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Dear Year 4, I hope you are all safe and well – I thought it would be nice to study a continent and find out about Africa. There are 8 activities that you can choose from and I can’t wait to see what you can create – don’t forget to email photos in! Good luck with all the activities and I hope you have fun in your learning. Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Use the websites to find out about African countries https://www.ducksters.com/geograph y/africa.php http://www.yourchildlearns.com/afri ca_map.htm Also look at the attached ppt to help you learn more about Africa Choose one of the countries listed below and find out the following: How big is it? How many people live there? What languages do they speak? What is the biggest religion in ………? What is the food like? What is the longest river What animals are mostly seen here? What is the flag like and what does it mean? Watch the ppt on African Patterns. I have attached some sheet designs to help you – create your own African pattern that could be used in clothing or furnishing or colour in some of the mindfulness sheets

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Page 1: Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 - st-james.enfield · Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 Malusi lives in rural South Africa, where he spends his days tending his grandfather’s flock, and wishing for a dog

Dear Year 4, I hope you are all safe and well – I thought it would be nice to study a continent and find out about Africa. There are 8

activities that you can choose from and I can’t wait to see what you can create – don’t forget to email photos in! Good luck with all the activities and I hope you have fun in your learning.

Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Use the websites to find out about African countries https://www.ducksters.com/geography/africa.php http://www.yourchildlearns.com/africa_map.htm Also look at the attached ppt to help you learn more about Africa

Choose one of the countries listed below and find out the following:

• How big is it? • How many people live there? • What languages do they speak? • What is the biggest religion in ………? • What is the food like? • What is the longest river • What animals are mostly seen here? • What is the flag like and what does it

mean?

Watch the ppt on African Patterns. I have attached some sheet designs to help you – create your own African pattern that could be used in clothing or furnishing or colour in some of the mindfulness sheets

Page 2: Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 - st-james.enfield · Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 Malusi lives in rural South Africa, where he spends his days tending his grandfather’s flock, and wishing for a dog

Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 Malusi lives in rural South Africa, where he spends his days tending his grandfather’s flock, and wishing for a dog to keep predators away. Listen to the story online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIaj8yaL74 Write a diary entry from Malusi, explaining what his day was like and how he was feeling Use the template attached (see below) What is the moral of this story? What was life like for Malusi? Who was he friend and what did they do? What did you like/not like in the story?

Who was Nelson Mandela and how did he change South Africa?

Use the following web pages to find out about Nelson Mandela – make sure you answer the

following questions: Personal Info: Date of birth, death, family and

childhood. Occupation

Why he is famous What he has taught the world

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/nelson-mandela/

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/nelson_m

andela.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkj382/articles/zj3p8xs

Produce your work either typed, in a small

booklet or as a poster

Animals in south Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfSIiQvzf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=9_I9sz82mLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btMAJw37Y8E

FREE CHOICE!

You can choose to create anything you like about one animal or several

animals.

You could create a safari out of cardboard

Or You could bake biscuits in the shape

of an African animal Or

You could write a poem/ story on an African Animal

Or Create a poster as to why an animal might be endangered

Or Create a piece of art work/

collage/ pencil drawing or sunset with a silhouette

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