Before we begin, a riddle!

Answer to yesterday's riddle: His brother is 10. Half of 8 is 4, so Grant’s brother is 4 years younger. This means when Grant is 14, his brother is still 4 years younger, so he’s 10.

Riddle: You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?

Find the answer on tomorrow's home learning page. 

Use this page to register and for resources and videos for Thursday's lessons.

English 

Write your newspaper report (45minutes)  This week we are going to write a newspaper article about the mysterious giant. To get columns, fold your paper in half so you get a line down the middle. If you can’t do this don’t worry about it.

All of you must have a headline, picture and caption. Remember to use expanded noun phrases from last week and different sentence starters.

Most of you should organise your information into and inverted pyramid with the key information in the first paragraph. Remember to use expanded noun phrases and different sentences starters with commas.

Some of you could choose words and phrases that are suitable for you audience and purpose. Think about the emotion you wanted your reader to feel, how are you going to make them feel it? Remember what you said your focus was and stick to that.

NEED MORE HELP? Download the example newspaper or the sentence starters at the bottom of this page.

Edit your work. (15 minutes)

All of you must check for full stops, capital letters and the spellings from your spelling list.

Most of you should check for all the punctuation you know so far (such as commas and exclamation marks) and look out for spelling rules such as change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add -es.

Some of could think about your choice of vocabulary improve your choices.

NEED MORE HELP? Check out the How to Edit Your Work download on the bottom of our Helpful Resources Page.

Maths

Deepening and Strengthening activities. 

Reflect on how you have found this weeks learning. Decide if you need to strengthen or deepen your learning with the actives below. 

Strengthen: You've found the learning tricky and need some more practise. Go to Miss O'Brien's Strengthening activities page. 

Deepening: you have felt confident and want a challenge. 

Spelling Practice

Practice your own spelling words from the year 3/4 spelling list (in your planner)

NEED MORE HELP? Check out the Spelling Strategies download at the bottom of our Helpful Resources Page.

Science

Lessons 3: Teeth!

Take a trip inside the human mouth and learn all about our teeth. They are not just pearly whites; they have a very important job. So important, they’ve each got their own role when biting and chewing food.

Challenge 1: label your mouth! Have a look inside the human mouth and label the teeth.

Challenge 2: comparing teeth. Have a look at human teeth and the animal’s teeth. What is the same? What is different? 

Challenge 3: pick an animal and get researching! Create a fact file about that animal’s teeth. You can include pictures and interesting facts you have learnt.