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Maple Class home learning for Friday 1st May 2020

Another week of home learning completed! Please share what you are most proud of on our sharing assembly post – I love to see them! 

And lookout for tonight’s story 😉

Spellings – can you ask someone at home to pick some of the plural words we have been practising this week and ask you to spell them? You could either spell them out loud or write them down. 

English – this week we have explored a lot of suffixes (-ful, -est, -ing, -less, -ly, -ment, -ness). Can you go on a suffix hunt? See how many you can find in books, magazines, newspapers at home. Can you make a word search with all these words? 

Maths – look at some of the prices and amounts you have made this week. Which coins would you use to make those prices? How many different ways could you make those amounts? Which coins would you use? Explore as many different possibilities as you can. 

Theme – today is the last day this week of learning about “Festivals” in Japan. Pick an activity you haven’t tried yet. 

  • can you research festivals in Japan? What are the names of the festivals? When in the year are they celebrated?
  • What special food do Japanese people have during these festivals? Can you draw and label a plate of festival food?
  • What special clothes do people in Japan wear during times of festival? Can you draw them? Can you design your own festival clothing? 
  • Hina Matsuri – Doll Festival– March 3rd – people pray for their daughters’ future happiness, health and growth. Can you write a prayer for your future? Can you write a prayer for the future of your family?
  • Here’s an old traditional song that’s sung for the Festival in Japanese, and with a loose English translation.
  • Hina Matsuri Song 

Japanese

Akari o tsukema sho bon bori ni 

O hana o agemasyo momo no hana 

Gonin – bayashi no fue daiko 

Kyoo wa tanoshii Hina Matsuri

Loose English Translation

Let’s light the lanterns on the tiered stand Let’s put peach blossoms on the tiered stand 

Five court musicians are playing flutes and drums 

Today is a happy Dolls’ Festival.

  • can you write your own song? Can you include parts of your prayer?
  • Can you perform your song for your family?
  • Can you add music to your song, with instruments you have at home (or you could make your own). 

Tango no Sekku– Boys’ Festival – officially called Children’s Day or Kodomo no hi –May 5th

  • Large carp windsocks, called koinobori, are displayed outside houses of families with boys. There’s one windsock for each boy in the house. The largest windsock is for the oldest son of the house.  The carp is a symbol of Tango no Sekku, because carp are considered strong and determined.
  • Can you make your own windsock?

Tanabata – The Star Festival – July 7th

One fun tradition on this day: “Children write their wishes on strips of fancy paper and put them on displays made of the branches of bamboo trees.”

  • can you write your own wish and hang it on a tree or branch in your garden?

Thank you for all your support and engagement this week.

Have a good weekend, Mrs Keeler.