Language

Word of The Day

Write a sentence with your word of the day.

Monday: Compassionate

Tuesday: Infinite

Wednesday: Fallible

Thursday: Optimistic

Friday: Lousy

Daily Sentence Work

Monday: Doug the Pug was running. He was chasing a cat.

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: Doug the Pug was running. He was chasing a cat.

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

Wednesday: Can you write a simple sentence followed by a compound sentence?

For example:

Bob's hands were shaking! He was playing 'Among Us' and he was 'sus'.

Remember a simple sentence has one piece of action. A compound sentence has 2 equal clauses. Two things happen in it. It is made up of two sentences joined togetehr with a co-ordinating connective. (Remember FANBOYS).

Thursday: Your sentence for today is: 

The egg started to crack. 

You are going to add a fronted adverbial to this sentence. This is a good way of adding variety to your sentence openers. A fronted adverbial goes at the beginning of a sentence. It describes the action or the verbs which come next. It can be used to describe when, where or how the action is happening. A fronted adverbial is always followed by a comma.

 Here are some examples. (The fronted adverbial is in green.)

Quickly, Doug the Pug chased the cat.

After dark, Slappy the Dummy roamed the streets.

As soon as he could, Bob pulled out his tablet and began placing 'Among Us'.

Friday: Your sentence for today is: 

The creature emerged from the egg. 

You are going to add a fronted adverbial to this sentence. This is a good way of adding variety to your sentence openers. A fronted adverbial goes at the beginning of a sentence. It describes the action or the verbs which come next. It can be used to describe when, where or how the action is happening. A fronted adverbial is always followed by a comma.

 Here are some examples. (The fronted adverbial is in green.)

Quickly, Doug the Pug chased the cat.

After dark, Slappy the Dummy roamed the streets.

As soon as he could, Bob pulled out his tablet and began placing 'Among Us'.

Reading Comprehension

The Reading Comprehension is attached in the reading Comprehension File. It is colour coded. The red sheets should be completed by the Dragonflies and Grasshoppers, the blue sheets should be completed by the Ladybirds and Bumblebees and the Orange sheets should be completed by the Caterpillars.

Reading

This term we are going to look at identifying cause and effect in our reading. Watch the following video clip and take some notes (either a mind map or use bullet points). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKBthdR8sYU

Grammar

The simple past tense is used to describe an action which occurred in the past. For regular verbs all you need to do is add -ed to the base form of the verb. Can you write the past tense for the following regular verbs?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxl28KQOHy4)

1) walk

11) end

2) push

12) fill

3) greet

13) help

4) watch

14) invite

5) jump

15) listen

6) accept

16)need

7) add

17) play

8) ask

18) work

9) call

19) wash

10) discuss

20) clean

Writing

Spelling: Complete a Task from your spelling Homework grid

Consonants

Alphabet

Suffixes

Prefixes

Words with -nd

Rule: verbs ending with -es

(Like plurals, verbs which end in ch, sh, s, and z need to end in -es rather than s)

Rule: Soft g sounds like ‘j’

(g which is followed by e,I or y makes the soft sound)

Rule: Words with -dge

Watch the video to see the rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHfY18alUQ

and

brand

grand

hand

handbag

land

sand

coaches

teaches

preaches

reaches

rushes

fishes

wishes

crushes

hisses

fizzes

imagine

intelligent

legend

magic

register

stranger

tragic

lodger

splodge

budget

fudge

judge

nudge

trudge

sludge

smudge

Health and Wellbeing

Since we are working from home and are working online, Internet safety is something we need to be especially aware of.

Watch the following video:

https://www.childnet.com/resources/the-adventures-of-kara-winston-and-the-smart-crew/watch-full-movie

Afterwards tell an adult what you have learnt or make a poster about Internet safety.

Topic

Topic research project: Natural Disasters

Due 31 January 2121 23;59 pm

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 Week 1

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

Did you know that Edinburgh Castle is built on an extinct volcano?

Let’s go on a virtual tour! Here are some fun activities you might do:

· 3D model of Edinburgh Castle.

· Edinburgh Castle audio guide 

· The apprentices at Edinburgh Castle:. Watch the video.

· Make Mary Queen of Scot’s shortbread recipe.

·  Minecraft or Lego challenge.

Make a Volcano at home

There are lots of ways to make your own model volcano. For some ideas:

https://inspirationlaboratories.com/10-ways-to-make-a-volcano-with-kids/

Please send me some photos of your finished results.

Remember to get permission from an adult before doing this task.

Book Quest

Find a book at home and write down its title. Using any 2 pages look for the following:

· 5 words ending in ‘s’. (Are they plurals?)

· 3 words ending in ‘ing’.

· 3 words ending in ‘ed’

· The longest word and what it means.

· How many times the article ‘the’ is used.

Learn the Poem

Calendar Challenge

· How many calendars do you have at home? Are they wall or desk calendars or diaries?

· How many days until your birthday?

· How many days until Christmas?

· Find St Andrew’s Day on your calendar. What day does it fall on this year?

· When was the last leap year? When will the next leap year be?

Draw a Picture of a Volcano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREmEjzl62g

Take a photo and send it to me on Teams

Learn to Code

Have some fun with Scratch.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

French

Use Google Translate to find the names of 10 objects around your home.

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