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Good morning Discoverers, 

I hope you enjoyed your long weekend, mostly in the sunshine.

This week in English, we are going to focus on poetry. In poetry, there are different ways to write, and many poems have different rules, such as: three lines in each verse, rhyming words at the end of each line, fourteen lines in total etc. However, for your poem this week, there are going to be no rules. You can write about what you want, how you want. 

Michael Rosen says, ‘If you want to write poetry, you need to look at the world around you. You could start from something you’ve seen, or something you’ve heard someone say, or something you remember. Think of yourself as being like a crow, going about looking for things you can take for yourself.’

Knowing this, it would be great if today you could make a bubble map of all the things that you see that captures your attention. It could be a colour, an abject, a person, a sound, a taste. Simply write down things that you are drawn to, like a crow. Here is a link to a fantastic website, which includes Michael Rosen’s poetry, and his hints and tips for writing poetry. 

https://www.theschoolrun.com/poetry-writing-tips-for-kids

Here are the answers for Thursday and Friday’s maths questions:

How did you do?

This week in maths, we are moving on to looking at fractions. Today, we are going to focus on: what is a fraction? If you have a fraction of something, it means that you have a part of it. Like if you have a sandwich, cut in to four equal parts, and you only eat one part, you have eaten one quarter or 1/4. I want you to make a note of any fractions that you might come across today. You could think about the fraction of food that you and your family eat, the fraction of paper that you manage to colour, the fraction of sweets that you eat out of the bag, the fraction of flour used to make dinner, the fraction of eggs that you use, the fraction of your toys that are blue etc. Here is a fraction wall which may help you:

For our foundation subject, we are going to look at food chains, in science. Today, I would like you to watch this video, and think about any food chains that you may already know. You could write or draw any ideas that you have. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zws87hv

Have a great day,

Mrs Taylor 

Hello Discoverers,

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday, your posters are looking fab!

In English, over today and tomorrow, it would be great if you could write a setting description to describe the setting that you drew yesterday. A setting description usually consists of one or two paragraphs, using many adjectives, similes and metaphors, to describe where a story is taking place. 

For maths, I have uploaded the answers to yesterday’s questions, but also I have included your questions for today and tomorrow. I will reveal their answers on Monday. Remember, read the questions slowly and carefully, making notes with key information to help you work out the answer. 

In French, it would be great if you could create the remaining four posters, over today and tomorrow. You have Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday left to covert, and create posters for.

Why don’t you include the quiz for your family, during tomorrow’s celebrations for VE day? But you will have to be quick in displaying the next four day’s French translations, so that your family have time to learn them 😀 

I hope that you have a great day today, some brilliant celebrations tomorrow, and enjoy your weekend. 

Speak soon,

Mrs Taylor 

Good morning Discoverers, 

I hope that you managed to enjoy the sunshine that we had yesterday.

Today in English, I would like you to think of a setting (place) that you character was travelling to, in your ‘Adrift’ story. I want you to imagine what it might look like there: it may be space, a desert, a made up land etc. 

I would like you to draw the setting, including as much detail as possible. Enjoy taking your time, and experimenting with colour. 

Here are the answers for yesterday’s maths questions, and your next set for today 🙂 I hope that you enjoy marking your own work, and seeing how many you get correct. Remember, if you didn’t score too well, aim to get one more correct, you can do it! 

In french today, you are moving on to writing the French translation of ‘Wednesday’. Remember, you can watch Monday’s video to help you. Create a poster of the translated word, and display it somewhere around the home, for all to see.

Enjoy your day,

Mrs Taylor 

You may have seen on Tapestry, I have been asking for you to send in videos of you saying ‘hello’ to your classmates. 

You can send a quick video, a drawn picture, a written message or even just a picture of you smiling, and I will be sending these to everybody who has submitted. 

This will allow you to see everybody, who I know you are missing, and make each other smile 😀 

This is a quick reminder, that tomorrow will be the last day to send something to me, before I pass them on to you. 

Here is a picture from our last school trip: I love to see your happy faces. 

Good morning Discoverers, 

Thank you for sharing your work yesterday, it was such a pleasure to see your engagement with the tasks I have been setting for you. 

In English today, you are going to use your emotion graph, which you created yesterday, to write some speech sentences. 

Please can you watch this video, and then write a speech sentence, for each of the points in the story that you labelled on your graph yesterday. I have included an example for you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YFmLctwDY

Well done to those of you who sent me in your answers for the maths bonus question. The answer was: Red flower = 20 and blue flower = 5. I saw that many of you got this correct, so well done 😀

I have also uploaded the answers for yesterday’s questions, and set you your next ones. Don’t forget to mark them and let me know how you got on. 

In French today, please can you create your poster of Tuesday’s translation, and put it up somewhere in your home for all to see. You may want to tell your family members, that you will be giving them a quiz at the end of the week, so that they make sure to pay attention to your poster. I have included an example below:

Have a great day everybody,

Mrs Taylor 

Happy Monday Discoverers,

I hope you’ve had a lovely weekend, what did you get up to? I finally cut my grass!

In English, you finished writing your fabulous stories last week, and although we are now going to move on, we are still going to use the short film ‘adrift’ to help us. You are all familiar with the video now, which makes it easier for you to focus on the writing. I want us to look at speech this week. 

Firstly, today I would like you to create an emotion graph. This is where you plot how Jane (or your character) is feeling, at different points in the story. I have plotted an emotion for every paragraph, you may decide to plot an emotion for the beginning, middle and end of your story. Here is my example to help you:

Today, in maths, I have given you your answers for Friday’s questions, and I have again set you another eight. We are continuing to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division this week. Let me know if you have any questions. 

I have also included a bonus question, can you rise to the challenge? 

We are going to focus on French, during our foundation subject this week. We will be looking at ‘days of the week’. Today, I would like you to watch the video, which helps you to say, and write the days of the week in French. And then I would like you to create a poster of the word Monday in French, and place this in your home somewhere for all to see. At the end of the week, I thought you might like to give your family a quiz, and see if they remember how to say the different days in French. 

Enjoy your day, speak soon,

Mrs Taylor 

Hello Discoverers,

It’s the beginning of a new month today, and the end of our week. I hope that you have some nice things planned for the weekend. I know that I am going to be taking Indie on some long walks, and I’m going to try making a butternut squash, spinach and feta tart. I’ll let you know how it goes.

In English today, it would be great if you could finish writing your story. Follow yesterday’s instruction for writing your final paragraph/s. If you have already finished, why don’t you film yourself reading it, and upload it to tapestry for me to see. Or you could even take a photo of your story and upload that. The ones that I read yesterday were brilliant! 

If you want, you could arrange a bedtime story for your family tonight, and read them your finished version. I know that they will love it 😀

In maths, here are the answers for yesterday’s questions. Did anybody get full marks? I have also included the next set of questions, which I will share the answers for on Monday. Remember to read the questions carefully, make notes of any important information, and think about which operation you will need to use (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division). 

Yesterday, in geography, you created fantastic posters, advertising your new attraction in Sleights. Today, I would like you to draw your attraction up close. You can use colours if you want, and try to add as much detail as you can. 

Enjoy your Friday everybody,

Mrs Taylor