Good morning and welcome to a new week of home learning.
We hope that you are ready to do lots of super learning this week. Don’t forget to send us your photos, we love seeing them.
Reading
Remember to do lots of reading (about 30 minutes each day) and quizzing on Accelerated Reader. How are you getting on with your quizzes? Are you nearly at your target? Please let us know when you have reached them and we can celebrate.
Maths
How did your 3 times tables practising go? Ask someone to quiz you on them. Do you notice a pattern in the answers?
Computing
Have a look at the PDF below for your new computing topic, enjoy!
The Magic Box
Following on from all of your lovely poetry last week we thought that you might like to create your own magic box of things. You can either collect together and put your magical things in a magic box or you can draw a magic box and draw all of your magical things in it.
What will you put in your magic box? Use your imagination and be creative! Don’t forget to send us your lovely photos please.
English
This week we are going to be looking at the story The House Haunting. We will be adding a bit more of the story each day and asking you to do the activities to go with it. It gets quite exciting so don’t miss out on any of the chapters!
Read chapter 1 of The House Haunting
Task 1 What are you now thinking and wondering about? What questions would you now like to ask?
Write your questions remembering to use correct punctuation. Start your questions in different ways.
Task 2 Look carefully at the vocabulary that the author has used. Are there any words that you are not sure about? Find out what they mean. Are there any words or descriptive phrases that you really like? Maybe you could magpie these or add to them when you write your story opening.
Task 3 Look at how the author has started the story. Starting with a warning not to go near the house because it’s dangerous makes you want to find out why it’s dangerous. Straight away it makes you want to read more. It grabs your interest. The author then goes on to describe what the boys go past as they leave home and when they get to the house the author describes in great detail what it is like outside the house. The author starts at the gate and works their way up to the door - the door opens!!!! You are left at a really exciting cliff hanger. Do you go in or not??????
We would like you to follow the pattern used by the author, starting with a warning, (Remember “…” when people speak) and write your own story opening (chapter 1). Make sure that you explain and describe what the children go past on the way to the house and use lots of description to describe your house once you get there. Don’t forget to include information about the characters. Look at how the author has done this for a little help. Make your chapter 1 really exciting. Grab the reader - make them want to read some more!