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Wednesday’s Reading Task
On a Wednesday, your reading task will be to read a chapter from ‘Journey to the River Sea’ by Eva Ibbotson. So far we have read up to Chapter 7 so today we are reading Chapter 8.
Questions for Chapter 8:
Don’t forget to answer in full sentences and use a dictionary if there is a word you are unsure of.
- Why wouldn’t the captain let Clovis off at the Carter’s house?
2. Explain how Clovis’s opinion of the Carters and their home changed.
3. Why do you think the ‘Ombuda’ tribe tried to confuse the’ crows’ -Mr. Low and Mr. Trapwood about Finn’s existence?
4. How did the actors manage to escape from Brazil?
5. How much was the reward that had been set for the discovery of Finn?
6. How would you describe the Carters?
7. Who had been hiding in the huts?
8. Who took Maia to see Finn ?
9. Who was Finn hiding?
10. What was Finn’s idea regarding the ‘crows’?
Follow up Task
Using the descriptions in the story, draw a map that includes the Carter’s house, the city of Manaus, and the river between. Then, try to place all of Maia’s favourite locations on the map, including her dance class, the museum, Finn’s secluded home, even the docks where Clovis hides. You can place other locations on the map that appear in the story. Try to place each location an accurate distance from the others
Wednesday’s Writing Task
This week we will be using ‘OAK ACADEMY’ to look at ‘Instructions’.
Today’s task is looking at the features of a set of instructions
Watch the video and complete the independent activities on the slides.
Make a note of any of the language that you like – you might be able to use it when it comes to writing your own.
DON’T FORGET to watch the video all the way to the end for your weekly spellings – your spelling test will be on Friday as part of Friday’s Oak Academy video.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/set-of-instructions-identifying-the-features-of-a-text
A key feature of instruction writing is beginning each instruction with an imperative verb, also known as a ‘bossy word’. For more information and practice of these, have a look at the following activity:
Wednesday’s Maths task
Here are the answers to Tuesday’s starter:
Here are today’s questions to warm up your brains…
Main Activity
This week on Oak Academy, we are moving on to looking at decimals. You should have already done a fair bit on this at school so this should be revision and pushing your learning on to the next step! 🙂
Have a look at the link below – look through the video and then have a go at the independent activities. Don’t forget to pause the video when asked to complete the questions in the video!
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-multiply-decimals-by-whole-numbers
Wednesday’s Topic Task
Science:
In this lesson, we will learn how rocks change. We will look at rocks as big as mountains and as small as a grain of sand and learn the processes that form each. We will look at erosion, weathering and the movements of tectonic plates. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil for this lesson.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-do-the-rocks-on-our-earths-surface-change
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