Zakynthos Class – Week Ending 20.06.25

This week in Zakynthos…..

In English, we continued with the  book ‘Alice in Wonderland’.  Their task for this week was to first explore the Mad Hatter’s tea party and write a narrative setting description, then they had to write a character description based on their own ideas about the Queen of Hearts. Another activity they did this week in English, was to plan and record their own fantastical, magical ideas for their setting and character. The following day, they continued with their plans by adding  more details and a rich and varied vocabulary, relating to their setting and character, including prepositions, five senses and dialogue.

In Maths, we continued with ‘Time’ and looked at AM and PM, Years, Months and Days, Days and hours and Hours and minutes – use start and end times.

In Geography – We continued with our topic  ‘Where do our food comes from?’ and the children focused on where our chocolate came from and how it travels from abroad to the consumer.  We looked at a few videos’ and had to pay attention to What is cacao? , and where does the chocolate come and how it was made. We also looked at the different types of transport that were being used,(trucks to the fermentation and packaging factory; ships and aeroplanes to European factories; trucks to the shops; cars to consumers’ homes).  The children focused on the various processes that the cocoa bean go through to become chocolate (picking, cutting, fermentation, roasting, removing their husks, packaging, grinding, heating, mixing and cooling).  They then had a go at explaining and illustrating the journey of the cocoa bean from Côte d’Ivoire to the consumers’ homes.

In RE the children focused on to know that God wants us to respect our church leaders and their other lesson was on the Lord’s Prayer, looking at the significance of the Lord’s Prayer for Christians, and what the Lord’s Prayer tell us, annotating each line.

Please find the home learning attached using the link:

Zakynthos Home Learning – 20.06.25

I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Challenge Words – Homework Sheets

Remember to keep working on times table knowledge and number bonds – the basis for the more complex mathematics.

For handwriting we follow the Nelson scheme, it supports correct formation of letters and helps to keep cursive writing neat and legible.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather that we have been blessed with.

Miss Weithers