Microsoft Teams

Good Afternoon everybody.

Here are a few videos that explain how to upload your work to Microsoft teams whilst you are doing your work at home.

This first video shows you how to upload a picture of your work.

This video shows you how to submit a word document to an assignement.

This final video helps you if you are completing your work on a tablet.

Thank You

Mr Bean

Year 4’s Artistic talents

Hi everyone!

Year 4 have been working very hard with their home learning. This week they have had two creative tasks. For their Art task, they had to look at the artwork of Sonia Boyce and create their own memory postcard inspired by her work. For their Music task, they had to plan and design their own instrument before making it with items from around their house. Take a look at their fantastic work below! (All these submissions have been submitted on Teams. I will update and add other images as I receive them)

Stay safe and take care,

Miss Soar 🙂

Year 4 Art Work

Hi everyone!

As one of their home learning challenges this week, I asked Year 4 to look at some of the Pop Art created by Roy Lichtenstein and use this to inspire their own masterpieces. Below are some of the amazing pieces of Art that Year 4 have created. (All these pieces have been submitted on Microsoft Teams, any other submissions will be added as I receive them.)

The children have considered the Pop Art style, colours and techniques and produced some brilliant images. Take a look!

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Hope you are all staying safe, take care

Miss Soar 🙂

Science Challenges!

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok and enjoying the sunshine.  

This week I’m throwing back to Autumn term again for Science. How much can you remember about electricity? Do you remember Mrs O’Reilly coming in to help us on our Science Days? Maybe you still have your booklets to help you with your questions!

1) Electricity can be divided into alternate current (AC) and direct current (DC). What do these two terms mean? Where do alternate and direct current come from? 

2) Electricity that comes into our houses is called Mains electric. There are a number of ways that this electricity is made. This is called generation. Some methods give us renewable energy and some methods give us non-renewable energy. Which of these methods are which? How do each of these methods work to generate electricity? Which do you think is the best method of generating electricity? Why? 

Fossil fuels	Nuclear power	Hydro power
Wind power	Solar power	Geothermic energy

 

3) An appliance is something that has a specific job. An electrical appliance is an item that needs electricity to work. Some appliances use mains power and some appliances use battery power. Investigate the items around your house. How many can you find that use mains power? How many can you find that use battery power? Can you find any that use mains and battery power? Remember: Do not touch any electrical appliances. (See challenge number 4)

4) Whilst electricity is incredibly useful in our day to day lives, it is also incredibly dangerous if misused. Your final challenge is to create a poster to show how to keep safe around electricity. Try to make your poster eye catching so that it is memorable to people who see it. 

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the challenges! Let me know how you get on with any of your activities! Remember, you can email any pictures or messages to peelhall.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and they will get passed on to the correct teacher. 

Take care, Miss Soar.

 

Maths Challenges!

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok and enjoying the sunshine.  

Seeing as I had so much fun creating them last week, I thought I’d come up with some more Maths challenges. These challenges are at a Year 3/ Year 4 level but feel free to have a go at any or all of them no matter which year group you belong to. 

1. Is this statement always true, sometimes true or never true? When writing a number in Roman numerals, the bigger numbers have more symbols than smaller numbers. Explain your answer. 

2. Is this statement always true, sometimes true or never true? When writing a multiple of 10 in Roman numerals, they all contain an X. Explain your answer. 

3. 3 glasses fill a bottle           2 bottles fill a jug            6 egg cups fill a glass. 

How many egg cups fill a bottle?                       How many glasses fill a jug?

How many egg cups fill a jug?                            2 jugs can fill how many egg cups?

 

4. How many seconds are there in a minute? How many minutes are there in an hour?

How many hours are there in a day?    How many weeks are there in a year?

How many days are there in each of the 12 months of the year?

How many days are there in a year? How many days are there in a leap year?

 

5. Using your answers to the above questions, have a go at these:

How many seconds are there in 5 minutes?

How many minutes are there in one and a half hours?

How many hours are there in 3 days?

How many days are there in total during May, June and July?

How many days are there in 17 weeks?

When was our last leap year? How often do they occur? When will the next leap year be?

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the challenges! Let me know how you get on with any of your activities! Remember, you can email any pictures or messages to peelhall.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and they will get passed on to the correct teacher. 

Take care, Miss Soar.

 

Science challenges: Sound!

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok and enjoyed the bank holiday weekend.  

This week, I thought I’d throw it back to our first Year 4 Science topic (and one of my favourites) Sound!

• • Sound is caused by vibrations. How can sounds be made and how do they travel to our ears? 
  • The three families of musical instruments are string, wind and percussion. Can you remember the name of an instrument that fits in each category? How do you produce a sound on your chosen instrument?

 

• Volume describes how loud or quiet a sound is and is measured in decibels. How do you change the volume on a percussion instrument? How do you change the volume on a wind instrument? How do you change the volume on a string instrument?

• Pitch describes how high and low a sound is. How do you alter the pitch on a percussion, wind and string instrument? How is pitch different to volume?

 

• Your final challenge is to create your own instrument! Think back to our D and T days. You will need to research instruments that exist already before designing your instrument. Remember to plan the materials you will need and the method you will use to create your instrument. Don’t worry if you haven’t got specialist equipment to make with, get creative and use what you have. Maybe you could get your siblings to make an instrument too and create a family band!

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the challenges! Let me know how you get on with any of your activities! Remember, you can email any pictures or messages to peelhall.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and they will get passed on to the correct teacher. 

Take care, Miss Soar.

 

Maths Challenges

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok. 

I’m in a Maths mood today so here are 5 Maths questions for Year 4 (or anyone if you fancy it!) to have a go at.

1. The 4 types of triangles are: equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right-angled. How can we recognise these triangles? What are their properties? What might they look like? 

2. 2 pizzas cost £9. How much will 5 pizzas cost?

3. A tower is made up of 10 identical blocks. Each block is 6cm tall. 

• How tall is the whole tower?
• Four of the bricks are removed, how tall is the tower now?
• How many bricks would needed to make a 90cm tower? 

4. Here are 4 numbers. 1330    1015     2941    3645            Which is the odd one out? Explain your answer as there could be more than one correct answer!

5. What is the first number greater than 100 that is a multiple of both 3 and 6? How do you know?

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the challenges! Let me know how you get on with any of your activities! Remember, you can email any pictures or messages to peelhall.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and they will get passed on to the correct teacher. 

Take care, Miss Soar.

 

Afternoon year 4,

I hope everyone is safe and well.

I would love to see some pieces of writing this week. Here are some ideas on writing activities:

• What do you think is happening here?-
• Why is the title ‘Dream Big’?
• Is the girl touching the stars? Did she draw the constellation?
• Is the animal beside her a dog? A wolf? Something else?
• Why does it have trailing lines? Is it real? Is it her pet? Could it be a dæmon, like in Northern Lights?
• Why are they standing on piles of books?
• Does this picture have a message? What could it be?
• On Yuumei’s website, this picture is accompanied by the caption, ‘Let your imagination grow.’ Why do you think this is?

• Who is this man? Where has he come from? What does his clothing tell you about his character?
• Do you think he is a good or bad character? Why?
• What is he doing?
• Is the bird friendly or is it going to attack him?
• Describe the tower in as much detail as you can.
• Why is it called ‘Dark Tower’?
• What do you think the tower is used for? Does anyone live there? Are there many visitors?
• What are the red things on the ground and in the air?
• What sounds could you hear if you were inside the picture?
• Use this picture as a story prompt. Include the dark tower as a setting, the man as a character and the bird as something else (a sidekick? A villain?).

• Why is this picture called ‘Best Friends’?
• Does the dragon belong to the boy, or does the boy belong to the dragon?
• Who lives in the house?
• Where does the dragon live?
• How did they become friends?
• Tell their story.
• PSHE link: What is friendship? What makes a good friend? Can an animal be a person’s best friend? Could a robot?

I look forward to reading your ideas.

Take care,

Miss Milan – Snee

Science challenges!

Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing ok. 

This week my challenge is for you to find out about Habitats. 

A habitat is where a living thing lives. (Remember you can identify a living thing by using the acronym MRS NERG) A habitat provides 4 things to keep a living thing alive:

• Food and water
• Space to move, grow and have young
• Air or oxygen
• Shelter and safety

Think about where you live. Where does our food and water come from? Where is your space? Where does your oxygen come from? What creates your shelter? What keeps you safe?

Now choose another living thing, either a plant or an animal (or both!) Can you answer the above questions for this living thing? What is similar about the habitats of your living thing and a human? What is different about the habitats?

As humans, we can control lots of things about our habitat. However, plants and animals can be affected by things around them. Some of the actions of humans can have a devastating impact on other habitats. What can you think of that could threaten or damage a living thing’s habitat? 

What habitats are there near you? Which living things can you find either in your garden or out on your daily walk? How do these living things survive? What makes their habitat safe?

Finally, how can you help keep habitats safe for plants and animals? Whilst humans can have a negative impact on wildlife, they can also be positive and allow it to flourish. How could you improve the habitats around you?

Thanks for reading. Let me know how you get on with any of your activities! Remember, you can email any pictures or messages to peelhall.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and they will get passed on to the correct teacher. 

Take care, Miss Soar.

 

Hi everyone,

Hi year 4,

Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend. My street had a social distancing party and we all sang some songs. 

This week I’d like to know what you can remember about our science topic…Teeth and the human digestion. I was enjoying teaching this topic so it was a shame we couldn’t finish it 😦 

Here are some questions 

1. 1) What is a herbivore, omnivore and carnivore?
2. 2) How many types of teeth does an adult have? 
3. 3) What are the functions of our teeth?
4. 4) Do all animals have the same types of teeth? 
5. 5) How does food travel through our digestive system?
6. 6) Can you draw and label our digestive system?

Keep sending in pictures, I’d love to see some more. 

Stay safe, 

Miss Milan Snee x