The focus for this week’s learning is “What is a tsunami?”Have fun trying out the learning ideas in the grid. For maths and English, you need to follow the sequence of learning (session 1 – 5) to build skills and knowledge. For

enquiry and active, feel free to choose your own sequenceMake sure to email me with any questions or problems you have jwills@polperroprimary.co.uk

27.4 ENGLISH MATHS ENQUIRY ACTIVE

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READING COMPREHENSION

Read the text attached below as Reading Comprehension and answer the questions. Check your answers.

Don’t forget you are a Visible Learner.

When you have read the text, answered the questions and checked them make sure you work out why you might have answered any questions incorrectly, that’s your feedback and your next steps for learning.

DECIMAL NUMBERS

This week we continue with decimal numbers and using White Rose for Year 4 and Year 5.

Use the web link to find the lessons, watch and follow the learning in the video and complete the activities when prompted using the work sheets attached and check your understanding using the answer sheet.

Year 4 - Week 1 Lesson 5 - Dividing 1-digit by 10

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

Year 5 – Week 1 Lesson 4 - Understand thousandths.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

GEOGRAPHY

What is a tsunami?

Look at the power point

Watch the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9vPv-T51I

What have you learnt?

Make notes of interesting facts and use these to create a tsunami

information poster.

Choose 1 activity:

Joe Wicks Workout

Super Movers

iMovers

PLUS:

Build an obstacle course and time yourself completing it.

What’s All That Commotion In Our oceans?

The focus for this week’s learning is “What is a tsunami?”Have fun trying out the learning ideas in the grid. For maths and English, you need to follow the sequence of learning (session 1 – 5) to build skills and knowledge. For

enquiry and active, feel free to choose your own sequenceMake sure to email me with any questions or problems you have jwills@polperroprimary.co.uk

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COMPREHENSION

For the next 3 days, we are going to work with the image from Pobble

365.

https://www.pobble365.com/the-lighthouse

Click on the link to open the page. Scroll down to Question Time.

Answer the questions using full sentences, capital letters and full

stops.

DECIMAL NUMBERS

Year 4 Week 2 Lesson 1 – Divide 2-digits by 10

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

Year 5 – Week 1 Lesson 5 – Thousandths as decimals

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

SCIENCE

Watch these videos about tsunamis.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6cnFM55_Dw

Carry out an experiment by re-creating the effects of a

tsunami.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZFPCY6RlE

Write up your findings just as a scientist would. Recommend how to

protect your village from the sea.

Think about the seafront in Looe, all the concrete block steps

leading down to the sand, why do you think they have been built?

Choose 1 activity:

Super Movers

iMovers

PLUS:

Let’s Dance! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnn5H8Y_tYE3LdXoJIG_azMC2l5TjCON

Try a new routine!

OR

Challenge someone in your house to a race: jumping, walking sideways, crawling or all of them as a relay.

GRAMMAR DECIMAL NUMBERS GEOGRAPHY Choose 2

What’s All That Commotion In Our oceans?

The focus for this week’s learning is “What is a tsunami?”Have fun trying out the learning ideas in the grid. For maths and English, you need to follow the sequence of learning (session 1 – 5) to build skills and knowledge. For

enquiry and active, feel free to choose your own sequenceMake sure to email me with any questions or problems you have jwills@polperroprimary.co.uk

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https://www.pobble365.com/the-lighthouse

Use the “Sick sentences” activity today. Mend the sentences by adding some adjectives to describe the nouns and sticking some of the sentences together by using FANBOYS conjunctions.

For example:

Some men working on fixing the lamp were stuck inside of the remote lighthouse as the powerful wave hit.

SPELLING

Now choose 6 words from the STATUTORY word list and practise spelling these using the different strategies.

Year 4 - Week 2 lesson 2 - Hundredths

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

Year 5 – Week 2 Lesson 1 – Rounding decimals

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

Test your knowledge of tsunamis with this quiz

Arrange a quiz on tsunamis for the people at home where you are the

Quizmaster. You can use the questions from this PowerPoint, write your own questions or a bit of both.

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The Great Wave painted by Hokusai.

activities:

Joe Wicks PE

Super Movers

iMovers

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Dance with Oti

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58aowNEXHHnflR_5YTtP4g

WRITING

https://www.pobble365.com/the-lighthouse

DECIMAL NUMBERS Choose 1 activity:

Joe Wicks

What’s All That Commotion In Our oceans?

The focus for this week’s learning is “What is a tsunami?”Have fun trying out the learning ideas in the grid. For maths and English, you need to follow the sequence of learning (session 1 – 5) to build skills and knowledge. For

enquiry and active, feel free to choose your own sequenceMake sure to email me with any questions or problems you have jwills@polperroprimary.co.uk

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Read the Story Starter and have a think about how you want to finish the story.

A successful conclusion. Disaster strikes and the

lighthouse is destroyed. Part of the lighthouse is

destroyed but the men survive.

Now write the ending. Remember to use a variety of sentences types. Use the mats from last week, so

2A sentence Simile sentence BOYS sentence

Year 5 also use NOUN, who/ which/ where sentences

Year 4 - Week 2 lesson 3 – Hundredths as decimals.

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

Year 5 – Week 2 Lesson 2 – Order and compare decimals

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

I know that some of you have worked with me on The Great

Wave before, so this time create the Wave using your own design.

Look at the Great Wave Ideas document for inspiration. Learn about Hokusai and his famous

print here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9zRbwh43I

Now use this video to support your drawing: (start video at 5:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9X07N18BcM

Or use the step-by-step guide attached below the blog.

PE iMovers

PLUS:

Go Noodle – GoNoodle for Families https://family.gonoodle.com/channels/zumba-kids

Try a new routine!

EDITING AND SHARING TIMES TABLE TARGET PRACTICE

Practise your target times tables using the

FRENCH Choose 1 activity:

Joe Wicks

What’s All That Commotion In Our oceans?

The focus for this week’s learning is “What is a tsunami?”Have fun trying out the learning ideas in the grid. For maths and English, you need to follow the sequence of learning (session 1 – 5) to build skills and knowledge. For

enquiry and active, feel free to choose your own sequenceMake sure to email me with any questions or problems you have jwills@polperroprimary.co.uk

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Go back to your story and do a mini editing session. Proof read for spellings using the Commonly Misspelled Word Mat, check your punctuation and read your work aloud to make sure the sentences make sense.

You might want to draw the front cover for your finished story. Don’t forget to add the title and the name of the author/illustrator.

Share the story with someone in your house.

Ask an adult to email your story to me so I can enjoy reading it too.

games. If you are fluent in all, it’s time to work on rapid recall – can you improve the speed every time?

Hit the button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Times Table Rockstars

Go to duolingo

https://www.duolingo.com/learn

If you have completed Basic 1 and created a profile, it’s time to move to Greetings

There are 4 small lessons at this level. Have a go at completing these.

PE Workout

iMovers

OR

Try out train like a footballer with Marcus Rasford

https://plprimarystars.com/resources/train-like-a-footballer

What’s All That Commotion In Our oceans?