English Home Learning Week Beginning 19 10 20

English Home Learning Week Beginning 19. 10. 20

This week… • Day 1 – Grammar - capital letters and full stops • Day 2 – Introduce – reading text and answering questions. • Day 3 – Book review • Day 4 – Character description

Day 1

Day 1 – capital letters • Where do capital letters need to go? • https: // www. youtube. com/watch? v=c 3 g 2 gqt 2 Tp. A

Day 1 – capital letters A capital letter is used for a: 1. Name 2. Person 3. Place 4. Beginning of a sentence 5. I

Day 1 – capital letters. These sentences do not have any capital letters. Can you find the correct place for them to go? 1. adam and alina went to the shop. 2. please can we drive to london for our holiday?

Day 1 – capital letters Let’s see if you guessed them right… 1. Adam and Alina went to the shop. 2. P lease can we drive to London for our holiday? Adam and Alina are names. London is a place and please is at the beginning of a sentence.

Day 1 – capital letters Now try and add the missing capital letters to these sentences. Write the sentences in your home learning book. • paul eats peas with his meat • kay must pay for her new bike • i bought a new bag when i went to the shop • i like to go shopping in bradford

Day 2

Day 2 – Reading comprehension Today we are going to be reading this book on Bug Club. Run in the Rainforest by Simon Cheshire Please log in using the details your teacher has given you. https: //www. activelearnprimary. co. uk/login? c=0

Day 2 – Reading comprehension . • Book title: Run in the Rainforest • Use the link below to login to Bug Club then access through your library. • https: //www. activelearnprimary. co. uk/

Day 2 - Task 1 Answer these questions in your Home Learning book 1. Which country are Ed and Lin travelling in? 2. 3. 4. 5. Who or what was watching Ed and Lin? What is a group of birds called? Why does Lin decide not to swim? What does Lin say that she can fight the animals off with? 6. How does the writer show use that Lin and Ed are frightened? 7. Write 2 facts about a jaguar. 8. How did Lin run?

Day 3

Day 3 – Book Review Read the story Run in the Rainforest again. When you read it, think about the following things: • What was your favourite part of the story? • Which bit would you change? • Who was your favourite character and why?

Day 3 – Book review Write in your home learning book about what your thoughts are about the book you have read. Use these headings to help you and don’t forget to explain your reasons why. My favourite part of the story The things I would change about the story My favourite characters in the story What I want to find out about the story

Day 4

Day 4 – Character description Today you are going to choose which character you would like to focus on and use adjectives to write sentences about that character. You need to draw a picture of your character and then write some sentences using capital letters and full stops, adjectives and different sentence openers. Lin Ed