Wednesday 6th January

Good morning everyone, here is our work for today. Start by writing today’s date in your workbook.

Reading Workshop

Remember our work from yesterday, adding verbs and adverbs to sentences? Use your neatest handwriting to create really effective sentences by making precise word choices. Underline your verbs and adverbs again too.

Spelling

Look at your spelling list again and practise any words you find tricky.

Handwriting

Practise your handwriting patterns in your book, exactly like we do in class.

Numeracy

Carrying on with addition, try adding 3 numbers together. You can set these problems out in the way shown or if you want to practise using some mental strategies as a short cut, you could try adding all of the tens in your head and write the answer down, then all of the units in your head, then write the answer down. Then you need to add the two totals together. Eg 1. 90 + 15 = 105

Now for the next piece of work (you could try the short cut, mental strategies, again for the first 6 but then set the rest out using column addition methods. For an extension task, try the ‘OWL’.

Literacy

We are going to focus on using a range of conjunctions (joining words) in our own writing today.

Go to espresso – KS2 – English – English Grammar with this icon

And click on the book ‘conjunctions and clauses’

Complete the ‘Missing conjunctions’ activity and the ‘Conjunctions Quiz’ task. Next, go on to the ‘Conjunctions and Clauses – writing practice’ activity and choose one of the three setting photographs to look at. Click on the blue ‘HELP’ button at the top of the screen to read the instructions. Type your writing in the box on screen and edit it to make sure you haven’t made any mistakes and make improvements where you can. When you have finished typing, copy your finished paragraph into your workbook, using your neatest handwriting under the title Conjunctions. Underline every conjunction and read through your writing to check basic punctuation and spelling are correct.

Geography

We are building up our UK knowledge this term and are starting with locating the 4 UK countries and their capital cities, the main rivers and mountain ranges. On the map below, use an atlas, online UK map or maps I have attached to this website post to locate the 4 countries and the capital cities of London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. Then use Espresso and go to – KS2 -Geography – Rivers – Factfiles – Rivers in the UK - to help you locate The River Severn, Thames, Trent, Ouse, Wye, Clyde, Mersey, Tyne and Lagan. Work hard to draw the correct position of each river carefully and write the name of each river neatly on your map. Finally, mark the main mountain ranges of the UK on your map too. Try to locate the Grampian Mountains, the Southern Uplands, The Pennines and the Cambrian Mountains by shading the area they are found with a brown coloured pencil and labelling them clearly. Stick your completed map into your workbook

ICT

Use Purple Mash to complete the 4 coding activities that have been set as 2dos. Remember there are video tutorials to watch too if you need a reminder. You can also work on any Mathletics tasks you still need to complete and practise French vocabulary on Linguascope – ‘Numbers’ in the red section and ‘telling the time’ and ‘daily routines’ found in the blue section.

I will post tomorrow’s work for you at the end of the day.

Take care everyone

Bye for now

Answers for Numeracy:

1. 105 2. 148 3. 140 4. 156 5. 182 6. 139 7. 129 8. 168 9. 135

1. 85 2.101 3. 136 4. 104 5. 162 6. 124 7.651 8. 718 9. 761 10. 961 11.833 12. 904

L.I. To locate countries, capital cities, main rivers and mountain ranges of the UK