Writing

All About Me

Booklet

Last day of the booklet.

Add your hardest maths calculation you know the answer to!! Challenge yourself!

Write the longest word you know.

Write the funniest joke you know.

Use your homophones from Thursday's spellings to create your own word search.  Remember you can write them backwards, sideways and diagonally.

Time to learn to draw ...

Follow these step by step instructions to create cute animal pictures.

Are you feeling creative?  Can you draw an animal of your choice? 

Writing -All about me 

There are words missing from these sentences.  They are all homophones (words that sound the same but are spelt differently and mean different things),

eg. there   their   they're

Can you write the sentences and choose the best word to fill in the gaps?

Try the maths problems below...

Use the tips I shared with you on Wednesday if you are finding them tricky to solve.

Writing task

A day to challenge yourself.

What do you find tricky?  Explain in your booklet.  Then spend 10 minutes trying to improve your skill.  This might be tying your shoe laces, practising spelling your surname, practising the 6x tables etc. 

All of these words can be contracted to make them shorter,

eg. does not - doesn't  

Can you contract the rest of these words then use three of them in sentences?

Remember to put the apostrophe ' in place of the missing letters.

Carry on making your 3D small world box.  Here's ( contracted word) a few more ideas to inspire you...

Try the maths problems below ...

These questions may help you to organise your ideas ...

• Understand the problem - List what you know from reading the problem
• What you need to find out 
• Find and write the answer - perhaps draw a picture or diagram to help you
• Think about the problem - what did you find out? Did your answer match the question?

Writing task

Continue your ‘All about me’ booklet.

Today focus on your hopes and dreams for the future.

In sentences write

1.  What you would like to achieve by the end of Year 4?
2. What dream job would you like and what qualifications do you think you might need to achieve your dream job.
3. If you could have 1 wish what would it be?

Read these sentences carefully.  Can you spot the spelling mistakes?  Rewrite them correcting the spellings.

Get creative with a box!  Find an unused cardboard box and create a 3D small world scene of your choice.  This activity will go over two days.

Have look at these examples for inspiration... 

This week you are going to create a fact file about yourself, called ‘All about me’.   You can write it in your green books or maybe make a paper booklet?

Today you need to basic information about yourself

Name:

Age:

Address:

Household members:

Pets:

Hobbies:

Favourite food:

Favourite drink:

Favourite colour:

Favourite book and reason why:

Favourite film and reason why:

Describe yourself in three words:

It's Boggle time again!

Make as many words as you can from these letters:

F   A    V    O

U   R    I    T

E   M    E    M

Y   L     A    L

Leaf Art

When you're in your garden or when you go for a walk, collect leaves and be creative.  You may want to make a collage, leaf prints, cut out shapes or paint the leaves.  Here's some ideas to inspire you...

From Thursday’s writing, read your story through carefully.  Make any changes that are needed to improve it.  Think about capital letters and punctuation, handwriting, spelling, does it make sense and is it exciting?

Topic - Kitchen Science

Can you sink a lemon or an orange?

You will need:

• A bowl
• Water
• A lemon or an orange

Method

1.  Put your lemon or orange into the bowl of water.  What does it do?  Can you make it sink?  What happens if you push it under the water?  Why do you think it does this?

2. Try chopping it into smaller pieces.  Make sure an adult helps you with this.  Do you think it will sink now?  Try it.  Why do you think this happens?

3.  Now peel it.  Remove the skin from the pieces of lemon or orange.  Will it sink now?  Why is this happening?  

The Science stuff

If you look at the inside of a lemon or orange skin you can see it is very thick and porous.  This means it contains a lot of air which makes it float.  When you take the skin off, the lemon has lost its layer of air which keeps it floating and so now it sinks.

Can you find other fruit that sink or float?  

Making Crystals results after 3 weeks of lockdown ...

Can you continue the story:

Sophie was determined to out run the Watchers, but their sleek, black feathers gave them phenomenal speed.  The hunt was on …

Topic - Kitchen Science

  Before doing any of this week’s experiments, you must ask a grown up first.

Magic Milk

You will need:

Milk

A bowl

Food colouring

Washing-up liquid (not anti-bacterial)

Toothpick (or pencil)

Method:

1. Pour a bit of milk into the bowl.  You don’t need much.  Just enough to cover the bottom.
2. Drip some food colouring into the milk.  (You could add a bit of glitter if you wanted).
3. Dip the end of the toothpick (or pencil) into the washing-up liquid and then into the middle of one of the drops of food colouring.  DON’T STIR IT!

Watch what happens to the colour.

Here’s the science stuff:

All liquids have a surface tension.  You can see that little water droplets from a wobbly dome shape.  Its surface tension is what is holding it in that shape. The Washing-up liquid disrupts the surface tension of the milk and makes the surface molecules spread out and the colours run with it.

The other interesting science thing is about soap.  Everything is made up of molecules.  One side of a soap molecule LOVES water (Hydrophilic) and the other side HATES water and love fat (Hydrophobic).This is why soap is so good at cleaning things because the hydrophobic side picks up the grease and dirt, while the hydrophilic end dissolves in water and washes all the dirt away.

In your milk experiment, the washing-up liquid (soap) grabs onto a fat molecule in the milk.  Millions of molecules find a partner all at once – with one dip of your toothpick!  It makes it look like the mixture is getting all stirred up!

You could try this experiment with other liquids to see which works best.

This Youtube clip shows this experiment happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=AX5wqp0Pht0&feature=emb_logo

These sentences are boring!

Can you write them again but make them much more exciting?

The girl ran.  She carried the egg.  The crows chased her.  She felt scared.

Topic - Kitchen Science

 Before doing any of this week’s experiments, you must ask a grown up first.

How to blow up a balloon with vinegar

You will need:

A small bottle

Vinegar

Bicarbonate of soda (or baking powder)

Balloons

Funnel

Method:

1. Stretch the balloon a bit first.  This makes it easier to inflate.
2. Fill your bottle about one quarter full with vinegar.
3. Use a funnel to tip the bicarbonate of soda into the neck of the balloon.

4.  Place the balloon over the top of the bottle.  When you’re ready, tip the balloon up so that the bicarbonate of soda drops into the vinegar.

5.   Watch the balloon inflate.

6.  You could do this experiment with lemon juice instead of vinegar and see which one inflates the balloon the best.

Here’s the science stuff:

The balloon should inflate because adding the vinegar (acid) to the bicarbonate of soda (alkaline) creates a chemical reaction.  When the two combine they create a gas called carbon dioxide.  The gas rises up into the balloon and makes it inflate.

Tuesday 12th May

Topic - Kitchen Science

 Before doing any of this week’s experiments, you must ask a grown up first.

Dissolving an egg shell

You will need:

An egg

A glass

White vinegar

Method:

1. Take a raw egg and put it in a glass.  Be careful not to break it.

2.       Cover it with white vinegar.

Do you notice anything happening?

3.        Leave it for a few days then go back and have a look.  You should now be able to see shell residue in the vinegar and the yolk whole in the egg white.

Here’s the science stuff:

The acid (vinegar) has reacted with the shell and “eaten” away at it.  The shell is made of calcium carbonate and this gets dissolved by the acid.  The inside of the egg should still be intact because the vinegar doesn’t react to it.  The egg may also swell up because some of the liquid seeps inside it (this is called osmosis).

You could try this experiment with a boiled egg as well.

Monday 11th May

Writing

Use your imagination … The Watchers

Can you draw what may be inside the egg?

Monday 11th May

Spelling

Choose 5 more words from our spelling list.  Do Look-Cover-Write-Check.
 

Topic - Kitchen Science

 Before doing any of this week’s experiments, you must ask a grown up first.

Making Crystals

You will need:

• Hot water
• Containers - Jars or cups or tubs (I used empty yoghurt pots)
• Salt
• Sugar
• Baking powder or bicarbonate of soda
• Food colouring
• Thread
• Sticks (I used a pencil)

Method:

1. Put some hot water into your container.
2. Stir in a spoonful of salt (or sugar or bicarbonate of soda – you may want to ty the experiment three times using a different container for each thing).

3. Keep stirring until you can no longer see any grains.  This means it has dissolved.

4. Add another spoonful and stir until it has disappeared.

5. Keep adding spoons full and stirring until it no longer disappears.  This means you can’t dissolve any more and your liquid is a saturated solution.

6. Add a couple of drops of food colouring to your container.  Be careful! Food colouring can stain.  Your experiment will work without the food colouring.

7. Tie the thread to the stick and then lay it over the container with the thread dangling into the liquid.

8. Leave it on a shelf or window ledge.  In a couple of days time, you should see things changing.  What do you see happening?  How does it look after a week?  Are you very patient … How does it look after three weeks?  I’ll show you on Friday how our classroom experiment looked after three weeks of Lockdown!

Here’s the science stuff:

A crystal is a solid material with a naturally geometric form.  Some take millions of years to form, such as diamonds.  Our crystals take just a few days.

Most minerals dissolved in water will form crystals given enough time and space.

In our experiment there are two processes at work:

Evaporation – the water slowly dries up (evaporates) meaning the solution becomes more and more saturated, so the salt molecules come out of the solution and collect on the thread.

Precipitation – the solution we made was very concentrated which means there was too much to remain dissolved in the water.  It then starts to gather as a solid on the thread.

Thursday 7^th May

Writing

These sentences are boring!

• She gave him a present.
• It was wrapped up.
• He opened it.
• He was happy.
• He said thank you.

Make these boring sentences interesting.  Think about your choice of adjectives and how the characters may have felt.

Thursday 7^th May

Spelling

Let's play Boggle again ...

Use these letters and make as many words as you can.

M    I     N      I  

B     E      A     S

W    O      R     M

Thursday 7^th May

Topic

Choose a mini-beast and create a fact file about it.  You could include a picture, information about its habitat, life cycle, diet, … 

Wednesday 6th May

Writing

Can you draw what the person in the picture said thank you for?

Wednesday 6th May

Spelling

Put these mini-beasts into alphabetical order:
spider      bee     crane fly    wasp  butterfly  slug    caterpillar  mosquito   snail   worm           blue bottle  woodlouse centipede   millipede
 

Wednesday 6th May

Topic

Build your mini-beast shelter.

Continue Rocano's mathematical adventure below:

Tuesday 5th May

Writing

Continue the story behind this picture.  Use some of the questions from Monday to help you if you are stuck for ideas.

Tuesday 5th May

Handwriting

Choose two sentences from your story and write them out as neatly as possible.  Remember to use cursive writing.

Tuesday 5th May

Topic

When you are out for a walk or in your garden, gather the things you will need to build your mini-beast shelter.

Continue Rocano's mathematical adventure below:

Friday 1^st May

Writing

Choose your favourite mnemonic and write it out and make a colourful poster to help remind you how to spell it.

Friday 1^st May

Spelling

Play Boggle.

Use these letters and make as many words as you can.

A b b e y w o o d

e.g day, bed.

Friday 1^st May

Topic

Mini Olympics- try all races again and see if your technique and times have improved.

Thursday 30^th April

Writing

Try writing a mnemonic.

Choose a word you find tricky, such as they.

How could you remember how to spell it?

Two hairy elephants yell.

Or because:

Big elephants can always understand small elephants.

Watch this clip:

https://youtu.be/AcUoW1ek5zU

Thursday 30^th April

Spelling

Write your 5 spellings down.  Now can you find any smaller words hidden within these words.

e.g address  - add,  dress

Accidentally- accident, den, dent, tally, tall, all.

Thursday 30^th April

Topic

Mini Olympics – Frog leaps- bend your legs fully, so your bottom is nearly on the floor. Push off from both feet and extend the legs.  (Ribbit noises can also be made!)

Wednesday 29^th April

Writing

Can you try another acrostic using someone else's name?  This might cheer someone up in your household.

Wednesday 29^th April

Spelling

Write out your 5 spellings 3x each in your neatest handwriting.

Wednesday 29^th April

Topic

Mini Olympics – Try and improve your sideways crab walk today.  Imagine someone is pulling your belly button up and this should straighten your back. Record your results.

Tuesday 28^th April

Writing

Try writing an acrostic poem using your name and things you enjoy.

Here is a link to help you:

https://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/acrostic.htm

Miss Pretty used her name...

Pizza is my favourite food, especially if it is loaded with pesto chicken.

Recently I have been cooking different healthy dishes and filling up my tummy and my freezer.

Eating is a hobby of mine!

Taking turns cleaning up after cooking is not my favourite thing to do.

Thankfully I have a dishwasher!

Yummy food makes these strange days pass more easily.

Tuesday 28^th April

Spelling

Write your 5 spellings using bubble writing.

Tuesday 28^th April

Topic

If it’s dry weather or you have room inside then…Practise your mini Olympics again.  Can you improve your technique?

Remember a jumping race needs two feet together and bend your knees and swing your arms forward.

Can you time accurately?

Monday 27^th April

Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReP3gVrOfpI

Watch the poem about a magic box.  Then have a look at my version.  You might want to fill in the blanks or even make your own poem up.

The Magic Box.

I will place in my special box…

a tatty, threadbare teddy that’s received a thousand hugs,

a silver, precious ring belonging to my Granny,

a rusty, old car tossed in the corner of my toy cupboard

the remains of a sponge ball chewed by my loyal dog.

I will place in my special box…

the half-completed jigsaw that ___________________________

the abandoned piece of cheese ___________________________

a soft, sticky sweet ____________________________________

Monday 27^th April

Spelling

Choose 5 more spellings. Then design and draw your own wordsearch.  It could be in any shape.  Put other random letters in as well to hide your words.

Monday 27^th April

Topic

Start your own mini Olympics.

Set out a 20metre track (this could be in your garden, or could be 5x your living room – ask whoever you live with first!)

Record your times completing these challenges.

A hopping race, a jumping race, hopscotch, skipping, sideways crab, bunny hops, frog leaps.  Display your results in any way you wish. You will add to these results each day, so a results table might be useful.