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Half term Homework – All due in Tuesday that we return. You can hand in on the Monday if you wish.

1)      Maths sheet revising mixed numbers to improper fractions. Please complete this in your maths book. If you are stuck there are some videos in earlier posts on this blog about how to change mixed to improper.

2)      English sheet – Please write out the story in your English book replacing the idioms with actual meanings ensuring the story flows.

3)      Next term we are going to do a mini theme on Inventions – inspired by the many inventions that occurred during the Georgian and Victorian eras. Over the half term have a think about what inventions you think have been particularly special and any inventors you know or would like to know more about. Spend about 45 minutes on this. It might be doing some research, reading something in a book, talking to someone.

Things that are helpful to do:

Practise multiplication tables up to 12x12

When reading discuss your book with someone, thinking about the authors decisions (what ideas, words can we magpie (steal) from them?

Let’s hope the weather is nice for at least a few days so we can enjoy autumn. Have fun see you in a week.

Week 6

A busy final week before half term.
Don't forget alarm clocks and shoe boxes for science on Thursday.
Here is the link for the water jug puzzle we discussed this morning:
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/jugs/





This weeks spellings are to revise all spellings from the term, I have switched on all the words in Spelling city.
Your Thursday homework, which I have already given you, is to create a quick for SOME of the words. Not all. If you would like to hand it in before Thursday there is more chance we will be able to have a go as a class.

Weekend Homework

This is the image that you have for English homework (45 minutes) this weekend.
tips: Make sure you show off your target.
Think about the sound that you would hear, use ideas from the film Oliver and Street Child.
What would you smell. We have read and seen lots of evidence of stall selling food, such as shrimps and fish.
How would you be feeling and behaving.
Remember we have learnt that Berlie Doherty uses short sentences to encourage the reader to read quickly and feel tense and that she uses a lot of sounds and action rather to move us through the setting.
I look forward to reading you writing next week.
You also have a mixed maths sheet.
See you on Monday. It is harvest assembly, try to bring a tin or packet of food.

Thursday Homework

Part B – reading between the lines

1)    What is Jim thinking about when he first wakes up?

2)   Explain Nick’s ‘joke’ on page 84.

3)   Why do you think Jim tries to laugh with him?

4)   How does Nick give the fish to Jim and to his dog?

5)   What is a typical day like for Nick?

6)   Why does Nick say he will buy Jim some mutton stew?

7)   How does Nick treat Jim in front of the other men in the pub when they first go in?

8)   What is Jim dreaming about as he falls asleep while eating his stew?

9)   How does Jim act in front of the other boys? (page 87)

10)  Why are some of the children roped together?

Part C – explaining language and supporting opinions

1)     What is the atmosphere of the river in the first 3 lines of the chapter? Which words give you this impression?

2)    Why do you think the boats are described as ‘floating castles’ (page 84)?

3)    When Nick offers to buy Jim stew, Jim has a mixture of feelings. Explain what these are and why Jim feels this way.

4)    At the top of page 87 ‘Jim puffed himself up a bit’. What does this mean? Why does Jim react in this way?

5)    What does it mean when the writer describes Jim as ‘full of beery bravado’? Why does he feel this way?

6)    How do you know that Nick is drunk when he leaves the pub?

7)    Why do you think Jim’s excitement is described as ‘like a small candle flame’?

8)    Looking at the chapter as a whole, what do you think have been the worst things for Jim so far?

9)    Looking at the chapter as a whole, what do you think have been the best things for Jim so far?

10)  Choose two different emotions Jim has felt in the course of this chapter. Explain where he felt them and why.

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Term 1 Week 5

Your new spellings are available on Spelling City now. This week we will be writing biographies for Dr Barnado and finishing reading Street Child.
In maths this week we will be working on Fractions.
Here are some links to fraction games and videos that might help you:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/118219558942185495/ - fractions - mixed and improper
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/110830840802567103/


Here is a link to the fraction Mars Bar puzzle that we did: http://nrich.maths.org/34/index