Our whole-school homework this week is:
Reading: please make sure your child is reading on a daily basis.
Number Fact Fluency: Use Numbots or Times Table Rock Stars in regular short bursts.
Talk Time
Vocabulary is the focus of this week’s Talk Time.
Thinking about the new topic vocabulary, I can begin to use these words at home.
This half term, we’ve all been historians, learning specifically about The Great Fire of London/Ancient Greece/ Stone Age to Iron Age and Ancient Egypt. Here’s a list of key words that are being learnt and applied as part of our learning:
Years 1 and 2 History vocabulary:
| timeline | a drawing showing events in the order that they happened |
| similarity | like something else |
| difference | not like something else |
| artefact | an object made by a person that gives us information about life in the past |
| cause | the reason for something happening |
| diary | a book used by a person to write about daily events in their lives |
| firebreak | an obstacle used to stop the spread of a fire |
| consequence | the result or effect of something happening |
| innovation | an improvement or replacement for something |
Years 3 and 4 History vocabulary:
| period | a phase in time |
| civilisation | a period of human development that is considered most advanced |
| golden-age | a period of time during which a very high level of achievement is reached |
| government | the group of people responsible for ruling a country |
| monarchy | a king or a queen |
| democracy | a type of government where the people living there make decisions |
| oligarchy | a type of government where a small group of people make the decisions |
| Parthenon | an important temple in Athens built during the golden-age |
Years 5 and 6 History vocabulary:
| archaeology | the study of human history through analysis of artefacts and other remains |
| henge | a monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights |
| innovation | an improvement or replacement for something |
| civilisation | a period of human development that is considered most advanced |
| hieroglyphs | a writing system which uses picture of an object to represent a word, syllable or sound |
| Rosetta Stone | an inscribed slab of stone which was the key to translating Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| pharaoh | a ruler in ancient Egypt |
| pyramid | a large stone monument built as a burial tomb for pharaohs and other important Egyptians |
| afterlife | life after death |
Some of these words have already been discussed in lessons but there may be others that are going to be covered in the coming weeks.
Encourage your child to think back to their History learning so far. The following questions might prompt your child to remember even more about the vocabulary:
- What does this word mean?
- Can you use the word in a sentence?
- Can you (where possible) give an example of this?
- Have you seen a picture or video that links to that word?
- Can you link this word to one or more of the other words?
Which of these words would you group together?
