A-Z of Winter

Write the alphabet down the left hand side of a piece of paper, then think of a wintery word to write beside each letter.  Use a dictionary or online dictionary if you get stuck!

A – Avalanche

B – Blizzard

Weather Report

Have a read though a newspaper or online weather report and pick out some useful words to write your own weather report; you could upload this to our blog.

Snow Spelling

Choose 10 words from your A-Z of Winter and write these creatively in the snow.  You could use some sticks, some stones, snowballs or even some water with a dash of food colouring in a used water bottle. 

Online Spelling Games

Visit www.spellingcity.com , where you can enter your spelling words and words from your A-Z of Winter, then click a button to learn about your words, play games, complete word searches and of course a spelling test to make sure that you have learned your words.

You could pick random words from a dictionary (more than 6 letters long) and learn these to impress your teacher when you return to school!

Snow Spell Activities

Click the link below to access a variety of spelling activities that you could do with your words from last week.

My Memory of Winter

Write a short story about your favourite memory of winter.  It could be recent or from many years ago, but it’s what comes to your mind when you think of winter.  Be sure to include lot of adjectives to describe how winter looked.  How did it smell?  How did you feel?  Rememeber to include a beginning, a middle and an end to your story.

Winter Acrostic Poem

Write an acrostic poem (where you use the letters of the word to begin each sentence of the poem), to tell us about the word that you have chosen.  You could use any of these words or one of your own choice.

W                            S                             I                            H 

I                             N                            C                            O

N                            O                            I                             T

T                            W                           C                            C

E                             M                            L                             H

R                            A                            E                             O

                               N                            S                             C

                                                                                              O

                                                                                                L   

                                                                                               A

                                                                                                T

                                                                                                E

 

Instructions to Build a Snowman

Write a set of instructions to help someone build their own snowman.  You could write the instructions as a poster, a list or even as a comic strip with your own illustrations.

Animal Research

Choose an animal that you really like and create a fact file about it.  You can research information about your animal in books, or on the internet.  Complete the following:

Name:

Size:

Where it lives:

What it eats:

An interesting fact about a ______ is that …

Can you build this animal in the snow to join our Whitdale Snow Zoo on the blog?

You could take a picture of it drawn on the snow or try to build one as you would a snowman.

Hibernation Research

What is hibernation? 

Research 2 animals that hibernate thinking about the information above as well as why these animals hibernate.

Literature Circles

Read the next chapter of your group novel and complete what your next task would have been on the rota.  If you’re not sure what this would have been choose a task that you enjoy doing.

Mrs Saunders’ Support for Learning Pupils

Continue with the work that Mrs Saunders has given you in school.  Complete the next section of your worksheet and read the pages that go with it. 

Practise last week’s sounds with some Snow Spelling or one of the Snow Spell Activities.