Talk homework

Adverts


Have a look in a newspaper or magazine for some adverts and see if you can spot some of the features we discussed this week.

Share all your new knowledge with your parents and point out any persuasive language, slogans or techniques you see.

If you find a good one, bring it to school

Mr Walls the Mad Scientist

This afternoon Y4 had lots of fun watching some demonstrations and discussing what was happening and why. Mr Walls found his amazing ideas from Science Kids

Does an orange float or sink?

Does an orange float or sink?

What did you find out?

Can you stab a potato with a straw?

Use a straw to stab a potato

What did you find out?

Is there a straw in the potato?

Raw or boiled egg? How can you tell?

Raw or boiled egg?

Does the egg spin or wobble?

oh no, which one is it? Will it be the raw one?

He is a brave volunteer

Boiled

Raw

Can you make an egg float?

Make an egg float

What has Mr Walls added?

Carefully placing the egg in the bowl

Blow up a balloon

Blow up a balloon with CO2

What is Mr Walls adding?

Mr Walls checks his notes

Make a tornado in a bottle 

Glitter

Careful said Mrs Ditch

What can you see?

 Static electricity

 Amplify sound

Use a balloon to amplify sound

Can you hear the tap?

Volcano

Baking soda and vinegar volcano

Add the vinegar and watch what happens

Photographer; Grace

It looks like you all had a very interesting afternoon.

Write back and tell me what happened during the experiments. Did everything go as Mr Walls expected?
If not, why do you think that was?

Adverts

Year 4 have started a new unit of work in Literacy. This week we are looking at printed adverts and tomorrow they are going to design an advertisement for a new toy but first they had to look at what makes an effective advert.

Having a look at printed adverts and discussing the features

Who is the advert aimed at?

Mr Walls explaining the layout

Is it effective? How?

Writing the evidence on the sheet

 What language features are used? Are there any slogans?

Looking for slogans, persuasive language

Later on in the day, we enjoyed reading Willy the Wimp by Anthony Browne and noticed an advertisement in there. Willy found it in the comic he was reading.

Do you think this is an effective advert?

Don't forget to bring some adverts in from home.