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.
Activities for Week Beginning 15th June
Click here to go straight to the relevant day's activities:
1. Monday's Literacy Activities
2. Tuesday's Literacy Activities
3. Wednesday's Literacy Activities
4. Thursday's Literacy Activities
5. Friday's Literacy Activities
MH's Travel Logo from last week
Monday 15th June
1. Writing:
Creating our Brochure - Brinnging it all together
Today we are going to use the work we did last week to begin to create a final, beautifully produced brochure - using our edited and checked writing, our log , our booklet creating skills and adding photos if we can.
Task:
Create a carefuly designed brochure, using all the things you created last week - plus extra pictures, boxes, colour etc.
Choose a booklet design from Friday's options (I've put the booklet design sheets here below again).
JUST IN ! NEW !
Extra Pages of Book Designs
Click here for your booklet design instructions.
Extra Pandora Photos:
I will add a document containing lots of Pandora photos here, in case you want to print it out, cut them out and stick them in your booklet.
Click here for the Pandora Photo Archive Sheet(Word)
Click here for the Pandora Photo Archive Sheet(pdf)
- What if I want to make my booklet on Word?
(or another piece of software like Powerpoint)
Remember, you can make you booklet by handwriting it, drawing and colouring on it, cutting out photos and sticking them on - you do not need to make an electronic copy
However, if you want to use a Paul Johnson booklet design it will take a little bit of extra work. if you want a great creative I.T. challenge this week, this is a great learning opportunity, and will up-level your I.T. skills.
Click here for some extra instructions on how to make you booklet electronically
Tuesday 16th June
Have a look at how our Pandora brochures are coming on:
Here's OA's printed version...
EP's triangular book
WO's rocket book...
Who is the mystery hand?
1. Reading Comprehension
As we have been looking at travelling to an unspoilt ecosystem, I thought it would be good to find a comprehension related to the problems we are causing to our environment on earth. I have found an interesting comprehension about how plastic is causing huge problems to our planet.
1. For Red and Green Group -
Download the comprehension here
2. Challenge 2 level -
Download the comprehension here
3. Challenge 3 level -
Download the comprehension here
Answer the questions in your book in full sentences - the answers will be posted tomorrow.
Wednesday 17th June
1. Reading:
Task 1: Mark Your Comprehension
1. For Red and Green Group -
Download the comprehension answers here
2. Challenge 2 level -
Download the comprehension answers here
3. Challenge 3 level -
Download the comprehension answers here
2. Writing:
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We've got some prefix work this morning, to keep those S.P.A.G. skills up to date.
Some of these are tricky; write out the sentence, completing the word needed by adding a prefix from the top of the page.
I have provided two levels of challenge:
Click here for Challenge 2 / 3
When you have finished, you can mark your own work using the answer sheet provide here.
Thursday 18th June:
1. Writing
Using Vocabulary in Correct Context
Our vocabulary this week, comes from finding out about the problem of plastic on our planet. Choose wisely and challenge yourself - this is a great chance to level up that library of words in your head for future use.
Your task:
1. Choose 6 words (challenge yourself) 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.
Challenge 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 ( ; - :), 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. As we have visited the old shop of curiosities, this week's theme is 'The environment.'.
Obviously, you will be using a full range of punctuation to help really say what you mean to say - and now you are experts in using brackets.
| impossible | existence | endanger / endangering |
| biodegradable | consume / consumed | mistakenly |
| attitude | poison / poisonous | reusable |
| alarmingly | indefinitely | toxic |
Friday 19th June:
1. Writing:
This week has been full-on and we've had lots of varied work to fit in. So this morning, take the chance to finish everything off properly:
1. Complete your Pandora booklet - fill all those empty white spaces, check your spellings and vocabulary, and send me a picture.
2. Complete yesterdays science - including the stomata water experiment - remember to investigate the different leaves and write your thoughts about the differences between leaves (using clear, well punctuated sentences, and using the new scientific vocabulary we learnt about leaves yesterday), if you can, add a sketch of each different leaf, and the bubbles and where they appear.
We noticed today that the bubbles appear in distictively different places on different leaves - why?.)
3. Have you completed your Geography diagrams?
4. I have noticed many of you who have sent me your prefixes work, have not marked it - have a look at Wednesday's section,: there is an answer sheet to click on at the end !
5. There's always time to develop and improve those grafitti skills.
Finished Everything?
If you have worked exceptionally hard (thank you, you are amazing), and finished everything, here's a sneek peek at what we will be doing next week:
In design, we will be looking at bridge design, and building our own bridge challenge. (I'll add details on Tuesday). It would be great for you to have a look tody in advance at the various designs, and in particular the bridges designed by Isabard Kingdom Brunel, a famous Victorian engineer.
HEADS UP - ADVANCE WARNING -
A week on Tuesday, we will be using spaghetti and small cooking marshmallows to create bridge designs with a challenge. It would be great if you could get hold of these in the next 10 days so you can fully take part in an incredibly fun design, thinking and construction challenge.
