COVID Home Learning

Hi,

If you are at home, you might be isolating, and you feel up to doing work then this is for you. Below are a range of activities that you can work through. Please bring any finished work back in with you or get a parent to email it in to me at c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

English tasks:

1. Write a book review – Choose the last book you reader and write a book review – below is a guide.

 

2. Write an opening to this story. Just write the first page of the story – don’t give too much away – you just want to ‘hook’ your reader in.

 

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3. Use your powers of descriptive writing to describe this scene

Use this slide to help you perfect your ‘figurative writing’. Then describe the picture below.

 

 

Maths

1. Use this time to practice your times tables. go on TTRock Stars or Hit The Button and improve on your best times or work on a table your weaker at.

2. Use this time to practice using your 4 operations.

 3) Below is a maths murder mystery to get your teeth into! Follow all the clues and then send me who you think is the murderer!

murder-mystery-maths 1

 

Reading

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and complete 45 minutes a day.

 

P.E

Remember it is important to keep up your physical and mental health while your not in school. Below is a workout session for you and our school ideas for well being.

 

Please remember to either send your work in or bring it in to me on your return.

 

Take care, Mr Leverett

Work for Friday 5th March

Happy Friday everyone!

Image result for silly friday images

Below is the timetable for this week. Please continue to send in your work for the pieces indicated in the timetable with the camera symbol, feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.

Early Bird:

EB answers for yesterday:

EB questions for today:

Maths:

Please go onto TTRock Stars or Hit The Button and practice your Times Tables

English: LIVE LESSON  11am (dictation and spellings)

Reading Plus:

Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes

BIG IDEA

Our Big Idea this term is Cracking Contraptions. Next week we will work with a different type of ‘tool activity everyday’ to perfect your construction skills. The following week you will use these new skills to build a robot. Your robot will use an electrical circuit to either light up their eyes or create a noise. You may also choose to use pulleys (to enable you robot to move its arms or legs).

Your task this week (by Friday) is to design your robot.

Success criteria:

  • An accurate neat design clearly labelled
  • Includes all measurements
  • Types of materials required
  • How you intended to join the materials together
  • Details what you robot will do  (eyes light up – make a noise etc)
  • Details of moving parts (how you hope to make this work)

 

PSCHE

This week I would like you all to complete the tables below to help me understand how you feeling about returning to school and how confident you are feeling about some of the key topics we have covered in lockdown. Please send a copy of these on to me.

Please complete this table and add any comments you have.

Please complete sheet on maths topics below and send it back into me.

Use the same scale as before 1-5 and complete this English topics table below.

P.E

Challenge yourself to complete this workout at least 3 times this week…everyday if your up for it!

Don’t forget our ways to well being – helping you to stack positive and motivated.

See you on Monday!!!

Mr Leverett

Work for Thursday 4th March

Good morning people!

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Below is the timetable for this week. Please continue to send in your work for the pieces indicated in the timetable with the camera symbol, feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s EB answers:

Today’s EB questions:

Spellings:

Please complete the word search below:

Maths: You job today is to produce your own arithmetic questions for tomorrow.

On Friday’s we normally do arithmetic Friday and the question look like the sheets below.

Today I want you to create your own arithmetic test. There should be 22 questions, they should get harder as the test goes on (just like usual) and they should test people on different types of arithmetic questions. You will also need to produce an answer sheet – Please send these into me.

Here is a short clip to help you with this work.

         

 

English: Live Lesson 11-12pm

Reading Plus:

Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes

BIG IDEA

Our Big Idea this term is Cracking Contraptions. Next week we will work with a different type of ‘tool activity everyday’ to perfect your construction skills. The following week you will use these new skills to build a robot. Your robot will use an electrical circuit to either light up their eyes or create a noise. You may also choose to use pulleys (to enable you robot to move its arms or legs).

Your task this week (by Friday) is to design your robot.

Success criteria:

  • An accurate neat design clearly labelled
  • Includes all measurements
  • Types of materials required
  • How you intended to join the materials together
  • Details what you robot will do  (eyes light up – make a noise etc)
  • Details of moving parts (how you hope to make this work)

 

PSCHE

This week I would like you all to complete the tables below to help me understand how you feeling about returning to school and how confident you are feeling about some of the key topics we have covered in lockdown. Please send a copy of these on to me.

Please complete this table and add any comments you have.

Please complete sheet on maths topics below and send it back into me.

Use the same scale as before 1-5 and complete this English topics table below.

P.E

Challenge yourself to complete this workout at least 3 times this week…everyday if your up for it!

Don’t forget our ways to well being – helping you to stack positive and motivated.

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett

 

Work for Wednesday 3rd March

Good morning folks!

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Below is the timetable for this week. Please continue to send in your work for the pieces indicated in the timetable with the camera symbol, feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s answers below:

Today’s EB work below:

 

Spellings:

English:

Today you should be looking to publish your explanation text.

Take a look at the slide below it should look like this and should include this success criteria.

Examples of technical language you will need:

Examples of possible conjunctions you could use:

An example of a conclusion. Your conclusions should refer to the main points you made about each of your subheadings: plastic in the ocean, use of energy and landfill sites. The conclusion should have technical language and persuasive language (I have underlined these words to show you). Please ‘magpie’ my conclusion but do not copy it (feel free to copy the quote).

Please send in your finished work to me by the end of Wednesday.

Maths: live Lesson 11-12am

Reading Plus:

Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes

BIG IDEA

Our Big Idea this term is Cracking Contraptions. Next week we will work with a different type of ‘tool activity everyday’ to perfect your construction skills. The following week you will use these new skills to build a robot. Your robot will use an electrical circuit to either light up their eyes or create a noise. You may also choose to use pulleys (to enable you robot to move its arms or legs).

Your task this week (by Friday) is to design your robot.

Success criteria:

  • An accurate neat design clearly labelled
  • Includes all measurements
  • Types of materials required
  • How you intended to join the materials together
  • Details what you robot will do  (eyes light up – make a noise etc)
  • Details of moving parts (how you hope to make this work)

 

PSCHE

This week I would like you all to complete the tables below to help me understand how you feeling about returning to school and how confident you are feeling about some of the key topics we have covered in lockdown. Please send a copy of these on to me.

Please complete this table and add any comments you have.

Please complete sheet on maths topics below and send it back into me.

Use the same scale as before 1-5 and complete this English topics table below.

P.E

Challenge yourself to complete this workout at least 3 times this week…everyday if your up for it!

Don’t forget our ways to well being – helping you to stack positive and motivated.

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett

Work for Tuesday 2nd March

Good morning Year 4!

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 Below is the timetable for this week. Please continue to send in your work for the pieces indicated in the timetable with the camera symbol, feel free to contact me if you have any problems or questions.

Early Bird:

Watch the clip from yesterday the numbers have changed but the strategies remain the same.

Yesterday’s answers below:

Today’s EB below:

Spellings:

Maths:

Carrying on from yesterday’s lesson you need to complete your fraction board by the end Wednesday and send it in to me. Watch this clip from yesterday as a reminder if you need to.

English: Live Lesson today at 11am

Following on from yesterday’s lesson we are completing our explanation text. By Wednesday you should have completed: an introduction, section on plastic in the ocean, section on saving energy and a section on landfill, as well as diagrams for all 3 and a final conclusion (we will look at the conclusion in today’s lesson).

Planning slides below to help you write your next two subheadings:

Reading Plus:

Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes

BIG IDEA

Our Big Idea this term is Cracking Contraptions. Next week we will work with a different type of ‘tool activity everyday’ to perfect your construction skills. The following week you will use these new skills to build a robot. Your robot will use an electrical circuit to either light up their eyes or create a noise. You may also choose to use pulleys (to enable you robot to move its arms or legs).

Your task this week (by Friday) is to design your robot.

Success criteria:

  • An accurate neat design clearly labelled
  • Includes all measurements
  • Types of materials required
  • How you intended to join the materials together
  • Details what you robot will do  (eyes light up – make a noise etc)
  • Details of moving parts (how you hope to make this work)

 

PSCHE

This week I would like you all to complete the tables below to help me understand how you feeling about returning to school and how confident you are feeling about some of the key topics we have covered in lockdown. Please send a copy of these on to me.

Please complete this table and add any comments you have.

Please complete sheet on maths topics below and send it back into me.

Use the same scale as before 1-5 and complete this English topics table below.

P.E

Challenge yourself to complete this workout at least 3 times this week…everyday if your up for it!

Don’t forget our ways to well being – helping you to stack positive and motivated.

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett