Tuesday
Maths
05.11.24
LC: To be able to divide by 4 and 8.
English
Tuesday 5th November 2024
LC: Add 'ed' and 'ing ' to verbs.
These verbs are from our story The Green Children.
Tuesday 5th November 2024
LC: Be able to use point and evidence when giving my views about texts.
We are going to compose some complex sentences using the conjunction because to say why we think the actions in The Green Children story happened.
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Clac straightened his back, braced his aching shoulders, and grunted. Sweat trickled down his face and dripped from the end of his nose. He licked his lips. They tasted of salt. Clac glanced down the long, straight swaths of corn, then, rubbing the back of his neck between his shoulder blades, he considered the position of the sun. But his stomach was his best clock. He filled his lungs, cupped a huge hand to his mouth, and bellowed “FOOD!”
The other cottars heard him. One by one they stopped work and mopped their brows. One by one they left their own strips of land and began to walk slowly towards him. Their scythes gleamed in the midday sun and a very small wind moved over the swaths and whispered warnings to the ears of uncut corn.
“Come on,” called Clac. He sat on the turf balk dividing his strip from the next, waiting impatiently. “ This sun… I’ve had enough of it.” “So have I,” groaned Grim. He slumped against the balk. “And so have I,” sighed Swein, collapsing in a heap like a sack of potatoes. Suddenly, a movement caught Clack's attention. “Come on,” cried Clac, “you and you and all the rest of you.”
Panting heavily, the others followed him. “Look!” insisted Clac, pointing again.“Look!” And there, huddling in the hollow of the largest pit, the cottars saw what Clac had seen: two green children. Their skin was green, their hair was green, they wore green clothes. And one was a boy, the other was a girl.
Reading
RIC
There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-White. All they had to live on was the milk the cow gave every morning, which they carried to the market and sold - until one morning Milky-White gave no milk.
Retrieve - Who had a son named Jack?
Inference - Why do you think Jack and his mum only had milk to live on?
Choice - Why do you think the author chose to name the cow Milky-White?
Tuesday 5th November 2024
LC: To identify and summarise the main ideas drawn from a paragraph.
Let's recap the skills needed to summarise the main idea of a text.
Skimming
Skimming is letting your eyes and mind ‘skim’ over the text to get a quick but very general idea of it. You can’t read the text closely when skimming it, but instead you aim to pick out key words and sentences and get the general feel and meaning of the text.
A topic sentence is often the first sentence in a paragraph. You should always read it fully even when skimming as this will give you a summary of that paragraph’s subject and help you to gain a general idea of the content.
Scanning
Scanning is the method of looking for key words or phrases to find out specific information.
Talking Partners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu5P2mGXSS4
Lets watch the videoclip, what is the main idea of the clip. Remember to be specific and use the information in the video.
Activity
Look at the following text and select an answer from the list.
The main idea of the text is ...
1. All about how to paint a suspension bridge.
2. What a bridge looks like.
3. What a bridge is made up of.
4. Suspension Bridges.
Science
Tuesday 5th November 2024
LC: To identify what a plant needs to survive.
Talk Partners
What can you remember about plants?
What do they need to survive?
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If a plant is not watered enough, its stem will be fragile and have very dry leaves. It will eventually die.
If a plant does not have enough light, it will grow to be tall and flimsy as it searches for light. It will probably die.
The roots take up water and nutrients from the soil.
Plants take in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and convert it into glucose (a type of sugar) to make their own type of food through the process of photosynthesis.
If the plant/ seed does not have enough space, it will not grow.
Activity
What does a plant need to survive?
