French
How did you get on with the French words yesterday? Here are their meanings.
La chemise – shirt
Le pantalon – trousers
La jupe – skirt
La chaussettes – socks
La chaussures – shoes
La veste – vest
Le chapeau – hat
Le manteaux -coat
La casquette – cap
La cravat – tie
La robe – dress
Le tee-shirt – T-shirt
Le parapluie – umbrella
Try out some French clothes games on Digital Dialects.
https://www.digitaldialects.com/
main task
read today’s pages from Holes. Guess what the following words mean and then look up their meaning using a dictionary or the internet. Read before the word and after the word, then insert your guess where the word is and check if the sentences still make sense.
shovelful
canteen
arced
pried
record any other words you don’t know the meaning of and guess their meaning before looking them up.
Let’s also work on our prediction skills. Prediction is a key skill for understanding what you have read and making sense of a longer piece of text.
Answer these prediction questions
- If Stanley finds something interesting again, do you think he will give it to X-Ray or the warden? Why?
- What kidn of relationship will X-Ray and Stanley have? Will the be friends? Team mates? Enemies? Why?
- How will the Warden react when the Warden finds out that Mr Pendanski didn’t tell The Warden about the fossil that Stanley found?
- If one of the kids was going to try and escape, how would the do it? What would happen?
maths
Place value practice
Here is an excellent game that gets you to visualise where numbers are on a number line and then compare their size. Take your time to look carefully at the numbers on the line and how many pieces the line is split into, this will help you guess the number. Give it a go
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/266
timetables
we are continuing to work on reading time tables and understanding the information contained within it.
Look at the following timetable and answer the questions
Word problem of the day
Yesterday’s answers
I need 400g of flour to make a loaf of bread. I want to make 4 loaves of bread and I have 2 kg of flour.
- Do I have enough flour? yes
- How much flour will I have left over at the end? 400g
- How many loaves can I make with 2kg of flour? 5 loaves
1kg = 1000g
2kg = 2000g.
Today’s problem
I leave my house at 09:20am. I want to get the 09:35 bus and it takes me 12 minutes to walk to the bus stop. I forget my phone and realise after walking 1 minute from my house. I immediately turn around and walk back for it, then straight to the bus stop.
- How long do I have to walk from the house to the bus stop before the bus gets there?
- If I didn’t forget my phone, how long after I arrived at the bus stop, would the bus have arrived?
- Will I be on time to catch the bus after I have turned back to get my phone?
***Don’t forget tomorrow is the weekly sumdog championship. Tomorrow you will be put in random teams!***
