Good Morning Year 5 and 6
08:30 Spellings
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: Area
Circles - find the area 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: convert % to angles.
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. 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 - Spelling test.
