English

Friday 3rd April 2020

WALT create a poster about Milton Keynes

For your Friday lesson, you will be creating a poster all about our town of Milton Keynes.

This has been set as a 2Do for you on Purple Mash, however you may complete this task on paper if you would prefer to. Make sure to include the key features of our town and what it is most known for e.g. concrete cows, Xscape. You can use the facts you learnt about Milton Keynes yesterday to add some information to your poster.

I look forward to seeing your finished posters on the Purple Mash blog! :)

Thursday 2nd April 2020

WALT compare the features of a town and a village

This week, we have been working on features of a town and countryside setting. Today's lesson is focused on real-life examples of towns and villages. Work your way through the powerpoint and see if you can work out which location is a town and which is a village.

Your star tasks are on the powerpoint.

As a challenge, can you find any more towns and villages near to where we live? Can you name any you have visited before?

Wednesday 1st April 2020

WALT design our own setting

Today's English lesson involves you being creative! You have identified some features of a town and countryside setting in the story and written some lovely sentences to describe them. In this lesson, you will be choosing either a town setting or a countryside setting and creating your own!

First, have a look at the pictures of different features you would find in a town or country setting. These are photographs and you might recognise some of them, however some may be new things.

When you look at each photo, have a think about the following questions:

• Would I see this feature in a town or a country?
• What can you see in the picture that helps you to sort them?
• Have you seen these features in real life before?
• Can some features be in both a town and a country setting?

There is a sheet for you to have a look at and this is optional for you to complete, however it may give you some ideas for features to include in your design.

To create your design you could:

• draw it on paper
• paint it
• use Purple Mash (2Paint a Picture)
• build it out of lego/other construction
• create a junk model town or country

Be as creative as you like!

 Create your design and tell an adult the features you have included

Create your design and label it to demonstrate the key features of a town or countryside setting

 Create your design and write sentences to describe the key features of a town or countryside setting. Think about which mouse would like to live there and why.

Tuesday 31st March 2020

WALT describe a setting

Watch the story 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' through again, this time focusing on the two different settings. Pause the story to check the vocabulary. Which words describe the country? Which words describe the town?

Task

For today's task, you will be describing the town and country settings. There is a sheet for you to use but if you do not have a printer, you can write your sentences on paper and have a go at drawing the settings if you like.

Make sure you think about what you can see, how the setting makes you feel and what would it sound like.

 Write simple sentences using the opener 'I can see....'

Remember to use your phonics knowledge to sound out!

Write sentences to describe each setting and include 'and' to extend them and add more detail.

 Write sentences using 'and' to add more detail. Don't forget to use adjectives to describe what you can see e.g. There are tall buildings.

To make your writing even more interesting, try to change your sentence openers to make sure they don't all begin the same way.

Monday 30th March 2020

WALT describe a character

Watch the story 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse'.

Have a think about the questions:

• What is different about the town mouse and the country mouse?
• What is it like to live in the town? In the country?
• How is the country mouse feeling when he goes to the town?
• Where would you prefer to live and why?

Task

For today's English, you will be describing the town mouse and the country mouse.

Choose the star activity you feel the most confident with.

 Label the appearance of the town mouse and the country mouse

Friday 27th March 2020

WALT: Produce a non-fiction text.

Today you are going to used the facts that you learnt yesterday to create a fact sheet about meerkats.

Tasks

Choose an activity from a star you feel confident with:-

1. Open your 2Do 'What I have learned about Meerkats' on Purple Mash.

2. Write the heading

3. Draw or import a picture of a meerkat

4. Write 1 fact that you have learnt as a sentence.

1. Open your 2Do 'What I have learned about Meerkats' on Purple Mash.

2. Write the heading

3. Draw or import a picture of a meerkat

4. Write 3 facts that you have learnt as sentences.

1. Open your 2Do 'What I have learned about Meerkats' on Purple Mash.

2. Write the heading

3. Draw or import a picture of a meercat

4. Write 3 facts that you have learnt as sentences using 'and' to join information.