Good morning everyone,

This is RE week so we will be looking at: What it is like to be a Hindu in Britain today? Alongside this we will be continuing with our fractions in maths and our persuasive writing in English. Keep up the great work everyone – one more week then it’s half-term holiday!

Check out Friday’s celebration assembly – You could be on it?!

If any one has any queries or problems with the work please contact me at: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Early Bird:

Friday’s answers below:

Today’s Early Bird below:

Spellings:

As it is the last week of term, this week I have made a list of the words most frequently spelt incorrectly by Year 4. When you complete your LSCWC sheet look at each word and highlight the ‘difficult’ part of the word.

Maths:

Today we are going to look at improper fractions. Please watch this clip and then read the introduction below.

Then please take on either the 2 or 3 star challenges (or a mixture if your confidence grows after a couple of 2 star questions) below.

2 Star Work below:

3 Star work below:

English:

This is your English plan for the whole week (finished published work to be sent in to me on Friday please). I suggest today make a plan and get the introduction written.

You are going to write a persuasive argument on why: The school should not wear uniform when we return back to school.

• Monday through to Wednesday – Write the first draft of your persuasive argument (use the table for the success criteria below – all of these features should appear in your work)

• Thursday – edit and improve your work
• Friday – publish your work and send it in to me (handwritten please).

RE: Live lesson 11-12

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

 

Happy Friday folks!

Early Bird:

Answers from yesterday:

Today’s EB work:

Spellings: ten minutes practice time then onto English lesson for dictation.

English:

Dictation time!. Please watch the clip and accurately write out the sentences with the correct grammar and punctuation and then send them into me.

Maths: Live lesson (arithmetic Friday)

Good morning people,

Watch today’s Hope assembly

Remember, if you need me at all please email me or come into the drop zoom calls at 1:30-2 or 2:40 where I can help.

As per usual, please email me the pieces of work indicated by the camera symbol  on the time table above

c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Early Bird:

Answers from yesterday’s questions below:

Today’s EB below:

Spellings:

We are using our Graphic Guardian (how the words look) again today. Please complete the word search below.

Maths:

Task for today’s maths are below. Before you start them please look at this clip. Could everyone attempt task 1, 2 and 3 – Task 4 is a challenge is you want to take it on!

 

Task 1 below:

Task 2 below:

Task 3 below:

This is task 4 – the challenge if your up for it?!

English: Live Lesson (features of persuasion)

 

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes.

All of the tasks below are planned to take your through from Monday to Friday. So take your time and produce the best piece of work you can – perhaps do a prototype or first draft to ensure the quality in your final piece. Could you please send in a picture of the Big Idea and the PSCHE task when they are completed. 

Big Idea:

Please watch the clip below and create comic strip for Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night

Success Criteria:

• Watch the clip several times and note down the key scenes (ideally 6 or 8 scenes)
• Divide your paper into 6 or 8 equally segments depending on how many scenes you are going to draw
• Draw a picture for each scene
• Use heading at the top of each scene – to help tell the story
• Use speech bubbles for your character to help tell the story (tip – write text then the bubble to keep things neat).
• Partially colour in your work to make characters stand out

Please send a picture of your completed work into me.

https://youtu.be/hYr0DfO1rP0

PSCHE:

Our current theme is Dream and Goals. We are looking at:  ‘Helping to Make a Difference’

I would like you to look at how other people make the world a better place and why they do this (their motivation for doing it).

Your task is to:

1.  Identify 5 different jobs people do to make the world a better place and then explain why you think these people do their job.
2.  What could you do during lockdown to help make someone’s life better. Explain who, and what that job could be, and what would be your motivation for doing this?

Please send me in your work.

P.E

Please complete this short workout three times this week.

Forest School

At some point this week  please complete Mrs. Brown’s whole school challenge if you would like to submit a photo to both myself and Miss. Brown  

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

Keep using our ways to well being to help stay positive and happy!

 

Have a good day everyone,

Mr Leverett

Good morning Year 4,

Remember, if you need me at all please email me or come into the drop zoom calls at 1:30-2 or 2:40 where I can help.

As per usual, please email me the pieces of work indicated by the camera symbol  on the time table above

c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s answers below

Today’s Early Bird below:

Spellings:

English:

This week we are going to look in a little more detail at some of the features in a persuasive text. Today I want us to look at emotional language. Please watch this clip first before you start your work.

Task 1:

Task 2:

Task 3:

Maths: Live Lesson fractions

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes.

All of the tasks below are planned to take your through from Monday to Friday. So take your time and produce the best piece of work you can – perhaps do a prototype or first draft to ensure the quality in your final piece. Could you please send in a picture of the Big Idea and the PSCHE task when they are completed. 

Big Idea:

Please watch the clip below and create comic strip for Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night

Success Criteria:

• Watch the clip several times and note down the key scenes (ideally 6 or 8 scenes)
• Divide your paper into 6 or 8 equally segments depending on how many scenes you are going to draw
• Draw a picture for each scene
• Use heading at the top of each scene – to help tell the story
• Use speech bubbles for your character to help tell the story (tip – write text then the bubble to keep things neat).
• Partially colour in your work to make characters stand out

Please send a picture of your completed work into me.

https://youtu.be/hYr0DfO1rP0

PSCHE:

Our current theme is Dream and Goals. We are looking at:  ‘Helping to Make a Difference’

I would like you to look at how other people make the world a better place and why they do this (their motivation for doing it).

Your task is to:

1.  Identify 5 different jobs people do to make the world a better place and then explain why you think these people do their job.
2.  What could you do during lockdown to help make someone’s life better. Explain who, and what that job could be, and what would be your motivation for doing this?

Please send me in your work.

P.E

Please complete this short workout three times this week.

Forest School

At some point this week  please complete Mrs. Brown’s whole school challenge if you would like to submit a photo to both myself and Miss. Brown  

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

 

Today is Day 2 of our 5 Ways to Well-being. Click the link below to see the video with Miss Brown!

 

 

Keep using our ways to well being to help stay positive and happy!

Have a good day everyone,

Mr Leverett

Good morning folks,

Remember, if you need me at all please email me or come into the drop zoom calls at 1:30-2 or 2:40 where I can help.

As per usual, please email me the pieces of work indicated by the camera symbol  on the time table above

c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s answers below:

Today’s EB below (if you need help look at yesterday’s clip on strategies)

Spellings: 

We are using the ‘Meaning Mastermind’ phantom today in our Word Power strategies for spelling. Please complete the task below.

Maths: 

We are carrying on directly from yesterday’s lesson.

Please complete the work below and choose whether you want to start on the 2 or 3 star questions.

The two star questions are on a yellow background

The three star questions are on a pink background

 

 

English: Live Lesson 11am (Persuasive features) – Please bring along your work from yesterday.

 

All of the tasks below are planned to take your through from Monday to Friday. So take your time and produce the best piece of work you can – perhaps do a prototype or first draft to ensure the quality in your final piece. Could you please send in a picture of the Big Idea and the PSCHE task when they are completed. 

Big Idea:

Please watch the clip below and create comic strip for Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night

Success Criteria:

• Watch the clip several times and note down the key scenes (ideally 6 or 8 scenes)
• Divide your paper into 6 or 8 equally segments depending on how many scenes you are going to draw
• Draw a picture for each scene
• Use heading at the top of each scene – to help tell the story
• Use speech bubbles for your character to help tell the story (tip – write text then the bubble to keep things neat).
• Partially colour in your work to make characters stand out

Please send a picture of your completed work into me.

https://youtu.be/hYr0DfO1rP0

PSCHE:

Our current theme is Dream and Goals. We are looking at:  ‘Helping to Make a Difference’

I would like you to look at how other people make the world a better place and why they do this (their motivation for doing it).

Your task is to:

1.  Identify 5 different jobs people do to make the world a better place and then explain why you think these people do their job.
2.  What could you do during lockdown to help make someone’s life better. Explain who, and what that job could be, and what would be your motivation for doing this?

Please send me in your work.

P.E

Please complete this short workout three times this week.

Forest School

At some point this week  please complete Mrs. Brown’s whole school challenge if you would like to submit a photo to both myself and Miss. Brown  

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

Keep using our ways to well being to help stay positive and happy!

 

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett

Good morning,

Remember, if you need me at all please email me or come into the drop zoom calls at 1:30-2 or 2:40 where I can help.

As per usual, please email me the pieces of work indicated by the camera symbol  on the time table above

c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Take a look at celebration assembly for last week – you may have got an award!

Early Bird:

Below are the answers to Friday’s questions.

Here is today’s work. Have a look at this clip before you start it to look at strategies for the week (remember, the digits change each day, but the style of the questions remain the same).

Spellings:

This week we are continuing to look at homophones. Please use our ‘graphic guardian’ and complete the sheet below. If you do not know the meaning of any of these words please look them up.

English:

This week we are starting to look at persuasive writing. Please watch this clip then follow the instructions below.

Your task today is to write for me a short text ( half a page) trying to persuade me that Year 4 should not have to wear school uniform when they return to school.

Try to plan your work before you start writing. Make a brief plan of what you are going to say. Try to  create different reasons to persuade me.(this can be typed or written)

Please send me a picture of your completed work

Maths: Live Lessons (Recognising fractions)

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes.

All of the tasks below are planned to take your through from Monday to Friday. So take your time and produce the best piece of work you can – perhaps do a prototype or first draft to ensure the quality in your final piece. Could you please send in a picture of the Big Idea and the PSCHE task when they are completed. 

Big Idea:

Please watch the clip below and create comic strip for Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night

Success Criteria:

• Watch the clip several times and note down the key scenes (ideally 6 or 8 scenes)
• Divide your paper into 6 or 8 equally segments depending on how many scenes you are going to draw
• Draw a picture for each scene
• Use heading at the top of each scene – to help tell the story
• Use speech bubbles for your character to help tell the story (tip – write text then the bubble to keep things neat).
• Partially colour in your work to make characters stand out

Please send a picture of your completed work into me.

https://youtu.be/hYr0DfO1rP0

PSCHE:

Our current theme is Dream and Goals. We are looking at:  ‘Helping to Make a Difference’

I would like you to look at how other people make the world a better place and why they do this (their motivation for doing it).

Your task is to:

1.  Identify 5 different jobs people do to make the world a better place and then explain why you think these people do their job.
2.  What could you do during lockdown to help make someone’s life better. Explain who, and what that job could be, and what would be your motivation for doing this?

Please send me in your work.

P.E

Please complete this short workout three times this week.

Forest School

At some point this week  please complete Mrs. Brown’s whole school challenge if you would like to submit a photo to both myself and Miss. Brown  

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

Keep using our ways to well being to help stay positive and happy!

Have a good day everyone,

Mr Leverett

A very good Friday morning to you all!

Any problems with your work please contact me at: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Please remember to send in the work indicated by the camera symbol in the timetable above.

 

Early Bird:

Answers from yesterday below:

Work for today below:

Spellings:

Last practice today (spend 15 minutes) then we will have our test during the live lesson.

Maths:

It is arithmetic Friday. You have 30 minutes to complete the arithmetic paper (please time yourself). If you still have questions to finish after 30 minutes could you please complete them in a different colour. Please email me in you test results so that I can mark them.

• If you finish early then use the time to check your work.
• Then could you you please circle the number of the 3 hardest questions.

For the remainder of the lesson (approximately 20 minutes) could you please go on TTRock Stars or Hit The Button and practice your times table. By now we should be confident with our tables and related division facts up to the 8 times table. If you do not feel confident then practice these. If you are confident please practice your 9’s, and 12’s.

English: Live Lesson (spellings and dictation)

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

Big Idea: Activities for Monday to Friday choose when you complete them but I need the book cover on  Romeo and Juliet sent to me by Friday please.

Last week you created a comic strip for Romeo and Juliet (if you have not finished this then don’t worry continue on this project this week (details are on Friday’s blog).

If this is complete then I want you to create a book cover for Romeo and Juliet. The book cover  needs a front and back. Normally a front cover will have the title, authors name and picture to ‘excite’ – maybe even a famous quote from the book.  The back cover has the ‘blurb’ (a summary of the story) and usually a few recommendations from ‘famous people’ saying how good the story is. If your unsure take a look at the front and back covers of a couple of your books at home.

If your looking for something else to do take a look at Miss. Brown’s whole school challenge on her Forest School Blog

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

P.E 

Try to complete this workout three times this week – if your feeling up to it why not complete it twice!

Keep using our ways to well being to help stay positive and happy!

 

Well done everyone, have an amazing weekend!

Stay safe.

Mr Leverett

Good morning all,

Quote for the day:

Listen to another story from the Book of Hopes read by Mrs Maiden

 

If you have any problems or questions with your work please contact me at: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Just a reminder, I only photo’s of work sent to me with the camera Icon next to them (see timetable above).

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s answers below:

Questions for today below:

Spellings:

Use our Graphic Guardian in Word Power today and find our spellings in the word search.

 

English:

Please watch this clip first to explain today’s work and our success criteria.

Todays task is to write a short playscript in Tudor language (time period) that Shakespeare lived in. Please send this piece of work into me.

Success criteria

• Have fun – there are no rights and wrongs here we are going to play with language!
• Write a playscript of about two people meeting and have a short conversation together – approximately 5 lines per character.
• Use the ideas below and magpie the phrases and words to make your writing as close to Tudor writing as possible
• You can ‘invent’ (make-up) words to sound as if they came from the Tudor era (time period). See my clip this will help with this.
• You could include one of your Shakespearean insults in the playscript
• The conversation need to make sense – a playscript with two people talking to each other
• Have fun!

Maths: Live Lesson (Introduction to fractions)

Reading:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

Big Idea: Activities for Monday to Friday choose when you complete them but I need the book cover on  Romeo and Juliet sent to me by Friday please.

Last week you created a comic strip for Romeo and Juliet (if you have not finished this then don’t worry continue on this project this week (details are on Friday’s blog).

If this is complete then I want you to create a book cover for Romeo and Juliet. The book cover  needs a front and back. Normally a front cover will have the title, authors name and picture to ‘excite’ – maybe even a famous quote from the book.  The back cover has the ‘blurb’ (a summary of the story) and usually a few recommendations from ‘famous people’ saying how good the story is. If your unsure take a look at the front and back covers of a couple of your books at home.

If your looking for something else to do take a look at Miss. Brown’s whole school challenge on her Forest School Blog

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

P.E 

Try to complete this workout three times this week – if your feeling up to it why not complete it

Times are strange – Remember are ways to well being.

Have a fantastic day!

Mr Leverett

Good morning!

Quote for the day:

 

Any problems with your work please contact me at: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Please remember to send in the work indicated by the camera symbol in the timetable above.

 

Early Bird:

Answers from yesterday below:

Today’s EB work below:

Spellings: Our focus this week is homophones (or near homophones). Today you are using the Graphic Guardian from our Word Power phantoms to focus on the shape of the word as our strategy.

English:

Today you are going to work with Tudor language from Shakespearean times. First watch this clip below to explain the tasks.

Your first task is to sort these Tudor phrases with there correct modern day meaning.

Please write out the Tudor phrase then write out the correct meaning in modern English below it.

Task 2:

Tomorrow we are going to write a scene in a play. The scene is simple; two people meet and talk to each other. The challenge is that we are going to try and write this in Tudor (Shakespearean) language!!!

All I want you to do today is familiarize (that means read through and get use to how some of this new language sounds). Please read through the slides below and see how close and different they are to modern day language. Just read and enjoy – ‘Morro beginust the work!’

 

Maths: Live Lesson (Perimeter word problems)

Reading Plus:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

Big Idea: Activities for Monday to Friday choose when you complete them but I need the book cover on  Romeo and Juliet sent to me by Friday please.

Last week you created a comic strip for Romeo and Juliet (if you have not finished this then don’t worry continue on this project this week (details are on Friday’s blog).

If this is complete then I want you to create a book cover for Romeo and Juliet. The book cover  needs a front and back. Normally a front cover will have the title, authors name and picture to ‘excite’ – maybe even a famous quote from the book.  The back cover has the ‘blurb’ (a summary of the story) and usually a few recommendations from ‘famous people’ saying how good the story is. If your unsure take a look at the front and back covers of a couple of your books at home.

If your looking for something else to do take a look at Miss. Brown’s whole school challenge on her Forest School Blog

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

P.E 

Try to complete this workout three times this week – if your feeling up to it why not complete it twice!

Times are strange – Remember are ways to well being.

Have a fabulous day,

Mr Leverett

Good morning folks!

Quote of the day:

If you have any problems or questions with your work please contact me at: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Just a reminder, I only photo’s of work sent to me with the camera Icon next to them (see timetable above).

 

Early Bird:

Yesterday’s questions below:

Today’s questions below:

Spellings:

Maths:

Today we are carrying on our work on perimeters and calculating perimeters with missing side measurements. Watch the clip below for a recap.

 

 

3 Star questions below:

 

 

 

English: Live Lesson (Language of Shakespeare)

Reading:

Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

 

Big Idea: Activities for Monday to Friday choose when you complete them but I need the book cover on  Romeo and Juliet sent to me by Friday please.

Last week you created a comic strip for Romeo and Juliet (if you have not finished this then don’t worry continue on this project this week (details are on Friday’s blog).

If this is complete then I want you to create a book cover for Romeo and Juliet. The book cover  needs a front and back. Normally a front cover will have the title, authors name and picture to ‘excite’ – maybe even a famous quote from the book.  The back cover has the ‘blurb’ (a summary of the story) and usually a few recommendations from ‘famous people’ saying how good the story is. If your unsure take a look at the front and back covers of a couple of your books at home.

If your looking for something else to do take a look at Miss. Brown’s whole school challenge on her Forest School Blog

https://meadowsideforestschools.edublogs.org/

P.E 

Try to complete this workout three times this week – if your feeling up to it why not complete it twice!

Times are strange – Remember are ways to well being.

Have a fantastic day!

Mr Leverett