Giraffe Class May 2020 Five Half Term Holiday Tasks 4 5 - Bratton ...

Giraffe Class
      May 2020
    Five Half Term
    Holiday Tasks
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         Combining:
          Reading
             Art
           Maths
           Writing
           Science

Reading: Story Time!
• I thought you might enjoy listening to some short stories this half
  term! I really enjoyed these!

• Try ‘Teacher’s Tale of Terror’ here:
• https://www.worldbookday.com/videos/teachers-tales-of-terror/
• Try ‘The Great Pet Shop Panic’ here:
• https://www.worldbookday.com/videos/the-great-pet-shop-panic/
• Try ‘The Crow and the Peacock’ here:
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/audio-stories-the-crow-
  and-the-peacock/zk3fhbk
• Try ‘How Maui tamed the sun’ here:
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/audio-stories-how-
  maui-tamed-the-sun/zknhmfr

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Reading/Art: Posters
• Make a poster, advertising a place inside your favourite book, as if it
  were real, and you’re trying to get people to go there to visit it!
• You must include:
    – A picture of the place (e.g. the lamppost in Narnia),
    – The title of the place (e.g. The Lamppost)
    – Some key characters from the book (e.g. Mr Tumnus, Lucy, the White Witch,
      Aslan, Mr and Mrs Beaver),
    – Some key items from the book (e.g. an umbrella, some Turkish Delight, some
      snow),
    – A tagline or slogan to make the place sound amazing (e.g. ‘The famous
      landmark, where Narnia meets The Land of Men’.
• Try to make it as colourful and as detailed as possible.
• Draw faint pencil guidelines top and bottom for your words to make sure
  that your writing stays straight and the letters are all the same size!
• Some examples can be found on the next page.
• Don’t forget send us a photo of yours – we’d love to see it!
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk                                             2

Visit the famous landmark known as

     THE LAMPPOST
Where Narnia meets The World of Men!

Maths/Art: Painting
• Pablo Picasso was a famous Spanish artist who painted
  surreal pictures.
• Some of his pictures used shapes (regular and irregular
  polygons) to make up faces and people (see the next few
  pages for some of his work, and work inspired by him).
• Have a go at painting your own Pablo Picasso-style
  picture. (You can also use colouring pencils or pens).
• Use a variety of regular and irregular shapes, such as
  triangles, squares, rectangles, circles, octagons, etc., to
  form the picture. You could create a person, or a face, or
  even an animal!
• Don’t forget send us a photo of yours – we’d love to see it!
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk
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Picasso’s Pictures

Picasso’s Pictures

Pictures inspired by Picasso

Writing: Poems
• We’re all spending a lot of time at home, so let’s write about it!
• Your task is to write a poem about your home.
• Try to include little details that make your home unique – things about
  your house and garden, and your family.
• You can make it sweet and heart-warming, or funny – the tone of the
  poem is up to you!
• I’ve put some examples on the next few pages.
• Try to use:
    – Rhythm (similar length lines, focussing on similar numbers of syllables per
      line),
    – Rhyme (either rhyming couplets (pairs) of lines, or alternate lines),
    – Interesting words,
    – Some similes and/or metaphors and/or personification.
• Don’t forget send us a photo of your poem – we would love to read it!
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk

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‘The Home I Love’ By Kay Hoffman

Some homes are quiet, polished, neat
But one I know is far more sweet
Where tiny smudges on the wall
Tell of fingers dear and small.
Where toys are sometimes strewn about
And doors are banging in and out.
Where little children play and sing,
And laughter's often heard to ring...
The home I love is filled with noise
Of happy little girls and boys!

‘Song for a Little House’ by Christopher Morley

I'm glad our house is a little house,
Not too tall nor too wide:
I'm glad the hovering butterflies
Feel free to come inside.

Our little house is a friendly house.
It is not shy or vain;
It gossips with the talking trees,
And makes friends with the rain.

And quick leaves cast a shimmer of green
Against our whited walls,
And in the phlox, the courteous bees
Are paying duty calls.

(phlox = a kind of plant)

‘Down Home’ by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Down home to-night the moonshine falls
Across a hill with daisies pied,
The pear tree by the garden gate
Beckons with white arms like a bride.
A savor as of trampled fern
Along the whispering meadow stirs,
And, beacon of immortal love,
A light is shining through the firs.
To my old gable window creeps
The night wind with a sigh and song,
And, weaving ancient sorceries,
Thereto the gleeful moonbeams throng.
Beside the open kitchen door
My mother stands all lovingly,
And o'er the pathways of the dark
She sends a yearning thought to me.
It seeks and finds my answering heart
Which shall no more be peace-possessed
Until I reach her empty arms
And lay my head upon her breast.

Science/Art:
               Silhouette Pictures
• Here’s a clever way to combine our study of light in
  Science with some clever art.
• You’re going to create silhouette pictures, using either
  toys, household objects, or plants and trees in your
  garden, and sunlight.
• Take a look at the next pages for ideas – position your
  paper and chosen objects so that shadows are cast on the
  paper by the sunlight, then draw lines carefully around
  the edges of the shapes. Add black inside the shapes, and
  leave the background white, or add some colour.
• Remember to wear sun cream if you’re out in the sun!
• Don’t forget send us a photo of yours – we’d love to see it!
• giraffes@bratton.wilts.sch.uk
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We hope you
have a lovely
 Half Term!

 We miss you!
    From,
 Miss Pickup
     And
 Mrs Callaway