Reading
Today, we are going to be continuing with our new book, ‘The Borrowers’ by Mary Norton. Today, you will be reading pages 16 (beside the fire) – end of chapter 2.
Work through the Reading PowerPoint and follow along with the teacher recording. You will need to complete today’s written task. The text is attached below.
Click the link below to take you to the video.
https://greenfield-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/friday-reading-video
R - Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
O - Questions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Y - Questions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
G - Questions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Here is the order we usually follow in class for Reciprocal Reading:
Predict (sensible guess)
Read the pages
Clarify the meaning of words you didn’t know
Answer the questions
Summarise
Literacy
In today’s lesson, you will be writing your own character description.
Yesterday, you chose 2 characters from the story to write about today. In this week's lessons you have completed small activities that will help you with your writing today.
Below is a success criteria for your group. Read through it before you start and remember to keep checking as you are writing.
Green:
Capital letters and full stops are always correct.
I can use expanded noun phrases.
I can use similes.
I can use powerful adjectives.
I can use a thesaurus/online thesaurus to improve my own vocabulary.
Yellow/Orange:
Capital letters and full stops are mostly correct.
I can use some expanded noun phrases.
I can use some powerful adjectives.
I can use a thesaurus/online thesaurus to improve my own vocabulary.
Red:
Capital letters and full stops are mostly correct.
I can use the word bank from the live lessons.
I can use expanded noun phrases.
I can use powerful adjectives.
Maths
Today, we are going to learn to subtract from whole amounts.
Here is the link to a video that will teach you everything you need to know for this lesson, just as I would teach you in class:
After you have watched the video, have a go at answering the questions on the attached worksheet. Afterwards, you can mark your answers and ask a grown up to go through any mistakes you made that you don’t know how to correct.
Attached is a true or false for you to answer. Work through it and explain your answers. This is just a discussion to have with somebody else, you do not need to write anything down.
Green/Yellow-Start from Q5.
Orange- Start from Q3
Red- Start from Q1
PE
Today, I would like you to complete Joe Wicks most recent ‘PE with Joe’. Here is a link to Joe’s YouTube playlist for PE with Joe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_g2B-D7zg&list=PLyCLoPd4VxBuS4UeyHMccVAjpWaNbGomt
Alternatively, you can have a go at learning a dance with Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti. Here is the link to her YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58aowNEXHHnflR_5YTtP4g
Have fun!
Story Time
Please listen and enjoy a chapter a day of this incredible book.
Varjak Paw by S. F. Said
Chapter 26