Wednesday 8th July – English and Maths

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Maths
Today’s maths focus is angles in various quadrilaterals.
Begin with the White Rose Lesson 3 revision and then complete the task.
White Rose Video Link
Task: Lesson-3-Angles-in-special-quadrilaterals

For more input and extension work on this area of maths, please watch the BBC Daily Lesson and then complete this task: Angles in shapes extension

English
For today’s work, we are going to dip into Cressida Cowell’s creativity summer camp. Today’s focus is on poetry. Click on the link below and pick two videos to watch that appeal to you.
Cressida Cowell’s Summer Camp

Your challenge is now to write a poem on the theme of friendship. You could write a haiku, a kenning, an acrostic or your own free verse style of poem.

Haiku

Kenning

Kennings are like riddles and are a type of poem. Kennings are commonly used in poetry for effect. They describe something without saying what it is. Each line in a kenning poem has only two words. These words are joined using a hyphen. The two words are usually a noun and a verb or a noun and a noun. This two-word phrase is used instead of a one-word noun.

Kennings were originally used in Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon poems. We use kennings in our everyday language, such as ‘sky-scraper’ for a very tall building. Kennings describe what a person, idea or object is or does.

Kenning Poem examples:

Winter kenning:
Sun-stealing
Night-stretcher
Cold-maker
Snow-faller
Face-freezer
Christmas-bringing

United Arab Emirates kenning:
Lights-flashing
Sun-scorching
Cars-racing
Fast-pacing
Sky-scrapers
Early-wakers

If you are creating a noun + a noun phrase, try adding -er to the second noun, e.g. cheese-eater.
If you are creating a noun + a verb phrase, your verb may end in -ing, e.g. milkshake-drinking.