Our story for the next few weeks will be the enchanted wood by Enid Blyton. For those of you who do not have a copy here is a video link. Please can you listen up to the ten minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPiOHF3g1AU.
English-Fiction or non-fiction
I have uploaded a bat fact file in the English folder. (You can use this to help your topic work.) The story you listened to was fiction, A story made up by the author. The fact-file is non-fiction, it is not made up and contains facts and figures. I remember this since fiction and false begin with the same letter, we can easily remember that fiction is false, even if it is an excellent and well-crafted story. Alternatively a nonfiction story is not fake.
· Bronze. Sort a collection of books/ leaflets that you have at home into fiction and non-fiction.
· Silver. Come up with your own definition/way of remembering which is which.
· Gold. Compare one of your fiction books with one of your non-fiction books/leaflets. What is different or the same about them? (Some ideas, they both might have an author, fiction contains fancy drawings whereas the non-fiction book contains photographs or diagrams, more titles in the non-fiction work ETC)
Maths-Recapping tally charts
We shall use the sorting activity to recap tally charts.
· Bronze. They create a simple tally chart of all the books that are non-fiction and all the books that are fiction.
· Silver. https://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/tally_chart/ is the tally chart game they have played.
· Gold. What else can they use a tally chart for? They design their own tally chart. (This could be a family reward system, once they get so many completed tally gates they get a reward, it could do a animal survey or any other idea.)
Topic-What would they find in the Enchanted wood?
We shall attempt to answer the question What would they find in the enchanted wood by looking at the likely plants and animals that could live in the Enchanted wood. Quick definition. Woodland is a type of habitat. A habitat is a type of place that certain animals and plants live. Different habitats have different creatures. They can use the BBC bitesize habitat resource https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv
· Bronze. They watch the video clip what is a woodland habitat and answer the quiz questions. They write a list.
· Silver. What other animals do you think might live in the Enchanted wood and why? They use their own knowledge, the bat worksheet and their own research to come up with some more animals or plants.
· Gold. Compare the woodland habitat to a different habitat. What kind of animals and plants live in the other habitat.