GIRAFFE CLASS LEARNING POWERPOINT MONDAY 18TH JANUARY 2021

Giraffe Class Learning PowerPoint
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   Monday 18 January 2021

Christmas Writing and Art
             Competition
• Please email photographs of your entries to the
  Giraffe Class email account!
• We know you have been working hard on these
  over Christmas and Miss Pickup will be judging
  them over this coming week.
• Mrs Gray will be handing out prizes and certificates
  at the end of the week in school, while Miss Pickup
  will email prize details and certificates at the end of
  the week to children who are at home.
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk

Welcome to today’s learning!
• Here is what we’re going to do today:
   1. Geography/Science – The Water Cycle
   2. English – Myth Stories – ‘The Little Mermaid’
   3. Computing – Maths – Mathletics and Reading
      – Reading Eggs
   4. Guided Reading – Maths – Times Tables
      Crossword

• Please ask your parents/carers to photograph your
  work and send it to us via the Giraffe Class email
  account for feedback – we’d love to see it!
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk

Morning Warm Up!

Answer: Morning Warm Up!

Video of the Day:
         Lego Chocolate Cake
• Now this is Miss Pickup’s kind of cooking!
• Lego Chocolate Cake
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnfYo7RFER0

Newsround – Keep up to date with
current events! Watch daily!
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

Geography/Science –
             The Water Cycle
• We are going to learn about The Water Cycle.
• This is going to extend our Geography knowledge,
  linked to our Rivers, Coasts and Mountains topic, and
  also our Science knowledge, linked to our Plants topic.
• There are some quite complex words to learn today.
• You are going to watch some videos, and then complete
  a worksheet.
• Don’t worry if you can’t print – draw the picture out on
  a piece of paper, then add the labels.

Geography/Science –
               The Water Cycle
•   Watch these two short videos about the water cycle:
•   BBC Bitesize: The Water Cycle
•   https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z8qtfg8
•   Geography KS3 / GCSE: What is the water cycle?
•   https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/geography-
    ks3--gcse-what-is-the-water-cycle/zjrrf4j

Geography/Science –
             The Water Cycle
• And, because we know you love a learning song!
• Water Cycle - Blazer Fresh | Science Video | GoNoodle
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-59ljA4Bs&t=9s

Use the diagrams on this page and the next few to help you complete labelling the diagram.

English – Myth Stories
• This week in English, we are going to look at Myth
  Stories.
• Myth definition: ‘A traditional story, especially one
  concerning the early history of a people or
  explaining a natural or social phenomenon, and
  typically involving supernatural beings or events.’
• We are going to look at some myths about water-
  dwelling creatures, linking to our ‘Rivers, Coasts
  and Mountains’ Geography Topic work.
• Today, we are going to look at Merpeople.

English – Myth Stories
• Merpeople are represented as creatures having the head
  and upper body of a human, and a fishtail instead of legs.
• Female merpeople are known as mermaids, and male
  merpeople are known as mermen.
• They inhabit the sea, usually have great beauty and charm –
  and in a lot of mythology, they lure sailors to their deaths.
• Some stories include mermaids altering their form to
  resemble humans.
• The most well-known story about merpeople is "The Little
  Mermaid“, a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans
  Christian Andersen in 1837. The story follows the journey of
  a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea
  as a mermaid to gain a human soul.

English – Myth Stories
• We are going to read an adaptation of ‘The Little Mermaid’ today.
• Click this link to play the audio (the story read aloud), and try to
  follow the pdf copy of the story on the screen (or, if you are able,
  you can print it out).
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/english-ks1--ks2-the-
  little-mermaid-hans-christian-andersen/z6g2cqt

English – The Little Mermaid Questions
     Try to write a short paragraph to answer each of
          these questions. Write in full sentences.
1.    Why does the Little Mermaid wish to become
      human? (Is there more than one reason?)
2.    What does the Little Mermaid have to give up
      in order to become human? (Again, is there
      more than one sacrifice she has to make?)
3.    The Little Mermaid cannot speak to the
      prince to tell him she rescued him. In what
      other ways might she have been able to tell
      him? Why do you think she does not use
      these other ways?
4.    The ending of the story is very sad. How could
      the ending be changed to make it happier?
      Do you think this would make it a better
      story?
5.    Extension Task: Rewrite the end of the story to
      make it end more happily!

Computing –
  Maths (Mathletics) and Reading (Reading Eggs)
• Today, you are going to be doing
  Maths in your Computing lesson.
• I have assigned you each four,
  year-group specific fractions tasks.
• Please log in and work your way
  through them.
• When you have finished, I have
  assigned you a year-group specific
  lesson on Reading Eggs. (But
  complete your Maths first!)

Guided Reading – Maths
   Times Tables Crosswords!
• In Guided Reading today, you are also going to do Maths!
• You are going to work on your times tables by completing a
  crossword!
• All the questions and answers are in words, so you will also
  be practising your spelling!
• Don’t worry if you can’t print – you can write your answers
  down on a piece of paper, and count the number of boxes
  on the screen to see if you have the right number of letters
  and therefore the right spelling!
• There are three challenges:
   • Year 3 – Most Year 3s.
   • Year 4 – Most Year 4s and more confident Year 3s.
   • Year 4 Stretch – More confident Year 4s.

We hope that you have enjoyed
      today’s learning!
   Miss Pickup & Mrs Gray