Elm Class learning 31st March 2020

It’s nearly the Easter holidays! You have all worked super hard and I am very proud of you all! 🙂

Spellings: ‘I before e, except after c rule- can you practice, using the look, cover, write check method, spelling some of the words you collected yesterday?

Grammar: Can you think of some activities that have happened around the house the last few days? Can you write an active sentence about an activity and then change it into the passive voice?
eg. My mum cooked pizza for dinner. (active)
The pizza was cooked by my mum for dinner. (passive)
(Usually a passive sentence includes a was/ were/had or had been followed by the past tense verb).
The video I have attached below explains active and passive voice well and why it is used, if you need to recap!
Can you think of an example to use in your newspaper article? For example:
The announcement was made at 11 am across the country.

English: The next two days, you are going to write the final draft of your newspaper article. You have already written your introduction last week, now can you write the middle paragraphs of your newspaper article about the war announcement in Little Weirwold? What else do we need to inform the reader of about the war announcement and what happened in the village after? Can you include your direct and reported speech? Look carefully at the Blitz newspaper article example I have uploaded to the website, think about all of the features we identified last week that you could include in your newspaper article! We will write the conclusion and then edit!

Arithmetic- Finding percentages of amounts. See web page for a practice sheet if you would like one.

Maths: L.O- I can order and compare fractions, decimals and percentages in size. Yesterday, you converted between fractions, decimals and percentages, now can you use these skills to order a set of fractions, decimals and percentages? Choose Bronze, Silver or Gold, which I have uploaded to the class web page, along with a resource, which explains converting and ordering if you need to recap.

R.E- Last week, we revisited the key events for Christians Easter Story and the meaning of the Easter story. Today we are going to consider the evidence to support the story, which suggest that Jesus rose again on Easter Sunday- you are going to be detectives for the afternoon! I have uploaded a sheet onto the class web page, explaining your detective activity!

Additional: Spelling practice- 10 mins a day, reading for 20 mins a day, daily mile around your garden, practising times tables, handwriting practice.

Thank you,
Miss Coates.