As we look at today's book think carefully about other books we have read this year, and other things we have learnt about, and see what connections you can make.
You will now read All Aboard! - The Story of Elijah McCoy.
Elijah showed perseverance in several different ways. How many different ways can you think of that he showed perseverance?
Did the station master ever show respect to Elijah?
Read this poem aloud to a partner with the best expression you can. Then glue it into your poetry book.
You will listen to a linguistics presentation on how the English language is influenced by history and other language.
Destination Your destination is the place you are planning to go to
Occupation A person's occupation is their job
Capable Being capable means being able to do something/having the skill to do something
Adapt To adapt means to be able to change the way you think or do things to fit a different situation
Now complete your vocabulary worksheet.
Find the nouns, verbs and pronouns in this sentence:
While Elijah scooped coal, his mind sparked with ideas.
Find pronouns in Elijah McCoy and identify who or what they are referring to.
Complete Lesson 1, Unit 30 z and Lesson 1, Unit 30 s of Soundwaves and the first page activities in your workbooks, including Segmenting Words. Write your segmenting words into your Segmenting Words book.
Our sound for this week is in Unit 30. There are two sounds:
Core sounds for z include:
z as in zebra
zz as in puzzle
s as in bears
se as in cheese
Extension sounds for z include:
ze as in freeze
ss as in scissors
si as in business
x as in xylophone
Make a list or think of as many words as you can that have the 'z’ sound in them. Try and read through the words in your spelling list.
Core sounds for s include:
s as in treasure
si as in television
Extension sounds for s include:
ge as in mirage
Make a list or think of as many words as you can that have the ‘s’ sound in them. Try and read through the words in your spelling list.
zip
size
prize
froze
chose
those
these
freeze
please
does
days
lazy
easy
zero
zebra
visit
sizzle
always
because
thousand
advertise
drizzle
horizon
organise
xylophone
apologise
exercise
invisible
puzzle
zealous
craze
frozen
memorise
scissors
zoology
disguise
hazardous
observe
sneeze
zucchini
p. 50-51 Neckline joins
Today you will begin writing a descriptive paragraph to help show a reader what a food fight might look like.
Before you begin writing your paragraph, watch this video to help you turn words into descriptive sentences to form your paragraph (start from 45 seconds):
Get into groups of 5.
Read through the slide show.
In your group, you will write 5 paragraphs for a narrative about a food fight using descriptive writing.
The 5 paragraphs will include:
Sizzling Start - including action or moment of change + who, what, where (backfill)
Fruit and Vegetables
Hot Food
Sweets
Exciting Ending - problem solved
Do a brainstorm of words and phrases for your chosen paragraph
Share your brainstorming ideas with your group to see if you can come up with more words and phrases
Spend 5 minutes practising the time table you are learning for this week.
Read the information very carefully - one sentence at a time, and make sure you are clear about all of it. Then carefully work out your possible answers. Make a table like the one below to help you work out and record your answers. Add more rows if you need them.
An angle is where two lines meet at a point.
Watch this short video to learn about some different kinds of angles.
If you want to find out whether an angle is a right angle, an acute angle or an obtuse angle, you could fold a circle as you saw in the video and make your own right angle checker.
If you can't find, or make one of these, just grab a piece of paper and use the corner of it as a right angle checker, and see if the angles that lines make match the corner of your piece of paper.
See how many objects you can find in your room that have right angles.
Now have a go at these two worksheets.
Cricket with 4 bases
Students use baseball type bases and a cricket bat and wicket for the game. Swap sides after each batter has had a turn. Baseball rules but using a cricket bat instead. Great fun (bases set in a diamond. Catchers on each base. When a batter is on first base they must go to second when the batter hits the ball, and so on).