Hello there!
Hope that everything went well with yesterday’s learning.
Here are your tasks for today.
Writing
Lesson objective: To predict events in a story and infer what might happen next. 
The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis
This is the text we are going to be reading.
Discuss the children’s first thoughts about what the story/ characters / setting could be.
Have you heard of a bog before? (Clarify what a
bog is using images and an online / dictionary definition)
What might a bog baby be? What does the front cover lead you to imagine will be inside the book?
What other characters could be involved in this story?
What makes you think this?
Share some ideas about potential plot, setting and characters.
Challenge children to explain the reasons for their ideas.
Listen to and read the first seven pages (2.12 minutes, up to the page where it describes the bog baby). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuH4BdVQOQ
What do you think will happen next?
What kind of character is the bog baby?
Therefore,what might it do?
What could happen if the children pick it up?
Make a list of the adjectives the author has used to describe the bog baby.
Now, use your prediction skills based on what you have read up to page 7.
Copy and complete these sentence stems using your predicting skills.
If the children pick up the bog baby ……………………………..
I think that …………………………………………..
The bog baby is …………………………………………….
Challenge 1
Draw a picture of the bog baby and add ten new adjectives to describe the creature.
Challenge 2
Put your adjectives into sentences like this one. Remember the comma if you are using more than one adjective in a list. We have done this in class before.
The blue creature has sharp, pointy toenails.
Task 2 Reading
LO: I can retrieve.
Read the text below and answer the fact finding questions.
All about cats
There are so many different breeds of cats from very long-haired cats to the hairless Sphinx cat. They were domesticated, or tamed, to be friendly with humans in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago! They are fun pets to have and will soon become a part of the family.
Sphynx cat, a hairless breed
Persian cat – a very furry breed 
Cat Facts!
• Cats can run up to 30 miles per hour for short distances.
• Cats were considered sacred to the ancient people in China and Egypt.
• Cats do not have a rigid collarbone like many mammals. This is why they are able to squeeze through small spaces.
• Cats can see much better than people in low light.
How long do cats live?
Cats who live indoors are much safer than cats who are allowed to go outside as well. If a cat is well looked after and has regular check-ups then it can live to be 20 years or even older.
How do cats communicate?
Cats communicate in lots of different ways. They purr when they are feeling happy and content and hiss when they are feeling scared or threatened. Cats meow to tell us if they are hungry or want to go out and to communicate with other cats.
Questions
- How fast can a cat run?
- True or false? Cats that live indoors are safer than cats that go outside?
- True or false? A Sphynx cat has lots of fur?
- What might a cat do if it feels scared?
- A long time ago, who were cats were very special to?
Challenge Can you write two of your own fact finding questions? You can research more about cats if you like.
Task 3 Science
LO: Why is handwashing so important? 
The advice being by health authorities is to wash your hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, roughly the same amount of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. In order to ensure that children understand how vital it is that they practise good hand hygiene, a simple, fascinating trick has been developed using soap, pepper and water.
Mrs Freeman tried the experiment at home.
What do you think will happen? Explain why you think this?
Mrs Freeman then puts her finger in a bowl of soap, before dipping it back into the bowl of pepper. Will the same thing happen with the pepper?
Explain what has happened.
What happened?
The pepper rapidly moves away from the soap-covered finger.
Your turn
In your books write and draw pictures of this experiment in the correct order. You can number each step and make sure you label your pictures.
Answer these questions using full sentences.
- What was the pepper for?
- Did the soap make any difference? Explain your answer.
- Did you notice the pepper move? Why do you think this happened?
Challenge With the help of an adult, can you complete the experiment at home. If not, you can watch it here. Can you think of 3 questions you would like to know about the experiment? https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/germs-experiment
