Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Year Five and Six Homework



Year Five
Please write a complete second draft of your 'King in Yellow' story. Make as many improvements as you can - and include the suspense you wrote this morning!

Try to include a colon, too!

Due: Friday

Year Six
Please continue with your passion project. You'll continue this on Friday!

Monday, 30 January 2012

New Yorker Caption Competition & Year Five & Six Homework

New Yorker Caption Competition (mp3)

At Falcons Girls we love puns and wordplay! In pairs, we studied this week's New Yorker magazine caption competition - and had a go ourselves! Listen to the podcast above to hear our suggested captions!

Year Five have been using 'reading stems' to ask questions about a text. You can hear some of their reflections at our new Year Five reading reflections blog: http://readingreflections.tumblr.com/

Homework: Please complete the 'Blitz Cat' comprehension.

Due: Friday

Year Six: Please be ready to share with me your research on Friday, when we'll begin working on our respective wiki pages.

Due: Friday

Friday, 27 January 2012

Year Five & Six Weekend Homework


Year Six

Please conduct some more research for your 'passion project'.

You may like to add some more thoughts to our 'Children as Philosophers: Still the Same Ship' wallwisher, too!

Due: Monday

Year Five
Please complete your 'The King in Yellow' story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Remember to include the six different sentence starters - & a semi-colon, too!

Due: Monday

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Year Five Composition: The Vampire Classroom



Homework: Please complete the first 15 lines of a 'Vampire Classroom' story, using the description you wrote in class.

Due: Friday.

Monday, 23 January 2012

Year Five 11+ Past Paper Comprehension

Learn Again Comprehension Rules (mp3)
Learn Again Comprehension Rules (mp3)

Please complete the 'Myths' comprehension. Remember, have a go at all of the questions. Make sure you 'have a go' at all of the questions, please!

Due: Friday

P.S. The 100 word challenge website is http://100wc.net

Year Six Collective Story

http://falconsgirls.primarypad.com/16

Friday, 20 January 2012

Year Five Weekend Horror Homework




Task: Please write a 10 line description of this cave. Make your description really spooky!

Your challenge is to use a full range of the sentence starters we've been studying in class, including adjective starters & the 'ing' clause starters!

Feeling clever? Use a full range of descriptive techniques, too! Use this podcast to help you revise:


Click to download the mp3 and add to your iPod!