Tuesday 7th October 2025
Write each sentence with the correct verb form.
Tuesday 7th October 2025
LC: Know what life was like in a Roman villa.
Vocabulary luxury banquet slave courtyard
In Roman Britain, people mainly lived in small villages of wooden houses with thatched roofs.
Wealthy Romans also built grand country houses called villas.
- Villas were large farms with a big house for the owners.
- They had many rooms, some with beautifully painted walls, and mosaic floors.
- They had lots of servants and farm workers to help run the villa.
Most of the Roman villas found by archaeologists are in the south of England. The governor of Britain had a palace in London. Another palace was beside the sea, at Fishbourne (near Chichester in West Sussex).
Use the link below to find out more about what the rooms in a Roman villa were like.
In the video below, a wealthy Roman housewife, Romola, takes a merchant on a tour of her villa. She takes him to see her newly painted frescos and describes how they were painted, before relaxing in the dining room and reminiscing about some of her famous banquets. She explains that most of the food for the banquets comes from the farm and how her slaves would prepare and serve the freshest of food. However, Romola’s favourite dish may not be to everybody’s tastes.
Watch the video again on your iPad. Turn the subtitles on and turn the volume down. Find and write the answers to these questions. Your teacher will model for the first question how to write your answer in a sentence.
What are frescoes?
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What were the paints made from?
What was used to thicken the paint?
What was done to make the frescoes last longer?
Where did some of the food for the banquets come from?
What did people drink at the banquets?
Where did this drink come from?
What foods had to be bought?
Who prepared the meals?
Extra challenge:
Draw your own picture of a Roman villa, showing and labelling the different rooms.
Write about a Roman villa underneath your picture.
Grammar Warmup
Fronted adverbials.
Remember:
Adverbials are words or phrases that give us more information about the verbs in sentences.
Fronted adverbials come at the beginning of the sentence.
Listen to your teacher imitate each of the sentences we read yesterday
As the sun was setting, an owl began to wake from its sleep.
As the sun was ................, a .............. began to wake from its sleep.
In a dark cave, there lived a ferocious dragon.
In a ............. cave, there lived a ................... dragon.
In the summer of 2012, the London Olympic Games took place.
In the .................... of 2012, the ..................... Olympic Games took place.
After a tiring night, Mum finally got some sleep.
After a ............... night, Mum ................. got some sleep.
Into her cauldron, the witch threw many horrid ingredients.
Into her ....................., the witch threw many ....................... ingredients.
After the football match, Rhianna went to the fish and chip shop with her dad.
After the .................... match, Rhianna went to the .......................... with her dad.
With your talk partner, choose one sentence to imitate and tell the rest of the class.
Tuesday 7th October 2025
LC: Identify words and phrases used in a description.
Sightings of the Monster.
What words and phrases can we identify in each of these texts that describe the sightings of the Monster?
the treasure of the loch ness monster.pdf
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07.10.25
LC: To find the difference between two numbers.
07.10.25
LC: To be able to subtract without renaming.
Tuesday 7th October 2025
Identify and spell irregular past tense verbs from Y3.
Review
Find your family
Look at the word on your paper. You are going to walk round the room and try to find the person with a verb that belongs to the same family. For example, if you have the word run, you would need to find the person with the word ran.
When you have found the two words in your family, write a sentence for each in your book. Remember to spell the verbs correctly!
Learning
Read the following sentences aloud with your teacher. Can you identify the irregular past tense verb in each one? Write the words in your spelling journal.
The teacher paid for the complete set of books.
The driver drove through the night.
The plant grew to be the tallest on the island.
It was important that he forgave his friend for being unkind.
Although I slept through my alarm, I still arrived on time.
When I woke up, I checked the calendar.
Listen to and watch your teacher say then write a different sentence for each of these verbs.
Practise and Apply
Practise spelling these irregular past tense verbs correctly.
brought
caught
knew
kept
heard
thought
Now write a sentence for each of them. Take care to spell them correctly!
