This week’s focus question: What is a wave?This week’s Maths focus : Capacity

ENGLISH MATHS ENQUIRY ACTIVE

This week you are going to be making a fact file about an animal from either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

You could choose:

Atlantic: Humpback whale, killer whale, green sea turtle, grey seal, narwhal or any other animal that you have found out about.

Pacific: Manta ray, sea otter, sea slug, octopus, giant squid, hammerhead shark, blue whale, dolphin, clownfish, butterfly fish, puffer fish or any other animal that you have found out about.

Here is a Supermovers song all about volume and capacity: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-capacity-volume/zj8njhv

Investigate capacity using things you would find in your kitchen. You could use a cup, bottle, mug, bowl, egg cup, spoon.

Which will hold the most water? Which will hold the least water? Fill each container up in the sink. Were you right? Which item has the biggest capacity?

Sort your items into order of which has the smallest to biggest capacity.

GEOGRAPHY

What is a wave?

Can you find out a bit more about waves? Which ocean has the biggest waves? What is a tsunami?

Watch this video explaining what a wave is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M6eWK4VG1g

Can you use rope or ribbon to make your own waves?

Choose 2 activities:

Joe Wicks Workout

Super Movers

iMovers

Sea themed Yoga Poses

(Select 3 poses and practise the same all week as you will add new ones weekly as you build up to compile your own ‘underwater’ yoga sequence (adding music) as the enquiry progresses).

Plan out your fact file. Think of between 3-5 headings which you could write about. You can also include some pictures/illustrations of the animal and their habitat.

You could choose: Habitat, Food, What it looks like, Fun Facts or any other heading of your choice.

Challenge: Can you include some ‘Did you know?’ questions.

It could look something like this:

Today you will be comparing capacity.

Can you fill up two containers and then use the greater than, less than or equal to symbols (>,<,=) to compare the containers?

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HISTORY

Who was Captain Cook?

Research his voyage from Plymouth on the Mayflower. Which Oceans did he cross?

You could look at the PowerPoint attached or do your own research.

Make a poster with Captain Cook’s rules.

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?

This week’s focus question: What is a wave?This week’s Maths focus : Capacity

Use a world map or draw your own to plot captain cook’s voyages.

Start writing your fact file. This could take you until the end of the week. If you finish, there is a list of extra challenges at the bottom of the grid.

Today you will be using the vocabulary ‘full’, ‘half full’ and ‘empty’.

Can you fill containers so that they are full, half full and empty?

SCIENCE

What is a wave?

Watch this video again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?

This week’s focus question: What is a wave?This week’s Maths focus : Capacity

Remember to include:

Everyone:

A Heading

Subheadings

Capital letters and full stops

Finger Spaces

Facts

Pictures

Year 2s:

A question

A list with commas

Adjectives

Challenge: Can you fill containers so that they are a quarter, half and three quarters full?

You could use an empty bottle and mark

where a quarter, half and three quarters full are.

v=9M6eWK4VG1g

Have a go at making your own waves!

You could fill up a sink/tub/bath with water and drop in a stone. Watch what happens to the water.

Or you could use a straw and try and blow the water. Can you make waves?

Or in a sink/bath, move your hands up and down. What happens when you move faster/slower?

If you have anything from last week that you found out floats, you could put this in the water and see if it will float over a wave!

Use a measuring jug to measure how much water your containers can hold.

If you don’t have a jug, you could see how many egg cups of water your container can hold, or how many tablespoons. For bigger containers, you could use a cup or mug.

Challenge: Can you record your answers in millilitres and litres?

ART/DT: -

This is a very famous painting by Hokusai called ‘The Great Wave’.

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?

This week’s focus question: What is a wave?This week’s Maths focus : Capacity

Watch some of this clip of waves crashing on a beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1T06UhcX0QThink about how it makes you feel. Now watch this cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmPzbZVUp3gHow are the waves different? Does it make you feel different emotions?

Have a go at creating your own wave art. Will you make a calm, soft wave or an angry, crashing wave?

If you finish before the end of the week, you could practise some more sentence structure using Karate cats (https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/karate-cats?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzdp4pg8 )

Or read/listen to more books on Get Epic. I have assigned you all lots of books about the Oceans and the animals that live there.

Or you could make another fact file about another ocean animal.

Make your own potions!

Measure out the liquid ingredients and combine them to create your own potions. When you have made your potion, can you draw what you have used?

MUSIC

Use Garage Band or other music App of your choice to create a water themed piece of music which can be played as music to accompany your completed yoga sequencing.

Keep building your music as you get to understand more oceanic features and link these features to new instruments/sounds! Can you make some sounds that remind you of the Great Barrier Reef?

Choose 2 activities from the list above.

wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?

This week’s focus question: What is a wave?This week’s Maths focus : Capacity

e.g.

wHAT’S ALL THAT COMMOTION IN OUR OCEANS?