This morning all three Literacy groups were working really hard, as always.  One group was reading non fiction on microbes, another group was learning to recognise the difference between direct and indirect speech and the other group was looking at when to use its or it’s.

Maths

• Continue to use Active Learn Account (Revision of Fractions Term1).
• Many children still need to spend time learning their tables. It would be helpful if the child could have their times tables “at their fingertips”.  The times tables help the children in so many areas of maths.  Each child in the class knows what tables they should be working on.  This Friday (17^th March) we will be having table test.  Here are some ideas to help your child learn their tables:

TGT (Team Game Tournament) children can make the cards at home.

Chant/Sing/Write the tables out

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/ (this website has links to many other websites)

Literacy:

Using its and it’s

When do we use its? Its is a possessive adjective. Use its if you can change it for a noun + ’s.

E.g.     The cat drank its milk.

The cat drank the cat’s milk.

What about it’s? This is the shortened form of it is. Use it’s if you can change it for it is or  it has.

E.g.     It’s very cold today!

It is very cold today!

Oh dear! The person who wrote these sentences didn’t know whether to use its  or it’s!  Copy these sentences into your book, using the correct word.

1. My dad says its very cold in Canada today.
2. The dog ran away because its collar came loose.
3. The robber broke into the car and stole its
4. Hurry up, its nearly time for school!
5. Its my sister who has won the competition, not my brother.
6. The house lost its roof during the storm.
7. Brush your teeth, its bedtime.
8. Its about time you learned to ride a bicycle!
9. The library lost its books in the fire.
10. I can’t go out because its raining!
11. The cow is happy eating its grass
12. Its 12 o’clock, its lunchtime!
13. Its been a long time since I last saw my cousin Joe.
14. The army has sent its soldiers to help the victims of the disaster.
15. I think its just stopped raining.

WWII

Continue our World War II homework from the sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock.  You will have a choice for homework and earn House Points for the homework you bring in. Choose at least 2 activities per week from the sheet.  Keep the sheet somewhere safe as you will need it until 31^st March.

This afternoon for PE, Mr Green created an excellent cardio vascular gymnastic workout.   It was amazing and we all felt our hearts pumping.  We should all sleep tonight soundly- including Mr Green!!!

Maths

1) Continue to use Active Learn Account.

2) Estimate the time each event might take.

Think carefully about the unit you use.

1. To write out the alphabet
2. To wash a car
3. For me to run 1 km
4. For a seed to grow into a lettuce
5. A netball match
6. To travel by plane from Edinburgh to New York
7. To cook a meal
8. A TV advert
9. For an elephant to become fully grown.
10. Talk with someone at home. Together, estimate how long it might take to walk from Land’s End to John O’

3) Look at these screen shots.  Choose at least1 of the pages and complete in your jotter.

Literacy:

The weblink below has many links to different games and quizzes.  They will help to develop your understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and apostrophes- all of which we have looked at in the past few weeks.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy2.htm#apo

A Grammar photo story teaching children how to use apostrophes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeHg5i7OJo

Play apostrophe (for contraction) Snap.

shouldn’t              should not   

wouldn’t                would not

couldn’t                 could not

hadn’t                    had not

wasn’t                    was not

should’ve              should have

could’ve                could have

would’ve               would have

doesn’t                  does not

can’t                      cannot

don’t                      do not

shan’t                    shall not

let’s                       let us

I’m                         I am

we’re                     we are

it’s                        it is

they’re                   they are

mustn’t             must not

haven’t                  have not

she’s                     she is

you’ve                   you have

he’d                       he had

they’ll                    they will

 

WWII

Continue our World War II homework from the sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock.  You will have a choice for homework and earn House Points for the homework you bring in. Choose at least 2 activities per week from the sheet.  Keep the sheet somewhere safe as you will need it until 31^st March.

This morning we used our plans from yesterday and wrote a letter as an evacuee.  We consider the layout carefully ,  how to punctuate the address and how to conclude with an appropriate ending.  Our next steps will be redraft our letters and write them on “old” paper we made from teabags.

Remember to bring in 50p tomorrow if you want to buy a Fair Trade Pancake!!!

This morning we got all the PE apparatus out for gymnastics.  We were concentration on moving in different ways across the apparatus.

This afternoon we used many artistic skills such as shading, drawing and blending to begin our Camouflage Soldier.  We also used different mediums such as charcoals and pastels, Today we sketched the soldiers face trying to capture their emotion and use pastels to create camouflage helmets. Tomorrow we will use tissue paper to create the background then assemble our work.

Maths

Please check your Active Learn Account.  New work, for you to do at home, has been loaded to your account.

Literacy

Contraction in Action.

1. Task: Contract the words that are underlined. Rewrite the poem in your book with the contractions in place.

I would have said “I told you so”,

But you would not have listened to me.

You did not give a fiddle that someone might have caught you doing, what we all know you did.

Do not blame me that you have no tea,

You should have thought of that before.

“You will go to your room and stay there until you learn!”

“It is not fair!”

You may well despair as your tummy rumbles.

He who does not grumble is humble instead.

But that is not you so you are off to bed.

 

Very shortly,

Down the stairs he will come.

Glum.

It is a shame.

We have forgiven.

She will always give you a second chance.

She is our mum.

Extra: Can you find any other possible contraction in the text? Put them into a sentence of your own.

WWII

For the next 4 weeks, our World War II homework will come from the sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock.  You will have a choice for homework and earn House Points for the homework you bring in. Choose at least 2 activities per week from the sheet.  Keep the sheet somewhere safe as you will need it until 31^st March.

This morning we continued our newspaper report writing.  This time we were using the information from Friday’s lesson on the outbreak of World War II.  This is our second newspaper report and we found it a lot easier this time around.  We were able to identify our success criteria quickly and use our knowledge of the outbreak of war to write super newspaper reports.

Maths

Real-life time – at home or in their local surroundings, ask your child to look for representations of time shown on clocks, whether on real clocks or on posters, in newspapers, etc. both analogue and digital format. Ask them to draw them in their homework jotter.

Have a look at this website:

http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/time.htm

There are many worksheets which involve telling the time both in analogue and digital times. There are also many ICT games to play.  Pick at least 6 activities from this website.

Design a clock, watch or time keeping device. Bring it into class to show the rest of the pupils.

Go to this website and find out which day of the week, date, month and year you were born on.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/calendar.html

Monday’s Child by Mother Goose

Monday’s Child is fair of face
Tuesday Child is full of grace
Wednesday’s Child is full of woe
Thursday’s Child has far to go
Friday’s Child is loving and giving
Saturday’s Child works hard for a living
But the Child that is born

On the Sabbath Day,
Is witty and wise and good and happy!

Can you find out what the poem says about other people in your house?

Times Tables – Keep practising them. Many children’s scores dropped last week in their tables test.

 

WWII Research

Choose from:

Research your family tree and find out which family members were alive in WW2. Can you find out anything else about them? Did any of them serve in the army, navy or RAF (Royal Air Force)?

Research and write a short biography about a famous character from WW2 e.g. Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler or Neville Chamberlain.

Compare and contrast fashions of Wartime Britain and Britain today.

Create a graph comparing the size of armies from different nations.