This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. Make sure you take some time out for yourself to relax, reflect and ‘Express Yourself’ by sharing feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through things like art, writing, music, dance and baking. We hope that by doing things that make you feel good, you can improve your mental health, especially when facing tough situations or difficult times. 

08:45 - 09:00 - Word of the Day

Devoured 

What does it mean? 

Can you think of synonyms and antonyms? 

What word class does it belong to: adjectives, verbs, nouns or adverbs? 

How many syllables does the word have? 

Can you include it in a sentence? Remember capital letters and punctuation. 

09:00 - 09:30 - Reading 

The Man Who Bought a Mountain 

Read this text all about a man who bought a mountain! Answer the questions on the sheet. Remember, all of the answers you need are in text. It might be helpful to underline key words in the questions to remind you of what to look for. 

09:30 - 09:50 -SPaG

SPaG Activity 2 – work through a range of questions covering expanded noun phrases, root words/prefixes, direct speech punctuation and present perfect tense. Check SPag Activity 2 – Answers to see how you did. 

09:50 - 10:30 - Zoom Call

10:30 - 10:45 - Break Time

Have a drink, exercise or get some fresh air if you can!

10:45 - 11:30 - Maths

Making Shapes 

Today you will be deepening your understanding of area by creating shapes when given a number of squares. Take a look at this video and then have a go at the White Rose worksheet. https://vimeo.com/500864228 

Finished? Would you like a challenge?   

Have a go at working out the Day 5 Challenge. The document is in the learning resources. 

11:30 - 12:30 - English

You are writing your Ella cinquains today. Here are some helpful steps for writing your cinquains: 

• Pick out the most effective words or phrases from yesterday’s mind map  

• Experiment with your words. Try them in different orders, place different words next to each other, swap them round. What do you think sounds best o or creates the best effect when you read it back? 

• Make sure you have the right number of syllables in each line. Clap to count the syllables in each word (like we do in Word of the Day). If you’re still not sure, use the syllable counter https://www.wordcalc.com/  

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Read Lesson 5 – Write a cinquain.

12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch Time

Afternoon - Wider Curriculum 

French 

Today, we are using French vocabulary to ask and answer questions about how much different items are. Work through the French Money powerpoint and then read Lesson Plan – How much is it. If you are unsure about how to say French numbers, use Numbers 1-30. Work with a partner to complete Activity Sheet – C'est combien. Everythiing you need is in Learning Resources.  

Story Time

Listen to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Today you will be listening to Chapter 20 and 21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDw4blxaJq8

Learning Resources