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o Pick a character from a story and draw a portrait of them. Around the portrait write words
or phrases to describe them (verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns)

Summer Term

Word Level Work
o Hangman with spellings.
o Identify as many words as possible with the endings ful and ly using signs, books, own
knowledge, create a friendship soup.

Sentence Level Work
o Write questions about a topic using When, Where, What, How, Who.
o Brainstorm different types of questions they could ask e.g. time? Day?
Search through selection of books to find questions.

Text Level Work
o Read and compare a selection of books by the same author – e.g. Anthony Browne. What is
the same? What is different? Complete a table/list to show the difference.
o Write about an author – their name, alive or dead? Publisher? Identifying where they found
this information.
o Read and compare two similar books from two different authors and identify the
differences to feed back to the class.
o Write tongue twisters – own or from books – to make a class poetry book.
Give a verbal book review on a book they have read.
o Describe a character/scene/setting from a story they would write.
Links to
curriculum In pairs start planning a long story on a particular theme (e.g. relate to topic being
studied).

SCIENCE

o How many jumps can their partner do in one minute? Estimate, time and record.
o Floating and sinking: selection of items available – what will float? What will sink? Why
do you think that? Complete activity and record results and why they are different/right.
Star fillers o Plan and carry out investigation into shoe size/hand span, recording results on a graph.
o Discuss what is alive and what is dead. Students draw items to show each and label with
key words/sentences to explain why dead/alive.
o Draw the life cycle of a butterfly/frog/plant labelling key parts.
o In groups draw round one member of the group and then all label/draw body parts.
o Discuss being healthy chn to create a poster showing exercises/healthy food.
o How can we stay clean? Students to draw a poster to remind others to wash hands after
going to the toilet, before eating, after playing outside, brush teeth twice a day etc.
o Create a leaflet explaining how to look after a seed to make sure it grows into a healthy
plant.
o Identify different sources of light in the classroom?