Year 1 and Year 2 will continue their sessions with Colette from The Wye & Usk Foundation. Your activities from the previous sessions have looked fabulous well done to you all. I have sent some of the work to Colette who said that it had made her 'lockdown' so keep up the great work. Today we will take part in the final session. Look out for a special surprise from Trellech at the end of the clip! All the activities can be found at: https://www.wyeuskfoundation.org/education
Session 4: Amazing adaptations! How creatures are suited and adapted to survive where they live.
Imagine being able to breathe through your skin like the leech or to spin your own silk with your mouth to make your very own shelter like cased caddisfly larvae!
Our river creatures really do have the most amazing adaptations. Many animals' adaptations are to help them for find or catch food, like having special beaks, or sharp claws, or fins or webbed feet to help them move easily through the water, lots are well camouflaged to hide from predators.When salmon like Sioni and Sam are in the parr stage of their life cycle ...they are well parr-fectly camouflaged.
All you need to do:
Thinking and making fins on, can you…
Create and name your own Unusual Usk or Weird Wye river creature?
Design your own imaginary animal that is perfectly suited to living in the river that's nearest to you.
It could be a combination of a freshwater shrimp, a bullhead, an otter and a heron, anything you like!
You just need to draw it, make it from craft materials or describe it to a grown up and think of a name that best describes it!
Before you start making or drawing it or think about… how it moves, breathes, hunts/catches/finds its food, protects itself from predators, where it lives, what it eats
Save your work in your folder or email it to us! Colette would also love to see your work..
As part of your Big Write write a non- fiction report about what your imaginary animal.
Please share any work you do with us via pupil folders, email and/ or twitter. Don't forget to include us @trellechprimary and @WUFoundation, we would love to see what we have been up to!
Numeracy:
Today I have been able to add the Big Maths Challenges to our Class Folder within our Hwb Classroom.
There are 3 available: Clic, Learn Its and Safe- we usually complete CLic and Learn Its in Week One and SAFE during Week 2, so please don't feel you need to do them all today. They are there to check how the children are doing and identify any gaps in learning, so let them try on their own. The Learn Its should be completed in less than 2 minutes as it checks our recall of known number facts. I have also added an editable version to save you printing them off it helps. (In the pupil folder on Just2easy). If you have any problems accessing them, please let me know and I can email them to you- (peacockk2@hwbcymru.net).
Topic:
Humanities and Health and Well-Being
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