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Madresfield CE Primary School
L E A R N I N G PA C K 3 THE FORCES
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Learning pack handed out to the children on Monday 6th October 2014 Whilst exploring this learning pack you will have the chance to use a range of skills such as ... 1. Reading 2. Spelling 3. Cooking 4. Maths 5. Science 6. Designing 7. Folding MUST: Once you have completed the theme, tick off the skills that you think you have used.
Learning pack to be returned on Friday 24th October 2014
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October 2014 Dear Parents, Here is our first home learning pack of the new school year. As you can see the theme for this pack is ‘The Forces’ and it contains a range of learning activities linked to our armed forces. We try to cover a range of themes in order to find ideas to inspire everyone over the course of a year! As usual, we try to cover a range of curricular areas too with each pack so this
one contains learning linked to: Literacy, PE, Design &Technology, Food Technology, Maths and Science. Our aim for the packs is for the children to understand that learning does not just take place in the classroom and that they are able to continue their studies and skills development at any time and indeed anywhere. Additionally, the packs are excellent preparation for high school studies and beyond, enabling the children to develop good time management skills in addition to independence and perseverance. We also hope that parents will take an interest whilst their child is completing their pack. This reinforces the links between home and school and raises awareness that education and learning continues throughout our lives and does not stop when school studies finish. As the children get older and more able to tackle the packs with increasing independence, we would expect that parent support ( but not interest…) will reduce. Obviously, if your child has difficulty with any aspect of the pack you are very welcome to help but please don’t complete the pack FOR your child. Your child’s class teacher will always be able to point you both in the
right direction, so feel free to contact school if you have a problem. I hope you enjoy helping your child to complete this month’s pack. Happy learning! Mrs D Langston
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MUST Word page / spelling skills ( Suggested time limit 40 mins) academy
ammunition
amphibious vehicle
armistice
arsenal artillery
ballistic
battalion bayonet
besiege
chaplain epaulet
insignia
parachute sabotage
sergeant
tactical
Do you know the meaning of all these words? How many of them can you spell? 4
1* Make a
2* Write a
3* Write rhymes
wordsearch with
sentence for
for each of your
your words.
each word to
words.
List them
explain its
underneath.
meaning.
4* Write your words on cards. Select some to put on a bingo grid. Turn cards over one by one. If you have a word and can spell it, you can cover it.
5* Play
6* Put your
7* Arrange your
8* Use each of
charades with
words to a
words in
your words in a
your words.
number code eg
alphabetical
silly sentence.
When someone
A=1, B=2
order.
Underline the
has guessed the
word used.
word, spell it. 9* Sit back to
10* Write your
11* Write out
12* Design a
back with a
words in
your words, cut
board game to
partner and test
different fonts
into parts that
play with your
your words.
and colours.
help you to learn
words.
them.
Write the rules too.
13* Illustrate
14* Play
15* Paint your
16* Write your
each of your
hangman with a
words with paint
words in
words with a
partner using
on paper or
colourful
picture.
your words.
water (outside).
bubble writing.
Choose ONE of the activities above to help you learn five of your chosen spellings from the previous page.
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Learning activity 1—Design skills (Suggested time limit—1 hour )
It is vital that members of the armed forces are fit and healthy. One of the ways in which they do this is to train using an assault course.
On the next page design an assault course which the armed forces could use to train their recruits.
Remember to:
use a ruler
draw your plan using a bird’s eye view
label a ‘Start’ and ‘Finish’
make sure that your course has sections that will develop fitness in different parts of the body. 6
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Learning activity 2—Cooking skills (Suggested time limit—90 minutes ) There is a well known phrase—‘An army marches on its stomach’ Have a go at cooking the following army recipe.
Anzac tile/wafer recipe 400 g/3 cups/600 mls wholemeal flour 40 g/5 tbls sugar 20 g/3 tbls milk powder 1.5 g/good pinch salt 220 mls water Use self-raising flour. If self-raising flours is not available, sieve 10 grams of baking powder together with plain flour before adding other ingredients.
Method Place flour, sugar, and milk powder in a large bowl and blend with finger tips. Form into a pile and scoop out a hole in the centre. Add all of the water in which the salt has been dissolved.
Thoroughly work the flour from the inside of the
well into the water until the whole is a mass of lumps of flour and water.
Once the dough is formed, transfer it to a table top or pastry board. The dough should now be torn apart, rubbed into balls, and thrown together, and the process repeated until the mass is well mixed and in the form of a hard dough.
The dough is then rested for about half an hour.
Now roll the dough in 8 mm–thick sheets using a rolling pin
The rolled sheet of dough is then cut into 90 mm squares.
Next, the biscuit squares should be docked by having a regular horizontal and vertical pattern of holes pushed into them at about 18 mm spaces with a flatended pin or rod. Push it in until it bottoms, twist slightly, and then withdraw. Repeat. Each biscuit should have five vertical and five horizontal rows of holes, 25 holes in all.
Place on a lightly greased steel baking sheet, with the biscuits about 6 mm apart.
Bake at about 200 degrees centigrade for 30 to 40 minutes on a low shelf in the oven. To achieve a suitable hardness in your biscuits, store for a time in an air-tight container.
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MUST Learning activity 3—Coordinate skills ( Suggested time limit—1 hour ) Rene Descartes Descartes was a French mathematician who lived from 1596 to 1650. One of the things that Rene Descartes is most famous for is The Cartesian Coordinate System that is named after him. Most modern cities are laid out in Cartesian fashion. If you have been lost in an old town, or even in new developments, you will understand how useful The Cartesian Coordinate System is. The system is used by the military and rescue services as well as air traffic controllers and map makers to accurately describe where to find people and places. If you ever play `battleships' then you are using Cartesian coordinates.
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Coordinate Battleships – The Rules This is a two person game. Each player needs one copy of ‘My Map’ and one copy of ‘The Enemy’s Map’, as well as a pair of scissors to cut out their
battleships.
Both players cut out their battleships, and place them on their map (‘My Map’), without letting the other player see where their ships are placed. Player One calls out a coordinate on the enemy’s map (Player Two’s version of ‘My Map’). If Player One hits one of Player’s Two ships by guessing a correct coordinate, Player Two must tell Player One that they have hit a ship. To
make the game easier, they must also state which size of ship was hit. Player One continues to call out coordinates until they miss all of Player Two’s ships, recording all hit/missed ships on ‘The Enemy’s Map’ as they go along. Player Two starts at step 2 with roles reversed, and so on. The game ends when all of a player’s battleships are sunk. The player with ships remaining is the winner.
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My Map Cut out the battleships and place them on your map. Each circle on the ships should cover a coordinate. Don’t let your partner see where your ships are!
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The Enemy’s Map This is a copy of your partner’s map. As you find out where their ships are placed, plot them on here. Create a key . You could use a certain shape or colour to remind yourself of where an enemy ship is placed, and where there are no ships.
Hint: To make the game easier for each other, whenever you get hit, tell your partner which size of boat they have found. 13
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Learning activity 4 — Science skills (Suggested time limit —1 hour )
The armed forces often use helicopters as they are a very flexible form of transport. Make Paper Helicopters and have race to the floor with your friends! Simply stand tall and with your arms up high, hold your helicopter by the blades and drop! How can you alter your helicopter to make it fall more quickly? To make it fall more quickly I would
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Learning activity 5—Writing skills (Suggested time limit—1 hour )
In Flanders Fields By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
Can you write your own poem about war? Remember to:
use carefully chosen words to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
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Learning activity 6—Research skills ( Suggested time limit — 2 hours ) Medals are awarded to members of the armed forces for a variety of reasons e.g. .courage, gallantry Spend some time researching and then create a mini information book for one of your friends in Class 2.
Remember to:
research carefully first
use a clear format which includes headings and sub headings
include pictures as well as information text
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Home l earning pack October 2014—Pack 3 In order for us to further develop our home learning packs we would welcome feedback from parents and children. Please complete the brief questionnaire below and return to school with the completed home learning pack
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