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.
Learning Objective: To use the correct vocabulary when comparing length and height.
Click on the image to take you to Classroom Secrets Kids. Your log in was printed in your newest learning pack. If you can’t find it, email me and I will sort it for you.
Now have a go at the questions:
Learning Objective: To read and spell words with graphemes with different pronunciations.
Play flashcards on Phonics Play by clicking on the picture.
username: march20
password: home
Click on Discovery Education to learn all about the naughty letter ‘c’. Can you work out why ‘c’ is naughty?
username: student4991
password: vincent2
Go back to Phonic Play by clicking on the picture. Practise some of the phase 5 graphemes in sentences:
Read this story on the Oxford Owl website:
Handwriting and spellings
Learning Objective: To spell words with alternative spellings of graphemes.
English
Learning Objective: (reading) To understand why a character acts in a certain way.
(Writing) To use a capital letter and a full stop to show sentences.
Can anyone guess what the title of our book is? I will reveal the front cover tomorrow.
Click below to listen to me read the story so far.
What do you think Kanni and Pattan are thinking while they are filling the sacks?
Imagine you are one of them. Write down how you are feeling. Here are some sentence starters to help you.
I am nervous about…
What if …………. happens?
How will we……………………………..?
It might be okay if ………………………………….
I need to…………………………………………………………………..
Congratulations Darin!
This week I am going to answer your questions about rivers. Some of the pictures you can click on to learn more.
Q1. Is the water clean for drinking?
Some river water is safe to drink but it is best not to try it unless you know for sure because there can be bugs in the water that you cannot see.
That leads us on to our next question.
Q2. Are there animals and creatures in rivers?
If you google ‘animals in the River Severn’, you will see that lots of animals live in or use the river. As it is such a big river, it is impossible to list all of the animals and creatures that live in it. Lots of animals use the river to wash and drink from too.
Q3. How deep is the River Severn?
The deepest part of the River is 15 metres deep. That is more than 2 houses put on top of each other! Some parts have shallow bits by the banks but its is difficult to tell how quickly it goes deep so it is best not to try.
This leads to our next question.
Q4. Can you swim in the river?
Click here to play some games all about learning safety by a river.
Q5. Why are there rocks in rivers?
Rocks are in rivers because the water travels over land. Where there are rocks, the water travels quickly and pulls the rocks of the river bed. As the water moves faster the rocks travel along the river and where the river slows down, the rocks do too. They sometimes get stuck in the river bed further down also.
Q6. How much land do rivers cover?
The map below shows how much of the United Kingdom is covered by rivers. You can see a lot of them! Can you remember where the River Severn is?
Learning Objective: Problem Solving.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s problem solving questions for Penny’s Petshop.