Hi, everyone. Today’s activities involve maths, English and art.

Maths

Today we will revisit capacity. Watch the short video to remind you what ‘capacity’ means: capacity video

Work through the activities on this sheet. There is guidance on the sheet for adults and question prompts you can ask your child: Activity Cards – Compare Capacity

Have a go at this game, trying out each of the different containers to fill the bath. It’s great for practising estimating skills: Bubble Bath game pbskids

Don’t forget, practical activities like baking are super for improving understanding of capacity and weighing.

English

Your digital books are looking amazing and the bookshelf is filling up!

Your first job today is to make sure you have completed all four pages of your book: fruits, veg, wild plants and trees.

Next, if you haven’t done so already, have a go at adding a contents page. You can do this by clicking on the icon for inserting a new page after your front cover. I have added one to my book as an example. Remember what pages we have done and in what order.

After that, I also want you to have a go at adding a glossary at the back of the book. Have a look through your book and write down on a piece of paper any words that you think a reader may need help understanding the meaning of. Again, I have done an example for you. You may need a dictionary to help you check the meanings of some of the words. Also, work out the order that you will type these words in before you start doing so because in a glossary, your words should be in alphabetical order!

If you are using a paper template for your book, you may need to make your contents and glossary pages on separate pieces of paper. However, if you print off the template again, you can attach it to the first section by gluing two pages together. It is the process of knowing how to go about making a contents and glossary page that is most important though so don’t worry if you don’t have these pages in the actual book.

Art and Design

Your landscape pictures last week were superb. This week I would like you to choose a different ‘medium’ to produce another landscape picture so that you can see what a different appearance this gives a piece of art. For example, if you used pencil crayon last week, today try using collage; if you used collage last week, try using pencil crayon today. Again, think about how to create light and dark shades.

Here are some more ideas for what you could use:

wax crayon

chalk (Paul Mitchell’s piece below lends itself well to this I feel as you could have lots of fun smudging colours to create different shades)

paint

the computer

collage with natural materials (leaves, feathers, grass etc)

Feel free to base your work off the same piece of art as last week or choose something different. Here are some more examples of landscape pictures of Pontesbury and the local area:

When you have finished, compare your piece this week to the one you did last week. How are they different? What did you prefer using to create your work and why? Which medium was more difficult to use in terms of creating light and dark shades?

I look forward to seeing what you create!

Enjoy the day, everyone. x