Hello Griffins and Eagles!!We hope you are all OK. Here are the learning tasks for this week.Make sure you do some kind of exercise every day and try to do one or two of these tasks every day. Also remember to READ and practice SPELLING words from this list EVERY DAY:

READING TASK 1

READING TASK 2

READING TASK 3

How many different pats can you see on this front cover?

Why would a snake make a good pet?

Why would a snake NOT make a good pet?

Which animal do you think would make the best pet?

Why do you think that?

Where are the children?

What day is it?

What pet has Mia got?

What can Ali’s pet do?

Who has a snake as a pet?

What adjective does Emma use to describe her hamster?

READING TASK 4

READING TASK 5

Everyone looked at me. “Alex hasn’t got a pet.” said Ali. “I have!” I shouted. “I have got a pet and it’s better than all of your!” I said.

Who is telling this story?

Which one is Alex?

How do you think Alex feels?

How can you tell?

Predict – what animal do you think Alex has as a pet?

What were they going to do after school?

Whose idea was it?

Who made the list?

Whose pet are they going to look at on Monday?

Which animal were they going to see on Thursday?

What was good about the hamster?

What was the problem with the hamster?

READING TASK 6

READING TASK 7

What was good about the hamster?

What was the problem with the hamster?

Alex has got a problem – can you work out what it is?

How is he going to solve his problem?

Where did they go on Tuesday?

Why did the man next door shout at them?

READING TASK 8

READING TASK 9

Where did they go on Tuesday?

Why did the man next door shout at them?

Why did the children go to Mia’s?

What was Mia’s pet called?

Is it a girl or a boy cat?

How do you know?

What did the children tell Tinkerbell to do?

What was the problem?

How are they going to solve it?

Which phrase tells us Tinkerbell often gets stuck up the tree?

READING TASK 10

PHONICS TASK 1Let’s revise the LONG a sound ai, ay, a-e, a

Who was Alex’s neighbor?

Why did Alex visit his neighbor?

Why didn’t Alex have a pet?

Why couldn’t Alex borrow Mr Silver’s parrot?

Who owned a snake?

Why did they all run away?

Everyone is going to Alex’s house tomorrow – how do you think he is feeling?

Remember: ai is most often in the middle of a worday is usually at the end of a ROOT word a-e always has a letter between the thema is at the beginning or in the middle of a word

Which digraph do you need?

pl__ __corn ch__n sh_k_ st__inggr_t_ d__sy __ngel sw__ed compl__n

p__nting _lien scr_p_ Mond__ sh_v_

PHONICS TASK 2ww.phonicsplay.co.ukfree phoincsplaychildrenphase 3 (to read ai words)phase 5 (to read ay and a-e words)

PHONICS TASK 3Roll a dice and read a letter on the corresponding line

PHONICS TASK 4Tick the right one

PHONICS TASK 5Circle the words that contain the long a sound

PHONICS TASK 6Play this like Noughts and Crosses – say a word out loud then put your cross or zero on it

WRITING TASK 1News WritingWhat news have you got to tell me?

Write at least 6 sentences.Remember to use conjunctions such as and, but, so, because, when.Remember to use time connectives such as First, Next, Then, After that, Soon, Last of all

WRITING TASK 2

WRITING TASK 3Do a bit of research and complete this weather chart

How can you tell it’s Summer?

Continue the story.Tell me which Pet Alex finds.Tell me what happens when his friends go to his house to see his pet.

The first day of Summer isThe summer months are:In Summer the trees__________________________

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Flowers that bloom in Summer:____________________

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In Summer the weather is . . . (draw)

In Summer the days are__________________________

In Summer the nights are__________________________

In Summer I can smell_______________________

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In Summer I can hear_______________________

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Summer insects_______________________

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Summer Time Celebrations

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WRITING TASK 4Adverbs – words that describe a verb (an action) Adverbs often end in –ly.Which of these words are NOT adverbs?

Write six sentences – put an adverb in each one.EG: The dog ran quickly down the path.

Let’s revise TIME!MATHS TASK 1

It is o’clock

MATHS TASK 2

MATHS TASK 3

MATHS TASK 4

Jack leaves school at quarter past 3.He got home at five to 4.How long did it take him to get home?

MATHS TASK 5

TOPIC

Let’s try some experiments!

Make Cornflour SlimeYou will need:

200ml waterfood colouring200-300g cornflour

MethodTip the cornflour into a bowl.Add the water to the cornflour a little at a time.Keep adding water until the mixture becomes thick and hardens when you tap it. Add a few drops of food colouring and mix well. Put your hands in the slime:

What happens when you pick it up?What happens when you leave it alone for a few minutes? Is it a solid or a liquid?

Fizzy ColoursYou will need:

plastic cups a traypaint brushes or syringeswhite vinegara few tubs of bicarbonate of sodadifferent food colouring

MethodTip the bicarbonate of soda into the tray and spread it out.Put a few drops of different food colouring in each plastic cup.Half fill each cup with white vinegar. Put a paintbrush (or syringe) into each pot.Suck up the coloured vinegar and drip it into the tray. What happens to the bicarb powder? Once you have 2 or 3 different colours on the tray mix them together.What happens? What can you see in the mixture?

Paper Towel ColoursYou will need:

waterkitchen rollplastic cupsred, yellow and blue food colouring

MethodPut the red food colouring in one cup and the blue in another cup. Add water to both cups. Roll 1-2 sheets of kitchen towel lengthways into a tube.Bend the tube in half and dip one end into each cup.What happens? What colour can you see where the red and blue meet? How could you make green? Orange? Purple?

Rainbow Making You will need:

one cup of whole milk (blue top)different food colouringswashing up liquid

MethodPour the milk into a bowl.Drop 3 drops of one food colouring at one side of the bowl.Drop 3 drops of another colour on the other side of the bowl.Drop 3 drops of another colour away from the other two colours.Be careful not to mix the colours. Squeeze a drop of washing up liquid into the middle of the bowl.What happens to the colours?