English. Identifying nouns.
I will provide a quick explanation of what a noun is. Please skip this paragraph if your confident on the definition (I do not mean to patronise I am sure you are all aware of what a noun is but you may be unaware that they are called nouns. When I was in teacher training I myself needed a quick reminder.) Nouns are naming words like table and bear. You can have proper nouns that are names of a single, unique entity. (A planet is a noun, Jupiter is a proper noun because it is a specific planet.) You can also have abstract nouns like happy and sad. (Names of emotions)
Explain to the learners that you are on the hunt for nouns. (Explain that nouns are naming words that tell us what a object, person or emotion is called.)
Bronze: Give a few examples and play a game of noun tennis. Noun tennis is where you say a noun and your child has to say a noun back. I would not go into details of proper nouns but if the children says a proper noun you could acknowledge that. Oh great you have given me a special type of noun called a proper noun.
Silver: You can make the game harder by making sure all the nouns have to be related by a topic or theme. (Something that interests the child like food, science, football ETC). Every noun can be a point and you stop when the person cannot think of a noun quickly enough. (Be generous the first couple of times then introduce a time limit of 10 seconds or so). The winner can decide what film to watch at the end of the day or what food to eat for tea to make it interesting. (You can make this a circle game if the whole family would like to play. )
Gold: Explain and give examples of proper nouns. The Learner gets bonus points for using proper nouns.
Bronze: The child has to shout stop every time they hear a noun
Silver: Child identifies what is special with the nouns. (Most of them rhyme, each noun is a animal followed by an object.
Gold: can they think of their own animal/object pairs
Tomorrow the learners will use this book as a starting point to write their own sequel.
Guided Reading-Identifying nouns
Read the fantastic Oi frog book. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLi6xx4YEY ).
Bronze: The child has to shout stop every time they hear a noun and identify which word is a noun.
Silver: Child identifies what is special with the nouns. (Most of them rhyme, each noun is a animal followed by an object.
Gold: Can they rescue the poor frog and think of a different noun for the dog to sit on? (Sit on a pog, log, Mog, in some fog are some examples.)
Tomorrow the learners will use this book as a starting point to write their own sequel. (Tomorrow will just be the planning stage)
Maths-Exploring different types of graphs.
This activity is just for the learners to have a go at seeing the different ways that information can be stored. It is about their opinion and using jit5 charts (Found on hwb-then j2easy). they can explore the different types of charts.
I have tried something a little bit different and created a recording of the task with my explanation of the task and my thought process behind why they should do it over the top. To see the video clip follow this link https://youtu.be/JtrrR7Vom7w. (Alternatively type this into youtube- tuesday maths task spider monkey-my channel name is Mr Carbis) This clip explains the task so you don't need to read on.
To create the chart they will need some data and for this we will be looking at a science project that wants volunteers to look at 10 second drone footage and click yes or no as to whether there are any spider monkeys. https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rossmcwhirter/spotting-spider-monkeys/classify. If the children do this 10 (or more times, up to them) and create a table in jit 5. (See this link for my example https://www.j2e.com/jit5?fileId=NThPWePpXMUBCUuY)
Bronze: Creating the chart themselves and seeing which of the four types they prefer.
Silver: Justifying their choice. So it could be that they picked the pie chart because it is really easy to see that more clips had spider monkeys.
Gold: Using there understanding of halves and quarters to explain the data. IE Just over half of the clips had a spider monkey.
Kind regards,
The year 1 team.