Learning Objective: To measure in centimetres.
Watch today’s video over on White Rose. Day 3.
Then go to Classroom Secrets Kids and log in using your details to play the game.
If you have a ruler in your house, can you find something that is shorter than 10cm?
Can you find something that is longer that 15cm?
Learning Objective: To read words with alternative pronunciations of graphemes,
Click on classroom secrets kids and log in with your details given to you in your latest learning pack. Play the game to practise your spilt vowel digraphs.
Remember the song:
When 2 vowels go walking,
the first one does the talking.
Watch the video and have a go at sorting the words before playing the game below:
username: march20
password: home
Log in to the Oxford Owl site and read today’s book.
Learning Objective: To form all lower case and capital letters correctly and to spell words with alternative grapheme spellings.
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Learning Objective: (Reading) To understand how characters would feel by linking to their own experiences and understanding what is being read to them.
Listen to the story from the beginning and check out the illustrations from the newest pages.
Excuse the yawn! I recorded this late last night as I am in school, getting ready to see you all again, in the daytime.
Has the story answered any of your questions on your tell me grid?
Can you add to your tell me grid?
Were you surprised when Pattan and his family floated away in the pumpkin?
Have you read a story before where something like this has happened?
What damage might the flood have caused around the Sahyadri Mountains?
Are there other families living by the mountains? What would they be doing now and how would they be feeling?
Click on the pictures below to take you to two different news-reports about how real floods have affected families.
How do they make us feel? Are there any particular words or phrases they use that stand out? Discuss how the reporters might be choosing the language they use – how do they want the viewers to feel? What words or phrases might have that impact on us?
How do you think Pattan’s family is feeling now?
I have been watching a very interesting programme about the world and how amazing everything is in it, even though sad things happen.
Because we have been learning about rivers, I thought you might want to see what the earth looks like from space as you can see the rivers.
Click on the image of Earth to explore using Google Earth. Can you see the rivers?
At least we can pretend we are going to the beach.
There are some lovely illustrations in this chapter.
Learning Objective: To understand how Peter was feeling in prison and how God helped him.
Watch the video about how Peter ended up in prison.
How did Peter hear from God?
Write a letter to the prison guards asking them to let Peter free.
Remember that Peter was put in prison because he was teaching people about Jesus.
Think about how Peter must have felt as he was put in prison because of who he believed in
Learning Objective: To spell words with alternative spellings of graphemes.
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Learning Objective: To understand what you are reading including non-fiction texts
Here is a picture of the front cover of the book I have been reading to you. Well done to Thomas who got it correct. I was very impressed with everyone else’s guess though. Well done! Since September, we have been practising predicting and understanding that the title of the book links to what the story is about and I can see you are all getting so much better at it.
When we first looked at this story, I asked you what you know about pumpkins and lots of you said that we carve them for Halloween. In America, they use pumpkins for another celebration. It is a similar time of year to Halloween, in the autumn.
Read the information below about the American celebration and answer the questions.
Cosmic yoga today. Follow the story of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt through yoga.
We are half way through the story now. Watch the video to see what happens to Grandma next.
After you have watched this chapter, you can take a look around the Roald Dahl Museum by clicking here.
Have you read any other Roald Dahl stories? Some of my favourites are: Matilda, The BFG and James and The Giant Peach. Many of his books have been turned in to films. I am surprised that George’s Marvellous Medicine hasn’t.
Learning Objective: Name and identify different trees.
When you go on your daily walk today, have a look at different types of trees. take your red books with you and draw the different trees all on one page.
What do you notice about the trees?
How do you know they are different?
Are there any trees that have some things that are different and some things that are the same.
Look at the colours of the trunks and their leaves. The shape of the leaves on a tree help us to know what the tree is called.
Have a look below:
Did you see any of those trees on your journey?
Some trees don’t loose their leaves in the autumn. Some trees are green all year round. These are called evergreen trees. The trees that loose their leaves are called deciduous trees.
Did you see some evergreen trees on your journey?
What do the deciduous trees look like in this season? It is spring at the moment.
