This Week's Activities:
Instructions are in RED
Reminder - All those Lexia users should be logging on from home and working through those level now. Its an ideal opportunity to improve your reading and spelling skills. Lets get to that level 18.
Friday 22nd May
1. Vocabulary - Anagrams
Literacy Super Starter:
To bring an end to our 'Under the Sea' theme for this half term, here's an under the sea literacy anagram challenge. See if you can get them all. I'll post the answers after half-term:
. Lots of great new vocabulary in our comprehensions this week. Let see if we
2. Creative Writing:
After half-term (next week), we will have all been living through this strange time for an incredible 10 weeks.
I have been thinking of the best way to finish our literacy off this half-term. So, your task today is to totally let your creative writing and poetry skills run free: your job is to put all your experiences from the last 9 weeks into words.
Create your own personal lockdown poem - create something beautiful and thoughtful, funny and sad, emotive and poignant - tell everyone baout your expereince of these strange, historic times.. I'll have a go below to give you the idea - but I know you'll create something powerful and stunning.
If you want some inspiration now, here is 'The Rainbow Children',, a poem about you guys by Gemma Peacock, a mum with children at home during lockdown.
Thursday 21st May
1. Writing and Vocabulary:
1. Lots of great new vocabulary in our comprehensions this week. Let's see if we now know what they mean and if we can use them in a new context.
Your task:
1. Choose 6 words from the list below.
.- you can use either of the two versions.
2. Write down the word, followed by what it means - its definition. Get used to using a real dictionary if you have one - if you haven't got one at homee, you could use an online dictionary.
Challlenge 1:
Write a sentence using the word in its correct context.- so it makes sense in the situation you are writing about and you are using the correct meaning of the word.
Challenge 2:
Write a complex sentence, using linking punctuation ( ; - :), or a great conjunction (have a lok at yesterdays grammar task) and using the word in its correct context.
Challenge 3:
When you have finished writing the definitions, include as many of the words as you can in one short paragraph based around a wizardry and magical type story paragraph - as we have done some great Harry Potter writing this week.
Obviously you will be using a full range of punctuation to help really say what you mean to say.
| contrpation | muffle / muffled | scrawny |
| wrenched | perplexed | harness ' harnessing (not the climbing harness, the verb) |
| tend / tending | thieving | shrouded |
| merciful | reclaim / reclaimed |
Wednesday 20th May:
1. Reading:
Task 1 : Mark Your Comprehension
Red and Green Group:
'The Biker ' Comprehension
Click here for your answers to the comprehension
For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Mark yesterdays' comprehension below :
The Legend of Elfwind Comprehension Answers:
For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Answer to yesterday's comprehension below :
The Contraption Comprehension Answers:
2. Reading: and Writing
Our Literacy Heritage
Task 2 : Investigate Shakespeare
Earlier in the year, we read our Shakespeare play, The Tempest, and discovered how Shakespeare was so skilled at weaving storylines and characters together. But did you know just how important he is to our whole language?
If you ever hear adults say that they don't like Shakespeare, and he's boring, well, little do they know, they are probably quoting Shakespeare every day of their lives ithout knowing it.
Have a go at this Shakespeare phrases task - you may have to do some reaearch on the web about the play where the phrase comes from.
Download the Task here and complete it in your book.
Challenge task - how many every day phrases are thought to have been invented by Shakespeare?.
Tuesday 19th May:
1. Reading Comprehension
1. For Red and Green Group:
'The Biker ' Comprehension from your comprehension pack.
2. For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Download the following comprehension below :
The Legend of Elfwind Comprehension :
Answer the questions in your book in full sentences.
I'll attach the answers here tomorrow..
3. For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Download the following comprehension below :
The Contraption Comprehension :
Answer the questions in your book in full sentences.
-I'll attach the answers here tomorrow..
Monday 18th May
Writing: The Cart Scene
This week, we are going to be looking at writing reviews for films and books, but for today, I thought it would be great to start off with some pure creative , dramatic writing, where you can let yourself free with your skills. I've created a video clip from Harry Potter, The Deathly Hallows, which I want you to bring alive in text.
You can alter the ending and elements of the scene , and I've added my efforts to help you out of you are a little unsure.
Watch the video below, then off you go. It might help to create plan to organise your thoughts:
This is your chance to add your ideas to the Harry Potter story. The heroes are racing through the Gringott’s Bank underground vaults and caverns. You need to write an action packed, dramatic paragraph, describing how the heroes are being chased in their rail-carts by the evil Bellatrix.
Click here for some extra guidance and I've also written an example to support your ideas.
