Literacy: Figurative Language

Figurative language is when words and ideas are used to create mental images and give impressions.  When we use figurative language in our writing and poetry it gives our ideas strength and helps the reader to understand what we mean.

Personification is when we write about an object as if it is human, e.g. “the tulips smiled as the sun rose”

Similes are when we say one thing is like another, e.g. “the snow was on the ground like a thick warm blanket.” Similes contain the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Metaphors say something is something else.

e.g.      Tony is a tower of strength.

Christiano Ronaldo is a goal machine.

Copy the examples below neatly into your jotter below, either write P (personification), S (simile) or M (metaphor).

1. The Alarm clock went off like a bomb!
2. She was as quiet as a mouse
3. The ants marched home
4. The moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
5. She’s as mad as a hatter!
6. The trees whispered to each other in the darkness
7. The sun went to bed.
8. She ate the mountain of food greedily
9. The frog’s tongue moved like lightning

In your jotter write at least 2 sentences that use a hyperbole.

Green Group Read up to P161

Blue Group Read up to P92

Red Group Read “A Jumble for the Queen”.

Maths– We have be looking at 2D and 3D shape.

• Complete the sheet on 3D shape identifying vertices, faces and edges.
• Pick one of these ideas to try at home:

Robot challenge Ask children to draw a picture of a robot using at least 3 different 2D shapes.  Ask children to name some of the shapes they used.

3D objects at home Ask children to write down five real-life examples of different 3D objects in their home and, if they can, to give the mathematical name of the 3D object, e.g. toilet roll is a cylinder.

Rectangles on 3D objects Ask children to make drawings of 3D objects in the home that have at least one rectangular face, for example, door, TV, picture frame

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-shape-and-weight.html#quad

• Continue to practice tables.

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/ (this website has links to many other websites)

Science: Design and make a musical instrument that can change pitch and can make a loud sound and quiet sound.  Use junk material you have been collecting.  Remember to make your instrument as good looking as it sounds.

 

 

This afternoon we continued to look at the work of Pablo Picasso.  Some us were looking at The Girl with a Dove portrait.

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Some of us were looking at his Cubism work and trying to develop our own portraits using 2D shapes.  Another group were rolling die to create a distorted and disproportionate face.

Don’t forget we are going to have group table tests tomorrow.  Part of this week’s homework was to revise the times tables facts.

Literacy

All the phrases below need apostrophes to make them correct. Rewrite each phrase twice; first with an apostrophe to show singular possession and again with an apostrophe to show plural possession. For example:

the girl’s friends (singular);

the girls’ friends (plural).

1. my brothers headphones
2. the teachers books
3. the pupils punishment
4. the cartoons characters
5. the teenagers music

Green Group read up to P94

Blue Group read up to P49

Red Group read up to P16

 

 

Maths

 Tables Test this Friday (20^th April)

This week we have been looking at Prime Numbers.Each child has chosen a worksheet to do on Prime Numbers. They should complete their work on the sheet.

Complete Ex 2 or 3

2)Football teams- Investigate which players in your favourite football team wear prime numbers on their shirts.

3) Prime suspect- Children choose a prime number between 30 and 100, e.g. 43, and write the two numbers either side of it, e.g. 42 and 44. They find the number of factors for the two adjacent numbers, e.g. 42 (eight factors) and 44 (six factors). Ask them to investigate if there is a prime number that lies between two numbers with the same number of factors.

 Art

 This term we are going to be looking at the life and work of Pablo Picasso.  Create an interesting fact file or power point presentation about his life. Try to summarise in your own words the information rather than copying and pasting large chunks.