This morning we consolidated our learning on 2D shapes.  We had six stations to visit in our groups of 4.  The groups were:

 

This morning we continued our work on “show not tell.” We were focusing on showing the reader how the character was feeling rather than just telling the reader.  We looked at three different feelings: angry, frightened and sad and used graffiti boards to help us brainstorm examples.

This afternoon we had a visit from Mrs Keith.  She came to help us with learning multiplying.  We discussed what to do when we are stuck with multiplying. We have identified lots of strategies to help us with our strategies.

 

 

 

This morning in literacy we were all working very hard.  The red group read another chapter then completed a reading comprehension about their text.  The blue group were using their notes from yesterday to write a summary of a chapter.  The green group read the next chapter, completed a cloze procedure then put in speech marks and punctuation to sentences from their text.

P5/6 Homework Week Beginning 31st October

 

Maths: Complete 2D Sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock.

2D SHAPE

NAME

SIDES

VERTICES

ANGLES

Literacy:

A simile is the comparison of two unlike things using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. an example of a simile would be as big as a bus.

Now write some sentences comparing a monster with things.

1. The monster had hair as curly as……………………..
2. The monsters had ears like……………………
3. The monster had a nose as long as…………..
4. The monster was as tall as……………………….
5. The monster had eyes as blue as……………………..
6. The monsters legs were as thick as………….
7. The monster had muscles as big as……………..
8. The monsters mouth was as wide as………………
9. The monster had teeth like………………….
10. The monster was as scary as…………………

 

NOW DRAW THE MONSTER  IN YOUR BOOKS!

 

The life and times of Guy Fawkes

Research the life and times of Guy Fawkes.

Cut these out and put them or write them into your jotter in the right order – then draw pictures to match the writing.

 

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A Letter was sent to the King which told him of the plot!

 

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Guy joined the Spanish Army.

 

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Guy and his friends wanted to get rid of the king and parliament on the 5^th November.

 

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Guy Fawkes was christened in York in 1570.

 

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Guy knew all about explosives and they hid the gunpowder in barrels in the cellars of parliament. So they were ready to blow up parliament.

 

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Guy and 6 others were all taken to court and then hanged.

 

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The King ordered guards to search the building, and Guy was found hiding in the cellar.

 

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In 1603, a new king James I was crowned. And English Catholics were afraid he would be cruel to them.

This afternoon after working so hard on our similes and metaphors then our rangoli patterns, we had great fun eating from the Witch’s Washing Line.  Some children managed to bite their donut in one clean bite!!

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This morning we planned then wrote our very own thriller stories about two children getting lost in the woods and they find something or overhear something that leads them to danger…

The children thought it was hard but great fun writing their very first thrillers.  They are looking forward to writing another thriller next week.

 

This morning we completed a reading comprehension on the Human Ear.  We were encouraged to skim and scan the passage and diagram quickly to get the  main ideas then we read the text again more slowly.

This afternoon we labelled a diagram of the ear.  We had to label our diagram to explain the different parts of our ear.

In Maths we have looked at rounding and estimating.

This is the amount of goals that a footballer scores in one season.

• Round these scores to the nearest 10 goals:

 

Footballer	Goals scored	Rounded to the nearest 10
Wayne Rooney	77
Frank Lampard	69
Emmanuel Adebayor	54
Leon Best	43
Andrew Johnson	35
Daniel Sturridge	22

 

This is the amount of skips P5 achieved in one minute during the sponsored skip.

 

• Round these scores to the nearest 100:

 

Name	Skips	Rounded to the nearest 100
Kayleigh	482
Hannah	411
Aimee	328
Maisey	249
Rose	117
Laura	50

 

Now try this:

Roll the three dice and make a three digit number

For example: 636.

Round the number to the nearest 100 and repeat.

 

Write down the ages of everyone in your family, then estimate their total age to the nearest 10.

Literacy

• We have been learning more about speech marks. Use this link to find three different activities for the children to choose from:http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/speechmarks.htm
• Here are some other websites to help you learn more about speech marks:

http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/speech_marks/

http://mrcrammond.com/games/literacy/dont_use_said.swf

https://www.studyladder.co.uk/games/activity/quotation-marks-19072?lc_set=

Halloween’s Coming….

• Interview family and friends. Find out what types of things they did when they were children for Halloween.  Can they remember any songs, rhymes or poems they were taught?
• Use the internet, to research Halloween. Think about – Why do we celebrate Halloween? Halloween Customs and Traditions, Halloween Superstitions and Fascinating Facts About Halloween.  You could present your research as a power point or in your homework jotter.
• Will you be guising at Halloween or perhaps going to a Halloween disco? Prepare your costume and make sure you can tell a joke, do a dance, sing a song or recite a poem.

This morning we used Education City to learn more about rounding.  We also used top marks website.  This helped us to prepare for our assessment on rounding after playtime.