Year 4
Homework
Date set: 7.11.14
Date Due in: 13.11.14
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Reading every day. Please
write in your reading diary when you have read.
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Maths (20mins):
Our topic this week is Time Maths homework will be posted on
the mathletics website. Please ask your teacher for a paper copy if you need
one or if you have trouble logging on.
Please also practise your times tables up to 12 x 12.
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Literacy (20mins):
Queen visits
ceramic poppies at the Tower of London
Look at the picture of the Queen and Prince Philip. Write about this picture using full
paragraphs. You might like to think
about the following questions;
Where are they?
Why are they there?
What do you think they are thinking?
What do you think they might say to each other?
What might you ask the Queen and Prince Philip about their
visit?
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Spellings (20mins) should
be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences.
You need to:
• look at each word
• say the word
• copy the word in first space
• cover the words and try to write it from memory
• check to see if they are right
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there at the tower of london thay are there becaus at 1914 i think thay are looking at the poppys from when people died at the world war one i think thay would say this to each over am so sorry that these people died i would ask them if thay saw lots of poppys there and who killed them all at world war one .
ReplyDeleteThey are at the tower of london where the feilds are full of poppies from 1914 to 1918 when alot of peple were dead when the war ended.I think they are thinking I am sorry you died.They might have said all these soilders were so brave.
ReplyDeleteZayn I am glad you are starting to use the blog. this is very short for your homework though. Can you add some more paragraphs. Look at the questions you need to answer.
DeleteTwo minute silence
ReplyDeleteAt 11am on each Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at war memorials and other public spaces across the UK. The silence is meant as a tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for their country - but what is the significance of that date and time?
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of bitter fighting, The Great War was finally over. The Armistice was signed at 5am in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France on November 11, 1918. Six hours later, at 11am, the war ended.
The first Remembrance Day was conducted in 1919 throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolise the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember those who had died.
In a letter published in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919, an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, had proposed a respectful silence to remember those who had given their lives in the First World War. This was brought to the attention of King George V and on 7 November 1919, the King issued a proclamation which called for a two minute silence:
"All locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead."
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Armistice Day became Remembrance Day to include all those who had fallen in the two World Wars and other conflicts.
Since 1919, on the second Sunday of November, otherwise known as Remembrance Sunday, a two minute silence has been observed at 11am at war memorials, cenotaphs, religious services and shopping centres throughout the country.
The Royal Family, along with leading politicians and religious leaders gather at The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for a service and all branches of the civilian and military services are represented in ceremonies throughout Britain and the Commonwealth.
by pavan
ReplyDeleteWhy do we wear poppies as a sign of remembrance?
Remembrance Day is a poignant reminder to people of those who lost their lives during service in the war.
But why was the poppy chosen as the symbol of remembrance?
Wearing Poppies
The poppy is an international symbol for those who died in war, and has international origins.
A writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
Prior to the First World War few poppies grew in Flanders. But during the fighting the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing 'poppies' (popaver rhoeas) to thrive. When the war ended the lime was quickly absorbed, and the poppy began to disappear again.
John McCrae, a Canadian doctor who wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, made the connection 100 years later, during the First World War. McCrae joined the McGill faculty in 1900 after graduating from the University of Toronto, and later became a surgeon attached to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. Although he had been a doctor for years and had served in the South African War, it was impossible for him to get used to the suffering, the screams, and the blood. Major John McCrae had seen and heard enough in his dressing station to last him a lifetime.
At one point in the campaign he had spent seventeen days treating injured men - Canadians, British, Indians, French, and Germans - in the Ypres salient. It had been an ordeal that he had hardly thought possible. McCrae later wrote of it:
"I wish I could embody on paper some of the varied sensations of that seventeen days... Seventeen days of Hades! At the end of the first day if anyone had told us we had to spend seventeen days there, we would have folded our hands and said it could not have been done."
One death particularly affected McCrae. A young friend and former student, Lieut. Alexis Helmer of Ottawa, had been killed by a shell burst on 2 May 1915. Lieutenant Helmer was buried later that day in the little cemetery outside McCrae's dressing station, and McCrae had performed the funeral ceremony in the absence of the chaplain.
The next day, sitting on the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station beside the Canal de l'Yser, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, McCrae vented his anguish by composing a poem. The major was no stranger to writing, having authored several medical texts besides dabbling in poetry.
In the nearby cemetery, McCrae could see the wild poppies that sprang up in the ditches in that part of Europe, and he spent twenty minutes of precious rest time scribbling fifteen lines of verse in a notebook.
A young soldier watched him write it. Cyril Allinson, a twenty-two year old sergeant-major, was delivering mail that day when he spotted McCrae. The major looked up as Allinson approached, then went on writing while the sergeant-major stood there quietly. "His face was very tired but calm as we wrote," Allinson recalled. "He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmer's grave."
When McCrae finished five minutes later, he took his mail from Allinson and, without saying a word, handed his pad to the young NCO. Allinson was moved by what he read:
"The poem was exactly an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. It never occurred to me at that time that it would ever be published. It seemed to me just an exact description of the scene."
by pavan
They are in the tower of London because there are lots of poppies. They are there because in 1914 the World War 1 started. They are probably looking at the poppies from when the people had sadly died. I think there thinking “I feel sorry about the people who died.” They might say to each other “When the people went to the World War 1 they thought wrong because it was just waste of their lives.” I would ask them how they felt when they went there.
ReplyDelete7/11/2014
ReplyDeleteBy Siddharth Sridhar
The queen and Prince Phillip have come anxiously to the Tower of London to see millions of wonderful ceramic poppies.
The queen and Prince Phillip have come to see the ceramic poppies possibly because it is near Remembrance Day (11.11.14) and they have come to remember the people who died in World Wars 1 & 2. They have come to make a centenary celebration marking 100 years since the outbreak of the Great War which costed many lives, families and much more innocent people/children. Also another possible reason why the queen and Prince Phillip have visited the Tower to see the ceramic poppies was because they just wanted to admire the great looking poppies.
They might be thinking about the soldiers written on gravestones and buried from the First and the Second world wars to make our country today a better one. They might also be thinking that the war was just a silly conflict. If Gavilo Princip hadn’t shot Franz Ferdinand, nothing would have happened. I guess when they had a glimpse of the poppies, they remembered their past and survival of World War 2. They soon might be filled with the dreadful sights in the war strapped in the palace.
Prince William and the Queen might be saying “These poppies are here to represent the people who got killed in the World Wars to make our small island (country) a better and safer place.
I might ask the Queen and Prince Phillip (if I had that super rare opportunity) about their opinion of how the ceramic poppies were. Also I would ask how he queen and Prince Phillip remember the wars without poppies. I would then ask whether world war two made an influence on their lives which were long lasting.
Two minute silence
ReplyDeleteAt 11am on each Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at war memorials and other public spaces across the UK. The silence is meant as a tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for their country - but what is the significance of that date and time?
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of bitter fighting, The Great War was finally over. The Armistice was signed at 5am in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France on November 11, 1918. Six hours later, at 11am, the war ended.
The first Remembrance Day was conducted in 1919 throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolise the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember those who had died.
In a letter published in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919, an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, had proposed a respectful silence to remember those who had given their lives in the First World War. This was brought to the attention of King George V and on 7 November 1919, the King issued a proclamation which called for a two minute silence:
"All locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead."
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Armistice Day became Remembrance Day to include all those who had fallen in the two World Wars and other conflicts.
Since 1919, on the second Sunday of November, otherwise known as Remembrance Sunday, a two minute silence has been observed at 11am at war memorials, cenotaphs, religious services and shopping centres throughout the country.
The Royal Family, along with leading politicians and religious leaders gather at The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for a service and all branches of the civilian and military services are represented in ceremonies throughout Britain and the Commonwealth.
by pavan
They are at the tower of London respecting everyone who has died for are freedom
ReplyDeleteThey are there so they can have there peace and there 2 minutes silence for there respect . I think there thinking about how they got there tomorrow.
The Great War (1962)
Vernon Scannell
Whenever war is spoken of
I find
The war that was called Great invades the mind:
The grey militia marches over land
A darker mood of grey
Where fractured tree-trunks stand
And shells, exploding, open sudden fans
Of smoke and earth.
Blind murders scythe
The deathscape where the iron brambles writhe;
The sky at night
Is honoured with rosettes of fire,
Flares that define the corpses on the wire
As terror ticks on wrists at zero hour.
These things I see,
But they are only part
Of what it is that slyly probes the heart:
Less vivid images and words excite
The sensuous memory
And, even as I write,
Fear and a kind of love collaborate
To call each simple conscript up
For quick inspection:
Trenches’ parapets
Paunchy with sandbags; bandoliers, tin-hats,
Candles in dug-outs,
Duckboards, mud and rats.
Then, like patrols, tunes creep into the mind:
A long, long trail, The Rose of No Man’s Land,
Home Fires and Tipperary;
And through the misty keening of a band
Of Scottish pipes the proper names are heard
Like fateful commentary of distant guns:
Passchendaele, Bapaume, and Loos, and Mons.
And now,
Whenever the November sky
Quivers with a bugle’s hoarse, sweet cry,
The reason darkens; in its evening gleam
Crosses and flares, tormented wire, grey earth
Splattered with crimson flowers,
And I remember,
Not the war I fought in
But the one called Great
Which ended in a sepia November
Four years before my birth.
Her majesty the queen( Elizabeth the 2nd) and prince Philip are in the Tower of London to visit the ceramic poppies. They are there because they are remembering the dead soldiers that died in the first world war or world war one. Soldiers didn't call the war the first world war world war one they called it the great war. I think they are thinking that they are sorry that the soldiers died in the great war. I also think that they are saying that if the soldiers weren't dead or injured then all the poppies surrounding would not be there or planted there and you wouldn't find poppies in great Britain because a soldier had died or injured
ReplyDeleteI found another poem : In Flanders field
ReplyDeleteBy Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
(1872-1918)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses,row on row ,That markes our place; and in the sky The larks, still singing, fly scarce heard aimed the guns below
We are the dead.Short days ago we lived,felt down,sunset glow,loved and were loved,and now we lie in Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from flailing 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.
The Queen and Prince Philip are at the Tower of London. They are there to see the display of ceramic poppies, which is there because it is 100 years since the 1st world war started.
ReplyDeleteAs they are looking at the poppies, I imagine that they are thinking about all of the soldiers who gave their lives fighting in WW1 and WW2. 888,246 British or Allied military personnel lost their lives in world war 1, and there is a ceramic poppy at the Tower, for each of them.
The Queen and Prince Philip may be saying how sad all the deaths were and how amazing that there is one poppy for each soldier that died. Prince Philip was in the Royal Navy in world war 2, so he may have been remembering some of his friends who died.
I would ask them about the stuff they remember from the 2nd world war, like the blitz and London being on fire and air raids and how scary it was.
The Queen and Prince Philip are at Londin Tower walking through the field of ceramic poppies.They are there to remember all the soldiers who died in World War 1.They thinking about all the dead and injured soldiers which lived during the world war. They are talking about the dead and injured soldiers which lived through world war 1.I might ask what they think about all the dead soldiers during world war 1.
ReplyDeleteHer Majesty,Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philips are in the Tower of London.They are walking down a path,all surrounded by poppies.Each poppie represents a great solider who had died in the great war.
ReplyDeleteThey are there because the want to see all the beautiful pooppies.The poppies will help them remember all the peole who had died in the Great War(World War I).
I think that they are thinking about all the people who had died in the war for us.I not life would be very difficult we wouldn`t be having freedom.The Queen and Price Phili[p are being thankful.
in this picture the queen and prince Philip are walking in the tower of London where is full of ceramic poppies. They represent millions of people who died in WW 1 and 2.
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