Friday 26th June

Dear Room 4

Today I am working with the other Middle School Teachers on some ideas for next term.

Mrs. Gallagher will be teaching in Room 4 today.

You all have different things to work on and finish off.  I will list these below so that you can organise your time with Mrs. Gallagher and take turns using the computers for your research and Google Classroom Tasks.

I will be at school, so I will probably see you sometime.  
Have a great - kind - friendly day.
Mr. H

Roll - Jerry
News - Frank (if he's not still sick)

Morning mini research - adaptations - see links below

Middle School Choir - 11 am

Life Education - 1.30 pm (remember your great manners)

Things to finish and work on:

Last chance to work on your Tessellation task - Google Classroom - closes on Sunday!
(will not work on ipads)

Group Research Task - Living World / Google Classroom 
(ipads should work for this now)
I've been having a look at your work
Well done so far on this - most of you have started this
I have added comments to some of your documents - please read them
Some people need to make their topic a bit easier and write a set of questions that all fit the topic

Art Calendars - you know what you are doing - remember:
plan what you are doing
add detail
don't over do it
know when you have done enough

Contract Items
Blends  – ck – ee – ap – gg
Word Illustrations Nocturnal, Extinct, Endangered 

Extra
Make a living world word find in your learning journal (draw a 15 x 15 grid) use words from this weeks homework sheet
Own free writing time
Own reading time
Does anyone have a Kahoot quiz ready? (maybe at 12 pm or 2.30 after Life Eductaion)


Morning Mini Research (20 - 30 minutes)
Find out facts and contribute your notes to make a mini book - A6 paper size - you know what to do.

Living World
What does adaptation mean?
What are animal adaptations for?
How do these features help the animal?
Find out about an interesting animal adaptation and the benefit that the animal gets from this?

Make a mini book page to share with the class

Try one of these web searches and look at web pages and Google images.

1. animal adaptations
2. amazing adaptations
3. strange animal adaptations
4. animal claws
5. animal eyes
6. animal ears
7. animal fangs

NB. (note well) some of the images you find might not be TRUE / REAL!

Here is a video to get you thinking!

Thursday 25th June

Roll Livinya

Mini Research - Endangered Animals
20 minutes researching and note taking - make a mini book

Questions?????
What does endangered mean?
Why are animals endangered?
How many are there of this animal in the wild?

Do a Google images search for "endangered animals"
Follow the image link and visit the web page to find out more...

Here is a quick video that introduces some endangered animals.  
You might be surprised that some of these are endangered.
One of them could end up on your dinner plate!

Try this link to find out more

News Reader - Finn - Daily Details

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Maths

Google Classroom - Help each other to complete a fantastic tessellation for assignment 4.

Example:

Zilch - Dice in the top draw of the whiteboard

Investigate VISNOS on the ipads - number spinners and much more to discover.

(there are short videos that show you how to use each of the tools on this site - investigate and discover)

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Reading - Writing 

Time Lords and Multicolour Flowers 

Catch up on class contracts

1. Blends – ck – ee – ap – gg 
2. Word Illustrations Nocturnal, Extinct, Endangered 
3. In your journal start planning ideas about how you might present your research work
4. Help the Starfish and Five Sparkles to get started on task 5 in the Google Classroom

Starfish and Five Sparkles

Organise yourselves into small groups of two and three to do a small independent research inquiry.  Go to Task 5 in the Google Classroom - fill in the questions in the document.

Ask for help from Elena, Indy, Bailey, Finn, Thanoshika - someone who has already started this task.  They can show you how to start collecting images and linking video clips to the document.

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Art Calendars to complete

Take your time 

Make them amazing

Add detail

Assembly at 2pm

Have a Great DAY:-)

Symbiotic

In biology, symbiotic is the idea that different organisms (plants and animals) that live together can get some benefit (help) from each other.

However, this relationship is not always beneficial to both creatures. Parasites, for example, have a symbiotic relationship with their hosts, but only the parasite benefits.

Example: Head lice are symbiotic with humans but only the head lice get a benefit!!!!!

Watch the video - then try this web search - write a page for a class mini book with an example of a symbiotic relationship in nature.

Web Search

symbiotic animals  - just follow the link from google images to find some good examples.

Two creatures that are symbiotic in the living world are....
They... (explain how they are symbiotic)