Good Morning Unicorns Heres your work for today

Good Morning Unicorns! Here’s your work for today: Tuesday 27 th April

Reading Comprehension Today you are going to read a text and then answer questions about it.

First… …read the poem ‘The Ice-cream Man’ on page 33 in your CGP Reading workbook.

Now take a look at the questions… R Remember to be detectives- the answers will be hidden somewhere in the text.

Please complete the questions on pages 33 -36 of your CGP Reading workbook.

Grammar • Today you will be focussing on: Months of the year Watch this link and enjoy the song and dance: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=omku. E 6 Wa 5 k. Q

Grammar • Please complete pages 14 and 15 in your Nelson Grammar workbook.

Maths answers from yesterday: Pages 40 and 41 1. From left to right: triangle, pentagon, circle, octagon 2. The first, fourth and fifth objects 3. There are 3 squares and 4 rectangles 4. Pentagon- 5; triangle-3; hexagon-6; square-4 5. There should be four shapes crossed out 6. The shapes should be divided into two symmetrical halves Challenge Shape A has 6 sides and 6 vertices; shape B has 4 sides and 4 vertices; shape C has eight 8 sides and 8 vertices.

Maths Today we are going to look at 3 D shapes.

How many faces can you see? How many faces are hidden? Can you think of another shape that has six faces? Let’s look at the answers and how you could have worked them out on the next slide…

• Is the cat’s first comment always true? Do you know of any other shapes that have rectangular faces ? • How did you make sure that you counted all the faces correctly?

Which real life examples of a square-based pyramid can you think of to help you answer this question? I can think of a tent or the roof of a house.

Now I would like you to have a go at completing work in your CGP Maths Reasoning workbook. If you would like to try Gruffalo work, complete page 42. If you would like to try Horrid Henry work, complete pages 42 and 43. If you would like to try James and the Giant Peach work, complete pages 42, 43 and my Challenge question on the next slide.

English • Today we are going to look at a different type of poem. • It’s called ‘Ten things found in a Wizard’s pocket’ • Have a read of it on the next slide and see if you can decide which type of poem it is…

This is a list poem. Today you are going to think about what else could be in the Wizard’s pocket. The items can be as imaginative and creative as you like! There are some of my examples on the next slide…

In the Wizard’s Pocket there also: Five bags of magical sweets that make you invisible Smelly socks with big black dots belonging to unicorns. A multi-coloured flying carpet made entirely of chocolate Jokes from new-born babies to make the world smile

Quiz Time! • Can you work out the titles of the 20 traditional tales, fairy tales and fables on the next slide? • See if you can beat someone else in your household!

Answers on the next slide…

Enjoy, Unicorns!