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
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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
Monday 13th July
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
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
Wednesday 15th July
Wednesday 15th July
10
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
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?
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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.
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1 mark
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4. Explain why Anthony Horowitz used stories as a way of escape.
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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
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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
Friday 17th July
Drawing simple animals.
Remember, the more you practice, the better you get.