8.50am

Word of the Day GRIST

Remember:

definition    word class    syllables    synonyms    antonyms    use

9am

PE

What will you do today?

9.30am

Independent Reading

Is the author of what you’re reading male or female?  Does it make a difference?

10.00am

Maths

Solving one-step equations today.

10.45am

Break

Are you enjoying these?  How quickly do you solve them?

Yesterday’s solution:

BEAR (or BARE) & SHARE

WONDER & THUNDER

TAUGHT & BOUGHT
COULD & GOOD

And today’s puzzle:

Find a letter that is in SOCK but not in CLOCK.

Find a letter that is in MOON but not in SPOON.

Find a letter that is in PIE but not in PEN

Find a letter that is in LOG but not in GOAT.

Find a letter that is in BELL but not in BALLOON.

If you find the correct letter for each clue, you'll spell a word that should make you happy!

11.00am

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling

Having tackled semicolons earlier this week, we’ll go for colons today.

11.15am

Holes Quiz

Yesterday’s answers:

1. Over eight hours
2. Sunflower seeds
3. A rattlesnake
4. Orange
5. 5ft x 5ft
6. 7 days per week
7. Mr Pendanski – his nickname was ‘Mom’
8. Don’t upset the warden.
9. Barf Bag’s bed
10. Apparently ‘there was nothing inside his head’.

And here are today’s questions for Chapter 6:

1. Why didn’t Stanley like the shower? 
2. What did Stanley’s cot (bed) smell of? 
3. What was Stanley accused of stealing? 
4. Clyde ‘Sweet Feet’ Livingstone was a famous: 

           a)Soccer player     b)baseball player     c)basketball player     d)golfer 

1. Why didn’t Stanley take the bus home from school that day? 
2. Why did Stanley think that the sneakers were ‘like a gift from God’? 
3. When the sneakers were sold, who was the money meant to go to? 
4. Why didn’t Stanley have a lawyer in court? 

11.30am

English

Would you want to be joining Stanley at Camp Green Lake?

12.30pm

Lunch

Yesterday’s answer: candy cane

Today’s riddle:

I am a fruit whose name sounds
As though there might be two of me
In a Christmas song there is
A partridge in this kind of tree

1.30pm

French

https://www.imagesdoc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2020/04/ImagesDoc-377-Mai-2020-agis-pour-la-nature.pdf

Here’s an article from another popular French website.  Using the French you know, as well as cognates and the pictures (which give a context), how much can you understand?  Can you summarise any of it?  If you have a paper pack, there’s a print included for you.

Over dinner?

Philosophical Question

Who decides what is normal?