Homework
April 2015 – May 2015
Option 1 - Make a set of Top Trumps cards for 10 animals. These can be domestic, wild or imaginary.
Option 2 – Write a non-chronological report about an animal of your choice. The tone should be formal and I would like to see clear paragraphing.
Option 3 – Excluding Alaska and California, research a North American state of your choice. In no more than 100 words, I would like you to persuade me as to why I should visit there. The word count is low so make sure you use your words wisely.
You could:
· Use connectives to link your paragraphs
· Have rhetorical questions to make me think
· Vary your sentence openings
Option 4 – Write your own story using one of the following sentence openers:
Suddenly the scream pierced the night. I leapt to my feet. I stood totally motionless. All was silent….and then it came again, only this time closer to us.
I dropped the container marked 'Dangerous. Handle with care' and the world seemed to slow down. I could swear that minutes passed between it leaving my fingers and crashing to the ground with such terrible consequences.
As she walked along the street the tiny dragon in her pocket stirred restlessly.
Cold and wet, tired and exhausted she made her way along the path through the forest.
Your story must:
· Include a problem and resolution
· Contain a clear opening which introduces character and setting or uses action or dialogue
· Be checked for spelling and have a variety of sentence openings
· Have concise paragraphs
Option 5 – Write about an issue that you are passionate about. This could be: a letter of complaint; a letter to persuade someone to do something or a balanced argument. It could be about a local issue or a national one.
Option 6 – Write a biography about a person of your choice.
You could:
· Mention achievements
· Family
· Education
You should:
· Keep a formal tone
· Think carefully about the tense that it is written in
· Make sure that you don’t tell the reader everything in your opening
Spelling
Each week the children will be tested on the statutory words in the new curriculum but they will also learn additional spellings in class. Please make sure you test the children on the statutory words.
Miss Ross
Words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy,
observation, observant, observance , expectation, expectant, toleration, tolerant, tolerance
Apostrophes for omission
I’m I’ll I’ve I’d aren’t you’re you’ll you’ve you’d can’t o’clock he’s he’ll he’s he’d couldn’t shan’t she’s she’ll she’s she’d doesn’t we’re we’ll we’ve we’d don’t weren’t they’re they’ll they’ve they’d hadn’t
use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
Mr Jones
Homophones
cell sell made maid cereal serial dear deer main mane key quay beach beech meet meat scene seen blue blew pane pain vain vein grate great peace piece waist waste hair hare plane plain fate fete here hear sum some flour flower herd heard read red bean been him hymn right write week weak hour our break brake leak leek knight night steel steal aloud allowed knot not stair stare board bored know no tail tale sun son
§ use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
Mrs Turtle/Mrs Driscoll
Prefixes
dis-, mis-, re-, pre-, sub-, tele-, super-, auto
Suffixes
ful and ly
hopeful hurtful wishful beautiful careful wonderful
quickly secretively thickly jokingly strangely curiously
Statutory Words
Week 1 words (week beginning 13/4/15 – tested 22nd April)
convenience correspond criticise (critic + ise) curiosity definite
desperate determined develop familiar foreign forty
frequently
Week 2 words (week beginning 20/4/15 – tested 29th April)
government guarantee harass hindrance identity
immediate(ly) individual interfere interrupt language
Week 3 words (week beginning 27/4/15 – tested 6th May)
leisure lightning pronunciation queue recognise
recommend relevant restaurant rhyme rhythm
sacrifice
Free apps
I will be downloading some spelling apps for the children to use in the class but there is a new app called ‘Spellfix’ it is quite challenging and is another way to learn vocabulary.