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Thursday’s Maths Task:
Good morning! 🙂
Here are the answers to yesterday’s starter…
Here is today’s starter…
Main Activity
This week on Oak Academy, we are moving on to problem solving across negative numbers, remainders (as decimals and fractions) and money.
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!
NOTE: this lesson is actually on division word problems, not finding the mean as an average!
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-calculate-the-mean-as-an-average
Thursday’s Reading Task
Read through Chapter 11 of the book (below) and have a go at answering the questions underneath. If there is a word you are unsure of use a dictionary to check its meaning and don’t forget to answer in full sentences.
Chapter 11 Questions
1.What skills had Clovis learned as an actor that would help him play the part well of being a ‘ Taverner’ ?
2.Why did Maia always defend Clovis?
3.What terrible things had the Carters done when they first arrived in the Amazon?
4.How did Mr Haltmann describe the sounds of Brazilian music?
5.Why did Maia want Sergei to invite the twins to the party too?
6.Why do you think the ‘Crows’ would not have enjoyed staying at the Brothers’ Mission?
Follow up Task
Research Brazilian music. Note the names, styles etc.
Thursday’s Writing Task
This week we will be using ‘OAK ACADEMY’ to look at ‘Persuasive Writing’.
Today’s task is looking at the features ‘rule of three’.
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/persuasive-letter-spag-focus-list-of-three
Thursday’s Topic Task
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In this lesson we will be learning about the Buddhist festival called Wesak. We will learn about why this festival is so special to Buddhists and the traditions that they observe. Finally, we will learn about the Noble Eightfold Path, which Buddhists reflect upon during Wesak. You will need a piece of paper, a pencil and your brain.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/which-festivals-do-buddhists-celebrate
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