Tuesday

STEMterprise

Tuesday 1st July 2025

LC: To locate and press natural products. 

On Friday, in our business groups, we are going to make a product to sell.

We will make either a book mark or a card!

 

Talk Partners

Do you think it will be better to use natural materials for our product?

If so, why?

Can you think of any natural materials (we might find outdoors) that would make our product stand out?

 

 

Let's go outside, locate and collect flowers and leaves!

🌼 How to Make Dried Pressed Flowers

Pick the Flowers

• Choose flowers that are dry (not wet from rain or dew).
• Pick ones that are small and flat, or gently trim thick parts.

Prepare the Flowers 

• Remove any unwanted leaves or thick stems.
• If the flower is thick, you can cut it in half.

 Place the Flowers in Paper

• Put each flower between a folded piece of paper (tracing paper). 

Put the Flowers in a Book

• Place the paper with flowers inside a heavy book. 
• Close the book and add more heavy books on top.

Leave Them to Dry

• Don’t open the book too soon—they need time to dry fully.

 

Maths

01.07.25

LC: To be able to measure the perimeter of 2D shapes.

History

Tuesday 1st July 2025

LC: To describe the similarities and differences from the 17th century to the present day.

Talk Partners

In your talk partners, you have three minutes to write down anything you learnt about the 17th century last week! 

Get a whiteboard out and pen ... 1, 2, 3 GO!

Timer

🌍 Similarities from the 17th century to the present day

• People Still Live in Families

Then: Families lived together in homes, often with many children.

Now: Families still live together and care for each other.

 

• Children go to school

Then: Children from wealthy families went to school. 

Now: All children have the right to go to school.

 

• People Wear Clothes

Then: Clothes were handmade and often made of wool or linen.

Now: People still wear clothes, but we use machines to make them.

 

• People Eat Food

Then: People grew their own food or bought it at markets.

Now: People still eat fruits, vegetables, bread, and meat—some even the same foods!

 

🕰️ Differences from the 17th century to the present day

1. Technology

   Then: No phones, TVs, or computers.

   Now: We have the internet, mobile phones, and video games.

 

1. Transport

   Then: People used horses and carts.

   Now: We use cars, buses, trains, and planes.

 

1. Clothing

   Then: Clothes were made by hand and looked very different.

   Now: We have machines to make clothes and many different styles.

 

1. Medicine and health

   Then: Doctors didn’t know as much and many people got sick.

   Now: We have better hospitals and medicine.

 

1. Electricity

   Then: No electricity—people used candles for light.

   Now: We have electric lights, TVs, fridges, and more.

 

Activity

In your books describe the similarities and the differences from the 17th century to the present day. You can use the images below to help write your two paragraphs. 

Similarities

The similarities from the 17th century to the present day are...

Differences

The differences from the 17th century to the present day are...

Reading

RIC

A tree: he must find a tree to climb. Wolves can outrun anything but they cannot climb trees. He stumbled on, looking wildly around him but the trees were all pines with smooth, icy trunks. The wolf-cries drew nearer. He looked back. Dim shapes moved in the dark beneath the trees. He plunged forward, gasping. They had seen him now. A few seconds more and they would be upon him. He glanced about and ploughed through the snow, the wolves at his heels. He leapt; his hands closed around the lowest branch and he swung his legs clear of the ground as the first wolf lunged in a flurry of snow.

R - Why should Ivan climb a tree?

I - How is Ivan feeling? How do you know?

C- Why has the author used shorter sentences in the passage. Take a look at the highlighted sentences in the passage.

Tuesday 1st July 2025

LC: To retrieve and record information from non-fiction.

Tell your talk partners the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

We are going to practice the same skill that you do when you are ready to quiz a book on Accelerated Reader. When you are quizzing on Accelerated Reader how do you prepare for it? For example, do you only read the blurb? 

Let's make a list of the things that we need to be sure of before we quiz.

The first one has been done for you:

1) Make sure that you have read the book fully

2)

3)

Today we are going to be reading a passage and retrieving the answers from the passage to get our answers.

 

We need to make sure that we have understood this text fully before we try and retrieve information from it. Are there any words that we do not understand?

For example: Domesticated

 

Let's answer some questions together from the above passage:

1) What was the most popular breed of dog in 2019?

The most popular breed of dog in 2019 was....

2) Which organisation recognises dogs to have 192 breeds?

The _______________ organisation recognises...

3) Where did dogs come from?

Dogs came from...

 

Independent

Continue to read the rest of the passage and answer the questions in your books.

 

1) Find 2 pieces of evidence that tell us that dogs need lots of looking after to keep healthy.

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2) How many dogs does The Dog's Trust look after?

 

3) What was The Dog's trust known as before?

 

 

English

Tuesday 1st July 2025

LC: To use inverted commas.