Being happy and healthy!
It is important to look after our own physical health (our bodies) and mental health (thoughts and feelings).
We’d like to share some ideas for keeping calm at home. Follow this link and scroll down for breathing exercises, calming games, expressing yourself and yoga videos. I like the Wall of Expression.
Maths
Year 3 – Comparing and ordering fractions – Video lesson
Task 2 with answers.
Year 4 – Video Lesson
Reading
Video Lesson and task and answers
Topic – Science: Pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal
Watch this beautiful animation, The Story of Flowers.
Pause the video at each of the times shown below and see if you can complete the sentences with the words from the word bank.
Word bank:
roots water pollination nutrients pollination stamen roots
0.55 In a meadow full of flowers, a bee lands on a flower to get nectar. The job of the flower is to attract insects, which can carry pollen to other flowers. This is called __________.
1.04 The roots of the plants grow into the soil. Their job is to hold the plant steady and to bring ________ and _________ up the stem to the leaves and the flower.
1.40 This flower has ________ which hold the pollen. Insects get some of the pollen stuck to their bodies and it gets carried to the next flower. __________ is when pollen is carried to the next flower and fertilises it. One it is fertilised, it can make seeds.
3.04 The seeds spread in different ways, sometimes by air and sometimes by wind. Animals can also spread seeds. Can you think of any ways that animals might spread seeds?
3.15 When a seeds falls in a place that is good to grow, it germinates. This means that it sprouts ___________ , a new shoot and begins to grow.
Story – read by Mr G
Goosebumps cont’d pgs 89-108