In KS2, we use Destination Reader to improve our comprehension and understanding of books. We read together as a class, and then use sentence stems to support our discussions around the texts shared.
When reading at home, try using the DR sentence stems to share your ideas with your family and friends.
You could listen to some of the stories at StorylineOnline and discuss these with your family. As part of Black History Month, there are a number of high quality picture books celebrating black stories and black voices.
'There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on treasure island' WALT DISNEY
We love reading at De Beauvoir and we want you to look reading too. Improving your fluency and comprehension will help you develop your reading skills and hopefully, develop a love of reading also. You have your ReadingPlus login, so why not login daily to read a range of different texts and books online. You should be practising your reading for at least 30 minutes daily - either on Reading Plus or using your levelled/free reader books.
If you need reminding of your login details, speak to your classteacher, contact the school or email debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com.
As part of your home learning, ensure that you are going on TT Rockstars everyday to practise your times tables. Knowing your times tables will enable you to solve calculations and maths problems quickly and efficiently. Currently upper Key Stage 2 are dominating the top 3 positions on our leadership, do you think you could beat them? Well done to Rushane in Year 5 and Jamila and David in Year 6.
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In today's PSHE lesson, we will be looking at the effects and dangers of different types of drugs on the human body.
The first thing we need to do, is define what a drug is. Does this definition fit with your understanding of what a drug is?
All drugs can be categorised into 4 main types, which are illustrated in the table below:
Create a table that matches the one shown above. Next, consider where in the table, these drugs would fit: Coca Cola, coffee, cough medicine, alcohol, tobacco, inhalers, sleeping pills, cannabis. Add in any information of the effects of these drugs on the human body that you might know.
Hi Home-Learners, Welcome to Lesson 4 of 'The Dreadful Menace' Unit.
Today's Learning Intention is
To be able to use similes and metaphors as a method of figurative language.
Let's start by drawing a grid like this.
We're going to watch 'The Dreadful Menace' again with the sound turned off and I want you to fill the grid with adjectives that come into your mind when you watch it. For example bitter, barren, icy, frozen, harsh, frigid, polar forbidding.... If you run out of ideas, click here for a thesaurus. Put in 'frozen' or 'icy' and see what synonyms it brings up.
Remember to watch 'The Dreadful Menace' with the sound off.
Now you should have the grid with some wintry adjectives in it. Can you turn those adjectives into similes. For example - barren as a desert - as dark as night.
Now look at your similes and award yourself points using the grid below.
How well did you do? Can you expand any of your similes to make them worth 10 points?
Next, read this poem and note all the similes. Are there any metaphors?
Task
It's your turn to write your own simile and metaphor poem today.
Use our poem and this grid to help you.
Then send your poem to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com
Today we are going to draw this amazing whale with Rob. We always love receiving all your pictures at debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com , so please send them in. Click on this link and enjoy.
Morning Year 6 Home Learners, here is Lesson 3 of The Dreadful Menace. Remember to send you work to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com
L.I. To be able to understand symbolism as a method of figurative language.
What do you think colours are symbolic of. The blue one has been done for you, but what about the other colours? What do they represent for you?
What about a smile, a roller coaster and a ladder. What could they symbolise?
Now we're going to watch 'The Dreadful Menace' again. What else might the film symbolise? Fear, nerves, competition, failure? Is the mountain symbolic of the upward journey of the athlete? Is the peak symbolic of the gold medal given to the winner?
Did you find anymore symbolism in the clip?
Watch this clip from the Sochi Olympic Games. It shows the final of the women's ski jumping final. These athletes have trained for 4 years to make their bodies strong enough and their technique precise enough to glide a a millimetre further than anyone else and claim gold. One muscle out of place and... it's all been for nothing. How do you think they feel just before they jump?
Read this:
This is called a split internal monologue. It is the fear and courage in the athlete's head. Green is courage and determination, black is fear and doubt. Some of the lines are taken from 'The Dreadful Menace Poem'.
Your Task
Your task is to write your own internal split monologue for a ski jumper. You can use lines from 'The Dreadful Menace' for the fear and doubt but you need to use your own ideas for the 'green part' -the athlete's determination and courage.
When you're happy with your work, send it to us at debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com
Today we will be looking at what the circulatory system is and its functions in human body. Before we get started, lets see what you can remember from yesterday.
Now watch this video to introduce yourself to the the circulatory system.
The circulatory system consists of three independent systems that work together: the heart, lungs and arteries and veins. The system is responsible for the flow of blood, nutrients and oxygen around the body.
Now that you have been introduced to the the circulatory system, I would like you to draw a diagram of the lungs. Use the picture below as guide. Send your work to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com , we can't wait to see it.
Morning Year 6 home learners, here is the second lesson of our ten day English Unit, 'The Dreadful Menace'. Send your work to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com , we can't wait to read it.
L.I.To select appropriate vocabulary and devices (personification) to enhance meaning.
What's your favourite season? Mine is Spring, I love the new life all around us, lengthening days and feeling the sun on my skin again after the winter. Everything seems new, hopeful and optimistic. Watch this video of a year's worth of seasons in 40 seconds!
Yesterday, we watch the 'Dreadful Menace' which was an advert made for the Winter Olympics. Watch the video again and note down all the ways you see or hear winter being shown or spoken about. For example, the snow blows across the ridge or the wind howls.
Now write some sentences about winter using your notes. Remember to include the figurative language from yesterday, For example, 'The snow whipped viciously across the mountain face'. Icicles, like silver daggers pierced the frosty air.
What do you remember about personification? It's a type of literary device. This jolly video will remind you and you'll be singing it all day long -it's very catchy!!!
Look around the room you are in. Can you write a sentence that personifies an object in the room. For example, 'The furious kettle angrily let steam gush from its metal head'.
Now can you write a line of personification for any of these?
Main Task
Now we're going to write a piece of prose that uses personification of winter to make the reader understand how powerful and merciless winter can be.
Here's ours:
You don't have to use personification in every sentence, that would be overdoing it.
Use the wordbank above to help you.
Make sure all your sentences are proper sentences and include a verb. Don't just write, 'The glass icicles' that's not a proper sentence, you need a verb - 'The glass icicles hung from the cave's roof'.
Send your writing to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com - we can't wait to see what you have written.
Plenary
Could you write a sentence that personifies summer?
Today we will be learning about the different components (parts) of blood.
L.I. To identify the different components of blood.
There will be some writing and drawing involved in this lesson, so get your pens and penciles ready.
Use the three missing words to fill in the blanks (capillaries, veins and arteries).
This is how you will never forget:
Now watch this video and notice the different compononets of blood.
Scientists can look at blood cells under a microscope. If you look at red blood cells under a microscope, they appear yellow, but when lots are joined together, develop the red colour. White blood cells appear colourless, but can be stained using chemicals. Create this table with the three empty boxes and the information underneath.
Once you have created your table, use the pictures underneath to draw in your blood cells and platelets.
Morning Home-Learners,
Today we are looking at ratio, which is something we didn't cover in class very much before lockdown so it will be new learning for most of you.
Click here and scroll down to Week 1 -Using Ratio Language.
It looks like this.
The worksheets form part of the home learning booklet available from school or can be accessed here: Week 1, lesson 1
Morning, this is the lesson we are doing in class today. Have a go and send your learning to debeauvoirprimaryschool@googlemail.com
L.I. To be able to discuss and evaluate how authors use language
In today's English Lesson we started by watching this video.
Stop it at 0.14 'I am the conundrum'. What are your first impression?
Stop it at 0.53 Who is standing on the ridge? Why?
Finish off the video - What sports did you see? Why was this used as advertising for the Winter Olympics? What is poignant about the ending?
Here is the poem - no one knows who wrote it. Read it out loud and notice the ABCB rhyming pattern (the second and fourth line in each stanza rhyme).
Watch the film again but turn the sound off? How does the cinematography make you feel small and powerless? Who is the narrator of this poem? Nature? Winter? The Mountain?
Look back at the poem and copy out the five lines you think show winter at his most powerful.
Do you remember the work we did on figurative language?
Can you find any examples of the figurative language above in this missing stanza from the poem?
There's a simile - 'like a waiting wold I grin'.
There's a metaphor - 'My nails scraping over skin'.
There's alliteration 'frost and fury'
There's personification throughout the stanza - only humans can use their words to be angry and threatening.
Can you find any other examples?
Can you fins examples of figurative language in the whole poem?
Now complete this response.
Plenary
Play the video again with the sound off and read out the poem in your most intimidating voice!
