Lesson video

Hi everyone it is lesson five of five in our little everything unit on Exploring the Deep.

It's been a fab little reading unit so far, I've really enjoyed reading this text, really enjoyed finding out information about deep sea creatures.

I've learned so much new information that I didn't know before, and I hope that you have too I hope that you've enjoyed it.

So this is our last lesson in this little mini reading unit and I'm really excited because I've got a really fun activity for you.

So when you are ready let's start with our lesson.

So for today our learning objective is to engage with the text and to complete an independent activity.

So what we're going to do is we're going to recap the features, we're going to recap all of the vocabulary that we came across in these last four lessons, then you've got independent task, and then I'm going to recommend some further reading to you.

So in this lesson you will need exercise book or paper and pencil, now if you've got coloured pencils or coloured pens absolutely get those as well, and if you've got some blank paper that would be really helpful.

But don't worry if not you can do it without.

And then of course you need your reading brain.

So pause the video and go and get those things now.

Great, so everything should be there in front of you ready for today's lesson, let's go.

So let's just recap all of the features that we have come across that we've learned about in our nonfiction text.

So we are reading Exploring the Deep and it is a nonfiction text and how do we know it's a nonfiction text? Some of the features that we can spot when we've opened the book is that we can see headers, we can see fact boxes, we have questions as headers, we have photographs, we have captions, and we have lots and lots of information and facts.

We can flip through the book and we can see these types of pages that are found so I can see contents page, index page, and glossary.

Remember contents page is in the front of the book it tells you where specific information can be found, you've got your index, oh sorry your glossary page is that defines key words in the text and it's found in the back of the book, so the glossary is the key words with their definitions, and then your index is a page in the back and it lists key words and where it can be found in the book, great.

So we're going to just recap some of the key vocabulary that we've come across in this text 'cause we've learned quite a lot of words that we didn't know before.

So satellite, satellite remember satellite are those computers almost I guess they were described as with cameras and they fly around our earth and they can take photos, they have lots of other jobs as well.

That's a picture.

Partially, partially means only in part.

Enclosed, that means surrounded or closed off on all sides.

So satellite, partially, enclosed.

Great, then we came across pelican remember, there we go that's a pelican with a big jaw.

And temperate, so pelican temperate, remember temperate means moderate it was the climates that have mild seasons, so it doesn't get super hot or super cold.

And you can see the temperate is the yellow and orange, the blue line sorry.

So the temperate regions.

So where we have seasons you'd have like spring, autumn, summer, winter, but they're mild seasons.

Then we came across coral reef and there's that beautiful picture, it's absolutely stunning isn't it.

And coral reef is the hundreds and thousands of invertebrate animals with hard external skeletons that don't move.

So it is alive and that's why we need to protect is so carefully.

Algae that's that not so nice picture and algae are plant-like living things so they are like little, they're all in the water and lots of animals eat algae.

We came across photophores.

Photophores were those cool organs that emits light and we're thinking about this word actually because photo means light, I don't know what phores is, but I wonder if it's got something to do with the body of organs, but photophores with photo being light, like a photograph it comes from the Greek work phos.

It means light emitting organs, so photophores are those cool animals that live deep deep down that have them and they kind of make their own light so they can catch their own food.

And remember it was the squid that could turn it on and off really cool.

And then adapted, adapted means to become adjusted to conditions.

So all of these sea creatures that we looked at have adapted to living deep down in the sea, in the ocean.

So your independent task, which I'm really excited about is I'd love for you to create your own fact box for your own imaginary deep sea fish or creature it doesn't have to be a fish.

Use your imagination and write a text box and draw a picture of your creature to go with it.

So I did one and I had lots of fun doing this and I came up with my own example.

So here is my imaginary made-up the Peeper fish.

The habitat is most tropical and temperate regions, at depths of up to 2000 metre.

Size 30 centimetres long, diet all kinds of creatures that can be found in the deep sea.

Special skills, the Peeper fish has multiple eyes on the front of his head, which allows it to see up to 200 metres far even in the depths of the ocean.

They get their name from their eyesight because a peeper is someone who peeps at something and the Peeper fish can see very very far.

And here's a picture that I drew of my imaginary Peeper fish now I just used a pencil but you can always colour in, you could colour in the ocean around it, you can come up with whatever you want, be imaginative, use your imagination.

So that is your task.

So pause the video and get on with coming up with your own imaginary deep sea fish and then draw a picture and make a fact box so you can follow my structure there and have the name of your creature and then write down habitats and then give information size, diet, special skills.

So enjoy and complete that task now.

Great, I really hope you've come up with something really fun and exciting, I'd love to see them so of course if you ask a parent or carer to share them you can share them with the Oak National Academy hashtag on Instagram, on Twitter, email it to us I'd love to see your creatures that you've come up with.

Okay to end our little five day reading I'm going to recommend some reading to you, these are some books that I highly recommend that I absolutely loved reading.

They are non-fiction books, but if you like science and you like nature and science then Charles Darwin's On the Original Species is a beautiful book, it's all about Charles Darwin who was a very famous scientist, and it tells the story of him, but the illustrations are wonderful, it is quite a big book and you can really set and emerge it's absolutely beautiful.

Highly recommend that one.

If you like history sociology that kind of thing, the social thing then Little Leaders Visionary Women around the world is fantastic, I love the whole Little Leaders series, but this is a great book with some really inspiring women that you might love to know and to learn more about.

And then if you like space, I would highly recommend Planetarium this is a book by the Science Museum and I actually have it in my classroom at my school in London and the children in my class love this book because it folds all the way out and you're best off sitting on the floor because you need lots and lots of space, and it is really fun really interactive.

It tells you all about the planets.

So if you like science and space, then I would highly recommend that one.

So those are three books that I would recommend if you like non-fiction texts.

And that leads us to the end so thank you so much.

In today's lesson we recapped the features, we've recapped all of the vocabulary that we've learned in this little mini unit, you've done your really cool independent task, which I would love to see, and I have recommended some reading for you.

So congratulations you have completed your lesson, that is it on Exploring the Deep with me Miss Van Vliet and I hope that you have learned something, I have learned loads, so much about these creatures that I didn't know and of course if you wanted to read more, see if you can get this book, get ahold of it maybe in the library or in your school library you get a chance to go back to school or ask one of your teachers.

Well that's it for me so thank you so much for joining me in this reading unit and see you soon hopefully at some point, bye.