Good morning everyone, How is it Tuesday already?
To warm up our maths brains, have a go at this basket ball game. You will need to partition numbers into tens and ones. If you are super confident, try hundreds, tens and ones.
For your maths today, we are going to look at how multiplication can be shown as repeated addition. Have a little look at the PowerPoint.
We have pretty much finished our rainforest creature report now. These are the features your report needs to have. If you haven’t finished your report, please can you finish it today.
- A bright colourful title
- Sub-headings to tell the reader what each paragraph is about
- A description of your animal (this is the introduction)
- A paragraph about what your animal eats – its prey
- A paragraph about what eats your animal- its predators
- A paragraph about where your creature lives – its habitat
- Pictures of your creature with labels
- A fact box with your 3 facts in it
- Lots of lovely, bright decoration to make the reader want to read it
If you have finished your report, You can write a glossary. When we first began looking at rainforests, we wrote one, do you remember? Please can you choose 5 or 6 words out of your report that need explaining. For example: mammal, canopy, herbivore, algae, tropical.
Can you order them alphabetically…
Algae-
Canopy-
Herbivore-
Mammal-
Tropical-
…and explain for the reader what these words mean. If you can fit this on your page great, if not on the back or on another page is just fine.
Then I would like you to read through your report and check that you have all the features you need. These are what makes your report really interesting to read.
If you would like to send a picture of your report to me, I will make a class gallery and put them on the website so that everyone can see your lovely work.
Please can you practise your spellings.
How about a brain break?
Can you find 5 or 10 minutes to read your book. Somewhere warm, snuggly and comfortable.
For your art this afternoon, I would like you to have a look at the patterns I have made
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In the first box, I have drawn a pattern. Then in each of the next boxes I have made it smaller. Can you see what happens to the colour as I make the pattern smaller? Today, you can either start with my patterns in the first box and make them smaller or you can use the blank sheet and draw your own pattern and make it smaller and smaller in each box. This skill is great for adding texture to a sketch and fantastic for pencil control.
Have another little break…treat yourself, you are working really hard.
For our PSHE this week, I would like you to continue to think about the jobs people do. Last week, we talked about the jobs people in your house do. This week, I would like you to think about the job you would like to do, your dream job. Draw yourself doing it in the middle of the sheet.
Have a discussion with the people at home when they have a moment about what kind of skills and qualities you need to do this job. Do you need to know how to do something or work something? Do you need to be calm under pressure or cheerful? Write those skills and qualities you need around the outside. You can make it bright and colourful – even write in felt tip pen!!
I thought it would be really lovely to see you all on Wednesday at 2.30 for a catch up. People can share what they have been doing (if they would like to) and wave at their friends, we are all missing each other and I think it will be lovely to see everyone. I will send out a meeting to the children’s email addresses. It will have a Teams link on which you can use to access the meeting. It would be really useful if you could show your child how to mute themselves on the computer so that we can all listen to each other without background noise.
I hope you all have a lovely day,
Love from Mrs Pope x
