8.50am

Word of the Day ADHERENT

Remember:

definition    word class    syllables    synonyms    antonyms    use

9am

PE

Lots of you are enjoying walks and bike rides.  Where’s the best place to go?

9.30am

Independent Reading

Any recommendations?

10.00am

Maths

‘Forming Expressions’ today.  Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?

10.45am

Break

How did you get on with yesterday’s puzzle?  Here’s the answers:

• cheese
• sun
• ice
• butter

And here’s one for today:

Find the mystery word: replace the third letter of each word with a new letter to create a different word.  When read vertically, the new letters will reveal the mystery word.

(e.g. MAKE could become MARE, MALE, MATE, etc.  You need to find out which word it is that will make the mystery word)

SAME

POKE

BOAT

NEAT

STOP

BAKE

11.00am

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling

More semicolons today

11.15am

Holes Quiz

How did you get on with yesterday’s quiz?  Here’s your answers:

1.            100 years ago.

2.            Oak trees.

3.            The warden.

4.            Scorpions, rattlesnakes and yellow-spotted lizards.

5.            Bad boys.

6.            Many answers! Such as:

• There is no lake - it is just a dry, flat wasteland with only two trees.
• The town no longer exists.
• It is incredibly hot, even in the shade - although there is not much shade.
• The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock as it is for the Warden.
• Campers must dig holes.
• There are rattlesnakes, scorpions and yellow-spotted lizards. 
•  It is a camp for 'bad boys.'

Here are today’s questions:

1. How many passengers were on the bus?
2. Why did Stanley have a box of stationery with him?
3. Who did Stanley and his family blame whenever anything went wrong?
4. Why was Stanley’s great-great-grandfather unlucky?
5. What did Stanley’s father do (as a job)?

policeman?         B) teacher?         C) inventor?       D) banker?

1. What was unusual about Stanley’s name?
2. How did the first Stanley Yelnats lose his fortune?
3. What did Kissin’ Kate Barlow do once she kissed a man?

11.30am

English

What are your early impressions of the story?

12.30pm

Lunch

Did you solve yesterday’s riddle?  It was a lemon, of course!

Here’s today’s:

This normally grows in fields
It’s a grain from what I hear
It can be eaten piece by piece
Or straight from a long ear

1.30pm

Science

Our focus is on electrical circuits today.

Over dinner?

Philosophical Question

Is something always funny because you laugh at it?