Friday 25th March

 Good Morning, 

It's Friday!!

Here are your tasks for today: 

Morning task - Revise the use of capital letters and full stops (I know that you know how to use them but the tests always try to catch you out with these questions. Look carefully at any sentences you have to correct and make sure that you have spotted all of the mistakes! 

Use pages 2 and 3 here

The answers are here 

Maths - Arithmetic - Use Times Tables Rock Stars for 10 minutes. 

WALT: Calculate angles 

The video is here

The worksheet is here 

The answers are here 

The challenge if you need it is here - do the deepest part 

The answers for the challenge are here. 

If you need more of a recap on angles on a straight line, watch this video. 

If you need more of a recap on angles around a point, watch this video. 

English 

Ask somebody at home to give you a spelling test for this week's spellings. 

WALT: Improve a piece of suspense writing. 

When we began discussing suspense texts, I asked you to improve a piece of writing. Now that we have studied more of the language features of suspense writing, I wonder if you could improve this piece to see how much better you are at writing suspense: 

The girl entered the abandoned community centre. She could see all the broken equipment scattered across the hall. There were strange noises coming from up ahead. It was dark and cold. She could hear a monster up ahead. It was behind the door. She entered the next room and saw...

Remember to use: 

• Figurative language - metaphor, simile and onomatopoeia. 
• A feeling of cold and dark 
• Hidden identity 
• The 5 senses 
• Short sentences for effect 
• Ellipsis 
• Rhetorical questions 
• Sentence starters that begin with -ly, -ed, -ing words 

Once you have written your improved version, go back and highlight the features that you have used (like we do in class when we begin looking at example texts). I would like you to underline them, label them and say why you chose that feature. 

Guided Reading - Use Reading Plus for 30 minutes 

Music: 

Miss Johnson would like you to do the following: 

You have been learning about movie soundtracks in Music this half term. She would like for you to research some movie soundtrack songs - you can pick epic style songs from films such as Lord of the Rings, Avengers, Jurassic Park, Indian Jones, Star Wars, E.T etc. 

Your task is to make a presentation about the songs that you have selected. 

Consider providing information on the following: 

• The name of the song and the composer
• The part of the film that it is used (if you know) 
• The instruments used 
• The feeling of the song (how is it intended to make the audience feel and how does it do that?) 
• The tempo 
• The impact of the song on the film. Is it used to show how a character might be feeling? To show that something exciting or dramatic is happening? 

You can choose how you create your presentation. You can do it on paper or using laptops or other technology. 

We hope that you have a lovely weekend!