Cedar Class Learning for 02 June 2020
English: LO: to use labels.
Labelling is used to identify specific items within text, pictures, and other items someone wishes to draw the attention of a reader to. We have used labels in class to identify the key features on a drawing of a stone age house, of a Viking longboat, and of different word classes within texts. In science, labels can be used to show a reader what specific parts of an object are. For example, a diagram of the mouth could be labelled with all of the different types of teeth. Find something in your home you can label (a picture of an animal, a drawing of a person, a plant from your garden). Now, identify the proper (scientific) names for the things on the picture. Using a ruler, neatly draw a line from the thing on the picture you are going to label, and write the proper (scientific) name for the part next to it. Remember when we dissected and labelled the daffodils if you need any ideas to get you started!
Maths: LO: to investigate the relationship between weight and capacity.
Yesterday you looked at the weight of objects in and around your home. Today, I would like you to look at capacity. Capacity is different to weight, in that capacity refers to how much an object can hold, absorb or receive. For example, 1 litre jug has a capacity of 1 litre. 1 litre of water will be a different weight to 1 litre of sand, but they both take up the same capacity in the 1 litre jug.
Today, find a vessel like a jug and fill it to a set capacity of a certain object. Then, weigh the contents of the jug and see how much weight was in it. Then, find a different object and fill it to the same capacity and then compare the different weights. The example I gave above of using a litre jug to measure 1 litre of water and 1 litre of sand is the kind of thing I would like you to try.
Write down your findings.
Topic: LO: to investigate the digestive system.
The digestive system is the part of our bodies in which we extract all of the things we need from the food we digest, and excrete the bits we don’t need or can’t use. Today, I would like you to investigate the digestive system and create a diagram of the different parts of it. You could use your labelling skills you practised in English to help you label your diagram neatly!
If you have some materials around the home, there is a fun practical task you can complete to model the digestive system, see this link:
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/35396/digestive-system-experiment