English
This week we are looking at persuasive writing. We will be looking at how different persuasive writing
techniques can be used in leaflets. At the end of the week we will be creating our own persuasive leaflets
about habitat destruction.
Can you research what habitats are being destroyed and why? What animals are becoming endangered
because they are losing their habitat?
Using your research and learning from your lessons write some rhetorical questions you could use to help
stop habitat destruction?
Experts — Write a short persuasive paragraph using some of your rhetorical questions about habitat loss.
Remember to also include emotive language and catchy phrases.
Spellings
As well as learning how to spell each word it’s important you understand their meaning. To show you
understand what each word means can you use each of them in a sentence.
Spelling Group A
Spelling Group B
last
jumped
because
even
before
Grandmother
clothes
telling
key
friend
revealed
shadowy
threatening
gasped
waist
adventurous
carnivorous
coniferous
conspicuous
dangerous
famous
generous
herbivorous
joyous
marvelous
revealed
shadowy
threatening
gasped
waist
Maths B
Maths A
What fraction of these shapes are shaded?
1)
2)
Can you convert these
fractions to an equivalent
fraction.
Can you convert these
fractions to an equivalent
fraction.
1)
1)
3)
5)
6)
7)
8)
2
5
5)
7
You should be reading for at
least 15 minutes each day at
home. It is important that you
read to and with an adult at
home and have the opportunity to talk about what you have
read. Remember to answer
the questions on bug club
where you see the alien head.
Talk
Homework
As this week in school is Science
Week discuss how science helps
you at home? Is the advancement of
technology and scientific discovery a
good thing? Remember to explain
why.
4
6
4)
20
21
Reading
2)
4
4)
3)
Maths C
12
3
12
2)
50
3)
16
6)
25
22
20
4)
66
5)
14
35
15
16
32
6)
16
48
History
This week we have looked at artefacts from the Shang Dynasty era and
compared them to modern day equivalents. Can you compare how
travel has changed through the ages from the Shang Dynasty Era to
modern day. Remember you can include diagrams to support your
writing
Science
This week is Science week in school. As part of Science week there will be a science
fair on Thursday 19th January where your projects will be presented. The hand-in
date is Tuesday 17th January. Your projects must based around our topic of Living
things and their habitats. You can choose between one of the following three:
1) Life cycles of koala, snakes, Siberian tiger, panda, penguins, rhinos, lions, gorillas
or any other animal of interest.
2) Why are the ……………….. becoming ENDANGERED ANIMALS and how can we help
to save them: Hawksbill Turtle, Leatherback Turtle, Rhino, Gorilla, Orangutan,
African wild dog, or any other endangered animal.
3) Why did the…………………………… disappear (EXTINCT ANIMALS): dodo, mammoth
or any other extinct animal.