well)

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Our New Topic!!!

Our final topic for this year is named: 

Hero or Villain?

Just like with our Space topic, we are going to run this topic across all of Key Stage 2.  As we do not know what will happen with schooling in the coming weeks and months yet, we have designed this topic to run all of the way through the Summer holiday.

We are going to cover 8 Units, each with a different curricular focus.  Some units will be history heavy, some literacy and some sport or music!

Our units are:

  • Stealing (our hearts!)
  • Conquer and Divide
  • World-Changers!
  • Everyday Heroes
  • Un-popular music
  • History Hero ZERO!
  • Champ to Cheat
  • Be the Hero of Your Own Story…

The work that you add to the blog and the work that pupils who are in school contribute will be added to displays and boards all around school, ready for you to see in September.

Let’s get started with Unit 1:  Stealing (our hearts!)  We investigate 2 stories where the hero of the story is a thief!  Someone who should be a bad guy!  We are going to build up towards being able to control viewpoint in our writing, with plenty of reading comprehension, art and practical tasks along the way!

You can choose, on Thursday, which text you wish to work on.  “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes will be covered on the Year 5&6 blogs whilst Robin Hood will be the focus of the Year 3&4 blogs.  YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THE TEXT ON YOUR BLOG, you can choose to do the work on either but bear in mind the Highwayman is a more difficult text.

HH

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Friday afternoon quiz! BEAT THE TEACHERS!!!!!!!

As we have quite unusual circumstances in which to host today’s quiz, we are going to have a little challenge!  As none of the other teachers have seen the quiz, I thought that they should all join in…so you lot can beat them!

It’s…BEAT THE TEACHER!!! 

Some of the staff are going to join in from home.

What we want you guys to do is get a higher score than your teacher!

Remember, you need a device to view the quiz on (with Zoom downloaded and signed into) and a DIFFERENT device to put the answers onto (with kahoot! downloaded onto).

The quiz will begin at 1:30 but I will open up the Zoom link afterwards so we can see the friends in our class for a chat.

The Zoom Meeting ID is:

946 5718 5074

The password is:

quiz

PLEASE do not try to log in before 1:20 as the password WILL NOT work before then.

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My work this week (so far)

I researched the moon to write my moon poster. It has lots of mind-boggling facts

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Moon-facts.docx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

 

I made a space suit for one of my teddies.  For the suit I used paper and for his helmet I used an old goldfish bowl. It was fun!

 

I did the spacesuit questions and also a picture that is annotated to go with it down below.


 

I did the ‘From the ground and from the sky’ worksheet.  It is amazing how different the earth looks from space!

 

 

I did some BBC bite-size Biomes work and a tropical Rainforest worksheet. Some biomes include: Desert, Rainforest, Tundra and grasslands.


Finally, I did some more BBC bite-size work about renewable energy including the advantages and disadvantages of this type of energy.

From Oliver C 🙂

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Seasons of the Year.

Have you ever wondered why it is cold in some parts of the world but hot in others? Or why it is warm and sunny or cold and snowy at certain times of the year? It’s all to do with seasons.

What are seasons?

Here is a video to help you understand why we have seasons. Can you use it to answer some of these question below? Use illustrations and diagrams to help you.

 

  • What is the equator? Why are countries around the equator hotter?
  • What are polar regions and why is it colder at the polar regions?
  • Why do we have seasons? Why is it summer in some countries but winter in others?
  • How many seasons do we have? Name them. Do all countries have the same seasons? Tricky – explain why!

 

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Invasions – Creative Writing

 

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-sci—fi-shed.html

Click on the above link and scroll down until you get to the video called ‘Invasions’ from Clement-morin.com

This is a short film about an alien who visits earth.

As you are watching, think about what he sees as he travels to different places on Earth and write a log for each of the main events.  This might take you a couple days to produce.

For an extra challenge, think how he might describe unfamiliar objects as he might not know the names of these objects.

Look at the examples below for ideas:

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Space project and a tiny bit of stone age

While I have been at home, I’ve been very busy. So busy that I forgot to post some stone age stuff as well as space stuff.

During the stone age topic I forgot to post the fire that I made – it was big and I had fun!

My space project

When the space topic went on the blog, we had just started a space project at home – so I was ready already! We found a great video that introduces the solar system – my sister loved looking at the fiery sun. Here it is:

My dad taught me a rhyme for the order of the planets.

My very easy method just speeds up naming planets.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (and Pluto which is a dwarf planet).

For the planet I would like to visit is…

My alien for Venus is this one down below

Me and my family are hoping to build something exciting which will be good – I can’t wait!

I hope you all are staying safe and I miss you all. I can’t wait to see you again! 😊👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻👭👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼

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Day & Night

Ever wondered how it or why it changes from day to night? Why not find out!

Here is a video & powerpoint to help

Day & Night

 

  • Can you explain how the Earth moves in our solar system? Use diagrams to help.
  • How long does it take the Earth to orbit the Sun? How long does it take the Earth to rotate once?
  • How do we get day and night? Why is it day time in some countries but night time in others?
  • There are different time zones in the world. Can you mark the different time zones on a map?
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The Earth, from the ground and from space

The astronauts in the ISS get to see the Earth from a completely different viewpoint to the rest of us.  Here are some pictures of locations around the Earth, taken from the ground and then from space.  can you match the location to the 2 photographs?

[embeddoc url=”https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/legacy_files_migrated/40778-From%20the%20ground%20and%20from%20the%20sky%20No%20Inst.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/36665/ground-and-sky#&gid=undefined&pid=1″ download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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Mathletics Superstar

Wow Faye well done for achieving a silver certificate.

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Marvellous Moons

I hope you have managed to catch a glimpse of the moon! Let’s find out more about moons!

Can you create a poster/leaflet all about the moon?

You could include some of the following information:

What is a moon? What shape is it?
Do all planets in our solar system have moons? Can you name any famous moons and the planets they orbit?
How long does it take the moon to orbit the Earth?
How does the moon affect the tides?
Does the moon produce its own light? Why does it shine? Can the moon only be seen at night?
Tricky – Why does our moon appear to change shape at different times of the month? Can you explain this and draw and label the different phases of the moon?

Use diagrams and illustrations to help you explain your findings.

Here is a link to help you explain the phases of the moon. Why not try this out yourselves!

https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/29939

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Space suit materials

A couple of days ago, you looked at why astronauts need space suits and the different jobs they need to do.  Space suits:

  • hold in air and keep out the vacuum of space, so astronauts are able to breathe!!!
  • pressure, the suits compress the astronaut as space is a vacuum and without the suits pressing down on the astronaut, they would expand and explode!
  • Keep in warmth (space is VERY cold) as well as reflect harmful direct sunlight!!!
  • protect astronauts from damage (they are made of very tough materials as a ripped spacesuit means certain death!)
  • communication, the suits contain cameras, microphones and instruments that measure  data about the astronaut
  • tethers, there are lots of loops and straps for ensuring the astronauts are fastened to the spacecraft and not drifting off into space!
  • drinking and going to the loo!  that’s right, astronauts wear nappies…spacewalks can take over 12 hours and the astronauts are only human after all!

Challenge:

What would you construct an emergency spacesuit from at home?  You are only allowed to use materials and items you can find in your house!  Now, BEFORE YOU GO AND TIP THE GOLDFISH DOWN THE SINK FOR THE BOWL, you do not HAVE to make this spacesuit!  Lots of your parents are busy enough managing homeschool and work without you cutting up the duvet and pinching bits from the dish washer!  There are lots of ways you could do this task:

  • design the spacesuit on paper and label the different materials (and explain why you selected them)
  • make a mini space suit for a teddy bear or pet
  • take photos of items around home and explain why they would be perfect for a space suit
  • lay items out into the shape of a person to show what your suit could look like
  • make a table, with a colum, that explain what a space suit must do, a column for the item you would use and a column for why it is a good choice
  • go nuts…yes your teachers have noticed that some of your parents are absolutely bonkers and seem even keener to dismantle the house for crazy school projects than you do… so go on, let them go for it and make you a space suit!!!

I can’t wait to see the results of this one!  Mrs Rees and I are trying to make a display in school so all of your writing, art, diagrams and photos will get used!

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Star constellations

I have seen this ace idea for an activity that is easy to do at home.  You could do this activity two ways, as a sewing task or by making a viewing telescope.

Sewing:

This would be a great way of adding extra information to the back, such as; the number of stars in the constellation, where in the sky you find it, which galaxy it belongs to, the name of the stars, is the constellation used for anything such as navigation.  Maybe you think it looks like something else and could ‘join the dots in a different way and give it your own name!

here are some printable cards:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/printable-constellation-sewing-cards.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Telescope:

This is a nice, fun activity.  make sure you use thick card or black paper for the constellation card to completely block the light.  Can you use your telescope to help you locate the constellation in the sky?

Here are some printable templates:

printable-constellation-sewing-cards

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Spacesuits

Today’s lesson is to research information about spacesuits and find an interesting way to present your information.

  • What is the job of a spacesuit?
  • What are the different parts of a spacesuit?
  • How have spacesuits changed over time?
  • How do astronauts put on their spacesuits?

Below are different websites to help you.

Tim Peake (the first British astronaut to visit the ISS in 2015) explains how spacesuits keep astronauts alive outside the space station.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zdrrd2p/articles/zyq4wxs

 

Information about the different types of spacesuits used:

https://www.spacekids.co.uk/spacesuits/

 

Watch the following video about how astronauts put on space suits:

https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/astronauts/spacesuits.html

 

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Moonwatch

This week, you will be learning about the phases of the moon.  Your first task is to observe the moon each night.  Record the shape of the moon on the grid below.  Do this for a full month (or more).  What do you notice?  (If you can’t see the moon due to it being cloudy, just draw a cloud picture in the appropriate place.

I wonder who will manage to keep up their record for the full month?

Moonwatch – download recording sheet

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Moonwatch-download-recording-sheet.docx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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Space!!!!

 

My Space work

I am still doing my model of my chosen planet and will provide a fact file for that this week.

I am enjoying this topic.

I am looking forward to writing about Pandora.

Finn

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My Saturn model!!!!!

I chose Saturn for my planet and decided to make a model!
First, I got a balloon and stuck newspaper on it (paper-mache)
Then, I stuck glue on the top of the newspaper and waited for it to dry
After, I put paper on it and put glue on that and waited for that to dry
And finally, I made the ring and painted the planet pale yellow then I painted the ring orange and put the ring on the planet and put string on it to tie it to the light!

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I have done a lot of work this week!

I did some planets work, thought of a way to remember them and did some facts about them

Also I did a picture of a space shuttle taking off:

I also answered the spacex questions:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Questions-for-space.docx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

I chose Saturn for my planet and made a fact file about it, here it is:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Saturn-facts.docx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

I did the Pandora creative writing:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/pandora-descriptive-writing.docx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

I hope you like my work 🙂
O.C.

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What would you take?

When a rocket or shuttle is launched into space, it burns an incredible amount of fuel!  Take a look at this infographic:

Look at how small the part that actually holds the astronauts is!  Before the year 2000, to launch anything into space, NASA spent $18,500 PER KILOGRAM!!! 

So as you can imagine, they only send things that are vital and reduce weight as much as possible.  Therefore, the astronauts are only allowed a few special possessions.  My challenge for you is, tell me what special items you would take for a year in space and explain why.

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Oscar’s Space X research

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Check out Oscar’s fantastic reserach and write up!  Well done Mr Watson, Mrs Rees was very impressed with how quickly you managed to get this to her…you even beat some of the Year 6 pupils!!!

I know that we are all going to work together to make the Year 4 blog the best one in school!

Thanks Oscar!!!

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Do you believe in aliens?

Do you believe in aliens?

Think about the planet that you researched.  What would an alien be like if it could survive on that planet?  What would it be called?  Below are some ideas for creatures that could live on Mars or Jupiter, but these are just ideas.  You might design something completely different.

Draw, paint or make a model of your alien and describe it, explaining why it has those particular features.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

 

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Real-Life photos from the Kennedy Space Centre!!!!

Hello Mr Swallow

I have got some photos from when we went to visit Kennedy Space Centre last year. I thought you might like to see them! My favourite bit was the shuttle launch simulator. It felt like we were floating. I also liked the bus tour which took us around the launch site. There was a spaceX rocket on the launchpad when we were there.
From Sam

He even did some SpaceX research too!

Well done Sam!!!!   You are a super star!!!

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Some of our classmates have started the Space topic with Mr. Mathieson in the hall!

Our Key Worker group, in the school hall, are looked after by Mr. Mathieson.  Just like you at home, they are attempting the Space topic challenges set by Mrs Rees and I on the blogs.  I thought you may like to see what your friends have done so far and then you could share what you’ve done at home on the same challenges!!!

Make sure you post everything or email it to me so I can make sure my blog is better than Mrs Rees’s and Mr Mathieson’s!!!!! 😜 (‘cos I’ve already told them it will be!!!!)

 

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Friday afternoon quiz!

We are going to TRY to host a quiz for you all on Zoom, this Friday at 1:30pm.  To play, you will need:

  • A device to use Zoom on.  

This can be a laptop, a smart TV, a tablet or a phone but the bigger screens work best.  You mustfirst download Zoom onto the device and register yourself for a free account.  I will be admitting people to the group on Friday and will obviously not admit anyone who we don’t recognise so please use your child’s name as their username so we can admit them easily.

  • Our Zoom meeting ID

Type this number into Zoom to access the meeting on Friday afternoon:

471 482 8743

Use the password 

quiz

  • A device to use Kahoot on.

You will need a different device to answer the questions on.  You need to download the free Kahoot app.  When the quiz starts, there will be a pin number on the screen that you type into your app to join the game.

 

If this goes anything like the quizzes we have done for Years 3 & 4 and the one I tried on the staff, all sorts will go wrong!  However it works out, it will be lovely to see you guys and for you all to see each other.  I will start the Zoom broadcast a little early to help people logging on and try and solve any issues.

Bear with me, it will only be the second time I’ve used Zoom so I won’t be very slick!  Good luck and have fun!

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Descriptive writing

Descriptive Writing – Pandora

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-sci—fi-shed.html

Click on the above link and scroll down until you get to the video called ‘Pandora‘.

This is a short ‘documentary’ about Pandora, the planet from the film Avatar.

Imagine that you are an astronaut who has landed on this planet.  Write a detailed description of the planet and its inhabitants.  

Be as creative and descriptive as possible, using ambitious vocabulary and using varied sentence structures and punctuation.

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The planets of the Solar System

Imagine being able to travel into space.

  • Can you name all of the planets and their order?  Do you have a way of remembering this?
  • Which planet would you like to visit?  Why?
  • Find information about your chosen planet.  Think about the size of it, the colour of it, how far it is away from the sun or earth, what the atmosphere is like, whether it has any moons etc.
  • Think about how to present your information.  You could paint, draw, make a model, write a fact file, produce a PowerPoint, make a video – it’s up to you.
  • Remember to share your work on the blog or email me: t.rees@birdwellprimary.org.uk   I would love to see which planet you selected and how you chose to present your information.

 

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The moon landing FUN FACTS (Pay attention, this may help with upcoming activities!!!)

1. The moon is 238,855 miles away from Earth. Even whizzing through space at super-high speed, it takes more than three days to get there.

2. Out in space, away from Earth, there is no gravity holding astronauts down, so they float around in their spaceships. Sometimes called zero-g.

3. The lunar module, Eagle, was so small that there was no room for seats. While Eagle dropped 60 miles to the moon’s surface, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to stand up.

4. The landing site that Apollo 11 crew had chosen was an area called the Sea of Tranquillity, which looked smooth and safe for landing. This isn’t a sea as we know it. It’s a lunar mare – a large plain formed long ago by a volcanic eruption.

5. When Neil Armstrong landed the lunar module, there were only 30 seconds of fuel left. Yikes!

6. Neil Armstrong was supposed to say ‘That’s one small step for a man’, but he forgot to say ‘a’. Instead, he said the now-famous words, ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.

7. Gravity on the moon is only one-sixth as strong as gravity on Earth. If you jumped on the moon, you’d go six times higher. Wow!

8. While Neil Armstrong may have been the first man to set foot on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to go to the toilet there, using a special tube in his spacesuit!

9. An amazing woman called Katherine Johnson carried out the calculations that made the mission to the moon possible and got the astronauts home again. Katherine’s incredible achievement made it possible for other women and people of colour to follow in her footsteps, breaking down barriers of race and gender.

10. While he was still working for NASA after returning from the moon, Neil Armstrong helped invent computer navigation technology called ‘fly-by-wire’, which is still used in spacecraft and aeroplanes today.

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NEW MINI TOPIC: Surviving in space

We’re going to start our last half term with a two-week topic about Surviving in Space. All of KS2 are going to work on this topic together.  The children who are gradually returning to school will be joining in the same work with us that you are doing at home.  So, it will be fun to share what is happening at school and at home.

Each day, I will post a new activity linked to this.  There will be plenty of variety, including research, creative writing, art work, D & T and science.  I thought we’d start with something current.

Nasa Astronauts make history with Space X launch.

Many of you may have watched this live on Saturday.  Here is a short clip for you to watch again or for those who didn’t see it.

Can you find out the answers to these questions?  Find an interesting way to present your information including pictures.  I’m really missing seeing your work so please remember to share your work on the blog or email me if you just want me to see it: t.rees@birdwellprimary.org.uk

  1. Why was this an historic event?
  2. This was actually the second attempt at lift-off.  Why didn’t the first attempt happen on Wednesday?
  3. Where are they travelling to?
  4. Name the two astronauts.
  5. How are their space suits different to other space suits in the past?
  6. What is the Crew Dragon?
  7. How will they return back to Earth?
  8. Any extra information that you can find out.

 

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White Rose Maths: Statistics week

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-WO1-Interpret-charts-2020.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-WO2-Comparison-sum-and-difference-2020.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-WO3-Introducing-line-graphs-2020.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-WO4-Line-graphs-2020.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Answers:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-ANS1-Interpret-charts-2020.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-ANS4-Line-graphs-2020.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-ANS2-Comparison-sum-and-difference-2020.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ] [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Y4-Summer-Block-4-ANS3-Introducing-line-graphs-2020.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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Friday Quiz 3

Hi kids.  Mr. Mathieson and I are not able to meet up this week so quiz 3 will take place next Friday, with 2 major changes.

We are going to swap to Zoom for our quiz rather than YouTube (so I need to get practicing using it!)  The advantage will be that we will be able to see you guys, as well as you, seeing us!!!

The other change will be that the quiz will move into school-time.  Mr. Mathieson and I will be hosting the Friday quiz on a Friday afternoon for you guys at home.  We are also learning how to host some live lessons for you guys over Zoom as well so watch this space…

We hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather and staying safe, Mr. Mathieson and Mr. Swallow

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Wildlife activities

A big that you to Charlie for recommending this site and to Oliver for inspiring us with his nature report.  There are some lovely activities to get you guys outdoors and enjoying the half-term sunshine!

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30-days-wild-individuals-pack

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Activity-passport.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/30-Days-Wild-wallchart_0.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Individual-pack-fitness-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Nature-Table.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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White Rose maths week 6

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[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-1-Answers-Add-2-or-more-fractions-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Subtract-2-fractions-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Answers-Subtract-2-fractions-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Fractions-of-a-quantity-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Answers-Fractions-of-a-quantity-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Calculate-quantities-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Answers-Calculate-quantities-2019-1.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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Friday night Quiz 2

The link for tonight’s quiz will appear here at around 5:30 with the quiz starting at 6:00 p.m. Click the link to be taken to the page:

Click me after 5:30

Hopefully we shall be able to read comments you add to the YouTube But please only add one or two as we don’t want to slow the feed down.

Hopefully, this week the feed will run quicker as we’ve changed the set up quite a bit. We have found that pressing “refresh” once you have joined can bring your browser up to the correct point.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

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My weapons

Me and my Dad went for a walk to get the branches and stones. My Dad showed me how to fasten them together with string. I really liked making them. We then used then to break up some things to try them out. It was fun.

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Friday Quiz number 2

Thanks for all the feedback we received about the last quiz, both good and bad.  It seems as though the main issue was caused by the delay between us broadcasting the video and everyone receiving it. This delay sometimes got so long that by the time people were seeing the question on screen, the time to answer had already ended.

 

We have been looking at ways of improving this. The next quiz will be broadcast in much lower resolution and we will be taking a much more basic approach to sharing the quiz screen with you. This should reduce the amount of information we are trying to broadcast and therefore improve the speed.  We are also going to extend the answer time to 90 seconds for all of the questions to give everyone time to answer, even if they do experience some amount of delay. As soon as everyone has answered, Kahoot moves on anyway so this shouldn’t feel too different.

 

I am also trying to make it possible for comments to be viewable on the YouTube feed so we can read aloud messages from you all but please only send one or two at most as we don’t want to slow the feed down.

 

Our next quiz will have sections on; Children’s Literature, Movies, Video Games and The World!  If you would like a particular category adding in future quizzes, let us know and we’ll do our best.  I will send you out a new link on Friday morning and the link will be on here again.  Hopefully, more of you will get to participate this time.  Mr Mathieson and I are not experienced at all with being YouTubers (as you kids call it) and unfortunately are learning how to use all the technology as we go. This has obviously led to the frustrations for some of you so far. I can only apologise for the mistakes I made in the set up last week that spoiled the experience for some of you, I can’t guarantee that something similar won’t go wrong this week but we shall try our best to improve on the mistakes each go.

 

Good luck and (hopefully) enjoy the quiz!!!

 

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Maths Leaderboards

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Word class activity

Here is a nice activity that gets you thinking about how some words can act as either a noun or a verb.

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/OxfordSchoolSPaG_Word-Class-Nouns-and-Verbs.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Remember, a noun in a naming word, it names a person, place, object or idea.  Verbs are doing words, any action is a verb.

Here are links to BBC bitesize pages with a video tutorial and activity on each word class.

VERBS

NOUNS

Here are the answers to the sheet:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/OxfordSchoolSPaG_Word-Class-Nouns-and-Verbs-ANSWERS.pdf” width=”20%” height=”100px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

I have highlighted the nounsb as well as the expanded noun phrases (remember, these are more than one word where extra detail is added to the noun, making a ‘phrase’) They came up a lot on our last grammar test.  I have NOT highlighted any pronouns. (A pronoun identifies a noun without using its name).  There were lots of them, can you identify any?

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White Rose maths Week 5

Day 1:

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[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-1-Answers-Recognise-tenths-and-hundredths-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Here are the rest of the week’s video tutorials and worksheets:

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Week-5-videos.pdf” width=”20%” height=”100px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]   [embeddoc

url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Equivalent-fractions-1-2019.pdf” width=”20%” height=”100px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]  [embeddoc

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Answers-Equivalent-fractions-1-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Equivalent-fractions-2-2019.pdf” width=”20%” height=”100px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]  [embeddoc

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Answers-Equivalent-fractions-2-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Fractions-greater-than-1-2019.pdf” width=”20%” height=”100px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

[embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Answers-Fractions-greater-than-1-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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Check out these stone age projects

You have to check out this video of these amazing Stone Age projects that I received last night!

They are amazing and what a great way to share them by hosting a video!  What a superstar!  Well done, I am really proud of you.

 

if anyone else is struggling to post on the blog and wants anything uploading, email it to me at r.swallow@birdwellprimary.org.uk

Click me!!!

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A surprise for Mr Swallow!

My kids shouted me from working in the garden yesterday to tell me I’d had a special delivery!

What a treat! A lively jar of home-made jam from Finlay! As you can imagine, this caused quite a stir in the Swallow household as we knew we had to use it for something very special. We finally agreed on American style pancakes.

 

We cooked up a batch this morning and spread the delicious looking ham on them…it was easily the best jam I have ever tasted! Everyone agreed and we are far more pancakes than we should have!  So it’s Fin’s fault when Mr Bailey has to roll me back into the classroom!

Thank you so much Finlay and your family, that was an amazing lockdown treat which cheered us all up and I can not recommend your jam highly enough! I will definitely be buying some the next time you make any!

Now I just have to figure out how to keep the rest of my family away from it!

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LIVE Friday night quiz!!!

On Friday, at 6pm, Mr. Mathieson and I would like to invite you all to take part in a quiz, just for Year 3 and 4 children and their families.

The quiz will be broadcast live on YouTube and your answers will come to us via an app called Kahoot!  To view the quiz you will have to have a device on which you can view YouTube and a separate device on which to play the quiz using the Kahoot app.  For example, a laptop could be displaying the YouTube stream and you could be sending in your answers on mum’s smartphone.

YouTube:  the stream should appear below on Friday evening

You can copy and paste or click on this link  into your browser on a laptop, ipad, smartphone or smart TV.

CLICK ME

The stream will go live at 6pm so don’t be surprised if you don’t see anything on the screen until then.  Once the stream starts you should see us on the screen.  The video will show Mr. Mathieson and I asking you the quiz questions and show you the possible answers.  You will listen to the question, view the answers and choose the corresponding colour button on your Kahoot app, on your other device.

Kahoot!:    You must have downloaded the Kahoot! app before the quiz begins.  When the video stream starts, I will display a code on the screen.  Open your Kahoot app and press the Enter Pin button.  Type in the pin on the screen and you will connect to our quiz.  You will be asked to choose a team name, please use your child’s name in the team name so we can see who is playing and answering, such as Syd’s Family, Grace’s Geniuses, Ted’s Team, Charlie’s Champions etc.

Your team name will pop up on our screen so we can see all the teams who have joined.  Once the quiz starts, your app will load up 4 coloured boxes for each question.  The possible answers to the question will be on the video stream, we will read them out loud and each will have a colour that corresponds to the colours on your app.  Press the answer you think is correct.

The app will tell you if you are correct or not and assign you points.  THE QUICKER YOU GIVE A CORRECT ANSWER, THE MORE POINTS YOU GET!!!!  Once everyone has answered, we shall see who is on the leaderboard after each question.  There are 20 questions, based on things that our classes have learned about this year.  There are also a few bonus questions based upon pictures you see in the quiz so that even younger children in the family can join in as long as they are watching carefully

If this all sounds clear as mud, don’t worry we shall muddle through.  I’m sure lots will go wrong but it’s all in the name of fun and keeping in touch. I’m sure we can come up with a few prizes for the winners and boobie prizes for anyone who gets certain questions wrong!!!  Mr. Mathieson and I have found it very difficult not seeing you all these past several weeks and when I saw this app being used to keep people in touch I knew I wanted to try it with you all!  (It’s just taken me AGES to figure out how to do it!)

See you all Friday…GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

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Topic challenge: Weapon making

This week’s topic challenge is to create your own Stone Age weapon! Below is a brilliant video covering the Stone Age era, can you pick out any important information about the weapons?

During the Stone Age, people used sharpened sticks for hunting and protection purposes, they were vital for survival in the Stone Age. They were also used to hunt certain animals like wolves, foxes, bears, deer, hyena and much more.

Check out the weapons that have already been made… maybe you could do something similar?

Cave Art Comes Alive! | Stone age activities, Stone age tools ...Stone Age Tools – Hillside Primary School | Baddeley Green ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could design your Stone Age weapon on paper first, labelling the key parts of it. Next, you could manufacture the weapon by using cardboard, sticks, string, rocks or any other household items – just get your parents permission first!

I’m looking forward to seeing them!

 

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Year 4 spelling list

Here is a copy of those tricky words we just have to learn in Year 4.  DON’T try and do them all at once remember, pick 5, 10 or 15 at a time and work at those until you have them.  Highlight them off and try some more.

If there are some that keep catching you out, highlight them in red and keep re-visiting them.

Remember, these are not words that always follow spelling rules or that have a difficult pattern in them.  We can use tricks such as making them into a saying (like Sally Anne Is Dancing spells SAID) or make the word into a picture (like we remember where and there are the ones that tells us a place and they have a tree on a hill in them (there are the only where/wear/were/wear or there/their/they’re that has a h in them and that is what looks like a tree on a hill!)

What rules help you remember your Year 4 Word List?

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Topic activity: What is Stone Henge?

Here is a very nice video resource from the BBC, telling you about this famous site.  Read the page before you watch the video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/articles/zg8q2hv

Can you design your own Stone circle?  You could make it from craft or building materials, at our house, we went for wooden blocks and Lego. My kids got fascinated with lining their models up to the sun outside!!!

Or, create an eye-catching piece of artwork using a similar technique to when we did our Winter work for Narnia when we placed a dark silhouette infront of a bright background.   (Anyone remember what we called that process?)   I’ve put some examples below:

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White Rose Maths COURSE WEEK 4

As you are probably aware, White Rose are continuing to publish free online video tutorials every week but no longer free worksheets.  School has subscribed to White Rose so we can publish the sheets for you here.

Here is the link to the video tutorials for this week:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Here are the daily worksheets:  (As before, PLEASE don’t feel you have to religiously work through every question, they are designed to approach the learning from lots of different angles which is repetitive if you do them all.  Choose the questions that you think make sense to you and which you think will challenge your child.)

Day 1:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-1-Correspondence-problems-2019.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Answers:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-1-Answers-Correspondence-problems-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Day 2:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Perimeter-of-a-rectangle-2019.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Answers:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-2-Answers-Perimeter-of-a-rectangle-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Day 3:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Perimeter-of-rectilinear-shapes-2019.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Answers: [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-3-Answers-Perimeter-of-rectilinear-shapes-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Day 4:  [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Counting-squares-2019.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Answers: [embeddoc url=”https://birdwellyear4.edublogs.org/files/2020/05/Lesson-4-Answers-Counting-squares-2019.pdf” width=”50%” height=”250px” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

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