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Hi Mars Class,

Thank-you for completing such excellent home learning over the

past few months, it has been a pleasure seeing all the great

work you have created.

Naomi has sent in lovely thank-you drawings for the teachers

at St. Johns and we thank all the children and their families

too!

I hope to see some of you at the class picnic on Monday 20th

July from 11:00-12:00 and the rest of you in September. Have a

wonderful Summer Holiday! From Mrs. Brown.

Physical Task

Option 1: Joe Wicks PE workout at 9am https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvQafyve889qVcPxYEjdSTl Option 2: You could login to our brand new ‘Fitter Future’ account and access lots of fitness activities! https://www.fitterfuture.com/ The login details are Username: year3 and Password: year3 Option 3: You could try some yoga! https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

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Maths Task

1. This week, every day I want you to practise times tables. 2. Some times tables you might know really well already – then you

can use this week to get even quicker at them! 3. Today we’re going to practise 7s and test ourselves on how much

we can remember. These are year 4 times tables, so if you find them too tricky, feel free to practise some easier ones.

4. Firstly – practise them using these videos– silly school songs times tables and skip counting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpYsaeD3III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSwgZ48ph8

5. After that, have a go at some of these times tables games https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

6. Next – test yourself using the times tables speed test. https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/

7. Challenge – try the Year 4 Multiplication test and see which times tables you still need to practise! https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

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Reading and Writing Tasks

Today for English we are finishing our work on our Talk for Reading and Writing Tasks.

Even closer reading!

For those up for a challenge, let’s really slow it down

and re-read the poem and play…

Lockdown Park

Cawston Park watches

and waits. Suddenly,

squealing children

enter, laughing. The

rope swing giggles The

slide smiles.

The trampoline

tenses. A child

clutches the thick, frayed rope and swings

and sways over the soft sand, shrieking.

Another child skids down the slide, grinding to a sudden halt.

The gentle thump, thump, thump of a distant trampoline

provides a steady heartbeat.

Steel springs squeak in rhythm, providing a welcome tune.

Cawston Park sighs and smiles.

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Lockdown Park watches and waits.

Suddenly, a sign arrives with shackles.

No squeals. No laughter. No children.

The rope swing stares.

The slide glares.

The trampoline slackens.

No one clutches the thick, frayed rope.

No one swings and sways over the soft,

yellow sand.

No steady heartbeat. No squeaky tune.

Empty, Lockdown Park scowls and frowns.

The house watches and waits.

Suddenly, a child enters squealing and laughing.

The TV stares.

The mat smiles.

The table awaits.

A child stretches and strains, watching TV PE.

Weekly street clapping provides a new heartbeat.

Steel saucepans and wooden spoons provide a new clanging

tune.

A child clutches an array of thick, coloured crayons and

creates.

Red. Orange. Yellow. Green…

Something to display in the window of hope.

Lockdown Park

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watches and waits.

Task 1: The sound game

I tried to choose some of the words carefully thinking

about the sound they make when I read them aloud.

Read the poem out loud and listen very carefully to

the sounds the words make. You could also listen again

to me reading the poem out loud as you trace the

poem with your finger.

Task 2: Spot the alliteration!

When words that are close together start with the same sound, it’s called alliteration. It helps make

images stand out. For example, The slide smiles. The ‘s’ sound is used at the start of both words – slide

and smiles.

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Underline the alliteration (words that are close

together that have the same sound at the start)

in the first two verses below:

Lockdown Park

Before

Cawston Park watches and waits.

Suddenly, squealing, children enter, laughing.

The rope swing giggles.

The slide smiles.

The trampoline tense

Another child skids down the slide, grinding to a sudden halt.

The gentle thump, thump, thump of a distant

trampoline provides a steady heartbeat.

Steel springs squeak in rhythm, providing a welcome

tune. Cawston Park sighs and smiles.

Task 3: Let’s get creative! The personification game In the poem objects in the park have been brought to life by giving them human emotions and actions. This

is called personification. For example, The slide smiles.

The slide is not really smiling. The writer has made

the slide seem like it is alive by making it do what the

people do – people smile!

Let’s make two lists. Try and add in at least 5 more

examples.

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1. List things you find in a playground or park (nouns)

2. List things you do (verbs) Tip: try words for ‘look’ or

‘said’

swing

slide

trampoline grass

bench

see-saw

climbing frame ?

laugh

giggle

dance sing

moan

scream

whisper

chant

stare ?

Now choose one word from each list and put them

together to make a sentence that brings the park to

life!

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For example,

The swings giggled.

The trampoline chanted a bouncy tune.

The grass whispered secrets.

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Spelling Task

Please learn and practise the following 3 spelling words today, and then write 3 sentences containing the words:

caught exercise increase

I’d like you to practise these words that follow a spelling pattern too. These pattern words will be the same every day to make sure we learn them really well. Let’s take a look at words ending –gue and –que (such as ‘league’ and ‘antique’).

Please practise these words:

picturesque discotheque clique

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P4C Task

With an adult, discuss the ‘Talking Points’ below and try the Fun Activity. You will need to go to this link to watch the video about Santa Cruz del Isolte: https://vimeo.com/186210516

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Daily Prayer to practise and learn

Please continue to practise the Penitential Act so that you can say it when we attend Mass together when we get back to school. I confess (Penitential Act) I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

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Daily Music Task

Please try learning a Makaton song: https://www.youtube.com/user/SingingHandsUK

Daily Something Extra you could try…

Make your own easy kaleidoscope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsReaYkadnM