English Tasks:
Reading:
Read this text and answer the questions in complete sentences. You may like to type your answers onto a Google Doc or write them and send your teacher a copy.
Questions-
What is the author's purpose in this text?
a)entertain
b)persuade
c)inform
d)other
Explain in your own words the moral of this story.
The whale knew the island was empty and that nobody lived there. Why did the author include this sentence?
How do you think the author feels about the cat?
Extra task: This will be avaolable Wednesday-Log onto Seesaw and complete the 'Author's Purpose' task. It looks like this:
Writing: Listen to the picture story book-'The Day the Crayons Quit.' Then read through what the Black Crayon wrote which is below.
Then answer these questions in complete sentences.
1.Do you support how the black crayon feels and what the black crayon wants?
2.What are your reasons?
You may use these sentence starters if you like. Remember to write the sentence starter then your answer.
I believe that the black crayon is................ .
I think this because in the letter that the black crayon wrote........... .
The letter made me feel ......... .
The images in the text also made me feel.............. .
Share your work with your teacher.
Math Tasks: Time yourself and see how long it takes you to complete these problems. Repeat the questions on another day and see if you can improve your time.
Some more problems for you to do.
If you would like to do any other tasks, go back to the previous weeks' work and see if there are any things there that you would like to do.
ALSO remember, on the Year Three Portal home page there are the links to sites you can access. There are other extra things on Google Classroom that might interest you too.