St Mary's CofE Primary School
English At Home
This Week's Learning Challenges
Have a go at the video activities and the Testbase questions below. They will be updated each week.
There are some activities set up in the 'Homework' section of Education City.
Have a look at the new online lessons at www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Do your best!
Danger! Danger! 16/7/20
Heaven or Hell? 13/7/20
Heaven or Hell 13/7/20
ModalVerbs 6/7/20
List of Modal Verbs
Synonyms and Antonyms 2/7/20
Using Parenthesis
Play scripts 25/6/20
22/6/20 - Short Story
Museum Writing 18/6/20
I've also included the year 5 and 6 words and a checklist of the kind of things you might need to include.
Good Luck!
Year 5 & 6 spellings and writing checklist
Editing Your Museum Writing 15/6/20
Year 5/6 Word List
Virtual Museum Writing 11/6/20
8/6/20 - Virtual Tour Writing
Radio Ad - 21/5/20
Writing 18/5/20 - Advertising Leaflet
The Abandoned Mine 14/5/20
Monday 11th May
Your job over the next few days is to continue and edit your stories. I want you to look especially at how you have started each sentence and paragraph to make sure there is some variety in your openings.
Mine Story 7th May
Mine Opening Description
Language Choices (Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Emotive Language, Active or Passive, Sentence Openers)
Sentence Types - Have you included a mixture of Simple, Compound, Complex and Multi-clause sentences? (Look at the posters below this as a reminder)
Audience - Have you thought about who you are writing for and what difference it will make to the choices you make?
4/5/20 - Only you know why you have to go into this place. Describe what is on the other side of the wooden barrier
Writing Posters
Homophones 30/4/20
- Read the following story and find the homophones, replace each homophone with the correct spelling and meaning.
It was late won/one Sunday knight/night and a young boy/buoy with ridiculously long hair/hare and who was heir/air to the throne sitting in his father’s palace.
He was eating his favourite serial/cereal which/witch all his servants thought was weird because it contains currents/currants, a huge steak/stake, a spoonful of muscles/mussels and the tail/tale of a fish called plaice/place. When suddenly he herd/heard a smashing noise coming from another room.
The young prince shouted out aloud/allowed words that were very foul/fowl “I need/knead to know/no which/witch windows did they break/brake.” He ran to where/wear the noise came from and felt quite faint/feint at the sight/site he saw/sore, which was. . . . . . . . . .
- Continue the story using your own homophones.
Here are some ideas:
- check/cheque
- beach beech
- sew/sow
- root/route
- bale/bail
- there/their
- here/hear
Homophone Riddles
Have a go at solving these riddles and finding what the pair of homophones are
This sounds like a wild animal or what many trees are in winter
Is this a colour or what the wind did last week?
Another word for expensive or a wild animal found in Britain
Could be what you pay to travel or somewhere with rides you go to have fun
A story told in parts or something you might eat for breakfast
Part of your body or a wild animal with large ears that runs fast
Now try and write your own riddles for
Sun/son
tide/tied
flower/flour
Homophones 27/4/20
Re-write these with the right word in the gap
Standard English 23/4/20
I been there loads of times.
I never did nothing.
You didn't go nowhere.
Someone gived us a present.
Improving a Sentence 20/4/20
The fence was green.
Mr Cusick cried at the film.
Yesterday was a brilliant day.
The castle door opened.