TOPIC Land Pollution LEARNING GRID Choose Activities from the Grid Below
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Rothwell Schools Year 4 Homework Newsletter [email protected] Good morning parents/carers and children of Year 4! Hope you are all keeping safe and sound. Here are some activities to help your child learn this week at home. Please choose the ones you would like to complete; you don’t need to do everything on the newsletter. Challenge from the year four teachers! Kahoot quiz- Well done to those who joined in with the Marine Pollution Kahoot! Well done to Sleepy Dust who managed to knock Mrs Ward off the Gold spot by the end of Wednesday, The game nickname of the top 3 ‘pupil’ players were – Sleepy Dust(1st), Moo Moo(2nd) and Little Toggy(3rd) well done to them and everyone else who also had a go. Remember for next week, teachers only have 1 attempt, you can practise the questions and have as many attempts as you like – increase your chances of getting onto the Gold podium!! This week we have a nice easy quiz all about Fractions. Test your knowledge and try to knock Mrs Ward off the podium! All you need to do is type kahoot.it into the address bar and enter in the game pin: 03255926. You do not need to set up an account as it can be played straight from the webpage but you’ll need to make up a friendly nickname (preferably not your own name) and remember it. Good luck and let’s see who can get on this week’s podium). Pathfinders Times Tables Rock Stars Competition We need your help rock stars! The whole Pathfinders’ Academy is in a competition to see which school can complete the most time on Time Tables Rock Stars. We are currently in fifth place at the moment so need to catch up! If you need your login in details, please email the school and we can email your details back to you. Please get involved as it will help the school win! Hello/messages from staff Mr Vigor – Hi everyone, I’m back at home this week after being in school and obviously the lovely sunshine changes back to our usual cold, grey and windy British summer! Fortunately, I have lots of ‘end of year’ work to keep me busy! I’m still on home schooling duty and trying to continue with our exercises once a day – a walk or Joe Wicks! I’ve also been using the Duolingo app to refresh my Japanese! I actually remembered more than I thought, although not as much as I should have! Take care as always and still follow social distancing guidelines. Miss Roddy – Hi everyone, it’s been a busy week! I have been cleaning, moving around, sorting things in my home out – I have been having early nights because I’m exhausted! I’ve still been cooking new recipes and they have been sort of successful – one or two may have been put in the bin.....I’m missing you all and hope you’re all staying positive! Mrs Ward – Hi everyone, I’ve been in school again this week in the Thames bubble enjoying completing the newsletter activities with the children. We’ve had a great time learning about how plastic pollution affects the ocean and the animals that live there. I would love to see any of the work you’ve completed at home! When I get home I've been busy working on other projects for school, some of which you will see soon. In the meantime, stay safe! Miss Lewis- Hey everyone! This week has been very different as I have been teaching a new class in Reception at the infant school and they are called the Penguin bubble. I have taught phonics, number time and read lots of stories to the children, which they have enjoyed. It’s very different teaching reception compared to year four but I have enjoyed being back in the infant school. I have showed them pictures of my cats and they also think Lilly is very naughty! I hope you are all safe and well. Please feel free to show me what you’ve been learning at home. Remember you’re fabulous! TOPIC and what we are going to be learning about This term the children will be learning about animal groups, animal babies, animals who have become extinct and animals who are endangered. We will be exploring water pollution and effects on the habitat as well as the animals who are struggling. The children will also have an opportunity to research and learn about land pollution and see the devastating effects on animals and their homes. Finally, we will be learning how to help fix the effect of these problems on the environment and how each person can contribute in some way. Land Pollution When we first think of pollution, we often think about rubbish by the side of the road. This type of pollution is called land pollution. Land pollution is anything that damages or contaminates the land. There are many causes of land pollution from the rubbish we throw away in our homes to waste produced by giant factories. Sometimes chemicals from the rubbish can contaminate the soil and eventually the groundwater we need for drinking. Places to start off research Solid waste pollution Pesticide and fertilizer pollution Chemical pollution Deforestation TOPIC Land Pollution LEARNING GRID Choose activities from the grid below. Can you challenge yourself? EVERYDAY: Reading for 15 minutes, learning/practising your weekly spellings, flashback maths card (one a day) MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Maths: Trebling Maths: Fractions Game Maths: A square of numbers Maths: Perimeter Maths: I have fifteen cards numbered 1 – Can you replace the letters with Following the rules provided on this Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the Follow the instructions and complete 15. I put down seven of them on numbers? Is there only one worksheet, complete the game and circles so that the four calculations are the questions below the table in a row. solution in each case? record your answers! See bigger correct? The numbers on the first two cards photo below: add to 15. The numbers on the second and third cards add to 20. The numbers on the third and fourth cards add to 23. The numbers on the fourth and fifth cards add to 16. The numbers on the fifth and sixth cards add to 18. The numbers on the sixth and seventh cards add to 21. Key questions: Which numbers could go What are my cards? Can you find any other solutions? How do you here? Why? Where could the two largest know you’ve found all the different Key question: How does the 1 even numbers go? Why? Where could the solutions? (or 2) in the ones column of the 1 go? Why? How will you keep track of answer help? What are the what you have tried? Challenge: Use different units digits of the multiples of measurements Challenge: Why not make a similar 3? See below for solution. problem that uses different numbers or Create your own table and get a See below for solution. puts the operations around a square in a friend/family member to think of different order? questions See below for solution. Reading: Recycling English: Keep Britain tidy campaign English: Thinking about bottled water English: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle English: Acrostic poems comprehension booklet Watch this video about bottled water With your new knowledge of An acrostic poem is a poem We all know how important it is Create an information booklet to and make notes about the problems of recycling, create an informative where certain letters in each to recycle as much as we can. educate others on why we need to bottled water. poster, booklet, leaflet or PowerPoint line spell out a word or phrase. Read the passage in the be proactive about land pollution. on how to do this. You must think Typically, the first letters of Now, design a poster to encourage sections below and answer the Talk about the causes of litter – what about factors other than plastic, such each line are used to spell the people to use tap water instead of questions. it is, why people do it etc. Think as clothes, food and even travel. See message. bottled water. You could even use some about how you can encourage others an example poster below: of the ‘manufactured demand’ to clean up their rubbish by talking Using our theme of land techniques to highlight why tap water is about what damage litter has on the pollution and thinking about much better than bottled water. environment and wildlife. how we can save the Earth and Alternatively, can you make a video her resources, write an acrostic campaign? You could use the title Draw pictures that will be appealing poem using the word EARTH. ‘Superior Tap Water’ or think of one of to readers and will draw attention to Your sentences could be a your own. the booklet! message, ideas how to stop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0 land pollution or anything linked to highlighting the or Google: The story of bottled water youtube problems and dangers of land pollution. DT: Reusable Projects PSHE: Circle of control PE: Sofa workout Science: Water filtration experiment Geography: Amazon Rainforest To prevent too many items It is important for us to realise what If it’s too hot to go outside and you’re Following the link below, follow the The Amazon rainforest is made being sent for recycling or we can and can’t control in our life.