Phonics: New blend today of sk. Use the sk sound to make the words skip, skin and skid. Use the words in a sentence. Say the sentence, now write it down, and read the sentence.
Maths: Why not try some cooking today! Can you weigh ingredients out to use a scale correctly. You could make some biscuits, pizza dough or bread! I would love to see some pictures of you cooking!
Literacy: Can you make your own cut and stick alphabet bunting? You could hang them up in your bedroom!
Science: Do you know which foods are good for you? Could you make your own plate of healthy foods to have a balanced diet? Why not get crafty!
English: LO: to identify features of a non-chronological report.
Today I would like you to think very carefully about the features of an information report. If you can find an example around the home in a magazine or newspaper, that would be very helpful. Alternatively you could search the internet, or look back at some of the work your completed on the Japan project.
Write down all of the necessary features of a report. For example: headings, sub-headings, use of specific language.
Write some examples under each feature and practise creating descriptive headings and sub-headings. Your afternoon topic work requires these skills, so use your English session to prepare for writing a report.
Maths: LO: to accurately measure.
Today I would like you to practise measuring objects as accurately as possible, using centimetres and millimetres. Find a ruler with millimetre markings and find some smaller objects around your home. Measure them and accurately record the length of each object in your workbook. Are there any objects in your home which are smaller than 1 millimetre? As an extension you could research smaller units of measure using the internet.
Topic: LO: to investigate a balanced diet.
A balanced diet means eating a different range of foods from the main food groups in order to make sure that we stay healthy. Today I would like you to investigate what the main food groups are, and find some foods which fall into each of these food groups. Do you think you eat a balanced diet? Work out how balanced your dinner is tonight by seeing which food groups you have on your plate.
Would a balanced diet for a human be appropriate for all mammals? Do any animals have diets which are similar to ours?
English – Today I would like you to edit and improve your Big Write. Use the checklist on the slide to help you read through your work and make improvements. You might like to get someone else to read through and give you some feedback. Remember you can send them to me to look at and give you some feedback too!
Afternoon – The digestive system. Have a go at the tasks to help you learn about this part of our body.
Phonics: use the blend st to make the words start, street and strong. Sound them out, write them down, read them and now write them in a sentence.
Maths: Use 5 different objects from your house or garden to put in order from smallest to largest, 5 different spoons are a good idea! Can you measure then carefully and write down how long they are?
Literacy: Alphabetical order. Can you sing the alphabet song? Now can you think of all the different things you know that start with a. draw pictures or write them down. If you get 10, try the b. See how many letters you can do!
Science: The Digestive System. I have found a song on You Tube to help teach about the Digestive System. Search for Mr R Digestion song. I think the children will really like it!
You can draw or colour your own picture of the digestive system too!
Spellings – to indicate possession by a person or an object, add an apostrophe (‘) followed by an ‘s’ (like horse=horse’s, Jenny=Jenny’s). Try these words and put into sentences:
Peter, car, shoe, Sarah, office, bird
English – read a book, or some pages, of your favourite book. Can you ask someone to film you and post it on the Maple Class post? Explain to someone else why it is your favourite book.
Maths – can you compare the lengths of different items today. Pick a selection of objects from around your home and pair them up. Measure each one and then record which is greater than/ less than the other. Remember to use the > and < symbols.
Theme – ‘The Digestive system’. Can you research the different parts of the digestive system and draw and label a diagram? The website www.ducksters.com has a good webpage if you visit the science -biology – digestive system section. There’s also a quiz to have a go at!
Spellings: Using the words you collected yesterday which started with the prefixes inter. super, anti and auto, can you practice spelling some of these, using the look, write cover, check strategy?
Arithmetic: This week, we will be looking at rounding. Remember with rounding, you look at the column to the right of the one you are rounding. If this is 5 or greater, you round the number up, if this is 0-4, the number will remain the same. If you need some extra help with this, the video attached will explain more.
Can you have a go at rounding these numbers?
1) 234,776 to the nearest 10
2) 342,221 to the nearest 100
3) 43,886 to the nearest 1000
4) 3.556 to the nearest tenth
5) 12.887 to the nearest whole number.
Grammar: This week we are going to focus on semi- colons. Semi-colons are used to separate two main clauses that are clearly related to each other but could stand on their own as sentences. They can be used to replace a conjunction, e.g.
I have a rugby match next week and I really hope we win.
I have a rugby match next week; I really hope we win.
Challenge 1:
Circle the conjunction in each sentence below.
1. I am starving so I can’t wait until dinner.
2. Sam was desperately tired and he wanted to go home to bed.
3. It was pouring outside so I needed to bring my umbrella to school today.
4. Fiona went to meet her friend at the airport because she hadn’t seen her for ages.
5. My team are at the top of the league so I expect we will win our match today.
Challenge 2: Choose two of the sentences above and rewrite them by replacing the conjunction with a semi-colon.
English: L.O. To predict the plot of the book from the cover and the blurb.
Today we are starting a brand new book for this half term! We are going to be reading the book ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar! The whole PDF of the book, ready for when we start reading, will be available on the class webpage. We are going to be looking at the front cover and blurb of the book first before we start reading and make some predictions! Using the front cover, can you answer these questions? You can discuss them first and then have a go at answering these in your home learning book.
What does this cover suggest that the book is about?
Where do you think it is set? Why?
What does the title tell us? Who do you think the main character is?
Now read the blurb, can you answer the following questions?
Stanley Yelnats’ family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried up lake bed. The Warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a lie. Stanley must dig up the truth.
What is a ‘miscarriage of justice’? What does it tell us about Stanley?
What does the name ‘Camp Green Lake’ suggest about the detention centre?
If someone told you, you were visiting ‘Camp Green Lake’ what would you picture?
Why do you think the Warden makes the boys dig a big hole every day?
What could the lie be? What could the truth be?
Now, make some predictions. What do you think will happen in the book? Can you back up your points using what you know from the blurb/ cover?
Maths: Can you choose another activity today from the list of activities attached on measurement? Could you practice your accurate measuring today or your estimation skills? The full list of activities and printable resources are on the class webpage of the website.
Topic: For today and tomorrow, we will be looking at the digestive system and a balanced diet. Can you try one of these activities today and another tomorrow to understand more about our digestive system and what it means to eat a balanced diet?
Suggested ideas (You are more than welcome to research and present your ideas and findings in your own way!)
• Research the purpose and structure of the digestive system.
• Design a balanced diet for a child and an adult. You could even consider what a balanced diet would be for different types of people- would a runner need a different diet to a writer?
• How can we help our digestive system and keep it healthy?
• Draw the digestive system and label it scientifically.
• Look at how diets have changed through time. Why do you think this is?
• How are foods grouped and why are they grouped in this way? Research this and make a poster about them.
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:
