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Momo Daughter of The Sea Activities

Read the blog entry on this link: http://iyiomon.blogspot.co.uk/

Complete these activities.

1.    Princess Iyomon describes her first sight of the sea as captivating and crippling at the same time. Describe a time when you saw something for the first time, this could be the sea or any other thing that fascinated or scared you. 

2.    Princess Iyomon says they went to The Port.  The area is now known as Port Harcourt named by the British in 1913.  Research how the British Colonial administration utilised the area during World War 1. Make PowerPoint presentation to your class on the subject.

3.    Port Harcourt is bordered by the Gulf of Guinea, research ocean animals and write a report on ‘Ocean Animals’

4.    The Atlantic Ocean borders the area, in science draw a food chain in the Atlantic Ocean.

5.    The Niger River runs through north-western Nigeria branching into a massive delta before entering the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. Chart its course from source to mouth. List all the countries it flows through.  

6.     Princess Iyomon says that they were told stories of an undersea kingdom where kidnapped children languished away in sorrow. These are called mythical stories. What are mythical stories, why were they told? Write your own mythical story about ‘An Undersea Adventure’. You choose the characters and plot.  

7.    “Keep away from the water’s edge!” Princess Iyomon’s mum told her repeatedly, why do you think, she did this?  Design a swimming costume for a boy or girl.

8.    Princess Iyomon ends her blog with ‘Keep safe for now.’ Design a safety poster for exploring the seaside.

9.    Look at the photograph that go with Princess Iyomon’s first sight of the sea, make a painting of it.

10.                       Momo stepped into the river and was swept away instantly. Write an explanation text on the course of a river.

11.                       Write an imaginative story on the Water Cycle with the title ‘I am a raindrop’.

12.                       Put the photographs below in order of  the course of a river. Make a sketch drawing of each photograph.

                                     Streams and rivers form bigger rivers.

                             Heavy clouds collect on hills and mountain tops

                                          Water droplets form streamlets

                                          Estuaries join the sea.

                                  Streamlets flow downhill to join other streamlets

                                          Streams join to form rivers  

A Forest Adventure Activities

Read the blog on :  http://iyiomon.blogspot.com/

Complete these activities:

1.      Princess Iyomon describes a magical property of the ‘Awolowo’ plant of the rainforest. Produce a booklet on rainforests.  You can include information on some of the following:

·          Layers of the rain forest

·         Animals of the rainforest,

·         Plants of the rainforest

·          Rainforest ecosystems

·         Foods from the rainforest

·         Medicine and other products from the rainforest.

2.      Design a route map for getting to the fresh water spring in the Cool Cave.

3.      Princess Iyomon says they stopped at a rest spot to have their lunch before foraging in the nearby forest areas.

·         Role-play this scene.

·         Plan a packed lunch for your next class excursion. What treats will you include?

4.      Princess Iyomon says the paths were narrow because the elders did not want to destroy wildlife in the shrubs of the rainforest.

·         Define wildlife. Write a facts file about garden wildlife in your area.

5.      Princess Iyomon says they were given the usual drill on keeping safe in the forest. Produce a safety leaflet for use on your class next excursion

6.      Design a board game for a rainforest expedition

7.      Princess Iyomon describes her encounter with a snake.

·         Produce a short report on snakes

·         Prepare some expert interview questions for the snake in role as the expert  to find out information about what life is like as a snake.

·         Prepare some questions for a character interview with Princess Iyomon on the snake scene.

·         Prepare some questions for Uwa

·         Think about the sort of questions that will get fuller answers from the characters and include closed and open questions. To get snappy answers, use questions that begin with Who, Where, When and which. To get think about fuller answers, use questions that begin with What, How, Why and If.

8.      Look around your house; in each room, find all the products made with rainforest materials. Rank all the items in order of most popular material

9.      Go to your bathroom cupboard. Look carefully at the cosmetics labels. Compose a list of cosmetics which have rainforest products in them and the type of product. Research what plants these came from.

10.  Hold a rainforest day.

·         Plan and  cook an African cuisine

·         Dress up in African traditional costumes

·         Listen to traditional African stories.

·         Invite African dancers and drummers to your school to teach you some African dance moves and drum beating. 

Market Day

Read the blog Market Day on this link: http://www.iyiomon.blogspot.com/

Complete these activities:

1.      Every country has to import food and other items from other places. Look around your kitchen and list all items you can find. Find out where each item comes from and how they got to this country; by air, sea or road. Present your research as a project to the rest of your class.

2.      Look at your dinner plate; list each food type on it and where it has comes from. You may need to research this on the internet.

3.      Write a shopping list for your mum's next visit to the supermarket . Specify: quantity to buy, brand name, size, price, type e.g. for milk -full fat, semi skimmed, skimmed. Remember to add the total cost of all the items.

4.      Compare and contrasts open markets with high streets super markets

5.      List all the supermarket chains you know.

6.       Imagine you have designed a new product, produce an advertising poster to promote it.

7.      Now you have your new product, design a shop where you will sell it. Think about the size and location of the shop.

8.      Write a play script scene for a customer dissatisfied with an item he or she bought recently.

9.      Design a scrap book on shopping.

Back to Princess Iyomon’s market:

1.       Imagine you went to the market, draw your shopping basket with the items you bought.

2.      Design a 'Buy Benin Kingdom' board game for younger children in Key Stage One

3.      What different jobs can you identify in Iyomon's market.

4.      Imagine you are the Market Ikeki, design a poster to inform people about an important upcoming event.

5.      Imagine the post of Ikeki has become vacant; write an advert for the post, specifying, the skills and personality necessary for the job.

Imports and Exports - World Trade

Imagine, you are the captain of a merchant ship; you have to make several journeys to deliver cargo to the London Port in England. Here is a list of the cargo you have to collect and deliver:  Ford cars, wine barrels, timber, Porcelain, Lamb, grapes, bananas, African Print fabric, Beef, Rice, Hi-fi, children’s toys, coffee, cotton bales and cocoa beans.  

You need

A blank world map
An atlas,
Different colour pens, or felt tip pens

Key vocabulary: Grown, manufactured, merchant, trade, tariff, import, export, produce, port, Suez canal, English Channel , oceans, continents, seas, docks, pirates, port authority

What to do

1.      Label the blank world map showing, continents, oceans and seas.

2.      Colour the oceans blue

3.      Colour the continents, green, orange or brown

4.      Use different colour pencils to show the journey of your cargo on your world map

5.      Write a short report answering the questions below-

Choose an item from the list above each time and answer:

·What is your cargo?

·Which country does it come from?

·Which oceans and seas does it cross to get there?

·What countries does it go past on the way? Use your atlas to find this out

·What other routes could your item take to get there?

·What problems could your cargo face on its way there? Think about possible problems on the high seas, possible problem close to the port and at the port  

6.      Present your report to your class.

Cooking with Uwa

Read the blog: Cooking with Uwa

Activities

1. Produce a facts file on 'My favourite activities'

2. Write  a recount of a day out with your best friend

3. Compose a poem with the title: Friends

4. Write an acrostic poem with the word ‘Friendship'

5. Describe the sorts of things you do with your best friend

6. Write a description of your favourite food

7. Write a recipe for making your favourite food or drink

8. Write a report on ‘Things I can do for myself’ You could use drawing for this.

9. Write a poem with the title: A World Without Friends


Helpful tips for writing a recount

Aim: To retell events in the order in which they happened (Chronological order).

Structure

·    Use your introduction to tell the reader what you are going to write about (what happened, who was involved, where did the events take place and why?)
·    Use paragraphs for each new event or when you are in a new place.
·    Retell events in the order in which they occurred
·    Include only important, memorable or funny things
·    Include only factual events and do not include your opinion
·    Use your concluding paragraph to state your feelings or views about the whole events

Language features
·    As this is about you, you can use first person; in other cases, you write in the third person
·    You have to write in the past tense since the events have already taken place.
·    Use these connectives: Time (at the beginning, firstly, later, finally, meanwhile, following this, later etc) Cause and effect (consequently, depending, as result, so, since, until, depending upon, etc) Contrast (yet, however, on the other hand, however, apart from, despite this, as far as, but, as fro, etc
·    Use powerful adjectives and adverbs to add more detail to your sentence (How?)
·    Use a variety of sentence types
·    Make it clear who did what so write in the active voice (Uwa chopped the tomatoes)

Descriptive writing

Aim: to help the reader experience what the writer is experiencing.

Vocabularies which describe the senses of feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting are used.

Unbiased and biased information are included.

Top tips for writing description of: My favourite food

Picture the food in your mind

Imagine you touch it - how does it feel? (Texture)
Look at it closely - what does it look like? (Colour, appearance)
What does it smell like?
What does it taste like (flavour)?
How does the food make you feel?
Jot down words that come into your mind; use good adjectives to describe these.
                                                                        
You could include the paragraphs on:

·        Introduction- use this to tell your reader what type of food you will be writing about and what is special about it. Remember to use specialist words.

      ·        Preparation how is your food prepared?
      ·        How does it make you feel when you look at it?
      ·        How does it smell like? How does the smell make you feel?
      ·        What does it taste like? Use similes for effect
      ·        Concluding paragraph: sum up the reasons why this food is special to you.

Edo Calendar Seasons

Read the post in: http://iyiomon.blogspot.com/

1.      Research other types of calendar systems: Gregorian, Chinese, Jewish, Hindu, Julian and Muslim.
2.      What differences can you identify?
3.      If you had the power to choose which of the calendar systems to follow, which would you choose and why?
4. Create a birthday calendar of all the children in your class. Include their star signs.
5. Write an explantion text on why seasons occur.

         Top tips for writing an explanation text

Aim: to explain how or why a natural phenomena occurs

                   to explain how something works.

An explanation text is like a flow diagram

Structure

You are writing about how and why the seasons occur:

Use your title to show this e.g. How.... or Why...

Use your layout to make the text easy to read

You will need to include diagrams and illustrations

You may start your text with a question or a general opening statement

Write in logical steps i.e. each sentence needs to build on the next

End with a summary statement

Language features

Write in the third person

Use present tense for phenomenon still in existence and past tense for those that are no longer so.

Use simple language for younger children and include more pictures, etc.

Use a passive voice e.g. loyalty to a friend will leads to a stronger friendship.

Use cause and effect language e.g. similarly, because, as a result, consequently, therefore, as a result, so,

Use time connectives e.g. at the beginning, later on, afterwards, finally, eventually

Avoid using adverbs, adjectives and imagery

You may include a glossary to explain specialist words 

I visit my maternal granddad

In role as Princess Iyomon, design a postcard to your best friend Uwa, telling her about your granddad’s home.

Think about:

Your message
What your journey was like.
What it was like to finally arrive.
The welcome you received.
Things you have been doing or done.

For your post card:
What picture will you include on the front?
What image will you include on your postage stamp?