Wednesday 14th January
Wednesday 14th January 2026
LC: To identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise these.
“What is a main idea?” and “Why do we need to find the main idea in a text?”
Teacher model: identifying the main idea in one sentence.
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summarise: putting the most important points into a shorter version using your own words.
Your turn: Read the short text below and answer the questions to help practice your summarising skills.
Adapted:
LC: Predict what might happen.
Question: What do you think Mr Fox will do next?
Grammar
Determiners
It is your turn today. Think about what we have learned about determiners and complete the following tasks in your books.
1. Write out the sentence and circle ALL the determiners.
Hamza lives in a new house in Grantham with his chinchilla and two dogs.
2. Circle all the determiners in the sentence below.
Keren put two bowls of food and one dish of water down for the cats.
3. Write the correct determiner in each sentence. each many one
___________ person had a ticket.
The room was full; _________people had come to watch the play.
I only have _________sweet left.
Wednesday 14th January 2026
LC: To undertake research from a variety of texts.
We have already started to make notes on Roman children and their education.
Today, we are going to complete another section of our spider plan .
Leisure time/ What did they play with?
Use the following links to help you find the information.
We will watch the first one together.
BBC Two - See You See Me, Romans in Scotland 2, What toys and games were played in Roman times?
Children of Ancient Rome | Ancient Roman Kids
Adapted
Look in our non-fiction books. Find some pictures of Roman children at school. Talk with your teacher about them.
14.01.26
LC: To be able to draw and read bar graphs.
Adapted:
LC: adding with counting on- number sentences.
Review
Do you remember what homophones are?
Show me
Listen to me say each word, then say it in a sentence.
Write the word on your whiteboard and show it to me when I tell you to.
Learning
Focus: Spell correctly and distinguish between homographs with the same pronunciation,
A homograph is a word that is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning—and often a different pronunciation, too.
Let's read these sentences together:
The bank is situated at the end of the high street.
Ratty and Mole loved to relax on the river bank.
Which words have the same pronunciation, are spelt the same but mean different things?
Let's look up the word bank in a dictionary. Now look up the homograph ring in a dictionary.
What different meanings does it have? Can we construct sentences for each of the meanings?
Practise and Apply
Word to Sentence Spellers
Look up the following homographs in the dictionary, then put each of the meanings into a sentence.
bat bat
wave wave
bark bark
