Friday 15th May 2020

Home Learning Class 4 – Summer 2 Week 4

Summer 2 topic: Were the Vikings really vicious?

English

This week, I would really like you to have a go at some of the June ‘Words for Writing’ challenges. Remember to use a range of punctuation and check your work.

Reading

Please try to read for around 30 minutes per day. This can be a book, magazine, online research etc.

At the bottom of this page, you will find the VIPERS activity for this week. It is ‘Umbrella’ and the extract may remind you of a familiar film character…

Spellings

Each week, I will be suggesting spelling patterns that you can revise at home. This week, I would like you to review use of hyphens:

To join a prefix ending in a vowel to a root word

co-ordinate

co-operate

co-own

co-author

re-enter

re-educate

re-examine

re-evaluate

re-elect

To join compound adjectives to avoid ambiguity

man-eating

short-tempered

well-known

tight-fisted

cold-hearted

Maths

You will have received the maths work via email. Don’t forget to look at the video links before you start the activities. Year 5 – Remember, if you are joining us in school on a Monday and Tuesday, we would like you to complete lesson 3 and 4 activities at home. We will be sending paper copies home for you to bring back. Year 6 – If you are joining us in school, please complete lesson 1 and lesson 2 at home before coming into school. We will have a quick review but will be focusing on content from lesson 3 and 4 on Thursday and Friday. We will send paper copies of Monday and Tuesday’s work on a Friday.

Science

This week, we continue our topic,

‘How can you light up your life?’ Our question this week is: ‘How can we set up an experiment to show light travels in straight lines?’ Look at these two clips … http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zyntsbk - BBC Bitesize: Light travels in straight lines; http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zf9c87h - BBC Bitesize: The human eye. When you have watched the clips, look at the classroom ideas sections. Can you set up your own experiment to show that light travels in straight lines? Maybe you could draw and label the parts of the human eye?

Topic

This week, we continue our topic …

Were the Vikings really vicious?

This week we are looking at the question: Why was the design of their longships so important to the Vikings?

Look at Resource 5 (at the bottom of the page). This is perhaps the most iconic symbol of the Viking age. The Vikings were expert shipmakers and they designed their longships very carefully, giving every thought to detail.

Now look at the outline drawing of a longship (Resource 6) print off or draw the longship and stick it in the middle of an A3 piece of plain paper so that there is room around the edge of the drawing to add labels and locational arrows.

Next, look at the copy of the design features of a longship (Resource 7) and read through each one to ensure understanding of vocabulary and meaning. You can then write in each label at an appropriate point around the edge of the longship outline and draw an arrow from the label to the correct position on the ship.

When you have done this, consider how these design features would have been of benefit to the Vikings in their raids along the coast of Britain, such as at the priory on Lindisfarne. Now look at Resource 8.

Finally, you could write a paragraph of explanatory writing using the information in Resource 8 entitled ‘Why was the longship a perfect vessel for the Vikings?’ Try to use a range of appropriate connectives to link the seven reasons outlined in Resource 8 into a piece of continuous text – for example, in addition, also, another important thing was, furthermore, moreover, as well as this.

Art

In Art, we are working on our drawing skills and trying to add tone and texture. Look at these famous ‘flower’ pieces of art. Do you recognise any of them? Do you have a favourite? Now, we are going to have a go at drawing different flowers you may find in your garden and explore tone and texture.

PSHE

Year 5 – Looking after our mental health is just as important as looking after our physical health, and they often go hand in hand to support each other. Over the next few weeks we are going to look at the 5 ways to wellbeing. These are 5 steps we can take to improve our mental health and wellbeing. Trying these things could help us feel more positive and get the most out of life. At Summerseat, we talk about ‘Making Summerseat Smile’, with each letter of SMILE referring to an area of wellbeing. Have a look at the poster attached and think about the meaning of the 5 parts. S - Stay connected

M - Move to keep active I - Inspired to give L - Look and take notice E - Enjoy and keep learning This week we are going to try to ‘Move and Be Active’ Encourage your child to think about things they already do that is being active. Make a list in your home learning book. How is it good for them? How does it make them feel? Now try to think of a new way this week to be more active. Send us some photos of what you have been up to! Year 6 – Even though you have only just been able to re-join us, it is almost time for you to leave with High School not far away. With this in mind, we will be working through a transition project. Our transition project is, ‘Be awesome, go big!’ If you are in school, we will work through this together in class. If you aren’t able to join us, please start to look at this at home. We will cover session 1 and session 2 this week. I have sent the details via email.

Keep Active

Bury school games are now now posting twice weekly stay at home challenges to help keep pupils active. You can find these on twitter @BurySchoolGames or on Instagram buryschoolgames.

Let’s keep safe, keep happy and carry on learning!

Best Wishes,

Mrs Whittaker & Mr Ormrod

VIPERS Activity

Umbrella

It was a cloudy night; the darkness covered the city like a thick blanket. The wind blew gusts of air smelling of car fumes through the streets; it sneaked under the cracks of doors and whispered down sooty chimneys.

Mr Bell hurried down a dark street, holding onto his

bowler hat so that the harsh breeze couldn't steal it. The

wind blew harder, almost blowing the short, stout man off-

course. Eyes narrowed, Mr Bell tried again to walk into the

path of the determined gale. A hazy drizzle of misty rain

drifted down in sheets, making him shiver and cough.

Cursing the cold, he drew his coat tighter around his large

figure. As he made to clamp his hat to his head again, he

spotted something black and flapping on the pavement. An

umbrella!

His heart leapt; the umbrella would be perfect! Feeling pleased with himself, Mr Bell ran towards it and snatched it up. The handle was smooth and glossy, and the waterproof dome was black and very large.

As Mr Bell raised it above his head, something remarkable happened. He began to feel lighter as he ran over the cobbled street, holding tight. Lighter and lighter. With a gasp, he realised that his leather shoes were no longer making contact with the pavement. He was flying! The wind lifted him up like hundreds of hands, all pushing upwards.

With a delighted and shocked shout, Mr Bell gazed down at the sprawling city below him. The street lamps looked like beautiful, luminous flowers reaching up to him. Cars reminded him of jewel-coloured beetles crawling through the concrete maze.

The wind led him towards the park; it was the only splash of green in a grey ocean of buildings and roads. Clutching the umbrella tightly, he drifted towards two bronze statues of lions guarding the park entrance. Mr Bell outstretched his free hand and reached towards one. As he passed, he patted it on its cold head. The lion roared deeply and shook its impressive mane, whilst watching the small man float past. Wide-eyed, Mr Bell swung himself away. The umbrella swayed dangerously and as he grasped the handle harder, he waited dizzily for the world to stop spinning.

Still the wind carried him on. He glanced back at the now still statues. The trees swayed in time with the umbrella as he drifted higher again. A white barn owl flew past Mr Bell like a winged ghost.

As he rose, he scanned the sprawling city for his house. There. He gently coaxed the umbrella down towards his street. The wind rushed down and with a bump, Mr Bell landed outside his house. He looked around to check that nobody had noticed him disembarking, before making his way up the garden path. The promise of light and warmth beckoned him inside. As he stood on the front porch, he folded the umbrella up and smiled as he thought about what an exciting bedtime story his daughters would have that night.

Text Title: Umbrella

Find and underline the words.

Bronze (5) Silver (7) Gold (10)

Sooty, narrowed, swayed, drifted

Clamp, cobbled, sprawling, Clutching

Luminous, disembarking

Which group of words shows us how Mr Bell felt when he saw the umbrella?

‘Determined gale’ What does this suggest about the wind?

Can you think of another literary character who may have been the previous owner of the umbrella?

‘It was a cloudy night; the darkness covered the city like a thick blanket. The wind blew gusts of air smelling of car fumes through the streets; it sneaked under the cracks of doors and whispered down sooty chimneys.’

Which two examples of figurative language are used in this paragraph?

What does Mr Bell pat on the head?

Draw and label a map to show Mr Bell’s journey.

Vikings