Thursday 2nd July

Good Morning Year 5 and 6

08:00 Maths 
08:45 Literacy
11:45 zoom with new year 3,4,5,6 re holiday homework. 

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: Perimeter

Circles - find the perimeter of the 3 shapes task - tomorrow you will find the perimeter of these shapes. 

Everyone else = you don't need it printing off - find the questions and write the answers. This task will be for today and tomorrow

WALT – Skittles project: To calculate the angles to draw a pie 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. 

Literacy - We will meet at 8:45

WALT - SPAG quiz

This task will go over 2 days. You are to answer the questions and collect the correct letters, then you will be able to write the joke. Do 10 questions today and then the other 10 tomorrow. Task 

The day the Crayon quit by Oliver Jeffers 

WALT - To write a crayon profile.

Review character problems

Circles

Use the character analysis from the text – and write at least 3 profiles for different crayons. Use the text and your opinion to help you. 

Bullet point ideas

Triangles

Use own ideas to write at least 2 character profiles. Write 1 as a character description. Use the text and your opinion to help you.

Squares

Use own ideas and write at least 2 character descriptions.  Use the text and your opinion to help you.