Play Script

This week we have been writing play scripts in class.  Write your own script to match this picture of a scene from midsummer night’s dream.

Transport Timeline

-      Literacy (20mins): Next week we will be visiting the transport museum.  For your homework we would like you to create a timeline of modes of transport.  The time-line should span from the Roman Era to today.  Please include detailed descriptions and images or sketches. 

-      The following are websites that may help you;

http://www.localhistories.org/transporttime.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/transportation-timeline.html

https://www.bclm.co.uk/media/learning/library/ks1-transport-timeline.pdf

If you are unable to access the internet please visit the library or see your teacher for information. 

Some one special

-      In PSHE we will be talking about people that are important to us.  Please bring in a photo or drawing of someone special to you that you can stick in your book.

-      Write a paragraph describing the person and why they are special to you.  Try to include:

 

o   Expanded noun phrases (eg When I go to her small house she gives me a great big loving hug.)

• Fronted adverbials (eg In the morning, he makes my breakfast)

Conjunctions (eg When I am feeling down she tells me a joke so I forget my worries.)

Animal Poems

• Literacy-
  This term in science we have been learning about animals and their habitats.  For your homework we would like you to find a poem about your favourite animal to perform to the class after half term.

Tudor Sailor diary

 

-      Literacy (20mins Imagine what it would be like to be a Sailor in Tudor times.  Write a diary entry about your experience.  Try to include: -How you felt. -What it smelt like. -What you heard. Remember to write in first person using adverbials of time to link your paragraphs.    Angus’s Diary of a Tudor Sailor It is 1578 aboard the Golden Hind. Today is the 17th October. It is night and we’re still sailing. It is strange, we don’t usually sail at night. I have noticed that Captain Drake seems slightly bothered lately. Maybe it’s because he suspects we’re being chased by the Spanish (spit spit spit). Life aboard ship is hard. I have no idea where we are although rumours say we just sailed round the tip of a place called Emerica. Earlier today I was firmly told by Captain Drake to go up to the crows nest. Then he told me in a hoarse whisper to watch out for the Spanish ships. I can’t believe how much you get rocked about up there. I felt quite sick after 10 minutes I came down the rigging and was bled arrgh that hurt. Later I was asked to help with an amputation. I do not like helping out with amputations. I was asked to hold down the unlucky person about to become an amputee!

Leaflet

  In geography we have been using maps to find out about the local area and making leaflets about the best places to visit in Hounslow.  For homework think about a place you have visited (eg London, France, Manchester).   Create a leaflet about the location.  Try to include:

• Places you may visit – Zoos, cinema, beach
• A map – drawn or copied.
• Exciting descriptions of each place including expanded noun phrases.
• Pictures, captions, labels and subheadings.

Habitats

-      Write fact sheet about a country, continent or biome of your choice.

 

Include:

-      A description of the place – rainforest, desert, mountainous

-      Facts about your region – rainfall, temperature

-      Major towns and cities

-      Rivers

-      Which habitats are there

Which animals live there

Animal fact sheet

-      Literacy (20mins): Write fact sheet about a creature.

 

Remember to:

-      Include a description of the habitat it lives in.

-      Write it is adapted to that habitat.

-      How is it linked to the ecosystem?  What is its predator? What is its food or prey?

-      Is it endangered or is it thriving?

Tudor Transport

For your homework this week we would like you to find out about different types of Tudor transport but particularly about Tudor boats. One of the most famous was the ‘Mary Rose’.

Use the KidRex search engine to help you find safe sites. Please ask your teacher if you cannot access this and need any books from the library.

Try to find out what it would be like on a Tudor ship. How many people would there be? What were their jobs? How long did ships travel for? What did the sailors eat?

Recounts

In Literacy we are learning about recounts.  For your homework we would like you to think about the best day or best trip you can remember.  Write all about the day.

 Remember to:

- Write in past tense

- Add detailed descriptions using expanded noun phrases (how did it smell, feel, sound?)

- Use adverbs of time (eg. Next, after, finally)

- Use adverbial phrases (eg. Later that day; As I walked down the hill)

- Write in chronological order

-Use prepositional phrases (Eg. Under the table, over the hill, next to the bridge)

News Report

This toy boat found washed up on a Welsh beach incredibly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in one piece

The toy boat was pulled out of the sea by Helen Hinks and her three children as they walked along a beach in Borth, West Wales. The toy was found by Helen Hinks and her three children as they walked along a beach in Borth, Ceredigion. But after seeing an appeal for it, they discovered the boat, named the Caroline Dreamer, had first been released into the Atlantic Ocean in May last year by a class of nine and 10-year-old pupils in Charleston, South Carolina.

'Something special'

Helen, 30, said she noticed “something magical” about the five-foot long boat straight away and took it home.

The aromatherapist said: “It was an amazing experience.” The boat being made in the USA with school teacher Amy McMahon.

“We were looking at the waves and my son said ‘look mum there’s a boat’. We were so excited, I ran in and grabbed it. It felt quite magical really — it sailed right up to us so it felt as though there was something special about it.”

School project

Pupils at St Andrews School of Math and Science launched the Carolina Dreamer nine months ago as a project to teach the children about the world’s oceans. The 5f-long fibre glass boat was fitted with a GPS tracker so pupils at the school could monitor its journey.  American schoolchildren and members of the coastguard who helped launch the boat in the USA but the boat didn’t have an engine and lost its sail during the 3,900 mile journey, but it managed to float naturally to Wales.

Last week it transmitted its location as 10 miles north of Aberstwyth, West Wales, so teacher Amy McMahon contacted local marine officials in a bid to trace it. Helen came forward after an appeal in a local newspaper and emailed the students in America to say the boat was safe.

'Over the moon'

Teacher Amy, 40, said: “We cannot tell you how excited and elated we are to hear that our beloved boat has been recovered and has found its way to a nearby school.”

Student Paris Cash, nine, said: “I am happy that the boat has been recovered. I was scared at first but when I heard somebody found our boat I was happy. When I heard, I jumped up and down.”

The battered boat that washed up in Wales

Zahnyah Quirk, 10, added: “I heard that our boat has been saved and I hope you know that our class is relieved and excited.”

Richard Baldwin, who tracked the Carolina Dreamer’s voyage, said: “Special teachers really make this program exciting and effective.

“Every voyage is different and you never know what’s going to happen when a small boat goes to sea.

“This keeps the kids interested and I think this is what makes the marine science and international relation opportunities that make this special.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35641001

In class children have been creating news reports based on the story Flotsam, which we have been reading.  In the story a camera full of amazing pictures washed up on the beach.  Imagine another object has washed up on the beach. Write a news report about the discovery.  Include interviews from different people.