In your jotters, write a descriptive paragraph about one of the pictures below. Use the ideas below to help you be descriptive. When you send the work to me, I will try and guess which lizard picture you are describing.
Task 2 – Read Holes Ch 7-8. When reading chapter 8 highlight on the text, evidence about the yellow spotted lizard. Collate your evidence about yellow spotted lizards on the page below.
Today marks the beginning of the Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths Challenge. Each class has been entered into the competition. However to make this extra competitive, we are making this a class competition between ALL classes at Glencoats. The contest will run from 15th – 21st May. The class with the most participants answering the most questions correctly wins! Good Luck 👍
Task 1 – Complete the missing syllables in these three-syllable words. Write the whole word too.
“Camp Green Lake is a dry, flat wasteland”
Expand on this to write a full descriptive paragraph about the setting.
Rowling – Must have a variety of sentence openers, prepositional phrases and expanded noun phrases which have been selected carefully for effect.
Dahl – Use a variety of preposition in writing and also use ambitious vocabulary to make writing more interesting
Walliams – Write 3-4 sentences. Try to include an adjective (descriptive word) in each sentence.
You are going to take on the role of Stanley. Prepare questions for an adult to ask you based around;
Once you have prepared the questions and answers for Stanley, why not have a go recording a live interview. You are now in the hot seat in the role of Stanley answering questions for 1 minute. Try to impersonate how you imagine the character to be.
We thought a nice way to end the week would be to have a Microsoft Teams chat. Some of the things we will be looking to discuss with you are:
If you can’t get on contact me through Glow.
*Walliams Group – Chapter 1 only
Have a go at these product (multiplication) grids below (Also on Seesaw)
L.I – Multiply 2 Digits by 2-3digits
Watch the teaching video for formal methods of multiplication.
Video explanation
Calculate the answers to the following using formal methods:
a) IN x TO B) ON x AN C) NO x ICE D) TIE x BE E) BIN x ON
Create your own Digit Code multiplication sums using formal or grid method.
For the month of May you are going to do your own research project about Paisley as part of Local Community History month. (See the original lesson from Monday 4th May)
See below the first 3 tasks it asks you to do as part of your project.
For each of these, why not use ‘Google Maps’ or ‘Google Earth’ to help with this. You could include screenshots for your presentation.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.803904,-4.3810816,14z 
When you say a word slowly, you can hear how many beats or syllables it has. You can tap out the syllables of a word, as you say it, to help you spell it. Each syllable must contain at least one vowel.
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Task 1
* There will be 8 words in each column.
Task 2
Choose 10 words you found difficult and complete 3 active spelling activities for each words from the link below.
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Click to read chapters 1-3
Today we are going to begin our new class novel ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. I want you to read the first 3 chapters and answer the following questions.
L.I – We are learning to use formal methods to lay out multiplication sums involving 2 digits x 2 digits and 3 digits x 2 digits.
Maths Starter –
Try the following sums using the grid method (Link to video for revision)
a) 34 x 21 b) 65 x43 c) 145 x 16 d) 278 x 34
Today we are going to be learning about using the formal method for multiplying numbers by 2 digits. Some of your parents may remember this at school as long multiplication.
Watch the video link below up to 3:27m.
a) 32×17 b) 52×23 c) 37x 25 d) 82×36
Check your answers for each one using the grid method.
