Thursday 11th February 2021 Year 4 Maths

Reading Poem

Writing Step one: Write the date and underline.

Thursday 11th February 2021

Step two: Write our learning objective and underline. To improve our animal poem

Step three: Recap on what is a simile poem Simile poems are poems that are built around an extended simile or a series of similes.

Step four: Look at the poem that you have written. Have you got all six characteristics? Could you improve the similes that you have written? Do you want to add in any last minute characteristics?

Step five: Up level your poem and make it enticing to read

Make your poem more visably appealing by: • Using different colours• Bubble writing/ different fonts• Drawing pictures of your animal• Different size paper• Different coloured paper

I changed mine from this:

To this:

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Lesson 6

Do people live in the Amazon Rainforest?

Key Knowledge Key Vocabulary

• The Amazon Rainforest is home to many differentindigenous people and their settlements

• Some of those people and settlements are known to us

• Some of those people and settlements remainuncontacted

• The people in within the tribes live a traditional way of life

• There are similarities and differences between the tribes

• The Yanomami tribe is the largest in the Amazon Rainforest

• indigenous

• tribe

• settlement

• traditional

• ancestral

• chief

• hearth

• hammock

• loincloth

Knowledge Quiz 3.5

1. Which word means ‘suited to live in that place’?

2. Small, light animals that are good at balancing would be found in the:

3. Predators often wait for their prey by camouflaging themselves in the:

4. Decomposers break down rotting leaves in the:

5. There is lots of fruit for animals to eat in the:

settled from adapted chosen

emergent layer forest floor understory layercanopy layer

emergent layer forest floor understory layercanopy layer

emergent layer forest floor understory layercanopy layer

emergent layer forest floor understory layercanopy layer

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How do you think life for people in the Amazon Rainforest will be both similar and different to life where you live?

Sim

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Diff

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Who are the tribes of the Amazon Rainforest?

There are millions of indigenous people who live within the rainforests of the world. Indigenous people are people who are from a certain place or country and have chosen to stay in that place. The indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest have chosen to continue to live a very traditional way of life in their rainforest settlements — just like their ancestors did before them. We sometimes may also hear these groups of people being referred to as tribal and as living in tribes.

Within the Amazon Rainforest there are somewhere between 300 and 400 different tribes. They have called the Amazon Rainforest their home for thousands of years. The rainforest is so vast that the groups of indigenous people living within it have been living separate lives to the rest of the world. Some of the people have been known to us for up to 500 years, some have only recently been discovered by outsiders but there are others who we know exist but remain uncontacted — they have chosen to never have contact with the modern, outside world. The map here shows some of the known areas of tribal lands in the Amazon region. Within each area of land there may be many different tribes.

The tribe with the largest territory is the Yanomami tribe. There are around 35,000 people in this tribe and they have very little contact with the outside world. The largest tribe in the Amazon region in terms of population is the Tikuna tribe who number around 40,000. In comparison, the

Amazon Rainforest

Indigenous Land

KEY:

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smallest tribe is just one man. He lives in a small patch of forest and could be the last survivor of a once larger tribe. Many of the tribes in the Amazon Rainforest are communities of fewer than 1,000. The Awa tribe has approximately 450 people and the Akuntsu tribe only has four.

The rainforest tribes have their own languages, territories, culture and customs but even though life in some of the tribes will be very different to others, many do share similar lifestyles. They survive by hunting animals, fishing from the river, gathering fruits, nuts and berries and by clearing small areas of forest to grow their own crops. The rainforest communities live in peace with the land. They take only what they need because they know that taking more than that will result in the land being damaged or lost forever. For example, when clearing land for farming, they will only clear small areas and move to new areas after a couple of years. This gives the land a chance to recover and the trees eventually grow back.

Define the following words:

Indigenous

Ancestor

Uncontacted

Traditional

List four of the tribes found in the Amazon Rainforest and the number of people in them:

1. 2. 3. 4.

Are all tribes the same? Explain your answer.

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What do we know about the Yanomami tribe?

The Yanomami, as we already know, are a tribe of around 35,000 people who have very little contact with the outside world but might life be like as a member of that tribe?

The Yanomami live in the area of the Amazon Rainforest that borders Venezuela and Brazil. Within the Yanomami territory, the people live in around 200 to 250 different villages and even though they all follow a very similar way of life, they do not recognise themselves as one united group. Each community or village is independent from the others but does not have a chief who is in charge. Instead, because the people believe in equality, decisions are only made after long discussions and once everyone has given their own opinion.

Homes for the Yanomami are large and circular with a central area which is used for activities, feasts and games. They are called shabonos and some can hold up to 400 people. Shabonos are built from natural materials such as leaves, vines and tree trunks. They are often damaged by rains, winds and insects and so need to be rebuilt every few years. In a shabono, each family has its own hearth where food can be prepared and cooked and at night, the family ties up hammocks near to the fire so that they can keep warm. The people live their days by the movement of the Sun. Waking early as it rises and going to sleep as it sets.

Yanomami men and women have very different jobs to do in their villages. Men have a higher status than women and are responsible for hunting for food. When hunting or fishing, they use poison from plants or poison dart frogs to help catch their prey. Yanomami women have the hardest jobs to do. They leave the village every day to walk for miles to collect firewood and water for the village. They come home every evening carrying heavy loads. Women also farm the land and grind roots into flour to use to make flat cakes. In addition, women and young children search for insects including termites and grubs which are roasted and eaten at the family hearth. Children help their parents through the day and do not go to school.

For food, the Yanomami eat most of what can be caught in the rainforest. In addition to the insects mentioned above, they eat snakes, tapir, monkeys, deer, jaguars, fish, wild honey, plantain, sweet potato and different types of fruits and berries. The Yanomami farm some of their crops and celebrate a good harvest with a big feast where they eat, dance, sing and decorate their bodies with feathers and flowers. This and other rituals are an important part of their culture.

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For clothing, the Yanomami wear very little. In addition to the decorative jewellery and face painting, men wear a piece of string or a small loincloth. Women wear loincloths too but also wrap pieces of string or cotton around their top half. If the Yanomami people wore much more clothing they would likely get overheated because of the hot and humid rainforest conditions.

List your top four facts about the Yanomami tribe:

1. 2. 3. 4.

Research another tribe from within the Amazon Rainforest:

Name of tribe:

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How is life for the two tribes both similar and different to your own life?

Similar Different

What are the similarities and differences between living in the tribe in the Amazon Rainforest and living in your local area?

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Music

Improvising in a Samba style In this lesson, you will continue to learn about different call and response sections and learn a new song 'Halima Pakasholo'. You will be using instruments to create Samba breaks and improvised sections and you will finish with a quiz.

It would be great to see what you are doing at home so don’t forget to upload your music lessons.