Dear Parents and Carers,
We are delighted to provide you with the Learning Challenge for the second half of the Spring Term. The activities are split into Basic, Advanced and Deep Learning. This allows us to look at learning at Mead, and is designed to ensure that children not only acquire factual knowledge but also gain a further understanding about how their new skills or knowledge can be applied to their own lives or be used to further their cognitive and social development.
The theme of the Learning Challenge for the second half of the Spring Term is Who helps us more, scientist or engineers? It is entirely up to the 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 deepen their learning as much as possible.
Although the Learning Challenge is entirely optional, and in addition to the daily homework expectation of 15 minutes reading, 15 minutes times tables rehearsals 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 be grateful for you to encourage this at home. 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 by the individual child.
Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We thank you again for your continued support, and look forward to seeing you in the near future.
Yours sincerely,
The year 5 team.
Poem
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Painting
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Person
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Composer
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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 what 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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Painting:Lucien Rudaux: ‘Lunar Eclipse from the Moon’
Music: Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Person: Sir Patrick Moore
Poem: Where Are You Earth?
In the middle of the universe, I stand…
My mind attempting to comprehend
the scope and wonder
Exposed upon these printed pages
Within this book of astronomy and space.
One hundred billion galaxies…
One hundred octillion stars...
Trillions of them are suns like ours…
Unfathomable to my human mind...
Through these pages,
In the middle of the universe, I stand
In awe and ask...
Where are you Earth?
I see our galaxy—our Milky Way—full color
On this wondrous special page,
And I almost miss that tiny speck…
That speck, our world,
With cars and people bustling here and there…
Bridges, trains, skyscrapers, jets…
Blue oceans with majestic ships…
The wonders of our age…
You great, important, busy, busy world.
Where are you Earth
Amid this cloud of dust?
I find you on this page with straining eye
So lost among the stars, the planets, moons—
One hundred billion galaxies
One hundred octillion stars—
My home…my Earth…
A tiny speck…
A microscopic grain…
Caught up in cosmic winds with all the rest.
© Sandra M. Haight 2015
