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SUBJECT
FOCUS
ENGLISH
Shakespeare- Twelfth Night
1. To further develop research skills.
2. To explore the Elizabethan era.
3. To analyze in depth Shakespeare’s
language and vocabulary
ACTIVITIES
Encourage your child to research on Elizabethan Theatres,
Actors and Writers, Plays, Plague and Poems,
Shakespeare’s Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, The
Globe, The Stage, Stage Properties, Costume, and
Special Effects use.
Encourage your child to read the text supplement at home,
can even refer to the abridged version of Twelfth Night.
Together with your child watch the movie on Twelfth Night
and discuss the story in the play followed by mind maps to
develop the main themes.
WEBSITES
www.sparknotes.com/sh
akespeare/
2.
www.onlineliterature.com/shakespear
e
http://www.onlineshakesp
eare.com/costumes.htm
http://www.english.emory.
edu/classes/Shakespeare
_Illustrated/Shakespeare.
html
http://www.davidclaudon.c
om/Elizabethan/Eliz.html
MATHS
Shapes and Geometric space
Discuss with your child to identify different solid shapes at
home and discuss their properties.
https://www.surveygizmo.co
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To be able to recognise the angular
connections between parallel lines,
perpendicular lines and transversals.
To be able to construct rectangles, squares
and regular polygons.
To be able to recognise and describe common
solids and some of their properties.
Presenting and Interpreting Data
Too represent data using bar graphs, line
graphs, pie charts.
To interpret data from frequency table or
graphs.
Area and Perimeter
To be able to recognise and find the Area or
Perimeter of rectangles or squares.
Talk To the students while working out area and perimeter
of the room, table, piece of land, car park, kitchen etc at
home with the help of parents. Area of windows and doors
can also be calculated.
Encourage them to collect examples from newspapers or
magazines related to pie charts or bar charts and discuss
the importance of pie charts used for representing data.
-Post questions to the students on the basis of collected
data so that students will learn to interpret the given pie
chart
Assist students to create their own pie charts or bar charts
representing their activities done in a day or by conducting
survey on family or neighbours.
Research: Different types of representing data
diagrammatically.
m/survey-blog/pie-chart-orbar-graph/
http://www.mathsisfun.com/d
ata/survey-results.html
http://nrich.maths.org/5609
http://www.mathsisfun.com/g
eometry/parallel-lines.html
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=wZ3F16xcGRQ
https://www.khanacademy.or
g/math/basic-geo/basic-geoarea-and-perimeter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesiz
e/ks3/maths/measures/perim
eter/revision/3/
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SCIENCE
SKELETAL AND MUSCULAR SYSTEMS
To recap on the structure and functions
of the human skeleton, to include
support, protection, movement and
making of blood cells.
To understand the Biomechanics – the
interaction between skeleton and
muscles, including the measurement of
force exerted by different muscles
Choose any two activities from the list below:
Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrast the
muscular and skeletal system. Include a summary on the
back on how they work together.
Produce a Poem that explains the functions and other
information on the skeletal and muscular system. Include in
the poem how these two system work together.
Create a Rap that explains the muscular and skeletal
system functions and other detailed information. Also in the
rap say how they both work together.
Design a Brochure that would illustrate and explain both the
muscular system and skeletal system functions and other
detail information. In your brochure you should have a
conclusion explaining how they both work together.
Create a Children’s book that illustrates and explains the
muscular and skeletal system function and other major
details. Also in the book conclude how they work together.
Create a Jeopardy Game that has questions in reference to
the muscular system and skeletal system. Create 10
questions for each system. Make sure you have the
Skeletal and muscular
systems:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education
/guides/zpkq7ty/revision/1
Interactives:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/h
umanbody/body/index.shtml?s
keleton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/h
umanbody/body/index.shtml?m
uscles
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answers to the questions as well. Write a summary on how
they both work together.
ARABIC
(Arabs)
‫أميرة الشجر –يحلل الطالب األبيات‬
‫األسلوب اإلنشائي –أن يميز بين األسلوب أإلنشائي‬
‫والخبري‬
‫يشترك مع مجموعته في استخراج الكلمات الجديدة ومواطن الجمال‬
http://www.adab.com/modules.ph
p?name=Sh3er&doWhat=shqas&
qid=9658
http://www.khayma.com/medhatfo
‫ يستخرج من خالل العمل الثنائي مع زميله األسلوب اإلنشائي من األبيات‬da/balagha%202th/2thb3.htm
‫مسرحية الراعي األمين –أن يحلل المسرحية إلي عناصرها‬
https://forum.uaewomen.net/showt
hread.php/1242346%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%AE%D9
‫أن يشترك مع مجموعته في تصميم خريطة ذهنية للعناصر الفنية للمسرحية‬
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‫الفنية‬
ARABIC
(Non- Arabs)
‫غرفة الرسم‬
Art room
- Students write a topic to describe the art room in the school. www.interacivearabic.com
- Students design a poster to talk about their hobbies.
‫العربية التفاعلية‬
- Students record videos to talk about thier families hobbies.
hobbies ‫الهوايات‬
ISLAMIC
https://youtu.be/_DiE_iuaSPw
‫ غزوة االحزاب‬-‫الغسل – التيمم والمسح على الخفين‬
‫يحرص الطالب على حفظ سورة ق جيدا ويحرص على أداء الصلوات ويقوم‬
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STUDIES
(Arabs)
ISLAMIC
STUDIES 1.
(Non- Arabs)
2.
PSHCEE
‫بحل الواجبات المطالب بها دائما‬
The Last holy Book
write a letter to a non- Muslim friend in which you describewww.google.com
how Great Al-Quran is and how do we respect it.
www.islamicity.com
You love it, then respect it
Road Safety
1. Understand how some attitudes and
behaviour can cause incidents
2. Understand the wide-ranging impacts
of incidents
Global Awareness
Encourage your child to explore a number of road
safety websites, advance reasons for accidents and suggest
ways of prevention,
www.schoolscouncils.org
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac
www.primaryresources.co.uk
Discuss with your child population, sight, trades, industries climate of countries
To be able to recognize countries by descriptions of them, their capitals and their
To research and find out different company logos all over
currencies.
the world used locally in one country or worldwide
To be able to recognize different company
logos used globally and its importance
HISTORY
Topic- Invaders
Learning Objective·
Normans’ invasion of England.
Encourage your child together with the whole family to
watch the videos on the Normans on the links provided.Help
your child to explore the Norman’s invasion of England.
Discuss with your child the reasons for invasion and how
the Normans influenced England.Help your child to create
any one of the following in which your child gives a
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summary on:
·
Who were the Normans?
·
Why did they invade England?
·
Why did they succeed?
·
How did they influence England?
1.Video of about 5 Minutes.
2.Poster on A3 sheet to show all the above mentioned
points.
3.Podcast to give the summary, which would include all the
above points.
4.Presentation on SWAY or infographic to summarise all the
given points.
GEOGRAPHY
Topic-Rivers Floods Encourage your child to research on the factors that increase http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gc
the risk of floods and the damages caused by floods.
sebitesize/geography/water_riv
Learning Objective- Causes and effects of the Choose any one of the activityers/river_flooding_management
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river floods. 1.Create a poster showing the effects of floods and methods
of protecting people and property from the flooding.
Your poster should be handwritten but should contain
images. The poster should be no bigger than A3 size.
2. Create an infographic to show the damage caused by
floods all over the world in recent times. You can include
graphs, maps, pie charts etc.
3. Make a SWAY presentation to show in class on the effects
of floods on the people.
FRENCH
Equipe nouvelle 2 : unite 2
● To describe body and some health
problems
● To explain how you feel and what is
wrong , making longer sentences
● To revise masculine, feminine and
plural forms
To use exclamations
● Motivate your child to read short stories, articles or
any other French texts that would interest them.
● Encourage your child to build sentences using more
than one verb.
● Listen together to French radio stations while doing
household chores.
● Revise some anatomy vocabulary in English: is
scientific vocabulary similar in English and in
French? Why? Ask your child to do some research
on origins of words
_rev1.shtml
http://www.watersafetykids.co.u
k/pdfs/flooding.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=tr9BmGRPi-M
http://www.englishonline.at/geography/floods/flood
s-and-flooding.htm
www.quizlet.com
http://nosgustalafrance.blogspo
t.ae/
http://www.tivi5mondeplus.com/
www.french-games.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=eWeewJhcZPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bChrAwLzoSo&feature=relat
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ed
http://quizlet.com/8993384/fr1bleu-jai-mal-flash-cards/
http://www.francaisfacile.com/e
xercices/exercice-francais2/exercice-francais-48516.php
http://www.francaisfacile.com/e
xercices/exercice-francais2/exercice-francais-46853.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bChrAwLzoSo&playnext=1&li
st=PLED1211B1229CDEED
http://www.maisondequartier.co
m/pedagogie/corps_voca/p_voc
a_corps.php?lang=en
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.ICT
TopicCashless shopping / Purchase
Learning ObjectiveCashless shopping / Purchase
Encourage your child together with you to innovate on
cashless purchase or shopping with a virtual card which is
an new era invention. Help your child to explore much on
online shopping.
Discuss with your child on online shopping benefits and
demerits and can allow them to go on for purchase using
your Debit/credit cards and let them explore more on such
shopping.
https://www.amazon.com/b?ie
=UTF8&node=16008589011