English
In English, we will spend two days reading and comprehending the text; one day on the grammar focus and two days planning, writing and editing a text.
Text – Biography: Captain Tom Moore
Captain Tom reading comprehension
Comprehension
Grammar focus – parenthesis
In your biography, you may want to add extra information to a sentence. You can use parenthesis for this (in either brackets, dashes or commas). The sentence MUST make sense if you were to remove the parenthesis. Try to avoid using just one of the three options – it’ll keep your work interesting!
Writing task
Write a biography. It could be about someone famous, someone in your family, or just someone you know a lot about! A biography is a non-fiction text, so the information included should be factual.
What I’m Looking For:
- An introductory paragraph briefly outlining the life of the person you are writing about
- Subheadings for different stages of their life (eg. Early Life, Education, Family Life, Work, etc). These should be in chronological order
- Specific facts about the person
- Parenthesis to add extra information
- Writing should be in the past tense, and the third person
Resources to help:
Reading
Children should spend 20 minutes at least three times per week using Reading Plus.
Maths
In maths, we will spend the week focussing on a particular topic, eg. shape or place value. Activities will then be set on Mathletics that are based upon this subject.
Topic – Decimals
Adding and subtracting decimal numbers (both within and bridging 1), and multiplying and diving decimals by powers of 10,
Resources to help:
Adding and subtracting decimals within 1
Adding decimals crossing the whole
Multiply and divide by powers of 10
Additional activities:
Adding decimals within 1 questions
Subtracting decimals within 1 questions
Adding decimals crossing the whole questions
