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Thursday’s Writing Activity
This week we will be using ‘OAK ACADEMY’ to look at ‘Instructions’.
Today’s task is looking at how to build cohesion within instructional writing.
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-spag-focus-cohesive-devices
Thursday’s Maths Task
Here are the answers to yesterday’s/Wednesday’s starter…
How did you do?
Here is today’s starter…
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-using-a-formal-method
For practice multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000, try this ultimate challenge Ask a grown up to time you, can you beat your time tomorrow?
Thursday’s Reading Activity
On a Thursday, your reading task will be to read a further chapter from ‘Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. Today we are reading Chapter 9.
Chapter 9 Questions
1.What was Westwood and whom did it belong to?
2.How was Bernard Taverner different from his family?
3.Who introduced Bernard Taverner to Naturalists?
4.How did Bernard escape Westwood and England?
5.Why couldn’t Joan or Dudley inherit Westwood?
6.How did Sir Aubrey(Bernard’s father) find out about Finn?
7.Describe Finn’s plan for the crows to find and assume that Clovis is him.
8.How do you think Clovis felt about this plan?
Follow up Task
Draw Westwood and describe it.
Thursday’s Topic Activity
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In this lesson we will be learning about the teachings of Buddha and the book in which these were recorded, the Tipitaka. We will learn about the three sections of the Tipitaka and we consider the importance of what Buddhists describe as Nirvana.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-the-sacred-text-of-buddhism
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