Monday

 This week we are going to be looking at information books. Information books help us to learn about something. 

Information books look different to story books. They usually have photographs on the front rather than drawn pictures. Have a look at these books about recycling. Can you tell if it is an information book or story book?

When you are reading an information book you don’t read it in order, you choose the parts you want to learn about. To help you there is a page called the contents page. This is the contents page for this weeks book.

 Can you find which page we need to find to learn about where our rubbish goes? It is called ‘buried deep’.

Let’s read the pages. What information did you learn. Were there any words you didn’t know? Do you know what the word ‘landfill means? Or ‘compactor’?

Information books have a page called the glossary. It tells you what some of the words in the book means. Can you find the word ‘landfill’ in the glossary? What does it mean? What about compactor’?

 

 

 

 

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 Starter: Double numbers to 5

 

Can you tell me what the double number is? 

 

double 3 = ?

 

double 5 = ?

 

double 1 = ?

 

Weight

 

Weight is how we measure how heavy or light something is. We can use our hands to see which item is heavy or light but we can also use scales. 

 

These are some weighing scales that we can use to see if something is heavy or light. The heavy object will make the basket go down and the light object will make the basket go up. If the objects weigh the same, then the scale will stay at the same level. This is called balanced scales.

 

 

We will use the weighing scales later on in the week but today let's see if we can decide which objects are heavy and light using our hands. 

 

Let's predict which object will be the heavy one and then test it. 

 

The water bottle or the pencil?

 

The chair or the book? 

 

The teddy bear or a book? 

 

 

Can you predict which item will be light? Then we can test it to find the answer.

 

The water bottle or book?

 

The scissors or the cubes?

 

 

Scissors or a pencil?

 

 

Extension: What else could you weigh to see which is the heavy one or the light one?