T3 W1 Monday

Learning content: We use different comprehension strategies to improve our understanding of texts we read

The slide show below gives you a hint of what our book is going to be about this week.

You will read the book Snowflake Bentley. This is a true story of his life - a biography. Notice the way the book is set out - it is set out a little differently from most of the stories we have read.

Here are two of Snowflake Bentley's own photographs of snowflakes.

You can also watch a couple of videos about snow.

Activity

You may already know how to make paper snowflakes or you can follow the instructions below. Have a go and see if you can make some different snowflake designs. Try making two or three different snowflakes.

Activity

Now organise all the events in this list into the order that they happened, to create a timeline for Snowflake Bentley's life.

Learning content: extend your vocabulary, by practising when you can use it to help you understand texts better, and to make your own writing more interesting

Learning content: uses effective and accurate sentence structure

Use one of the sentences below to highlight the different parts of speech and to notice anything that makes it an interesting sentence. Then try to model one of these sentences in your own writing.

Day after stormy day, he studied the icy crystals.

OR

Mistake by mistake, snowflake by snowflake, Willie worked through every storm.

Learning objective: use effective and accurate punctuation conventions

Learning objective: to explore forming letters in such as way as to prepare for cursive/running writing

Gain more practice by catching up on pages in your Handwriting Conventions book.

Create a descriptive poem about snow. Think about the Snowflake Bentley story to help with your imagery.

What kinds of things do you see, hear and feel happening when you watch snow?

• Make a list of action words - in what ways can snow move? Students brainstorm words under "action of snow" on the board.

• Describe the snow - what do you see, hear, taste, smell, touch? Students brainstorm words under "description of snow".

• Pretend that you are seeing snow for the first time - and you have NO idea what is causing it. What might be happening to make that in the sky? What could you compare snow with? Make similes under "snow is like".

We are going to do some revision of multiplication tables. Earlier this year we did some work on multiplication and understanding that finding how many items were in different rows or groups could be done easily by using multiplication. A shortcut that some people finding really helpful is learning their times tables.

Rock Paper TABLES!

Play the game Rock, paper, scissors - tables style!

Play this game like rock paper scissors, but instead of the normal hand signs, use your fingers as numbers! Each player puts out a set of fingers on their hand, multiply them, and the first one to call the answer wins.

In Class: Play with someone then switch and play around the room.

Task Two

What is a fraction?

A fraction is an equal part of a whole shape, space or group of objects.

Re-read the sentence above carefully.

Watch the videos below.