Our whole-school homework this week is:
Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.
Number Fact Fluency: Use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.
Talk Time
This week’s Talk Time is related to our core skills:
Our Talk Time this week relates to our recent Geography learning:
I know and can use the topic vocabulary from this half term.
Years 1 and 2:
- continent: a very large area of land
- globe: a model of the Earth which shows what it looks like from space
- ocean: a large area of water between continents
- Equator: an imaginary line that goes around the centre of the Earth
- physical geography: physical geography looks at the natural things in our environment
- human geography: human geography looks at changes in the environment by humans
- population: the number of people living in a certain place
- national park: a park or area of land looked after by a country’s government
Years 3 and 4:
- climate zones: areas of the world with similar temperature and weather
- hemisphere: a half of the earth, divided into a northern and southern hemisphere
- Equator: an imaginary line that circles around the earth and divides it equally into the two hemispheres
- latitude: the distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees
- lagoon: a stretch of saltwater separated from the sea by a low sandbank or coral reef
- tourism: travelling to a place for fun
- economy: how a country or place makes and spends money
- over tourism: when there are too many tourists and it results in conflict with local people who live there
- flood defences: used to prevent flooding in a specific place
Years 5 and 6:
- biome: areas of the world with similar climate, landscapes, animals and plants
- vegetation belt: an area with distinct plant types
- climate zone: areas of the world with similar temperature, weather and precipitation
- natural resources: something that is found in nature and can be used by humans
- exports: goods that are sent to other countries for sale
- deforestation: the destruction of forests by humans
- agriculture: growing and harvesting crops and raising animals; another word for farming
- indigenous people: the earliest or original inhabitants of a place
- mining: the process of getting valuable or useful minerals from the ground
Encourage your child to think back to their Geography learning so far. The following questions might prompt your child to remember even more about the vocabulary:
- What does this word mean?
- Can you use the word in a sentence?
- Can you (where possible) give an example of this?
- Have you seen a piece of art that links to that word?
- Can you link this word to one or more of the other words?
Which of these words would you group together?