Home learning – Thursday 7th January 2021

 

SPAG

 

Grammar: Check out the powerpoint information on ‘Identify a Determiner’. There are various groups of determiner types, make notes on them or create a poster to help you recall the information. Challenge: Try the ‘Determiner Detective Worksheets’, from the given sentences identify the determiner within. Extra challenge – label the type of determiner to show what you have recalled from the powerpoint.

 

Reading

Read Chapter 4 of The Haunting of Rose cottage and the answer the multiple choice questions. Have a go at the ‘Challenge questions’ – see resources below.

 

English

Idioms

An idiom is a common word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning but can be understood because of its popular use.

★ In the resources below is a list of idioms about doors.  Can you work out what they mean? Create a table showing the idiom and what it means.

 

Maths

Today, you are going to be dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Click here to access the White Rose video. A PowerPoint version has also been attached below. Complete the fluency, reasoning and problem solving – see resources below.

 

Topic

Lesson 1

Explore your garden, park or woods to learn about the variety of plants that it contains. Use a quadrat, string square or hula hoop to select a sample area. Look closely at the plants growing in the quadrat and use classification keys to identify what you can see. Share your discoveries on Class Dojo.

 

A mown lawn or field will have many different plants growing in it, such as daisies, dandelions, plantain, clover, buttercups, chamomile and moss. Darwin was one of the first scientists to use this sampling method when he fenced off a quadrat for his weed experiment. You could investigate an unmown as opposed to a mown area of grass, a shaded or unshaded area of grass.

 

Tree ID for Kids - Nature Detectives - Woodland Trust also includes Leaf and twig IDs

 

Lesson 2

Look at the voyage of HMS Beagle and use the maps (see the resources below) or an Atlas if you have one to work out where the HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin travelled to on their voyage.