Tuesday 12th May 2020.Good morning! I hope that you are all staying safe and well! Here is your joke for the day: What day of the week are most twins born? - Twos-day!

Here are the answers for yesterdays workbook:

Maths starter: 1. Anna has 19 strawberries. Charlie has 8 more than Anna. How many

strawberries does Charlie have? 2. Nina has 26 lollipops. Jake has 7 more than Nina. How many lollipops

does Jack have?

Today we are starting a new chapter. This chapter is money! In this chapter, pupils will be working towards recognising coins and notes. The chapter begins with pupils looking at coins to help identify them through shape, markings, size and colour. After this, pupils explore notes in a similar fashion, by looking at the colours of the notes and their markings to help identify them.Lesson 1: Recognising Coins.Lesson intention: To be able to recognise coins and determine their value using size, colour, markings and shape.

It would be good for children to work with real money if they can. If this is not possible then I will put what the coins look like below:

Workbook page 119-121:

Reading for pleasure: 30 mins

Literacy: Reading: Read the ‘Superheroes- All sorts’ by Ruth Merttens and Anne Holm Petersen. The same one from last week (this be separate on the blog). Look for pairs of words in Superheroes- All sorts’ that are opposites. Look at the words in the two columns below. Read each word. Draw a line from a word in the left-hand column to its opposite in the right-hand column.

Next, read the words on the table below. Write in an opposite work for each of these words.

Now look at the pictures of the Town and Country Superheroes from the story.

Answer the following questions verbally: Which would you like to live in, the town or the country? Think of at least two reasons for your choice and write these down using conjunctions. For example: I would like to live in the country because it is muddier and there are lots of animals there.

Project: Complete your 3D earth sculpture.