Rainforests

You may remember that you wrote some wonderful non- chronological reports about Romans Soldiers in the Autumn term. I have been so impressed with how your writing skills have improved even more since then.

Your task for Thursday and Friday is to plan and write a non-chronological report about the Rain forest. You may choose whether you focus on plants or animals.

More detail of your writing task here:       Rainforest writing  

Example texts here:  Forests of Life – Why Rainforests Are Important page 1

Forests of Life – Why Rainforests Are Important page 2

You might find these videos useful to watch:

Virtual Field Trip to the Amazon

Sci show for kids

National Geographic

You probably won’t need them all for your writing but you might enjoy watching them…

Please do continue to read for pleasure, listen to stories and share books with your family. There are lots of famous authors and actors sharing readings of books for free at the moment. It’s great to see such positive use of technology.

Here are some short texts with questions to check understanding and to practise answering the sorts of questions we look at in school:

All

This BBC Bitesize session practises the useful skills of expressing an opinion and summarising.

Dindy and the Elephant

Blyton

Stone Age Artist Blyton

Donaldson

Stone-Age-Comprehension-Donaldson

Pankhurst

Stone Age Artist Pankhurst

Welford

Step-into-the-Stone-Age-Welford

Hello Red class. It was lovely to be able to speak to some of you and your parents on the telephone last week. I hope you were able to enjoy VE day at home and are now well rested and ready for another week of home learning.

For English this week I have some activities and writing based on a book called the Kaypok tree. I was lucky enough to visit a rain forest last Christmas and even saw a Kaypok tree which reminded me of this book by Lynne Cherry.

I think this book has a beautiful pictures, interesting text and a thought provoking message.

Monday

Today we become familiar with the book and focus on verbs.

Kaypok tree Day 1

Tuesday

Today we are focusing on verb tenses especially the present perfect.

Kaypok Tree Day 2

Perfect Form Powerpoint with audio

Wednesday

Today we rehearse your use of the present perfect and write a postcard.

Kaypok Tree Day 3

Thursday

Watch for new posts later in the week – non fiction writing Thursday and Friday.

Welcome to another week of home maths learning. The weather forecast is not so good this week, so I have tried to include more active and practical indoor learning ideas as well as the usual videos and paper based learning.

Both Year groups could use this link which gives you some ideas on learning or practising your times tables whilst keeping active: BBC Super movers

Here is a 8 x “board” game: 8 times tables space race game

This week year 3 are practising and using BBC multiplication and division facts and skills.

Year 3  –

Year-3-Video links wc 11 May _ Summer Week 4

or click on Week 4 of this website   Video links   

Monday

Lesson 1 The 4 and 8 times-tables

Answers: Lesson 1  – Answers The 4 and 8 times-tables

Tuesday

Lesson 2 Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit

Answers: Lesson 2  – Answers Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit

Wednesday

Lesson 3 Divide 2-digits by 1-digit

Answers:Lesson 3  – Answers Divide 2-digits by 1-digit

Thursday

Lesson 4 Scaling

Answers:   Lesson 4  – Answers Scaling

Year 4

Year-4-Week-4 video links

or click on Week 4 of this website  Video links

Monday

Lesson 1 Correspondence problems

Answers: Lesson 1 Answers Correspondence problems

Tuesday

Lesson 2 Perimeter of a rectangle

Answers :Lesson 2 Answers Perimeter of a rectangle

Wednesday

Lesson 3 Perimeter of rectilinear shapes

Answers: Lesson 3 Answers Perimeter of rectilinear shapes

Year 4 extra resources for Monday to Wednesday Lessons

These paper based resources follow the same topics and approach to maths as we do in school. The first lesson on Correspondence problems might be especially useful.

Year-4-Week-4-Maths – Home-Learning-Pack

Year-4-Week-4-Maths – Home-Learning-Pack-Guidance-and-Answers

  Narrow Escape 2     –  The Rocketeer

The film is set during WW2 and features a young boy who dreams of flying.   One day the peace of this small farming community is shattered by a police chase.

A tragedy is on the cards but luckily ‘The Rocketeer’ was on hand to save the day!

Today, I would like you to imagine you are the boy in the animation and write a recount of what happened that day.

The Rocketeer on Vimeo

The Rocketeer on Literacy Shed      

(For the Literacy Shed link you will need to scroll to the bottom – some of the other War and Peace Videos are aimed at slightly older children. I have given you two different links in case one website is running slowly.)

Here are some ideas for writing your recount successfully:

The Rocketeer

This week we are going to use two videos to support our writing. Both have a theme of Narrow Escapes, but they are very different.

Narrow Escape 1 – the Impala and the Leopard

We are going to practise our story telling skills using varied adverbials in different positions in our sentences using this video as a stimulus.

Monday

Narrow Escapes Day 1

Tuesday

Narrow Escapes Day 2

Powerpoint – Adverbials 1

Wednesday

Narrow Escapes Day 3

Thursday

Narrow Escape 2 The Rocketeer – this is an animation with a WW2 link.

The Rocketeer on Vimeo

The Rocketeer on Literacy Shed      

(For the Literacy Shed link you will need to scroll to the bottom – some of the other War and Peace Videos are aimed at slightly older children. I have given you two different links in case one website is running slowly.)

I will post more learning guidance for using this later in the week.

The May Bank Holiday this year has been moved to Friday 8th May to mark the 75th Anniversary of V.E Day. We will commemorating 75 years since Victory in Europe.

Why not watch some of these video clips, read the comprehension then choose some of the activities?

VE Day  on  Espresso

BBC class clips  This short film explains what VE Day and VJ Day were, and the events that led to the end of the war.

KS2 VE Day Information PowerPoint.

VE day Reading comprehension (differentiated)

VE day inspired musical activities

VE-Day-Wordsearch

Simple WW2 Spitfire Glider Activity Paper Craft

KS2 VE Day Themed Colouring Pages