Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Hi, everyone. I hope you are all well and are ready for your learning today. Remember to upload any work completed to Seesaw.
Maths
Mental Maths: Today, practise halving and doubling numbers to 20. You could practise on the game Hit the Button. (Follow the web link.)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
LO: Comparing and ordering numbers to 100,000
Look at the maths PowerPoint then answer the maths activity questions. Check your answers using the answers provided.
English
Starter: Spend 10 minutes practising our words of the week
- persuade
- often
- especially
- therefore
LO: To write sentences with various sentence openers
Have a look at the English activity sheet. On it, you will see examples of sentences beginning with a range of openers - ly, ing, ed, nouns, adjectives, conjunctions and time connectives. Your task is to write your own descriptive sentences starting with openers from the word bank to help you to create interesting sentences about the story - Tuesday.
Now visit Literacy Shed and view the Tuesday video.
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-picture-book-shed.html
Can you draft and edit paragraph 2. This starts at the clock chiming 8pm and should describe the frogs flying over the fields and arriving in a mysterious town.
Spellings
Yesterday we looked at this week's spelling words - words with the short vowel sound /i/ spelt with y. Today, complete the Word Map spelling activity - choose one of the words from the list.
Computing - eSafety
This week and next we will be looking at 'phishing', which means checking something is real online before we give away any of our personal information. We'll look at why it's important not to share our personal information with others online. Complete the 'Real or Fake' activity - this is in the PowerPoint for you, and think about what you would do in the scenarios given. This lesson is to take place over 2 weeks, so don't worry about trying to finish it all today.
Geography
Today we're looking at map symbols. Go through the PowerPoint that introduces you to a number of map symbols and then try to label a selection of symbols in the activity given.
Guided Reading
Following on from yesterday, read the story 'Nothing But Net' again and complete the activity. Use the text to see if you can math the word with the correct definition.