Week commencing 11th May

Reading Activity 1

Read a book of your choice (try Bugclub) and tell someone about what you have read.

Reading Activity 2

Read a book of your choice (try Bugclub) and tell someone about what you have read.

Reading Activity 3

Read a book of your choice (try Bugclub) and tell someone about what you have read.

Make a list of any words you didn’t know and had to look up.

Reading Activity 4

Read a book of your choice (try Bugclub) and tell someone about what you have read.

Reading Activity 5

Read a book of your choice (try Bugclub).

Write a book review telling the teacher why he should read the book. Think about:

• why you liked it. What were the exciting parts, the sad parts etc?
• what surprised you about the story?
• do you have a favourite character?
• what do you think about the author's choice of words or the layout of the book?

Word of the Week

Word 1: barren

Word 2: harsh

Word 3: hostile

Word 4: equipment

Word 5: aggressive

• Learn to say it.
• Learn to spell it.
• Write down its definition.
• Write 3 different sentences to show that you understand the meaning.

English Activity 1

Revision: using apostrophes correctly.

Visit the BBC Bitesize website via the link below to refresh your memories. Read Let's Learn, watch the videos and then complete Activities 1 and 2 on the website.

English Activity 2

Over the next three days you will be learning about how to write a powerful setting description.

In this activity you will learn how to write an effective setting description by considering context and word choices.

Click on the BBC Bitesize weblink below to find out more. Read Let's Learn and Practice and complete Activities 1 and 2.

English Activity 3

In this activity you will learn how to use Prepositions in your setting descriptions.

A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. To find out more, click on the BBC Bitesize link below and read Let's learn and complete Activities 1 and 2.

English Activity 4

Explore Antarctica

Imagine you took these pictures below. How would you describe what it is like to be there? Think of five adjectives (describing words) to describe what you see or how you feel – look at the word bank below for a choice of adjectives or choose some of your own.

beautiful  barren  cold  exhilarating  freezing  harsh  hostile  inhospitable  isolated  peaceful  remote  scary  spectacular  strange  stunning  environment

(You can click on the slides to pause the slideshow at any time during the presentation).

Now write paragraphs to describe the settings of 2 or 3 of the pictures (remember to include prepositional phrases).

English Activity 5

Write an acrostic poem about The ANTARCTIC using your words and images from the day before. Each letter in ANTARCTIC starts the first word at the beginning of every line in your poem.