Wednesday 3rd March

 Good Morning Class 6! 

Half way through the week! 

Here are your tasks for the day: 

Reading Task 

Complete 2 more reading challenges on Reading Plus 

Spelling Task 

Use your spellings and create rainbow words.

English Task 

Today you are going to be thinking about the features of a suspense text. This this PowerPoint will give you all the information you need about: 

• Metaphor and simile (or use of figurative language) 
• Short, snappy sentences for effect
• Using ellipses
• Using sentences that appeal to the 5 senses

Work your way through the PowerPoint and make notes as you go. 

Your task is to use the features of a suspense text to write a paragraph about the picture.

Here is my example using all of the features above. 

The mist swirled mysteriously through the pitch black forest. The thin trees lined up in front of her like soldiers waiting to strike; their branches still as statues in the calm air of the night. The chill in the air set her shivering and she couldn't control her shaking as she crept nervously towards the hut. A sudden snap. A flutter of wings. Air rushed by her face. She ducked as something flew so close to her head she could feel the tips of its wings. A bird? A bat? Something else....The light from the hut ahead pierced the night like a dagger. She had nowhere else to go. It was there or....she didn't want to think about the alternative. She took a deep breath and continued towards the unknown inside the hut...

You can see that I have varied the sentences to build the suspense over the course of that paragraph. What can you do? 

WALT: Identify and use the features of suspense texts. 

Maths Task

Here is your fluent in 5 for today 

Today you are going to be looking at volume. Volume is capacity (which means) how much is contained in a 3D shape. Volume is measured in cm3 rather than cm2 for 2D shapes. 

There is a video to watch 

Here is the worksheet

The answers are answers

There are some further challenges if you need them. 

WALT: Use volume 

D&T Task 

Last week we looked at what makes up a healthy meal and a day's worth of healthy eating. You found out that most of the food you eat should be vegetables and carbohydrates with a bit of protein and even less fat and sugar. 

Today we are going to look at the nutritional value of the food we eat - or how good for us are the things that we eat. 

This is measured by the amount of fats (and saturated fats), sugars and salt are in our diet. The less of these things, the better the food! 

Go to the Change4life website to find out more about salt, fats and sugars. 

For each of the titles (salt, fat, saturated fat and sugar), I would like you to answer the following questions: 

• Which foods contain a lot of....
• How does....affect you? 
• How much should you eat a day? 
• What swaps could you make in your diet? 

Then go on to a food shopping website. Choose some of the items that you would usually eat like cereal or snacks and find out how healthy they are! look for the nutritional value label. 

Here is the label for the cereal that I am eating this week. 

I can see that per 100g this is quite a lot of sugar and fat! 

Each portion of cereal is 30g so maybe it's not as bad as it looks but it's still made me think carefully about what I have for breakfast in the future! 

See what you can come up with. 

WALT: Understand nutritional value

PE 

After looking at how much fat and sugar is in your favourite foods, here is a Joe Wicks work out for you to keep you in shape.