Home Learning

Friday 23rd September

English - I would like you to write a couple of sentences (in the labelled space in your new home learning book) in first person about your week (like a short diary entry). I would then like you to write these sentences again (in the labelled space in your book) changing them into third person language.

Maths - For maths I set you all this challenge https://nrich.maths.org/927 (follow this link). No one has managed to figure it out in school this week, can you be the first! Show me how close you get using the labelled space in your home learning books.

Spellings - I want you to learn these and expect to be tested on them but I’m not going to say when. You will have 5 spellings a week to learn and your tests could be on any spellings from any week!

What have we done this week

This week in Class 3 we have done lots of creative writing. For a start on Wednesday we took our grammar focus of learning about strong verbs further as we extended a story which ended on a cliff hanger. The story was about some children visiting an Egyptian pyramid and being surprised by what they saw. Our job was to come up with an exciting next chapter to this story, all the while trying to use strong (tiptoed) in place of weak (walked) verbs in our writing.

On Thursday our grammar focus switched to practicing writing in third person which gave us a chance to control the actions of another member of Class 3. The pictures that you can see in this week's blog show one person reading out their narration of someone else's actions (so reading out a piece of third person writing that they have done). Those who said they didn't mind having their actions chosen by someone else (otherwise known as our 'puppets') were then asked to come to the front of class and perform while their narrator directed them.

Friday then saw another creative writing task as we used our expert knowledge of Ancient Egypt to put ourselves in the shoes of an Ancient Egyptian and write a story about what our day might look like. Some Class 3 members chose to write as if they were a slave building a great Egyptian pyramid while others chose to be pharaohs, but all were writing in first person.

Next week there will be a big focus in Class 3 on up levelling our writing so that it is not just meeting our learning objectives in grammar and punctuation but it is also exciting for the reader to read.