After landing in Oz, Dorothy met a good witch called Glinda. She

sent her along the yellow brick road to meet the Wizard of Oz, who

she hoped would send her home. On her way she met a Scarecrow.

He wanted a brain because his head was full of straw. Dorothy

invited him to join her on her trip to the Wizard.

Maybe the Wizard could give Scarecrow a brain too?

Click on the link to see Dorothy’s first meeting with the Scarecrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhUHJKfR5Y

The Wizard of Oz

Week 2 -Scarecrow

Family activities

Question of the week:

How does food get to our

plate?

Create your own farm to fork

diagrams.

Poem of the week:

Read the poem, ‘The

Scarecrow’ by Walter

de la Mare.

Write your own

Scarecrow poem.

Music

Learn the song,

‘If I Only Had A Brain’

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=zyhUHJKfR5Y

Family Tasks

The Wizard of Oz

Week 2 - Scarecrow

After Dorothy has set off on her journey to The Emerald City, the Yellow Brick

Road leads her to a junction. Which path should she take? Scarecrow tries to help

her but his lack of brains makes him very indecisive!

Science

Bird watching – Count how many birds visit your garden and create a tally or bar chart.

Brain – Learn all about the brain and its’ functions. Try out some brain games and a fun

reflex action experiment.

Design & Technology

COMPETITION TIME – For your chance to win a

Lily Lane special prize, choose either of the

challenges below…

Design and make a scarecrow (or you could even

dress up in your own scarecrow outfit design).

Design and make a bird feeder.

COMPETITION TIME w/b 15/06/20

Can you design and make your very own scarecrow?

COMPETITION TIME!!!

For your chance to win a Lily Lane special

prize, design and make a scarecrow, or

create your own scarecrow outfit, you

could even design a costume for a pet!

Email your pictures to school and we will

pick the best ones. GET SCARING!

Walter de la Mare [1873-1956] is

one of England's greatest poets

and a famous writer especially for

children.

Poem of the week

Can you use words and phrases from the poem by Walter de la Mere

to write a poem about the scarecrow who wished he had a brain?

You can also learn this poem off by heart and send us a video

performing it.

Poem of the week

Word definitions and phrase meanings

‘neath – beneath

rime – (noun) frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water

droplets in fog onto solid objects

stubble – (noun) the short stalks which are left standing in fields

after corn or wheat has been cut.

mail at morning-prime – the scarecrow is stiff like chain mail

(armour) in the morning

host – many

acres – measure of land

rapture – delight

void eyes – empty eyes

ravening foes – predatory enemies

striding lank – walking, long and thin

clashing team – loud, crashing horses pulling the plough

wheat swish body high – the wheat will soon grow tall

sun-begotten grain – wheat that has become filled with sunshine

unflinching watch – he has watched over the crops without looking

away

Poem of the week

WALT write our own Scarecrow poem

There are many types of poetry you can write. As you can tell from

the language, this poem was written a long time ago.

Have a look at the picture

and ask someone in your

house to ‘Rally Robin’ words

to help you begin to create

your poem. Write them down as you think

of them.

Types of poetry you could write:

ACROSTIC POEM

or a SPINE POEM

1) Look at this picture carefully.

2) Write down 5 of the main things you can see (nouns

that you can touch).

Write them down the centre of the page. Leave gaps.

3) Use personification to bring each object alive.

What is it doing?

e.g. hat sighing, fingers stretching, shoes groaning,

straw creeping, jacket shrugging

4. Add an adjective in front of it that begins with the same letter

e.g. holey hat drooping,

5. Add a sentence on the next line for each of the 5 objects

e.g. holey hat drooping, casting a shadow on the face

Farm to Fork Challenge

The scarecrow in The Wizard

of Oz protects the crops in a

field from being eaten by birds.

Farms in the U.K. grow all sorts

of food for us to eat or use as

ingredients.

Here is an example of how an ingredient, grown on a

farm, ends up on your plate to eat.

Task:

What other items of food need ingredients that start off in

farms?

Create your own farm to fork diagrams linking what you are

eating to where it comes from. Remember some foods have

multiple ingredients, and they might come from different

places.

Label your diagram or write short sentences what is

happening in your diagram

COMPETITION TIME w/b 15/06/20

Can you design and make your very own bird feeder?

How to make a bird feeder:

1. Cover a toilet roll centre

with either honey or peanut

butter. Roll it in bird seed.

Thread some string through

the middle and hang it outside.

2. Thread cheerios (or other hoop

cereal) onto a pipe cleaner or

string. Loop it round and twist the

ends together, leaving one end

longer to make a hook.

3. Cut a hole in a plastic milk bottle,

thread through sticks for the birds to sit

on, add bird seed and wait for the birds to

arrive!

Or you can simply make your own design – anything to stop the

birds from eating your crops! – Send us pictures of your

creations, hopefully with birds on!

Since lockdown, there seems to be more birds out in the

gardens and parks of Manchester (no need for a scarecrow

here!)

Have a look in your local area to see which birds you can spot.

Or, observe which birds are attracted to your beautiful,

homemade bird feeder.

Instructions:

Choose an hour in the day where you can sit and watch your garden or park

for birds.

Stay as quiet as possible so you don’t disturb the birds.

Have the sheet on the next page handy so you can identify the birds you

see.

When you see a bird, tick off the next number on the sheet.

At the end of the hour, draw a tally chart or bar chart to display your

results (see examples of bar charts below)

FEATHER DRAWING

The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz isn’t always the best at

scaring away the birds!

Your task today is to have a go at drawing birds’ feathers.

Use the diagrams and pictures below to create your own

feathers. You can experiment with different media—pencils,

pens, charcoal, crayons, paint.

You could cut out your feather to decorate a card, or repeat

your design for wrapping paper. You could even try printing using

your feather design! Have fun!

Try some of these brain games on the next 2 pages.

More brain games here https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/wondermind

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/general-science/human-brain/

The famous "Stroop Effect" is named after J. Ridley Stroop

who discovered this strange phenomenon in the 1930s.

Here is your job: name the colours of the following words. Do

NOT read the words...rather, say the colour of the words. It

is not as easy as you might think!

TEST 1—time yourself and read the list out loud as fast as

you can.

TEST 2—time yourself again and see what your new time is.

Brain Maze

Can you find the best route through the brain maze?

You can follow it on your screen or print it out if

possible.

Match up the description with the pictures.

A nerve cell

Scans of the brain

The parts of the brain which deal with the senses

Some of the many functions of the brain

What brains look like inside our skulls

Reaction Time Experiment—’Ruler Drop’

How fast does your brain send messages to

your body?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhUHJKfR5Y

If I Only Had A Brain

by Judy Garland, Ray Bolger

I could while away the hours

Conferrin' with the flowers,

Consulting with the rain;

And my head I'd be a scratchin'

While my thoughts are busy hatchin'

If I only had a brain.

I'd unravel ev'ry riddle for my

Individdle

In trouble or in pain

With the thoughts that you'll be thinkin'

You could be another Lincoln

If you only had a brain.

Oh, I, could tell you why

The oceans near the shore

I could think of things I'd never

Thunk before,

And then I'd sit down and think some more.

I would not be just a muffin',

My head all full of stuffin',

My heart all full of pain;

And perhaps I'd deserve you and be

Even worthy even you

If I only had a brain.