Year 5 Fiction - Describing a Location

L.O. To revise key descriptive techniques

We've begun our spy project! Having built some fantastic models, you started to describe your Secret HQ, imagining crawling around it.

Homework: Complete your description of your secret hq. Write 1 side of A4. Remember to write five paragraphs, and include all of our descriptive techniques. Click here to revise describing a location.

Next week we'll write them up on our fantastic new pupil wiki, and include photographs of the bases!



Click here to visit the fantastic 'Jane Blonde' site!

Wrestling with a Verb!

L.O. To substitute powerful verbs for overfamiliar verbs

Next week we're going to 'wrestle with verbs' in pairs! For homework, I want you to find powerful versions of the following verbs (You'll need to use a thesaurus to find them!)

Learn the verbs by heart - and know how to spell them, e.g. c-h-a-r-g-e

The verbs:
got
walk
run
hit
fall
break
take
move
hurt
laugh
saw
said

I'll call you out in pairs, and say one of these words, e.g. said. You'll have to reply with a powerful alternative, e.g. conversed. Make sure you know some really powerful verbs, or the audience will be chanting 'easy easy' at you!

Good luck, Big Daddy fans!

P.S. Try to think of a cool wrestling nickname, like Giant Haystacks, that makes you sound tough!



Note: Don't try this at home! You'll end up with a broken neck!

Easy-easy-easy!

Year 5 Comprehension - Revising the Need to P-E-E

Last term, we revised the need to include P-E-E all over the page when writing comprehension answers.

Click here to revise this crucial work.

Homework: Please complete this crucial work, making sure you quote - and give a line reference - when answering the questions.

Big News: Announcing the Falcons School for Girls Book Club

We are starting an online Book Club! We want you to read a book with your family, and share your discussions about it on a blog. We may even create a wiki to share our ideas about it. But what is the book we're going to read as a school community? Click here, or 'Falcons Book Club' in the Essential Links, to find out, and learn how to join the club!

Year 5 - Location Description Pictures and Secret HQ Reminder

Year 5 - please bring in your secret hq model with your homework on Tuesday. We'll take some pictures and add them to the blog!

I'll talk to you on Tuesday about how to send me your location photographs.

This term's buzz work: Wikis!

Last term we kept talking about blogs. You've been using this blog, and many of you have had a go at creating your own blogs and blog posts.

We'll continue to use blogs this term - including creating Year 3, 4 and 5 podcasts, and beginning to experiment with video posts - but there is something else we are going to begin to study: wikis.

A wiki is a website that can be edited by anyone with a computer. Why not visit the Falcons School for Girls wikipedia page (see 'Essential Links') for an example of a page that has been edited by several different users?

Many of you will get the chance to work on wikis over the next couple of months!

Three days to L.E.H.

L.E.H. applicants - please attempt the additional task included in your homework pack. Write the story under timed conditions, then type it up and email me at baldworm@baldworm.co.uk for feedback.

Don't forget to include the 'Messi wiggle', semi-colons, colons, brackets and dashes - and lots of shown feelings!