Thursday 23 April 2020

Tasks

Writing – It’s spring time now.  There are lambs in the fields, baby birds are tweeting, flowers are blooming and the leaves are returning to the trees (not to mention, it’s getting a bit warmer!).  In Japan, people have big festivals to celebrate the blooming of the cherry trees in the spring (they call cherry blossom ‘sakura’).  Everyone flocks to parks and outdoor areas to sit under the blossom with friends.  Cherry blossom and spring are, as you can see, very important to Japanese culture.  The Japanese also have a rich and very old culture of writing poetry.  One kind of poem is a Haiku poem.  This poem doesn’t have to rhyme but it does need to have a certain number of syllables.

It has 17 syllables altogether.

5 in the first line

7 in the second line

5 in the third line

 

Research some haiku poems online to get a feel for them.  These poems are usually about the way things look, feel and sound and how the writer feels.  Here is one I wrote:

Flowers bloom brightly

The blue sky is clear and warm

I watch through windows

I wrote this when I was thinking about how lucky we are to have nice weather over Easter holidays and how nice the flowers in my garden are looking, but I was also thinking that I wished I could go outside to country parks and other places to enjoy the spring but instead I am stuck inside.  I hope you can see that what makes Haiku poems special is that even though they are very short, they convey a message which is important to the writer.

Write a few of these Haikus, read them to your family, ask for feedback, and then post your favourite one on the General channel (this is the only time you can post there!) so that we can all share our work.

Maths – mixed and improper fractions.  This is quite simple when you know what to do – I will explain at the morning meeting.  Do them in your maths jotter as usual. Mixed and improper fractions (1)

You may find this video useful for understanding improper fractions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEmCZGbd4R8

Music – To be confirmed by Mrs Lang (meeting on teams at 2pm)

RE – Road to Emmaus crossword.  If you can’t print this then just write down the clue numbers on a piece of paper/ jotter and instead of writing the clue, write the answer. https://sermons4kids.com/road_to_emmaus_crossword.htm