Friday 3rd July 2020

Home Learning Class 4 – Summer 2 Week 6

Summer 2 topic: Were the Vikings really vicious?

English

This week, I would like you to play the word class game I have emailed out. It is a fun way to revise some of the word classes – I hope you enjoy it! The following definitions may help: Noun: A noun is a word for a person, place, or thing. Adjective: Adjectives are words used to describe and give more information about a noun, which could be a person, place or object. Verb: A verb is a kind of word (part of speech) that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb. Adverb: An adverb is a word that provides more information about a verb, or sometimes about an adjective or another adverb. Generally, the information added by adverbs tells us how, when, where or to what extent something was done. Pronoun: a pronoun (as I, you, it, or they) used instead of a noun that names a definite person or thing. Article: The articles are the words "a," "an," and "the." They define whether something is specific or unspecific. Preposition: A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. Examples of prepositions include words like after, before, on, under, inside and outside. Conjunction: Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together. (FANBOYS / ISAWAWABUB) In addition, I have emailed three English sessions based on more of Edward Lear’s classic poetry.

Reading

Please try to read for around 30 minutes per day. This can be a book, magazine, online research etc.

At the bottom of this page, you will find a comprehension activity called, ‘The dream asylum’.

Spellings

Each week, I will be suggesting spelling patterns that you can revise at home. This week, I would like you to review words ending in -cious:

vicious

gracious

spacious

malicious

precious

conscious

delicious

suspicious

atrocious

ferocious

Maths

You will have received the maths work via email. Don’t forget to look at the video links before you start the activities. Year 5 – Remember, if you are joining us in school on a Monday and Tuesday, we would like you to complete lesson 3 and 4 activities at home. Year 6 – If you are joining us in school, please complete lesson 1 and lesson 2 at home before coming into school. We will have a quick review but will be focusing on content from lesson 3 and 4 on Thursday and Friday.

Science

This week, we continue our topic,

‘How can you light up your life?’ This week we are looking at reflection and how periscopes work. Please see the information at the bottom of this page to help you. I have also emailed the periscope sheets.

Topic

This week, we continue our topic …

Were the Vikings really vicious? This week, I would like you to research what life would have been like for a Viking child. These websites are a good starting point:

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.66Jd0DjVlifNuriFQmzwQQHaFj?w=202&h=159&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zrthfg8

https://bavipower.com/blogs/bavipower-viking-blog/what-was-life-of-viking-children-like

Please write a diary entry in role as a child. I would love to see it so if you are working from home, please send it to us. I have sent a PowerPoint via email to help you with your ideas and layout.

Art

In Art, we will continue to be inspired by flowers. This week, I want you to research the work of Andy Warhol and replicate his style. You could print, paint or draw using his work as a starting point or use a mix of media.

PSHE

Year 5 – Looking after our mental health is just as important as looking after our physical health, and they often go hand in hand to support each other. Over the next few weeks we are going to look at the 5 ways to wellbeing. These are 5 steps we can take to improve our mental health and wellbeing. Trying these

things could help us feel more positive and get the most out of life. At Summerseat, we talk about ‘Making Summerseat Smile’, with each letter of SMILE referring to an area of wellbeing. Have a look at the poster attached and think about the meaning of the 5 parts. S - Stay connected M - Move to keep active I - Inspired to give L - Look and take notice E - Enjoy and keep learning This week we are going to focus on being ‘inspired to give’. Sometimes, we find the greatest joy for ourselves by helping a friend or family member and just trying to make someone else smile. This can be an act of kindness or giving no matter how big or small. It would be great if you could send us some ideas of what you have done to class4@summerseatmethodistprimary.co.uk Remember, ‘Do good, love your neighbour, it’s in you.’ Year 6 – This week, we will continuing to work on our transition project, ‘Be awesome, go big!’ If you are in school, we will work through this together in class. If you aren’t able to join us, please look at this at home. We will cover session 5 and session 6 this week. I have sent the details via email. These have been sent as separate emails due to the file sizes.

Let’s keep safe, keep happy and carry on learning!

Best Wishes,

Mrs Whittaker & Mr Ormrod

Reading Comprehension

The Dream Asylum

The Dream Asylum was not a nice place. It was a tall, concrete building that occasionally

oozed a sinister blue light and never had the same number of floors as before. There were

hardly any windows and they often changed position. It was almost as if the entire building

rearranged itself when no one was looking, a playful child intent on making the adults doubt

their sanity.

The whole Asylum was built for one purpose: giving the 'treatment'. The 'treatment'

was a brilliantly clever idea, so well thought out and planned that nothing could ever go

wrong. Of course, similar people had claimed the Titanic was the 'unsinkable ship'.

In principle, it was perfect. You'd have a bad dream, the horrifying type that harasses

you night after night, and simply sell it to the Asylum. Your dream is gone, never to return,

and you get paid for it. Perfect, right? Or, that was the idea. In reality, people began selling

good dreams, (as those are worth far more) for a little extra cash. Or they began scoffing

cheese before they went to bed, hoping for a nightmare they could part with.

Of course, an idea so perfect and wonderful simply had to go wrong at some point.

People who had sold their dreams began getting side effects, ones they hadn't been warned

about, ones that made their thoughts dangerous and terrifying. Soon, the Asylum even

began taking dreams you didn't want to sell; your family holiday at the beach or when you

learnt to ride a bike. The Asylum became its own person; a building that suddenly didn't

need staff to operate the machines anymore.

Then, it wasn't just taking dreams; it was taking memories too. People left the

building with a wad of cash and no idea who they were or how they came to be there. The

worst part about the Dream Asylum, though, was that no one realised how dangerous it had

become until it was too late. The damage was done; thousands of people wandering around

without a clue as to who they were or what had happened to them.

It was shut down, supposedly. The plan was to knock the building down, pave over

the foundations. But somehow, the planning always got delayed, until suddenly it was as if

the planning was never there to begin with. The building remained, oozing its new blue

light.

As time went on, it became part of the landscape, just another building in the

background. Occasionally mothers used it to scare their children; 'If you don't behave, the

Dream Asylum will reopen and gobble you up!'

People soon forgot the horrors the Asylum caused; it was easier than remembering.

Text Title: The Dream Asylum.

Find and

underline

the words

Bronze (5) Silver (7) Gold (10)

Sinister, Occasionally

Oozed, unsinkable, principle, sanity, nightmare

Scoffing, wad, harasses

Find and copy a word that suggest the building was an unwelcome sight.

The author states ‘similar people had claimed the Titanic was the

'unsinkable ship' why might they make this comparison?

Suggest ways the story could develop - write a synopsis or summary for a story

based around ‘The Dream Asylum’.

Why has the author chosen to write ‘the treatment’ using quotation marks around

it?

What did mothers say to their children in order to frighten their children?

Draw a picture of the Dream Asylum based on the description in the text.