Please refer to this page to be kept updated with the home learning that your child’s class teacher has set for your child to complete.
Any documents/links will be uploaded here and any communications with your child’s class teacher can be had via email:
Miss Lear : jlear@coopersedge.gloucs.sch.uk
Miss O’Grady: sogrady@coopersedge.gloucs.sch.uk
Hello everybody! We hope you all had a nice weekend and that you are all keeping well. We know that this is a strange time for everybody but we are still the Swans and Ospreys, and we will do this together. If you need any help with anything you can email us. Keep safe, Miss O’Grady & Miss Lear. ☺
WEEK 1
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Art
All of our art activities this time are about bubbles. I know you are all busy washing your hands so here are some ideas to help you get creative while staying safe!
There are some links at the bottom to tutorials to inspire you…and remember to post any of your work on the Padlet for us to share. Enjoy
Bubble Painting: You could try different coloured backgrounds and use paint, pencils, felt tips…
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Music
(Feel free to adapt how you wish so that your child can access it- this is available for all pupils, so make it a family activity like an Edgy Time)
Listen to these two pieces of music: Zorba’s Dance by Mikis Theodorakis (1964) and In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Edvard Grieg (1875). Feel free to move or dance to them but make sure you’re listening carefully too!
What do you think of each piece of music?
What can you hear?
Can you spot what is the same about both of them?
In both pieces of music, the tempo changes. Tempo is the musical word for speed. Both pieces of music start slow and get quicker and quicker!
Now it’s your turn to respond to one or both of these pieces of music. Here are a few ideas. You could do all of them, or just choose your favourite!
- Create a dance or piece of art that expresses the tempo of one of these pieces of music.
- Play an instrument in the style of one of these pieces of music. This could be as simple as playing along to one of the pieces by banging a spoon on a pan, or as complicated as using your own instrument to play a piece of music that you have already learnt but changing the tempo as you go along.
- Compose your own piece of music that changes in tempo. You could use an instrument or an app such as GarageBand.
Don’t forget to record or photograph your creations, performances and compositions and add them to the Padlet. We can’t wait to see and hear them!
Guided Reading
This week in Guided Reading we will be focusing on Chapters 4 and 5 of ‘Pig Heart Boy’, which you have in the packs that we sent home. There are 4 tasks which should only take 15-20 minutes each; try to spread them out over the week.
Maths
This week your maths tasks will all be based on area, perimeter and volume – so all the things that we were doing in the last two weeks. Your tasks will be added on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday and new warm up will be added each day.
English
Task 3
SPAG: For your SPAG task, please login in to Purple Mash where you have been set a quiz/game to complete on sorting tenses. Let me know how you get on with this via the padlet or email. You may want to give yourself a quick reminder of the progressive tense types using the Grammarsaurus video that I shared with you on Wednesday.
The other tense types in the game are those which will have been taught in previous year groups but if you need a reminder there are more tense videos by Grammarsaurus available on their YouTube channel.
Writing Task: Next week, you will be using your plans to write your stories. However, first it would be a good idea to develop your character a little more. You can of course use your plan to help you!
We have done a lot of character development this year, looking at characters in existing novels, exploring characters during our book week and particularly concentrating on the appearance, personality and interactions of characters (both good and bad) when exploring the novel Beowulf last term. Therefore, you may choose to present your character exploration however you feel works best for you! You might choose to create a 3 part mindmap (as we did with Beowulf), you might create some sort of a mindmap with colour-coded key or even use a box-up style. Whatever best helps you to organise your thoughts.
You should think about the three key areas listed (try to consider the questions against each as you explore your main characters/characters):
Appearance: What does this character look like? How do certain traits in their appearance match the personality you intend to give them? What clues do the appearance give you about the way they think or act? Does the reader really need to know that they have nice, blue eyes? Try not to just add details about the appearance without thinking about what clues this gives the reader about that individual as a person!
Personality: How do they perceive (think of) themselves? Are they extremely brave and therefore likely to fit an adventurous story? Are they incredibly anxious and needing to come out of their comfort zone as the story unfolds?
Behaviour and Interactions: How do they ‘deal’ with the other characters that they meet as the story progresses? How do they ‘deal’ with their own successes and failures as the story progresses? How do they walk and talk (again think about the clues this will give to the reader about the characters personality or how the character is feeling)?
Whichever way you choose to explore your characters for your story, please take a photograph and either add this to the padlet or email it to me (jlear@coopersedge.gloucs.sch.uk).
Next week, I will share a modelled story for us to take a closer look at some of the grammar used and the way that the reader is engaged. We will also start writing! I cannot wait!
Task 2
The second of your tasks this week involves a SPAG starter looking at tense types followed by a writing planning task.
SPAG: Follow this link to watch a Grammarsaurus video about the past and present progressive tenses. I warn you …. it’s catchy!
Later in the week, I will be posting a powerpoint, which reviews the other tense types. You will then have a Purple Mash grammar game set to complete.
Main Writing Task: Plan a story.
Having read some of your example slow writes, I would like for you to plan a story (ready to write over the next few days/next week).
I would recommend using a box-up style plan (like we do in class) to ensure you have included each part of the story. I have attached a blank template example below to help you though you do not need to print this; you could replicate this in the book that was sent home.
Don’t forget to take your time with your planning! The more detail it contains and the more that you have checked to ensure it flows and makes sense, the better the final story is likely to be! 🙂
Here are some interesting story starter sentences for you to choose from (pick only one):
- The air turned black all around me.
- Icy wind slashed at his face and the rain danced its evil dance upon his head as he tried to get his bearings on the isolated beach.
- The date was 13th July, my 345th birthday…
- Cold and wet, tired and exhausted, she made her way along the path through the forest.
- It was a bright, frosty morning. The pavement glistened like a carpet of crushed diamonds in the early morning sunshine.
- As she walked along the street, the tiny dragon in her pocket stirred restlessly.
It is entirely up to you which genre of story you would like to write. You may choose an adventure story, a warning story, a historical setting story or even a myth. You have the opportunity to really get creative!
On Friday, I will post more tasks related to improving your writing for this story so – for the moment – you need not do any more than plan it.
Box-Up Plan Template:
Task 1
The first of your tasks this week is to use your SPAG booklet that you took home as a revision style warm up, then complete the first quiz. It is based on everything that you will have just read and revised. It will check your understanding. You can then use the mark scheme at the very back of the booklet to help you mark it. (Try to do one of these revision sections and quiz warm ups at least once a week).
Next, the main part of your task is for you to complete a slow write for us based on the picture below (much like we have done in class before). Please post or comment what you come up with. We cannot wait to see what you produce!
Slow Write Formula:
Sentence 1: Begin with an emotion
Sentence 2: Must contain an adverbial phrase (time, reason, manner or place)
Sentence 3: Must contain personification (remember that this is when we describe something in a way that gives it a human-like quality)
Sentence 4: Must contain either a semi-colon to link two related clauses OR a colon to introduce an explanation
Sentence 5: Must contain a co-ordinating adjective (two adjectives describing one noun)
Sentence 6: Must use a rhetorical question
Sentence 7: End with an ellipsis
Modelled example:
Anxiously, she reached her hand out slowly towards the lid. Amongst the shade of the trees, it’s golden glow seemed all the more mysterious. As she slowly opened the case, a melodic, gentle hum began to whisper through the trees, calling to her senses and convincing her to look inside. Elizabeth was not scared: the music was calming and gentle. Leaning closer towards the opening, she placed her hand inside the old-fashioned, leather case and felt something slowly and gently pulling her in. Should she let go? It was so tempting …
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