Good morning year 4. I saw this quote yesterday. I thought I’d share it with you …
We are sending you all a beaming smile and hope you can pass it on 🙂
Here are your learning ideas for today:
Writing/topic: Step 4 – introduce characters and add speech to your story
Maths: use your negative number learning and apply it using temperature
Topic: Design your own African drummer outfit
Here is some more information:
Writing: We hope the beginning of your story went well.
Today, you will need to introduce your characters. One way to do this is for the main characters to have a conversation.
Here are some reminders of how to use speech marks:
Challenge: can you use some other words for said?
Here is an example text taken from ‘Butterfly Lion’:
The full extract is here if you would like read it:
Maths: Applying your negative number learning –research the average day and night temperature in your chosen country and find out the difference.
Here are some examples:
As a challenge, complete the task across a range (2 to keep it simple or 7/8 as a challenge) of countries and compare them. You could choose the day and night temperature or maybe the temperature across the four seasons – it’s up to you. Display your workings out in a table. You could even use Excel to show your ICT skills.
Here is an example for you:
You might like to use this idea across a number hours or days and work out the temperatures in different places in your house (if you have a thermometer and permission to use it).
Topic: now that you have your drum, research the types of outfits that traditional African drummers wear.
Design, make or draw your own.
Here are some ideas:
We look forward to being able to give you some feedback via email.
Have a great day!
Best wishes,
Miss Reece and Mrs Hewitt