This week we are going to begin to study The Golden Compass.

This a film based on a book by Philip Pullman called Northern Lights. It is part of the Dark Materials trilogy. Some of you may have seen the film or you may have watched the BBC adaptation which has so far shown two series – one for each of the first two books. I really enjoyed watching these before Christmas. They are still available on iplayer – but ask your parents first!  Some of you may have even read the books or other books by Philip Pullman. We had planned to study books by Philip Pullman in class this term, so we were please to find these materials of Oak Academy to help you learn from home.

Monday

Lesson 1 – To identify Key characters and events in the plot 

This video lesson is only 18 minutes long and shouldn’t take more than half an hour even with the activities, so we will also move onto using expanded noun phrases to describe characters today.

Lesson 2 – To explore expanded noun phrases

Tuesday

To generate vocabulary to describe a character

Now try to write a short description of one of the characters. You only need to do one paragraph.

The lessons for the rest of the week will be posted later.

Instead of learning about electricity this half term we are going to focus on the Materials topic which had planned for the second half of the spring term. Hopefully, we will all be back together after half term and will then be able to do some hands on circuit work safely together in school.

There are lots of everyday materials in your home (especially your kitchen) which you can use for this topic, so we can guide you to learn about properties of materials , separating materials and how materials change. We will use a combination of videos, suggested investigations and online research for you to complete this science learning at home.

These lessons from Oak Academy include demonstrations. You could try the demonstration in these two yourself (as long as it is OK with your parents). They use things you will probably have in your kitchen.

Lesson 1 – Separating Materials-  What makes something pure?

Lesson 2  – What makes something a mixture?

7.1.21

This term our geography topic is The Mediterranean.

LO to locate Europe on a map and know where it is in relation to other continents

In school today I am  giving  the children a cut up map of the world ( in 8 pieces)  and asking them to put it together. I put a dot in the right hand corner of each square but it  is surprising how difficult they find it to ut it back together. You may want to try this at home.

blank world map

The children then need to identify Europe. Can they name and find the  the other  6 continents? This is revision from KS1. cpuld the children colour and name them on the map?

Focussing in on Europe the children may like to look at it on google maps. Here’s a great map of Europe at night. Can they recognise any of the countries from their shapes? Can they describe Europe’s location in relation to other parts of the world?

Europe at night

Although this is for slightly younger children , our class may enjoy the videos from Oak Academy on Europe

locational knowledge about Europe

English

For the next three days, we are going to be reading, analysing , and writing our own poem based on the poem The British by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah.

Wednesday

Benjamin Zephaniah poetry lessons

Watch the first two lessons – they are only 33 minutes in total and it wont take you longer than an hour in total to watch and answer the questions. Enjoy!

Thursday

As we are studying a poem by Benjamin Zephaniah, I thought you may enjoy hearing him read a poem. I cant find him reading The British but this one is great fun!

Today I  would like you to look at lessons 3 and 4 of  this unit

Benjamin Zephaniah poetry lessons

I have also included a copy of the poem which you may find useful for answering the questions.

The British Benjamin Zephaniah

Friday 

I would like you to write your own recipe  poem in the style of Benjamin Zephaniah. There are some suggestions  on day 5 of the unit for ideas your poem. You may come up with some ideas of your own. I would like to write a recipe for putting on a play. Your recipe will need a variety of people in order for it to be in the same style as the original poem. use the same line starts to help you create your own poem. I would love to see your finished product. Why not type them up and send them as an attachment to my email?