Year Six: Using the Punctuation Pyramid & Varied Sentence Openings to Create 'Perfect Paragraphs'

1. Please write a second draft of your description of Oliver in the workhouse.

2. Please annotate the finished second draft with a gel pen, showing me where you have used different punctuation and sentence openers.

Feeling clever? Pay particular attention to the length of your paragraphs.

Due: Tomorrow

Year Six: Varied Sentence Openings and Year Five: Writing an Action Scene using Powerful Verbs

Homework: Please write the first ten lines of a story entitled ‘Can I Have Some More?’ Use all six sentence openers.

Please complete the self-assessment for self-improvement sheet.

Due: Thursday 11th

Year Five
Please complete the 'soldiers having a play fight' task. Don't forget to use lots of powerful verbs, please.

Due: Thursday 11th

Year 5 and 6 Comprehension

Year Six neeed to complete the 2009 NHE paper. Due: Wednesday.

Year Five are completing the action techniques comprehension. Due: Wednesday.

Year Six Fiction: Redraft the 'Continue a Passage' Story

Please redraft your 'Flood' story. Focus on the use of the punctuation pyramid, e.g. include semi-colons, colons, brackets and the bracketing comma.

Due: Monday

Year Five Fiction: Action Techniques Poster

In class, you used our Apple Macs to research our action techniques!

Homework Task: Please create an A4 poster that includes all of the Bald Worm techniques. The challenge?

1. You must create it out of recycled 'writing', e.g. clippings from newspapers, magazines or the side of a corn flakes box...Be creative - and share our action techniques with the world.

2. Try to include appropriate images, e.g. a photograph of someone in pain for 'show how much it hurts'

Due: Wednesday

Year Five 'Flat Classroom (TM)' Project and 'Bi-' Spellings; Year Six Words with Unstressed Vowels

Year Five are taking part in the very first Elementary School Flat Classroom™ Project. Wow!

We have been taking part in the Edmodo handshake! You'll only be able to view if you're part of this project, but trust us - Edmodo is really cool!

Spelling Homework
Please complete the 'bi-' look-cover-check and write your example sentences. Look the words up in a dictionary if you don't know them, and don't forget you can learn through playing the the games at Spelling City.

Test next Tuesday

Year Six
Please revise the words with unstressed vowels. You too can play educational games to help you learn the spellings.

Test next Tuesday

Year Six Comprehension: Alternative Method of Reading a Paper

We've been learning an alternative method for reading a comprehension paper!

Task:
Please complete the NHE 'Conker' comprehension

Due: Thursday