Thursday
What strategies can you use to calculate these quickly?
Thursday 6th November 2025
LC: Can you predict, assess and manage risk in different situations?
During half term, clocks were changed to make them an hour earlier. Changing the clocks back in autumn is called Daylight Saving Time (DST) ending, and it marks the return to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in the UK, resulting in darker evenings and later sunrises.
We are going to be learning how to keep ourselves safe during this time.
Task
Adaptive task
Thursday 6th November 2025
LC: To explain the meaning of key vocabulary within the context of the text.
Grammar:
Identify
Identify speech in the passage below. Use two different colours to highlight.
What did they say?
How did they say it ?
The little man asked, “Why are you crying Miller’s daughter?”
“I have to spin all the gold into straw,” sobbed the little girl, “by tomorrow morning and I don’t know how to!”
In your talk partners improvise the text through role play.
Chapter 1: Vocabulary
Frustratedly
encircled
annoyance
cascaded
pallor
- Say/repeat the word – multiple times.
- Clap syllables and make links with phonics.
- Use dictionaries to find their meanings and thesaurus to find synonyms.
- Discuss meanings.
- Act out the word.
- Make connections.
- Say the word in sentences.
Then, applying spelling rules (from Y2) change their endings when in past and present tense. Write sentences with the new vocabulary.
Whole class reading- Read up to the end of chapter 2.
06.11.25
Lc: Be able to multiply by 11
