Year 4 Learning Challenge

Executive Headteacher: Mr M Drakes

Headteacher (Interim): Mrs L Nicholls

Learning Challenge

23rd February 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to provide you with the Year 4 Learning Challenge for this half of the Spring Term.

This learning challenge gives the children the chance to look at an artist, musician, person and a poet relating to what they are learning about in school. It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to be ambitious and to deepen their learning as much as possible.

Although the Learning Challenge is entirely optional, and is in addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes’ reading, 15 minutes’ times tables rehearsal and 15 minutes’ spellings practice, we have found that a large proportion of children have voluntarily taken up the challenge and have gained a great deal from it. We would therefore greatly appreciate your encouragement to participate. The children will receive a special Learning Challenge certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort and challenge undertaken.

Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, and look forward to working with you this academic year.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Lander Miss Taylor Mr Nicol

Year 4

	Poem	Painting	Person	Music
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the piece of music
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

Person -  Marie Curie

Painting

Vesuvius – Andy Warhol

Music  

‘Earth’ – Michael Jackson

Poem

Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion by Celia Berrell

Newton was a clever man.

An avid scientific fan.

He questioned many things he saw.

Like ones we had no answers for.

He thought them through right to their cores.

Then gave us many handy laws.

Newton’s First Law Of Motion:

Without a force of push or pull

an object will remain quite still.

With just one push at just one time

that object moves in one straight line.

Newton’s Second Law Of Motion:

A bigger Force accelerates

an object that is heavy-weight.

While objects of a smaller mass

don’t need much Force to move them fast.

So Newton noticed they obey

that Force will equal m times a.

Newton’s Third Law Of Motion:

Now bend a stick. Before it cracks

you’ll feel its force of pushing back.

For every action there will be

an equal one – opposingly.

Without his formulas in place

we’d soon get lost in outer space.

So Isaac’s Laws help us traverse

the reaches of our universe.