Hello everyone. Here are our activities for Wednesday.

Wake Up, Shake Up: Pirate

Maths

Recap the words that you used yesterday and make sure you understand what each one means: lighter, lightest, heavier, heaviest. How can we know for sure if something is lighter or heavier than something else? Have you ever been on a see-saw? What happens if an adult sits on the other end?!

The children at school are going to be using balancing scales today to compare the mass of two different items. It is highly unlikely that you have any balancing scales at home, but if you have access to a see-saw, you may want to have fun today asking different people in your family to sit at either end. Can you work out from doing this who is the heaviest person in your family? Who is the lightest?

Look at the items on the balancing scale. Which one is heavier? How do you know (that end of the balance is lower to the ground than the other).  For the last two questions, draw your own items in the scales so that what the balance shows is correct. comparing mass

You may also want to have a go at this game: Happy Camel game

English

So far this week we have looked at verbs and at adjectives. Today we are going to focus on something called onomatopoiea. This means that a word sounds like the noise it is describing. An example of this would be ‘plop’; just the word sounds like something being dropped into water! ‘Doing the Animal Bop’ has a lot of words in it that work in this way. Can you find them? Doing the Animal Bop

It may be an idea to watch this video first so you are very sure what sorts of words you are listening out for: sound words There are also some short activities to do on this BBC site. Can you complete activity 1 and 2? Can you think of some sound (onomatopoeic) words for a favourite animal?

Phonics/SPaG

Today we will revise what happens to a word when we add ‘er’. Sometimes we add ‘er’ to an adjective and it makes it more of something. For example, ‘light’ becomes ‘lighter’ which means ‘more light’. Sometimes we add ‘er’ to a verb and this turns the word into a noun/thing. For example, if we add ‘er’ to ‘teach’ (verb), we get ‘teacher’ (noun). What will each of these words say after ‘er’ has been added? Choose the option to add ‘er’: adding ‘er’ suffix

PE

Wednesday afternoons are PE for the children at school. Here is the third and final installment of our rainforest inspired dance: Leopard is rescued

You may also want to enjoy taking part in this yoga session: Pedro the Penguin

Have a lovely day, everyone.

Mrs Garcia x