Big Write at Goosnargh Oliversons C of E Primary School

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Week beginning 08/02/10 Big Write

Talk Homework:

Another very successful ‘BIG WRITE’ on our Environmental theme. Year 6 are perfecting their persuasive techniques and working hard to expand their sentences to include more detail. Well done…your leaflets have certainly persuasive power!

This week we are going to be changing genre, but once again focusing on detailed description and persuasive language.

The class has will be producing a radio broadcast to encourage their listeners/readers to purchase an item of their choice. This could be a new toy, game, gadget or even a new invention (those who take an interest in the Dragons’ Den could be at an advantage here!)



They should decide on their target audience and include a description of the item, along with the benefits of owning one. They can also make up a jingle or slogan to make it memorable. Please encourage your child to listen to some advertisements, to look out for adventurous vocabulary and persuasive phrases. It may sound odd, but encouraging them to be aware of their sentence beginnings (and yours) and to talk with punctuation, all helps to raise their awareness of grammatical structures and the importance of punctuation! Many thanks



Maths Talk Homework:

For this week’s Talk for Maths we are sticking with money matters. Please encourage your child to take part in as much of the household financial management as possible (or desirable!). This week we are particularly concentrating on finding differences (counting on and subtracting). They could be asked to find the difference between two items: How much more expensive is ……? How much money would we save if…? How much change will we get from…?

It will help if they can work out money calculations on paper as well as on a calculator. Please encourage them to recognise that the calculator display does not include the 0; so 3.4 on the display will be £3.40 (NOT £3.04!) when working with money.

SPELLINGS: 'ment'




achievement

advertisement

amusement

arrangement

document

employment

encouragement

enjoyment

environment

excitement

government

management

movement

ornament

replacement

statement