Language and Learning Grid Term 3 Weeks 4-5 (Remember Thursday 4th Feb up to and including Mon 8th Feb are school holidays)

Word of The Day

Write a sentence with your word of the day.

Monday 1st Feb: sway

Tuesday 2nd Feb: stomp

Wednesday 3rd Feb: swoop

Tuesday 9th Feb: stumble

Wednesday 10th Feb: average

Thursday 11th Feb: slumber

Friday 12th Feb: selection

Daily Sentence Work

Monday 1st Feb: Bob opened the present. He punched his fist in the air.

Can you make these two simple sentences into a compound sentence by using a connective which is not 'and' ? (Remember FANBOYS Co-ordinating conjunctions- for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so )

Tuesday 2nd Feb: Bob opened the present. He punched his fist in the air.

Can you make these two simple sentences into a compound sentence by using punctuation? This could be a semi-colon (;) or a dash (-) but not a comma (,).

Wednesday 3rd Feb: Can you fix this sick sentence? It needs punctuation and can you find a better word for went

i went to my bedroom to read the pack of pompeii

Tuesday 9th Feb: can you fix this sick sentence? It needs punctuation and can you find a better word for said

I cant do maths said beth

Wednesday 10th Feb: Can you up level this sentence: 

It was a cloudy day.

This sentence tells me very little information. I don’t know where, why, when or how. Can you give me a little more information?

Thursday 11th Feb: Can you up level this sentence: 

The water was cold.

This sentence tells me very little information. I don’t know where, why, when or how. Can you give me a little more information?

Friday 12th Feb: Write a compound sentence about the weather. Remember you need to take two simple sentences and join them using a co-ordinating conjunction or connective. This video might help:

https://clickv.ie/w/Drlp

Spelling

Please find your spelling words either in Teams-File-Class materials or on the links on the website for 18/01/21. Please copy out your spelling word 3 times and do two activities from your spelling homework grid. Remember you will have the words for the weeks beginning 01/02/21 and 08/02/21.

Accelerated Reading

This is the link for Accelerated Reading is:

https://ukhosted87.renlearn.co.uk/1894986/ 

Please complete for any books you read at home.

Higher- Order Reading Skills

‘The Pack of Pompeii’

Chapter 3: Can you be a clarifier and work out some of the words/ phrases or sentences you do not understand? First make a list of the words/ phrases you don’t understand. Then use the clues around the word to work out what it might mean. You make look up a dictionary (https://www.dictionary.com/ ) if you can’t work out what it means. (Some words you might want to clarify are ‘submissive’, ‘flanked,’ ‘crave’ and ‘urns’.)

Chapter 4: Can you be a visualiser and picture what is happening in the story? Remember to use all your senses not just what you can see.

Chapter 5: Can you predict what will happen next? Explain why you think this might happen? What clues from the passage have you used? Are your predictions realistic?

Grammar

Some verbs don’t follow the -ed when we turn them into the past tense. We call these irregular verbs. Watch the following video clip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSkTdGjM5q8 What is the past tense of these verbs?:

1) blow

11) see

2) teach

12) swear

3) wake

13) stick

4) tell

14) steal

5) sleep

15) shut

6) win

16) stand

7) write

17) spin

8) swim

18) speak

9) sing

19) shoot

10) sweep

20) shine

Writing

As this grid is for weeks 4 & 5 I have put up two writing pieces. I would like you to complete at least one but would really love if you managed to complete both.

Writing: Write a Poem about a storm

Can you write a poem about a storm which follows the same pattern as this one:

Verses 1 & 2 begin with ‘The Storm Dragon is Stirring’ (The storm is wakening).

Verses 3 & 4 ‘The Storm Dragon is Raging’ (The storm is angry and moving around).

Verses 5 & 6 ‘The Storm Dragon is Fading’ (The storm is falling asleep).

It doesn’t have to be a dragon- it could be a Storm Demon, a Storm Monster, a Storm Giant, a Storm Troll, a Storm Fiend or a Storm Wraith.

The author of the poem uses a lot of personification. He makes the storm almost sound like it is human or alive. (Storms don’t really have teeth and claws)

Think about what kind of creature your storm will be. What does that creature look like- does it normally have claws, a tail, wear a cloak, etc.

How can you use what you know about the creature to describe a storm?

For instance, a giant might stomp and squash things with his feet. His arms might flail and whip around, but he won’t have a tail.

Writing a poem like this can be a lot of fun- let your imagination run wild!

Remember to use verses and give your poem a title.

Have fun!

Writing: I am learning to write a story using the story mountain technique https://clickv.ie/w/7wlp

I must…

1. Introduce characters and describe the setting.

1. Have an inciting action that starts the plot.

1. Have a gradual build up to the main event.

1. Have a climax.

1. Have a resolution to the problem.

1. Have a suitable ending. This could be a cliff hanger.

1. Have an appropriate title.

Technical criteria

1. Plan out your story using the story mountain.

1. Have no more than four lines of dialogue.

1. Write in paragraphs.

1. After you have written each paragraph, read it aloud and check it makes sense.

1. Check that you have included all the necessary punctuation and corrected spelling.

1. Make your handwriting legible.

Story starter: It was winter. The thunder rumbling overhead seemed to taunt the young girl as she watched in horror while half of her home drifted away across the merciless, half-frozen sea. She had awoken minutes earlier, disturbed from her sleep by the most appalling noise. It sounded as if a tree were being torn apart by giants, as if the Gods above were screaming at each other in a wild rage. She thought it was the end of the world. Perhaps it was. For her anyway.

In only her pyjamas, she stood on the edge of her ruined home, her toes dangling over the edge of the splintered floor, shivering in the harsh wind as it seemed to touch her skin like the kiss of some icy demon. She screamed at the top of her voice in despair and frustration, almost pleading with her frost-drenched surroundings to bring them back to her. She could see them. They were waving and shouting to her in return. In front of her she could see the giant, drifting shards of ice, their edges sharp like Samurai swords. They knocked into each other as they were swept by the tide, reminding her of some cruel jigsaw that couldn’t be solved. She knew she could not reach them…

Can you continue the story of the girl and her home that had broken in two? Who was it she was waving to? What had caused the ice to break? Will she manage to reunite with the people drifting away?

Breaktime Chat:

Tuesdays 11- 12 Noon

We will have a breaktime time on Tuesdays between 11-12 noon. This will be a time when you can have some social chat with your friends and share emojis and gifs. I will be there to supervise. Out with that time please show good Internet etiquette and restrain from social chat on the General Feed.

Sumdog

I have emailed you with all your log ins and passwords. This week the following will be available to you:

· Spelling 25/1/21

· Grammar 25/1/21

· Maths 25/1/21

Health and Wellbeing

Watch the following video clip: https://clickv.ie/w/0xlp

According to Spot you can stop yourself from being bored but Stripe things that sometimes you are just bored and there is nothing you can do about it. Which one do you think is correct? Talk to an adult at home about this.

Topic

Topic research project: Natural Disasters Due End of February

Instructions

Our topic this term is about Natural Disasters. I am giving you a challenge to investigate a natural disaster. It could be about earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, avalanches, flooding, landslides, etc. you could write about one of these in general terms or you could look at an actual event.

You will need to find out the falling:

· What causes the event

· What effect it has on people

· What effect it has on animals

· What effect it has on the landscape

· Why Scotland is less likely to suffer devastating natural disasters than some other countries.

Your big challenge is to find a way of presenting what you have learnt digitally and in a fun way. You might want to type up a report using word or even make it up in the form of a newspaper report, make a pamphlet on Publisher, make a PowerPoint, film a news report or if you know how to use Scratch, you could present it as an Interactive story.

I realise that PowerPoints and films can be big files that are not easy to download on here but there are ways round that, and I can talk you through that when you are finished your project. Just have fun investigating and as always try your best.

LEARN AT HOME MENU

Term 3 Weeks 4 & 5

Please feel free to choose as few or as many of the tasks you think you are able to complete.

Touch Typing

Please practice your touch typing using:

https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/typing/

Alternatively, you could use:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Watch some Natural Disaster Video Clips

Find out more about Earthquakes and Volcanoes by watching these clips. Make some notes.

https://clickv.ie/w/IIkp

https://clickv.ie/w/Vclp

https://clickv.ie/w/Wclp

https://clickv.ie/w/Zclp

https://clickv.ie/w/gdlp

https://clickv.ie/w/bdlp

https://clickv.ie/w/-clp

Make a Model Tsunami or Tornado

See the instructions below the grid for making a model Tsunami or a model Tornado. Please ask an adult at home before trying these experiments.

Banish the Sleepy Words

Some words are used so often, and they don’t tell us very much. They make our stories boring and want to make us sleep. These are words like ‘said’ and ‘nice’.

Can you make a list of better words for ‘went’?

Eg skipped, dawdled, etc

Outdoor Activities

· Make a bark rubbing from a tree. Develop a pattern or design from it.

· Listen attentively for 5 sounds outside. Use them to make up a song or a piece of music.

· Listen to a bird singing. Can you sing its song back to it?

Design a Menu

Imagine you have your own restaurant. You will need to design a menu for winter, spring or summer. It could be a menu for wildlife, or for people. What could they eat? What foods would be ready at that time of year?

Draw a Picture of a Tornado

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdOQIJgWb0

You might want to draw a background for this afterwards.

Play Vocabulary Games

https://games.vocabularyninja.co.uk/kids/

French

Use Google Translate to find the names of 10 things you might find at school

https://translate.google.co.uk/

or go shopping with Tant Cécile (Aunt Cecily)

https://clickv.ie/w/Bhlp

Grasshopper Word of the Day Word of the Day: sway Definition: ( verb ) When people or things sway, they lean or swing slowly from one side to the other. The trees on the playground swayed in the wind. Word Class ( sway ) Pronunciation / Syllables Synonym: Antonym: Rhyme: Link Word: swing they people shake way plants Phrases: bent and swayed swayed back and forth

Shinobi Word of the Day Word of the Day: swoop Definition: ( verb ) When a bird or aeroplane swoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement. A seagull swooped down and pinched my pork pie. Word Class ( swoop ) Pronunciation / Syllables Synonym: Antonym: Prefix / Suffix: Rhyme: Link Word: dive - ed loop bird pounce - ing scoop aeroplane Phrases: swooped speedily stealthily swooped