Good morning, everybody! Happy Tuesday. I hope you remembered your Love of Reading, guided reading books and your swimming kits! Here’s your home learning for today. Have fun!
Reading
Rewatch the short animation ‘The Catch’ (click here). Then, draw a feelings graph to show how the boy is feeling during key moments of the clip. An example of how to set out a feelings graph as shown, below.
The events go across the bottom of the graph. Suggested events to list are:
– Waiting with anticipation for the first catch,
– The distress caused by seeing the injured fox,
– Anger at the fox stealing the fish,
– Chasing the fox,
– Surprise and excitement at seeing the giant fish,
– Trying to catch it,
– The catch at the end.
Make sure to label the exact emotion to the event in the story.
Spellings
Practise your spellings today by using the ‘connect the dots’ method.
Maths
Today’s Maths continues with money and some more tricky problems. Make sure to ask an adult for help if you’re stuck.
Warm up by playing this game which helps you to practise giving change. Make sure it’s on pounds Stirling and 1 to 10 pounds.
Times Tables
Don’t forget to use the times tables resources on the Moortown website – link here.
History
We’ve learnt loads about the Roman invasion of Britain and the effect that this had on Britains living there at the time – specifically Boudicca and the Iceni.
What we haven’t talked about is when and why the Roman Empire ended. Read the text below to find out why they left:
In AD410, the Roman Emperor Honorius sent a goodbye letter to the people of Britain. He wrote, “fight bravely and defend your lives…you are on your own now”. The city of Rome was under attack and the empire was falling apart, so the Romans had to leave to take care of things back home.
After they left, the country fell into chaos. Native tribes and foreign invaders battled each other for power. Many of the Roman towns in Britain crumbled away as people went back to living in the countryside.
In this history lesson, I’d like you to answer the following question:
Were the Romans good for Britain?
I’d like you to make a list or table of pros and cons and debate these with someone at home. Here are some key points to get you started (you decide of they’re pros or cons):
- It nice to invade. You wouldn’t like it if I invaded your home!
- The Romans treated Britains badly. They took their land, made them pay taxes, whipped them and killed them if they stood up to them.
- The Romans tried to change how we lived (houses, religion, language).
- The Romans protected us from other invaders.
- The invented lots of things that made our lives better: straight roads, central heating, sewage systems.
- They introduced things which had a big impact on Britain: calendar, language, Christianity.