Hi everyone. It was another cold day today, wasn’t it? Did you enjoy playing in the snow?! Here are our activities for Thursday.

Wake Up, Shake Up: Big African Animals

Maths

Starter: Count in ones up to 20 and beyond (depending on confidence). Can you start on any number and not necessarily on 1? online 100 square

Yesterday we were comparing the mass of two different objects and talking about balancing scales. Do you remember that we said a balancing scale is like a see-saw? How do balancing scales/see-saws tell us which item is heavier if there are different things in either end? What were we looking for (one end sinking lower than other)? What if both ends of the balancing scales actually balance?! What does that tell us?

Today we will think about how to find out how heavy one thing is on its own. What if you put a teddy in one side of the balancing scale and wanted to weigh it? 

One of the things we can use is cubes. The multilink cubes all weigh the same because they are the same shape and size (plus we have lots of them in school!). If we weigh with cubes, we call this using a non-standard measure.

Have a look at the items on the sheet. How many cubes weigh the same as each item? weighing with cubes

There is a second sheet here if you want more work to do (though it is very similar to the sheet above. Measure-mass

Reading Skills

Do poems always rhyme? Have you got any poems in your house that do not rhyme? Enjoy listening to an adult or older sibling read a few to you. If you don’t have access to any poems, you may enjoy browsing this website to see what you can find: Poetry Archive

Can you find any alliteration or onomatopoeia in the poems that you listen to? Can you remember what these words mean?!

English

If you haven’t already, have a chat about what alliteration and onomatopoeia mean. You may enjoy watching ‘Doing the Animal Bop’ again so you can listen out for examples of alliteration and onomatopoeia: Doing the Animal Bop

Have a go at writing your own verse about an animal of your choice. It may help you to choose the animal which you described on Tuesday (the adjectives task) as you will already have some ideas to use. Look at my example below first and try to follow the same structure:

Graze and gallop like a horse

With a long, swishy tail 

It goes neigh, neigh, neigh!

 

‘Graze’ and ‘gallop’ are verbs. I also tried hard to think of two verbs starting with the same letter so I had some alliteration (this could prove tricky!). Then I have some description (adjectives): long, swishy tail. In my final line, I have used some onomatopoeia: neigh, neigh, neigh.

Can you write a poem that follows this structure?

___________ (verb) and _____________ (verb) like a _______________

With (a) ___________________, ___________________ ________________ (description)

It goes _____________, ________________, ________________! (onomatopoeia)

 

RE

Can you remember what a gurdwara is and what may happen inside one? Why is a gurwara special for Sikhs?

Today we will think about what we would see inside a gurdwara. Have a watch of the video and learn about the different features. inside a gurdwara

Have a quick chat after the video. Can you tell a grown up three things that you have learnt about the inside of a gurdwara?

Phonics

First, go through the flashcards: Flashcards

Today we will consolidate our learning in phonics. Have a go at this ‘SPaG mat’: Mat 2

Hope you all have a super day,

Mrs Garcia x