Written Homework to be completed by Thursday 1^st April 2021

Please learn the following words for a spelling test on 1.4.21.  This week we are learning more pairs of homophones – words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings:

father/farther  cereal/serial   guest/guessed  alter/altar   plain/plane  route/root    accept/except    rain/reign

Put each homophone into a sentence that explains the meaning   If you are unsure, look the word up in a dictionary. Please put a comparative conjunction (e.g. as well as, also, equally, similarly, likewise) or contrasting conjunction (e.g. alternatively, although, whereas, while, in contrast, however, despite) into your sentence.

Can you write a relative clause using who, which, where, when, whose and that?

Can you use a  fronted adverbial at the beginning of your sentence? For example, Afterwards, Immediately, As soon as I could, Anxiously, Curiously, Just then, Eventually.

Can you include some speech marks in your sentences? What different words can you use for ‘said’? For example, ‘replied’, ‘whispered’, ‘shouted’, ‘cried’, answered’, bellowed’, ‘screamed’.

Can you create an expanded noun phrase or use a modal verb in your sentence?

Can you use brackets, dashed and commas to show parenthesis in your sentences?

Remember to use a range of punctuation. 

You do not need to do all of these things! 

Try using at least three!  Please look carefully at the VCOP sheet that has been stuck into the back of your Homework book. 

English Task: This week I would like you to find out some information about one of Queen Victoria’s nine children.  When were they born and when did they die?  Did they have another title apart from Prince or Princess?  Did they marry and if so, to whom? What did they do during their lifetime?

 

 

Online Tasks: I have set you some online Homework for the week beginning 22.3.21.  For MyMaths I have set you an 2 activities entitled Simple Equivalent Fractions and Equivalent Fractions. For your Purple Mash this week I have set you Chapters 5 and 6 to read of our new e-book ‘Lexi and the Giant’ and also 2 online multi-choice activities about Chapters 3 and 4.