Hi Everyone,

Please try and read lots! Read anything and everything, recipes, poems, newspapers, letters, anything you can find!

Keep safe and keep smiling J

Miss Stephenson J

Please make sure you’re READINGand doing your TIMES TABLES everyday!

Monday 4th MayReading

Read the Chapter ‘Bruce Bogtrotter and the Cake’ Page 112-128

• Explain • Why do you think Roald Dahl chose the name Bruce Bogtrotter?

• Do you think this was a good punishment? Why?

• How did you feel when Bruce finished the cake?

• Summarise• 1. Summarise this chapter in less than 200 words by writing about it for the school newspaper.

Tuesday 5th

MayWriting

This week can you have a go at re-writing the chapter about Bruce Bogtrotter in your own words.

Think about including more exciting adjectives and perhaps changing the ending of the chapter?

AdjectivesPeople Objects Good feelings Bad feelings Size Time

adorable adventurous aggressive annoying beautiful caring confident clumsy confident considerate excitable glamorous grumpy happy helpful important intimidating obnoxious odd talented thoughtless timid handsome

bright clear distinct drab elegant filthy gleaming grotesque long magnificent precious sparkling spotless strange unsightly unusual valuable

brave calm cheerful comfortable courageous determined eager elated encouraged energetic excited exuberant fantastic fine healthy joyful pleasant relieved

angry annoyed anxious ashamed awful bewildered bored confused defeated defiant depressed disgusted disturbed dizzy embarrassed envious frightened hungry lonely scared terrified worried

big colossal enormous gigantic great huge immense large little long mammoth massive meagre mighty miniature minuscule petite puny short tall teeny tiny

ancient brief early fast late modern old quick rapid short slow swift young

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Wednesday 6th MayReading

Read the chapter “Lavender” Page 129-135

Inference1. Why do you think Lavender

volunteers to be on water duty?

2. What was the actual reason?3. Why doesn’t Lavender tell

anyone about the newt?

Predict1. Predict what Lavender is

going to do with the newt?2. Predict how Miss Trunchbull

will react.

Thursday 7thMay

Writing You have read the chapter about

Lavender, some of you may know what happens next in the story but some of

you might not!

Can you write the next part of the story? (You can change what happens

if you already know!).

Think about…

• What happens to the newt? • Where does the newt go?

• Is there a problem in the story? • How does it get resolved?

• Who was there?

AdjectivesPeople Objects Good feelings Bad feelings Size Time

adorable adventurous aggressive annoying beautiful caring confident clumsy confident considerate excitable glamorous grumpy happy helpful important intimidating obnoxious odd talented thoughtless timid handsome

bright clear distinct drab elegant filthy gleaming grotesque long magnificent precious sparkling spotless strange unsightly unusual valuable

brave calm cheerful comfortable courageous determined eager elated encouraged energetic excited exuberant fantastic fine healthy joyful pleasant relieved

angry annoyed anxious ashamed awful bewildered bored confused defeated defiant depressed disgusted disturbed dizzy embarrassed envious frightened hungry lonely scared terrified worried

big colossal enormous gigantic great huge immense large little long mammoth massive meagre mighty miniature minuscule petite puny short tall teeny tiny

ancient brief early fast late modern old quick rapid short slow swift young

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Friday 8th MayReading

Read “The Weekly Test” Page 136-152

Retrieve 1. What does Miss Trunchbull

say she’ll have to do a lot to the children?

2. Who didn’t wash their hands? 3. How does Miss Trunchbull

punish Nigel? 4. What word did Nigel say

everyone could spell? 5. What does Miss Trunchbull do

when Nigel doesn’t know the answer?

6. What book does Matilda profess to reading to Miss Trunchbull?

7. How has Miss Trunchbull’s opinion of Mr Wormwood changed and why?