Monday 1st March

 Good morning everyone! 

I hope that you had a good weekend. Here is an Open the Book assembly for you

Here are your tasks for the day: 

Reading 

Complete 2 reading challenges on Reading Plus

Spelling 

Here are this week's spellings. Complete Look, Cover, Write, Check. 

English Task 

This week we are beginning a new unit on suspense writing. I think you're going to enjoy this one a lot! 

We are going to begin by looking at a text called 'The Nightmare Man' 

Read the text and answer the following questions: 

How does the story make you feel? 
Does that change throughout? 
What words or phrases make you feel that way? 

This is an example of a suspense text which is the type of writing we are going to be looking at for the next 2 weeks. The next thing I would like for you to do is to read it again and think about what features help to build the suspense and tension. You could think about: word choices, length of sentences, how the reader's feelings change over time in the story, phrases that the author uses any punctuation the author uses to help create suspense. Annotate (make notes) on your copy, underlining any important parts. 

Then there is a graph that I would like for you to complete. Read the story again. For every paragraph, put a cross at how scary, tense or suspenseful you think that the paragraph is. Then join the points to make a line graph to show how the suspense changes over the course of the story. 

WALT: Explore suspense texts 

Maths 

Compete in Times Tables Rock Stars for as long as you can! 

Today we are continuing to look at the area of triangles. 

Here is a video to watch

Here is your worksheet

The answers are here 

There are some further challenges for you if you need them. 

WALT: Calculate the area of any triangle 

History 

We are going to carry on looking at World War II today. 

I can't tell you too much about this lesson just yet...and I'll explain why in the Zoom meeting! 

Here is a PowerPoint created by Miss Percival. Read it carefully and answer the questions as you go. 

The evidence photos are here

The map is here

WALT: Understand the impact of World War II

CPSHE 

Today we are going to continue with our work from last week looking at pressure groups. Last week you created a pitch to the government, persuading them to give you money to support your cause. 

Today I would like for you to write a speech to government asking for their help. 

An effective, persuasive speech includes the following: 

• Information about your cause - who you are, what you do and how you help people 
• Facts about the cause - reasons why people/animals/ the environment need help
• Persuasive language including modal verbs adverbs of possibility and powerful language which could be good use of adjectives, verbs and adverbs or use of figurative language like we've been using in our poetry. 
• Be presented with feeling - show that you care! 

I would like for you to write your speech and then record yourself giving it! You can send it in or have somebody at home watch it to tell you what they think of it. 

WALT: Write a persuasive speech