Date 22620 Lesson Objective How to spell words

Date: 22/6/20 Lesson Objective: How to spell words ending in ‘ture’. Activity: Spellings Test: Spelling words for Wk 2. Words ending in suffix ‘ture’. Learn: Spelling words for Wk 3 , words ending in ‘ture’. . View the spelling rule Power. Point on the website page. Have fun with the wordsearch. Choose interesting activities from the ‘challenge’ to help learn your spellings: Make up a wordsearch; write the words in rainbow; write your spellings into a layer of sand or flour; use a ball or balloon to throw and say each letter in turn, write spellings in a pyramid. You could also take the opportunity to practise your best handwriting by creating sentences that include your spellings.

Spelling support. Can you find this week’s spellings in the word search? Write some sentences using these words. Try making your own word search up using the spellings. See if someone in your house can complete it.

Date: 23/6/20 Last week, you enjoyed going out and about, whether it was in your own garden or maybe further afield. You took photos of the plants and animals and asked interesting questions about the things you discovered. Hopefully, you have found lots of interesting information on the Internet or in books which answered your questions. You then made short notes on the facts you found ready for this week’s activities. This week, we will focus on bringing all your information together; ready to produce your leaflet. We are going to make our work the best that it can be ready to enter The National Trust competition.

Date: 23/6/20 Lesson Objective: To write sentences from notes. What do newts eat? Land – slugs and worms other invertebrates. Water – tadpoles, insects, shrimps, water snails Today, you will start to write up the notes that we made last week. My question was, ‘What do newts eat? ’ I made some notes using just the key, technical vocabulary. Now, I want to write these notes up into full sentences with a little extra information. Here is my first attempt: When they are on land, newts like to eat slugs, worms and other invertebrates. When newts are in the water, they like to eat tadpoles, insects, shrimps and water snails. This sentence is fine – it makes sense and it includes all the information that I need but, I could make it more interesting for my reader by adding some more interesting vocabulary and ideas. My second attempt: Newts are voracious predators and like to feed on a wide range of creatures. When they are on land, they hunt for a variety of invertebrates such as slugs and worms. Tadpoles, shrimps and water snails make a tasty snack for newts when they are swimming in the water. Which of these sentences do you like the best? Can you identify why one is more interesting for the reader than the other?

There are lots of different choices that I could have made to make my sentences more interesting. I could use different ‘adverbial phrases’ to start my sentences. Note: Adverbial phrases tell you ‘where’, ‘when’ or ‘how’ something is happening. Don’t forget to use a comma when your adverbial phrase is at the beginning of your sentence. Here are some examples of how to start your sentences using adverbial phrases: When they are on land, newts like to eat slugs, worms and other invertebrates. When newts are in the water, they like to eat tadpoles, insects, shrimps and water snails. When they are hungry, newts love to feast upon a wide range of creatures. As they swim through the water, newts look out for a range of prey such as tadpoles, shrimps, insects and water snails. As they prowl through the undergrowth, newts are always on the look out for a tasty treat of invertebrates like a tasty slug or juicy worm. Like many amphibians, newts like to feast both on land in the water. All these sentences start with adverbial phrases. Which do you like the best? Why? Will you try to use some adverbial phrases to start your ideas?

Task: Today, you will write up your notes into complete sentences and add some further, interesting vocabulary and phrases – just like I have done. If you need some inspiration, take a look at some other information texts and ‘magpie’ (take ideas but change them to make them your own) ideas.

Date: 24/6/20 Lesson Objective: To design an information text.

Here are some different ways in which you could organise your competition entry: If you want to, you could use the Internet to find a ready made page like this or you could go ‘free style’ and start from scratch. If you would like to produce something more adventurous then take a look at these videos for some inspiration. You may have your own ideas too. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=rx. Drn. YV 22 H 4 How to make a zig-zag booklet. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=21 qi 9 Zc. QVto How to make a simple, 8 page book. https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=j. K 5 PCIy 0 z. JM How to make a simple pop-up page or book. The ideas are endless and we are sure that you will come up with some brilliant designs for your work.

As you can see, there are many ways in which you can design your information text for The National Trust competition. It could be a leaflet, a mini booklet, a poster, a zig-zag book. You might like to focus on one particular species or you might write about a complete type of habitat or group of creatures, such as insects. The website below also has some really helpful advice on writing information texts and how to lay them out in an interesting way for your reader. Take a look at the Oxford Owl books on the page and magpie some ideas. Remember: you don’t need to write a whole book unless, of course, you want to. https: //community. patana. ac. th/eal/primary-eal-blog-1/year-4 -information-texts Task: Look at all the ways to lay out your information. Take a piece of paper and sketch out a plan for your page. You may want to make several different plans and choose which one you like the best. Here is your page. How are you going to organise it? Where will you place your: • Title – written in bold writing. • Sub-headings – also written in bold writing • Information text – written in short paragraphs • Colourful pictures and diagrams • Captions

Date: 25 -26/6/20 Lesson Objective: To produce an information text for The National Trust. Task: Over the next two days, you will pull together all the tasks from the past few days and produce your information pages. You have designed your page, so you now know where to place your writing and your pictures. You have already written your sentences which you can now group together to form short paragraphs; using a sub-heading. Remember: A paragraph is a piece of writing on one subject. For example, I will include all the information about ‘What do newts eat? ’ in one paragraph and then write a new paragraph for the information on ‘Where do newts live? ’ Of course, I will use sub-headings to show my reader what they can expect to learn about in each paragraph. You will probably want to also draw pictures or diagrams to go alongside your writing. You can do this as you go or leave spaces and do it once you’ve finished your writing. We would love to enter everyone’s work into the competition so remember to make it your very best work. Think carefully about your handwriting, your drawing and your layout. Of course, you may want to use the computer to produce your work and that’s fine too. You could copy and paste some pictures from the Internet and use interesting fonts and borders. Use the next two days to work on your ideas then, when they are finished and you are happy with them, send them to your teachers and we will send them off to The National Trust. (There is no deadline for the entries so you can take longer if you like!) Good luck, have fun – we look forward to seeing them!