Tuesday 16th June

Welcome to Terrific Tuesday 3/4K!

Suggested timetable for learning at home

Maths: 30 minutes

English: 30 minutes

       Break

Reading: 20 minutes

French : 20 minutes 

Spelling: 15 minutes

English

List poems
Yesterday we have had some fun making a list of things we like doing during lockdown. Today  I’d like to introduce you to the Japanese poet Sei Shonagon. She wrote list poems. Lists are a great way to write as you can have a long list or a short list. Sei wrote hundreds of lists about shiny things, soft things, hard things, worries, things that make her annoyed, sad things, things that worried her and so on.
Since lockdown started, Pie Corbett has been doing a show called RadioBlogging every day (you can listen to it on www.radioblogging.net). He asked children on RadioBlogging to make lists of secret, special and delicate things. Here is a list of twelve things. Sort them into two groups – delicate and strong and list them.
leaf     skeleton      lace      butterfly wing      spider’s leg       eyeball     fishing line       bubble    snowflake     dried seaweed     cat’s tail      snake skin     cloud    rainbow    electricity    elastic band

                     Delicate things                                                                                   Strong things

Delicate things are frail, fragile and easily broken. What would be your list of delicate things? Listing ideas and words is often a good way to start writing. Gather lots of ideas quickly. You won’t use all the ideas when you write. Jot them down in your book.  

Now choose your special ideas. Choose things that only you know about. Look around the room that you are in. Look out of the window. Look into your mind to places that you know well. Try to spot small, delicate things. Make each idea different and choose your words carefully.

You can read and  listen to these 3 poems

These are my 6 delicate things:

My cat’s whiskers

The peacock feather tucked into the mirror

The old dusty books

The echo of my cat’s meow

The shadow of the see-through table in the sun

The white grass on a frosty morning                          By Hannah

These are my 6 delicate things:                                                                                                                                        - the touch of my pheasant feather                                                                                                                           - the shoots from my cornflower plant

        – my mum’s soft orange scarf

         – the water in a flowing stream

         – a cracked egg shell

         – my breath when I exhale                                                      By Hector

These are my 7 delicate things:

The warm cookies in the oven

The flickering flames of the silent candle

The small slither of sun on the wall

The warm feeling when you drink hot drinks

The pages of a book as they feebly blow in the wind

The line between the horizon and the empty sky

The sweet sound of animals rustling in the bushes                              By Lila

Now write your own list poems about your delicate things following these writing tips;

• Choose things to write about that only you may have seen or noticed or thought about. That way, your list of ideas will be a special way of capturing your life.
• Try to avoid the temptation of borrowing other people’s ideas. To get ideas, look around where you are, look out of the window and then look inside your head at places you know well. There will be hundreds of things to notice.
• Select your choice then make each one special by choosing your words to describe them with care.
   

French

Les nombres de 0 à 31 – Numbers from 0 to 31

• Watch the clip below to learn counting up to 31.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu_dsGvo_Ac

• Practise pronouncing the words correctly using the written words below.

• Solve these calculations and write the answers in numbers. 

Challenge: write the answer in French as well.

•  The red symbol tells you which operation to use (+ - x ÷)

1. seize + dix = 26 (vingt-six)

2. vingt-deux + huit = ______

3. onze + vingt = _____

4. vingt – cinq = ______

5. douze – neuf = ______

6. trente – dix = _______

7. dix x trois = _____

8. quatre x deux = _____

9. cinq x quatre = _____

10) neuf ÷ trois = _____

11) douze ÷ six = _____

12) vingt-cinq ÷ cinq = _____