big write and spelling

During this week’s Big Write time, we shall be asking the children to write without talk homework in order to prepare them for the ‘unknown’ writing tasks that they will be asked to engage with in a few weeks time, for their SATs writing,
However, even though the text type, audience and purpose are unknown, there are aspects of their writing that you can talk about… Give them a simple sentence and ask them th ‘uplevel’ it by adding an interesting opener, changing the word order, or adding detail to your sentence. Give them a word and ask them how many other words with a similar meaning (synonyms) they can come up with. Ask them to describe things in detail (from the kitchen door, to the atmosphere in the sitting room!) All this talking will help them to develop their sentence structures, attention to detail and their vocabulary….and so to become skilled and confident writers. We are well on the ways

Many thanks.



SPELLINGS: Silent letters…here are just a few:


Silent Letter
wrestling
castles
climbing
designed
different
environment
hedges
interesting
knowledge
known
medicine
participate
physical
should
strength
stretched
surprise






Maths Talk Homework:
(PLEASE KEEP ON WITH THE TIMES TABLES PRACTICE.)
This week’s Talk for Maths is still measurements. But this time please concentrate on exploring areas and perimeters (distance around the outside of a shape). These are terms that children frequently need reminding of and more you use these words, the more familiar they will become.
Please encourage them to use rulers or tape measures to measure the perimeters of a range of different shapes. Rectangular objects (coasters, place mats, books table tops, rectangular boxes and food packages, small rugs…) are better for their area calculations as they should know that Area of a rectangle = length X width.
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If you cannot say it...there is no way you'll ever be able to write it down! Talking about the things you are going to write about really makes a massive difference to the quality of your writing so... have a good old chinwag!

It often only takes 10 minutes and it really gets your ideas flowing!

This week's topic is.........ADVENTURE STORIES

This week all of the juniors are being creative with their story writing! Your stimulus for this week will be a picture of an enchanted forest(I will attach the picture to this link). You will then use this image to create your own adventure story.






At home, please think about:

- descriptions

- characters

- setting

- structure of your story

- is there a problem? what will the resolution be?

- how will you open your story? and how will it end?

- VCOP!!!!!!!!!



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