I hope that you all found your new spellings on Friday under the Spelling tab. Make sure that you practise these daily and use the opportunity the practise forming your letters correctly.
I have added Chapter 3 of our class text Anna and the Third Leaf along with some linked activities on Purple Mash.
Today we are going to focus on different types of stories and on using subordinating conjunctions in your sentences
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Watch and listen to this story:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhqsf4j
Think about:
What is your favourite book? (It can be a book from school or a book from home)
Why is it your favourite story?
Do you have a favourite author?
Can you write the name of your favourite book?
Practise
You may need paper and a pen or pencil for some of these activities.
Activity 1. Favourite books
Write the names of the people you live with or your wider family and ask them what their favourite childhood books were. Next to each name, try to write the titles of their favourite books.
Do the titles of each book give you some clues about what they might be like?
Now you have a list of some books you can read! And you can share your opinion with each person after you’ve read them.
Activity 2: Using ‘because’ and ‘when’ in our writing.
Can you remember how to use ‘because’ and ‘when’ to join ideas together? Watch this video to remind you:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhqsf4j
Words like because, if, when, that, after are words that join two parts of a sentence together. They are called ‘subordinating conjunctions’.
All of these words can be used at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence. ‘If’ can also be used at the start of a sentence. Here are some examples:
‘If you make a cake, Dad will be really happy.’
‘Dad will be really happy, if you make a cake.
Try the short activity below to check your understanding of joining words.
Activity 3: How good are you at predicting?
You will need paper and a pen or pencil for this activity.
There is a story called ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’. Take a few minutes to think about the name of the story and discuss what you think it might be about with your family or those around you.
Using the sentence stems below, write some simple sentences about what you think the story will be about. Use ‘because’, ‘if’ and ‘when’ in your sentences.
I think _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I hope _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I wonder _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Remember to re-read what you write to check it makes sense.
