Friday, 11 February 2011

Year Five Fiction: Room 101

Year Five are writing scary stories using a range of sentence starters.

Task: Please write a second draft on the new worksheet.

Due: Monday.


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Friday, 4 February 2011

Year Five Fiction: Adverb Story Map



Please create your own adverb story map...based on Mum or Dad or someone at home's worst fear!

W.I.L.F.
* Create a story map based on the idea of someone being taken to room 101
* Make it scary!
* Key learning: include a range of adverbs

Make sure you make it colourful and neat.

Learn more about adverbs here.

Due: Monday

Monday, 31 January 2011

Year Five Prose Homework: Hot Chilli Challenge


We are revising our prose work so far - making sure we can combine different sentence starters and forms of punctuation.

Task:
Please write ten lines all about being chased by a monster. What you write isn't important today...your focus is on including all the different sentence starters and uses of the commma. Clever clogs will include brackets, too! Write 10 lines.

P.S. Don't forget it is your spelling test with Mrs Mannan tomorrow!

Year Five Comprehension: Chariots!

In class, we've been sharing with an imaginary peer how to read and annotate a comprehension paper.


Homework: Please complete the Chariots comprehension

Due: Thursday (as Mr Hitchen out on Wednesday)

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Year Five Fiction: Building a 'Spooky' Atmosphere



Great writers build an 'atmosphere' at the beginning of a short story. Combine our descritive techniques to create a spooky atomsphere...and don't forget to include plenty of different 'ly' starter sentences

Task: Write the first draft of your 'Scary Forest' story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Due: Monday

Friday, 21 January 2011

Year Five Fiction: My Teacher is a Vampire

We are learning about using varied sentence openers.

Task: Write your own version of the vampire piece you wrote in class. Write 1/2 side of A4.

Due: Monday


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Thursday, 20 January 2011

Year Five Spelling & Year Six Gothic Stories



Year Five:
Please complete the using 'ful' as a suffix exercises and learn the spellings for the test next Wednesday with Mrs Mannan.

Due: Next Wednesday

Year Six
Please redraft your 'Monster' story, based on my comments for improvement.

Due:
Friday