Thursday 9th July 2020

We are almost at the end of the week and you're almost at the end of writing your stories. We cannot wait to read them and see what you have all come up with.

Thinking Thursday

What are some of your fears and worries about next year? Share them with someone at home or with us on Purple Mash. 

English - Writing

How did you get on with your editing yesterday? 

Today, we are going to complete our editing and focus on the final 3 paragraphs. It is a very similar task to yesterday, you are just focussing on different parts of your story. 

Remember, your task is to carefully read what you have written and think about what you could change or improve. Sometimes a change might mean you decide to delete a whole sentence, or you might decide you need to rewrite a whole paragraph. This is fine and is part of the editing process. 

These are some of the things you might want to think about while you are reading through and editing. 

• Have you used show not tell to describe emotions and feelings of different characters?
• Is there dialogue in your writing and has this been punctuated correctly?
• Are there fronted adverbials at the beginning of some of your sentences?
• Have you used the expanded noun phrases, similes and metaphors that you created the other week?
• Does your story make sense if someone else reads it? - You could ask someone else at home to read it through for you. 

English - Reading

It's Daisy Dovetails 8th birthday and we are treated to her being reunited with Bert Beamish. What could possibly go wrong? 

https://www.theickabog.com/the-bandalore/

Draw a picture of Daisy playing with her bandalore (it's another word for a yo-yo).

Maths

Today is our final day working on time. 

Here are some reasoning questions for you to apply everything you have learnt over the past few weeks. 

​Question 1

Question 2 (Clue - one of the three children shares a birthday with Ruth!)

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5

Computing

Today, we are thinking about different ways we can communicate online.

It's really important to remember when we are communicating online that we should be as respectful as we are in person when we are talking to people. If you wouldn't say it to someone in the playground at school then you shouldn't say it to them when you are communicating online. 

Read this page and watch the videos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zv63d2p/articles/z9r72hv

CHALLENGE: Try and make music through coding. 

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=music&utm_source=codeorg

There are videos on the page explaining what you should do. 

Don't forget...

• Keep in touch on Purple Mash. 
• Find time to relax. 
• Let us know if you have any questions - we're always around to help. 

We miss you!

Ruth and Emily