Year 4 Summer 2 Learning Challenge
Learning Challenge
Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning, this is in line with the rest of the school. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.
The learning challenge allow children to look at a person, painting, piece of music and/or a poem. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class however the table below details some ideas for the learning challenge.
The learning challenge replaces traditional ‘homework’ and runs alongside daily reading with your child. Is it expected that you read with your child every day and do times tables.
Poem
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Painting
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Person
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Music
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Basic
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Learn it off by heart
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Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist
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Draw a portrait of the person
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Listen to a piece of music
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Find another poem by the poet
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Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist
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Produce a timeline of their life
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Identify the instruments.
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Advanced
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Create a performance as part of a pair/group
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Draw a picture in similar style
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Produce a poster to advertise their achievements
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Research the life of the composer.
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Write a short biography about the poet
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Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting
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Write a letter asking them about their life
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Attempt to recreate the piece of music
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Deep
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Write your own poem inspired by the topic
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Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC
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Explain how the world would be without this person
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A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
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Compare and contrast two poems by the poet
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Describe the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on
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Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’
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Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.
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Person
Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753).
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Painting
Two Sisters by Sadequain Naqqash 1950
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Piece of Music
The theme from ‘Zorba the Greek’
By Mikis Theodorakis
Reproduced by various artists
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Poem
‘Homer’ by Paul Perro
Homer (that’s the poet from Greece,
Not the fat bald man from TV)
Wrote the poem called ‘The Iliad’,
He also wrote ‘The Odyssey’.
The Iliad tells the story,
Set during the long Trojan War
Of the Greek hero Achilles,
And his triumph over Hector.
The story of Odysseus
Is told in Homer’s Odyssey’ -
His epic quest to get back home
To see his wife Penelope.
He had some bother on the way
With women with hypnotic powers,
A cyclops, a witch, a monster,
And folk who liked to eat flowers.
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