Friday 10th March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to up level my list of 5 ‘weak verbs’. I have stuck the list in your home learning books and next to each verb (e.g. walk) I would like you to write a more ‘powerful verb’ (e.g. stomp) that could replace it. Then using your self-created list of ‘powerful verbs’ I would like you to write five sentences, each one about something doing something.

Maths: For Maths this week I have stuck an equivalent fractions colouring sheet in your home learning books. At the side of the picture there is a key which explains how each fraction matches with a colour and, on top of this, all of this fraction’s equivalents also match with the same colour. I have put a fraction wall and some blank diagrams on your sheet as well to help you work out the equivalent fractions.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

This week we've been linking our American topic to our English work. In our American topic this term we are focusing on eight American animals (4 from South America and 4 from North America). Our knowledge of these animals is growing week by week and we are using that knowledge as a basis for improving our writing. In the four pictures above some of us are reading our adverb poems where we chose an appropriate adverb to describe the action of certain things, some of those things being our American animals. Other English tasks this week have included using fronted adverbials to create some clues about which of our eight American animals we were describing on the front cover of our flap books (books where the front cover lifts up and reveals what a picture of what the information on the front was talking about).