Friday 17th March

Home Learning

English: This week for your English I would like you to visit this http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en21watc-game-paris-word web address and have a go at the ‘pairs word game’. We have been learning about homophones this week in class and so we know that these are words which sound the same but are often spelt differently and have different meanings (e.g. wood and would). Try and match as many pairs of homophones as you can while playing this game and list all of the ones that you do find in your home learning book.
 

Maths: For Maths this week I would like you to fill in the gaps on my ‘minutes to seconds and seconds to minutes conversion help sheet’. I have stuck the sheet in your home learning book but I have removed the multiples of 60 and your job is to add them back in.

Spellings: You also have another 5 spellings this week.

What we have done this week

This week's blog's pictures are of this Friday's English lesson, when we played 'homophone bingo'. Firstly, what we had to do was select 6 cards from the box at the front to make up our collection of sentences with homophones missing from them. As well as a sentence, each card had a picture on it as a clue to what the homophone could be. At the front of the class, Mr Balls had the missing homophones shuffled up in a pack and would select one at a time to write on the board and read aloud. When he did this our job was then to see if the homophone he spelt matched with the way any of our missing homophones should be spelt. If the homophone did match then we filled in the gap on our card. The first person to correctly match six homophones with their six cards was the winner and had to call out 'Bingo!'