Home Schooling @ Holy Cross and All Saint RCYear 5

Week Beginning 13.07.20

Dear Parents,

Here is your home learning menu for this week. Keep reading every day, and make use of our online learning platforms using your logins. Remember to keep yourself safe online and ask adults for permission before you log on.

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This week’s learning is based on this painting by the artist Henri Matisse. It is called ‘Painter’s family’.

Who do you think is in the painting?Can you list the family members shown?

Choose some of these activities to complete this week.

Research about

Henri Matisse and

produce a fact sheet

in any way you like

about his life. Some

useful subheadings

could be: Artwork,

Early life and

education, How did

he become famous?, Family etc.

Activity 1

Activity 2

Create a family portrait of your family in a roomof your choice in your house. Think carefully about how you can add detail to the backgroundlike Matisse has.

Activity 3

Matisse created this

painting in 1911

shortly before WW1

1914-1918.

Research into an

area of your choice

about WW1. You can

present this any way

you choose. This

information is a good starting point:

https://www.bbc.co.u

k/bitesize/topics/zqhyb9q

Activity 4

Research into the

fashion of the 20th

Century for men

and women.

Design your own

outfit.

There is some

useful information

on this website:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/cont

ent/articles/i/introduction-

to-20th-century-

fashion/?gclid=EAIaIQobC

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Activity 5

Write a diary entry

from one of the

characters

expressing their

feelings. Use the

picture and your

imagination to give you ideas.

Activity 6

Write a diary

entry from one of

the characters

expressing their

feelings. Use the

picture and your

imagination to give you ideas.

Activity 7

Create a family

tree with the help

of your family.

Perhaps you

could speak to

other family

members to

research this.

Activity 8

Create some

examples of

direct and indirect

speech that each

character might

say to each other.

Activity 9

Create a ‘still life’

piece of artwork by

painting or drawing

an ornament, bowl of

fruit or a vase of

flowers from your

house.

Activity 10

Create a final piece

of art work using any

media of choice,

inspired by Matisse’s

‘Painter’s Family’

Please share your

completed work

with us on Class

Dojo.