Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

I enjoy words

Keep working on: Lexia DoodleSpell DoodleEnglish Reading Plus (If you do it)

Nature Shape Poem Make your-self a senses grid to record four of your senses on – Feel, See, Hear, Smell, NOT Taste!

Feel See

Hear Smell

Stand quietly in your garden. Concentrate on your four senses. Do each one in turn. What can you feel? Touch the leaves and tree trunks etc. Write down the words that come into your mind – rough, smooth, spiky, damp, and so on. Then look around and record the words for the things you can see. Continue with the other senses until you have a whole sheet of words to describe what you can see, hear, feel and smell.

Use your words to make a

shape poem of a tree or something else in your garden. See the example at the end of the planning.

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6wTeT2cKA

Watch the story Make a book to show the life cycle of a plant. You could do it as a zigzag book or a different design if you like.

Peep Plants a Seed Watch the story using the link. You might need to watch it more than once! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxs7P7LWzDg

Retell the story by drawing yourself a storyboard. It’s like a cartoon strip that tells the main events of the story – we have made them lots of times before at school.

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

I enjoy numbers/

Maths

Keep working on: Mathletics Hit the Button Times Tables Rock Stars DoodleMaths

Tree Measures Do you have a tape measure? Measure the circumferences of some trees – that means around the trunk. You might be able to go to the park/forest to do this, or just use the ones in your garden. Write down the measurements. Can you put them in order from largest to smallest? What would make it easier to do this? Collect lots of different leaves from your garden. How many different ways can you think to sort them? By size? By colour? By shape? How will you decide which one goes where? How will you record your findings? You could simply stick the leaves in place!

Times tables Make a ‘Times Table Tree’ Draw a tree and write the table that you want to practise on the trunk. Then draw 12 leaves or fruits and write the answers to the times table on one side of each leaf and the matching question on the reverse. Use the leaves/fruits to practise the tables, work out the answer and flip it to check or work out the question and flip to check. Do this for all the tables that you want to practise

I enjoy

Science.

Listen to the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql6OL7_qFgU The Parts of a Plant Song Draw and label the parts of a plant. Can you tell someone what each part is for?

Plant a Seed Do you remember the ‘Magic Bean’ you grew? How is it doing now? Has it produced any beans for you to eat? Be like Peep in the story and plant your own seed. What do you need to do to grow it successfully? Write instructions for looking after a plant and helping it grow. Use pictures to make it clear.

Go on a ‘flower hunt’ around your garden. How many different flowers can you find? How can you record them? Why do you think different flowers grow in different places? Are they planted or natural? How do you know?

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

I enjoy pictures

and making things

Leaf Rubbing and Bark Rubbing Use a large piece of paper and wax crayons if you have them. Put the paper up against the tree trunk and rub the wax crayon on the paper to see the marks the bark makes. You can do lots of different ones in different colours. Collect different leaves from around your garden or when you are on a walk. Put a piece of paper over the leaf and rub the wax crayon onto the paper to see the marks made by the leaf. You can then cut out your rubbings and stick them on paper to create a rubbing collage.

Scavenger Hunt Around your garden, on a walk or on a trip into the forest, collect up lots of interesting natural items. E.g. Sticks and twigs, stones, leaves, flowers, fir cones, acorns and anything else you can find. Us e the collected items to make a picture

or a sculpture in your garden. If possible, take a picture to send to me!

Wind Chime Collect up some different natural materials like twigs, leaves and stones. Use a longer stick as the top and string to tie the smaller pieces on. Does it make a noise when the wind blows through? Do you need to add something (Manmade?) to make it make a better noise?

William Morris William Morris is a famous artist from Victorian times. He was inspired by the natural world for his designs for fabrics, wallpaper and furniture. Can you do a picture inspired by William Morris? Notice the repeating patterns that he uses. There are some more examples of his work at the end of this planning menu for you to look at.

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

I enjoy keeping

myself and other

people well

Relaxation Sit or lie quietly in your garden. Listen to the wind rustling in the trees and bushes. Focus only on rustling sounds and relax your body. Try to stay calm and still, just listening for at least 10 minutes. Do this every day.

Weather Diary Each day, at different times, go outside and think about the weather. What is happening? Is it windy? Raining? Hot? Cloudy? Record the weather on your own weather chart – design a symbol for each type of weather you experience. Also record how the weather makes you feel that day. Sad? Happy? Excited? Which weather do you like best and Why? How does the weather make other members of your family feel? What about the animals like the birds? Do they behave differently in different weather?

Tree Hugging You need a family member to do this with! One person needs to be blindfolded. The other person leads them carefully to a tree, making sure they do not trip. The blindfolded person then feels the tree, thinking about the size of the trunk, whether it is rough or smooth, whether there are any branches to feel. Then the blindfolded person is carefully led away from the tree and gently turned around so they don’t know which direction they are facing. They remove the blindfold and they have to find the tree they were hugging, just by touch.

I enjoy Music

Some listening

ideas from Mr Thew

'Appalachian Spring' is music by Aaron Copland, an American writing about the area around a mountain range on the east side of the US. It's title can be seen as a reference to the season or a fresh water spring, many are found in this area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3rVcSy3IQ 'Also sprach Zarathustra' by Austrian/German composer Richard Strauss, is a musical picture of the sunrise, notice how the pitch and volume rise to suggest the movement of the sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe8tCcHnKY Norwegian Edward Grieg also wrote music to describe the morning, here he was thinking of the countryside near his home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rh8gMvzPw0 French musician Saint-Saens wrote the collection called The Carnival of the Animals, listen how he describes hens and chickens by using short, repeated notes to show how they peck at the ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEd7Ovt4cWE&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0 Finally, a strange, old-fashioned piece of music called 'The Grasshoppers Dance', again the composer is trying to describe in music the movement and style of the insect. "The Grasshoppers' Dance" (composed by Ernest Bucalossi) Palladium Orchestra (Richard Crean) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5YqZrBVxIU

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’

Robin Home Learning 22nd June – 26th June ‘Nature’