The Fantastic story of Finn MacCool

Geography and History

 Log on to Oxford owls ebooks (an email address
 Draw the island of Ireland. Name the two countries within it. Label the
and your own password is all you need. It’s free
Giant’s Causeway in County Antrim.
and full of excellent books that your child can
read)  Suggest real ways that you could cross from Scotland to Ireland
( Which sea would you cross?).
 Select level 8
 Find out how the causeway was made (National Trust website)
 Open Finn MacCool

Maths
We’re also using
 Recall the names and properties of 2D shapes (sides, corners). Find out
which shapes are symmetrical and which tessellate.
English
 Do the same for 3D shapes (faces, edges, vertices). You could make a
 Identify adjectives to help you to write descriptions of the
table to show what you have found.
characters. Looks on the Visitor’s centre website for their
character descriptions.

 Make predictions about what the characters are doing and

why. How do they feel at different places in the story. Draw Art and Design
an ‘emotions’ timeline for Finn to see how his feelings change.
 Design a bridge to go from Scotland to Ireland. Research which shapes
 Identify the similes used to describe Finn. Write a simile for are the strongest so that you can include them in your design.
each member of your family.
 Make a bridge in the garden. Before you start select an object that you
 Whose insults are the best? Draw each giant with a speech
would like your bridge to support. After you have made your bridge
bubble and create cutting comments.
test it. Can it hold your chosen object without collapsing?
 Retell the story verbally or in writing using the pg32

 How would you trick a giant?

 Identify the use of the possessive apostrophe through out Now watch the cartoon version of the story on the Visitors Centre website.
this text. Label objects around your house using it. Compare the two versions. What do you notice?