Good Morning Year 5 and 6
08.45 Guided reading
09:15 Literacy
Reading tasks for the week
Letters from the lighthouse Chapter 11 Freedom is in Peril - Comprehension
Describe the differences between how Olive feels arriving at the school, and how Cliff feels.
• Why do the children hang gas masks on their pegs?
• What impression do you get of Mr Barrowman?
• Why didn’t Olive want to be classroom ink monitor?
• Why might Miss Carter have taken off her glasses?
• How did the ink get all over Esther?
• Why is no one convinced the lighthouse won’t be destroyed by Germans?
• What does Jim mean when he says ‘good luck – you’ll need it?’
Writing task
* Scribe the phone conversation between the coastguard and the Ministry of Defence, in which they decide to eradicate the lighthouse.
• Write a persuasive letter to the Ministry of Defence, attempting to convince them not to eradicate the lighthouse.
Creative Curriculum
Research and make a fact file about riptides and quicksands. You could even create a poster warning about the dangers of these.
MATHS We will meet at 07:45 for maths.
Target Teaching: BODMAS
Brackets of Divide, Multiply, Add and Subtract = always do your number sentence answers in this order. 2x4+5 = (2x4)+5 = 8+5 = 13
WALT – Skittles project: TO DRAW A BAR CHART.
We will be having a whole week working with your skittles - please make sure you get correct answers today. You can take your skittles home and eat them after school.
All children will produce the same outcome.
I will explain to you in the Zoom lesson what you are to do. Pick 4 from each page - (remember to write which letter of the alphabet that you are doing), and write your answers on Seesaw notes.
The day the Crayon quit by Oliver Jeffers
WALT - To predict what will happen to the crayons
Children to write a diary in the form of a story board, showing what the crayon has been up to since quitting. Write at least a couple of sentences for each day and illustrate. (remember your diary success criteria)
