Friday July 17Th

Year Four

Learning Pack Monday July 13th – Friday July 17th

Name: ______

Valley Park Dojo Daily 5 Monday 13th July Activity

Brownlee Brothers Inference

Reading

Parts of sentences

‘sc’ sound in words

Writing or SPaG

Arithmetic Division

Maths

Marathon Monday

Fitness

Helen of Troy – Myth or Fact

Knowledge of the World

Monday 13th July

Skim and scan to find these words:

Yorkshire triathlons unusually naturally

excitement madness transition disconcerting

Inference Questions Read the text again. Then answer the questions on the following page.

1. What is one thing that Alistair Brownlee didn’t feel on the morning of the race?

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1 mark

2. Look at the section written from Jonny Brownlee’s perspective

The moment of coming round the corner could best be descried as

Tick one.

Overwhelming

Disappointing

Heart breaking

Forgettable

1 mark

3. Find and copy the phrase that shows this race feels like no other race.

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1 mark

4. Explain why Alistair Brownlee found his peaceful sleep surprising.

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2 marks

5. What impressions do you get of the Brownlee brothers?

Give two impressions, using evidence from the text to support your answer.

Impression Evidence

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3 marks

Monday 13th July

Option 1: Can you go for a run around the block (with an adult)? If you are new to running try one minute of running/ 1 minute of walking and build your stamina up.

As it becomes easier -Increase to 2 min run/ 1 min walk then 3 min run/ 1 min walk and soon you’ll be able to run for a longer block of time without stopping.

Option 2: If you have a garden – run around it for as long as you can without stopping; if you can time yourself. Next time you try this option can you run for a longer time?

Option 3:

Don’t worry if you can’t get outside – try this:

At school option: If you are one of the classes back at school – Teacher get your group to run the daily mile but perhaps work on stamina- so do run half a lap, walk half a lap, then increase to run 1 lap and walk 1 lap – increasing to run 1.5 laps and walk half a lap then run 2 laps, walk one lap – so endurance is built up and eventually the children can run 5 laps without stopping and can you try the above challenge too!

Monday 13th July

Who Was Helen of Troy?

An important character in Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and the Queen of Sparta, Leda. Helen lived in Sparta, a Greek city state famous for its warriors, with her sister Clytemnestra and her brothers, Castor and Pollux. Helen was considered the most beautiful woman in the world and she had many suitors. The King of Sparta, Tyndareus, gathered all the eligible men to compete for Helen’s hand in marriage Odysseus knew he had little chance of winning but suggested that the King should make all the men promise to protect Helen’s marriage. After they agreed to this, they took part in a sporting contest which Agamemnon, representing Menelaus, won. Menelaus and Helen were married and would later become rulers of Sparta.

Paris, the prince of Troy, heard about Helen and proclaimed her the most beautiful woman in Greece. In the meantime, Hera, Aphrodite and Athena (Greek Goddesses), argued over which of them was the most beautiful goddess. Zeus, in an attempt to settle the argument, called on Paris to decide for them. Paris said he would choose whoever offered the best bribe. For her bribe Aphrodite promised him the hand of the most beautiful woman in the world. So, Paris chose Aphrodite.

Paris went to Sparta to find Helen. When he arrived there, Aphrodite kept her promise and Helen instantly fell in love with him. Together, they sailed from Sparta to Troy where they were married. When Menelaus realised what had happened, he called on all the men who had sworn to protect Helen’s marriage to him.

Menelaus travelled to Troy with Odysseus (the clever man who suggested the oath) to try and persuade Paris’ father, King Priam, to send Helen back to Greece with them. Many men were killed on both sides including Paris’ brother, Hector, and Paris himself.

When the Trojans wheeled the horse through the city gates, they celebrated their victory. However, that night, the Greeks broke out of the horse and attacked Troy. The Greeks had never managed to break through the walls of Troy. Odysseus designed a huge wooden horse to be a gift for the Trojans. The horse was big enough for the best warriors to hide inside and just one man remained outside to make the Trojans think the Greeks had sailed away and abandoned him. Cassandra, a soothsayer, warned her father, Priam, that the horse would be the downfall of Troy and a high priest also believed it to be a trick warning, “I fear Greeks, even those bearing gifts”, but both were ignored.

When the Trojans wheeled the horse through the city gates, they celebrated their victory. However, that night, the Greeks broke out of the horse and attacked Troy. Menelaus eventually found Helen but when he saw her, he couldn’t bring himself to kill her as he had planned to. Instead, Helen returned to Sparta with Menelaus. Some stories say they lived happily together again, whilst others say she was taken to Mount Olympus and others still that she received a death sentence when she arrived back in Greece.

Glossary

Bribe – to persuade someone by offering them a gift or reward dishonestly.

Eligible – somebody suitable for marriage.

Soothsayer – somebody able to see into the future.

Suitor – someone hoping to marry a person.

Task 1

Complete the storyboard about the Trojan War. I have included sentence starters to help you get the events in the correct order and place.

Task 2

Write a diary entry for either Helen or Paris about the night when the wooden horse was brought into Troy. What happened? How did they feel? Did they realise the trouble they had caused? What could they have done differently?

Valley Park Dojo Daily 5 Tuesday 14th July Activity

Brownlee Brothers Into the Text

Reading

Writing the problem for your myth

Writing or SPaG

Reasoning 1 Star Decimal Equivalents

Maths

Target Tuesday

Fitness

Deforestation Sorting Activity

Science

Tuesday 14th July

Vocabulary Match the word to its meaning.

word Meaning

extract Very untidily scattered.

A short passage taken from a autobiography piece of text.

A person who is excellent in sports and other forms of strewn physical exercise.

An account of a person’s life athlete written by the person itself.

Having no knowledge of the unaware situation.

Make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text.

Ask Alistair and Jonny Brownlee some sensible questions. Make sure your questions aren’t answered by the text and that they are relevant.

How do you feel once the triathlon is over?

Tuesday 14th July In this lesson, you are going to write the problem that your hero has with the mythical creature you have chosen. Make sure you take your time and don’t forget the writing needs to flow even though it is a graphic novel.

Tuesday 14th July

Convert these fractions to decimals. 7 5 Q1. Q2. 10 10 2 9 Q3. Q4. 10 10 6 3 Q5. Q6. 10 10

Write these numbers in order, starting with the smallest.

Q1. 6 9 0.8 0.7 10 10 Q2. 4 2 0.3 0.6 10 10 3 Q3. 0.8 5 0.2 10 10

Q4. 3 6 0.4 0.7 10 10

Identify the number that is equal to 4/10

0.04 0.44 0.4 0.004

Tuesday 14th July

Read the following slides

The Effects of Deforestation on the Amazon Rainforest

Activity: Look at the information blocks below. Shade the key with three different colours

and then sort the information below into the correct three categories: Key:

Why is deforestation Local effects Global effects happening?

There is a growing need for land to be There are 25 million landless Resource: land covered in rainforest is used for farming – cattle and people in Brazil – new land is cleared for settlement. agriculture. needed for settlements

Deforestation has a direct effect on Deforestation has an impact on the Large multi-national companies use the global climates, contributing to the worlds oxygen supply, as one third land to run cattle farms, to sell beef to Greenhouse effect. is stored in the Rainforests. developed countries.

Timber, mainly hardwoods, is taken To develop all of Brazil, the One quarter of the world’s fresh water for markets in developed countries. government has developed a is stored in the Amazon Basin and this This is a valuable source of income for series of roads into the Amazon store will be reduced if the Rainforest is Brazil. Rainforest cut down.

Some of the cattle ranchers and Reduction in the number of tribes Soil becomes infertile (not as nutrient settlements have been abandoned, people, a decrease by 96%. Land rich) as the canopy layer is removed due to poor soil quality on the taken from them. and the rainfall can remove more of the previous Rainforest area soil.

As large areas of the Rainforest are cut down there is a loss in biodiversity.

Valley Park Dojo Daily 5 Wednesday 15th July Activity

The Story of Arachne comprehension

Reading

Regular and irregular adjectives

Different ‘ch’ sounds

Writing or SPaG

Flashback 10

Maths

Active Challenge

Fitness

Sikh symbols and their meanings

REP

Wednesday 15th July

Q1. 5287 + 5864 =

Q2. 6854 - 2947 =

Q3. 253 x 8 =

Q4. 561 ÷ 3 =

Q5. 2 + 3 = 4 8

Q6. 4 - 3 = 5 10

Q7. 6.79 x 10 =

Q8. 89 ÷ 100 =

Q9. Find 1 of 252. 6

Q10. Round 7469 to the nearest thousand.

Round 2851 to the nearest hundred.

Round 4214 to the nearest ten.

Wednesday 15th July

Task 1 – Study the information above on symbols in Sikhism, then match the correct symbol to its meaning. Task 2 – Think about symbols that might be important to you and why. It may be a religious symbol or maybe not, but it must have a meaning. Draw the symbol and tell me why you have chosen it.

Valley Park Dojo Daily 5 Thursday 16th July Activity

Anthony Horowitz Inference

Reading

Write the resolution to your myth

Writing or SPaG

Reasoning 2 Star Decimal Equivalents

Maths

Yoga

Fitness

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? When is your birthday?

Spanish

Thursday 16th July

Skim and scan to find these words:

greatest Achilles Trojan footsteps

Darius Marathon Athenians Xerxes

Inference Questions Read the text again. Then answer the questions on the following page.

1. Why is Anthony Horowitz father mysterious?

______

1 mark

2. Look at the section written about his education

Anthony Horowitz experience at Orley Farm boarding school could best be described as

Tick one.

Wonderful

Hilarious

Terrifying

Joyful

1 mark

3. Find and copy the phrase that shows Anthony Horowitz always wanted to be a writer.

______

1 mark

4. Explain why Anthony Horowitz used stories as a way of escape.

______

2 marks

5. What impressions do you get of Anthony Horowitz?

Give two impressions, using evidence from the text to support your answer.

Impression Evidence

______

______3 marks

Thursday 16th July In this lesson, you are writing the resolution to your myth. How does your hero overcome what is happening? What part does the God or Goddess play? Think carefully.

Thursday 16th July

Here are three symbols < > = Write one symbol in each box to make the statements correct.

67 78 Q1. 0.76 Q2. 0.74 100 100 44 17 Q3. 0.44 Q4. 0.017 100 100 88 234 Q5. 0.08 Q6. 0.324 1000 1000

Write these numbers in order, starting with the largest.

Q1. 17 0.57 55 0.75 100 100

Q2. 236 668 0.658 0.865 1000 1000 87 78 Q3. 0.08 0.88 100 100

919 11 Q4. 0.019 0.119 1000 1000

Identify the fractions that are equal to 0.56 65 560 66 56 566

100 1000 100 100 1000

Thursday 16th July

How long can you hold these yoga balances? Time yourself and write the amount of seconds you hold each for. Can you try again to improve your first score?

Thursday 16th July

Glossary Sheet

RECAP

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? - When is your birthday?

Example, Mi cumpleaños es el 12 de agosoto

Please answer the question, ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? below. Make sure to look at the example answer above.

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Valley Park Dojo Daily 5 Friday 17th July Activity

Anthony Horowitz Into the Text

Reading

Writing the ending to your myth

Writing or SPaG

Reasoning 3 Star Decimal Equivalents

Maths

Forest School Friday

Fitness

Drawing animals

Creative Arts Friday 17th July

Vocabulary Write a similar meaning (a synonym) to these words

word Synonym mysterious

evil

fun

vicious

entertain

Make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with evidence from the text.

Ask Anthony Horowitz some sensible questions about his life. Make sure your questions aren’t answered by the text and that they are relevant.

Why was your grandmother truly evil?

Friday 17th July Today is the final part of your myth, the ending. This does not mean that your hero can just go home, have his dinner and go to bed. I want the ending to be dramatic, Maybe your hero could fall in love, be made king, find out he is a God. The possibilities are endless.

Friday 17th July

Q1. Shade in 0.5 Q2. Shade in 0.75

Q3. Shade in 0.25

Match each fraction to its correct decimal equivalent.

Tick the two numbers that are equivalent to

Friday 17th July

Drawing simple animals.

Remember, the more you practice, the better you get.