Monday 16th June 2025
Monday 16th June 2025
LC: Use active reading strategies to answer questions and draw inferences justifying with evidence from the text using point and evidence.
Monday 16th June 2025
LC: To perform a newspaper transcript using tone, intonation and expression.
16.06.25
LC: Position and Movement- review 13.
Monday 16th June 2025
LC: Spell correctly words in which the 'i' sound is made by 'y'
Do you know any words in which the 'i' sound s made by 'y'?
Here are a couple of clues!
Tell your talk partner any other words you know with this spelling.
Write these words in your spelling journal, then practise spelling them using whatever strategy works best for helping you to remember them.
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Monday 16th June 2025
LC- To understand how sound is made.
LC- To understand how sound travels to the ear.
You are all going to get an elastic band. We know you are all going to play with it but watch what happens when you play with it.
Now, let's focus.
Put the band around your fingers like this.
Pluck the band. Your teacher will show you how. Do you notice anything?
Now instead of you finger, put the band around some card. Pluck the band again. What do you notice?
Experiment a little. Can you make a tune? We will take pictures of you for our wall.
Now, in pairs, flick a ruler on the end of the table. The picture below shows you how. Don't flick too hard, we don't want to break the ruler. What do you notice. Move the ruler backwards and forwards. What do you notice now?
Talk to the people around you about what happened and how you think sound is made.
Who is brave enough to share their ideas with the class?
We will now watch the following video. Listen carefully. How accurate were your explanations?
As a class, we will now watch a few videos to see if we can learn more about how sounds are made.
How Do We Hear?
Sounds are made when objects vibrate.
The vibration makes the air around the object vibrate and the air vibrations enter your ear - you hear them as sounds.
You cannot always see the vibrations, but if something is making a sound, some part of it is always vibrating.
Sound waves travel through the air down the ear to the ear drum. When the vibrations hit the ear drum, this sends a message to the brain that changes the vibrations into sounds.
Now, let's have a go at labelling the ear.
Your turn.
Draw lines to label the ear and explain how sound is made and travels to the ear.
Task 2:
June 16th - 22nd is Refugee Week.
Can you remember what a refugee is?
When people leave their country to seek refuge, or protection, in another country, they are called refugees. Sometimes governments force people to leave their country. Other people leave their country because they belong to a group that is being mistreated. Some people have to leave their country because of a natural disaster, such as a flood or hurricane.
Here is one child's story:
Yaser's Story
For two long years, violence has kept Yaser’s* five children, Ali*, 15, Achmed*, 14, Hala*, 10, Sedra*, 7 and Aya*, 3, from living a normal life. They haven’t been able to go to school or play outside – the sniper and missile attacks made it too risky. Instead, they learned what type of weapon was being used just by the sound it made.
"Being scared was a permanent state of mind. I was always scared," said Achmed. "When I went to bed, I always wondered if I would wake up the next morning." Eventually the violence became too much for Yaser and his wife, and they made the decision to uproot their family from their home in Syria in search of a better life in Germany. They were only able to make their long and difficult journey from sunset to sunrise so they would not be spotted. Young Hala lost her glasses during their trek. "Everything is already strange, but now it is also blurry," she said. "It is very scary not to be able to see clearly."
They walked for days until they reached the boat that would carry them to Germany. The water was rough and the children were scared, but the family eventually made it. Now they must wait to register for asylum, a process that takes up to two weeks. During those two weeks the family must wait outside the registration centre every day for their number to be called. There are no facilities or shelter from the rain.
"I am tired of waiting here all day. We just stand in the rain," said Achmed. "But I will tell you something: after everything we have been through, a bit of rain can’t hurt me."
Reflection
Try to put yourself in Achmed's shoes. What sort of things has he been through in his life? How do you think he feels now he has almost reached a place of safety and stability?
