Written Homework to be complete by Tuesday 20^th June 2023

Please learn the following words for a spelling test. This week we are learning words that contain unstressed vowels:

definite   desperate   literate   secretary   stationary   dictionary   Wednesday   familiar   original   animal          

This week I would like you to write a sentence containing each word to show that you understand the meaning.  Can you use commas, full stops and capital letters correctly?  Can you use some direct speech in your sentences?  Can you use a relative pronoun such as that, which, who, whom and where? Can you use an expanded noun phrase?  Can you use parenthesis – brackets, commas or dashes to show additional information?  Please refer to the ‘Monarchy’ Sheet that gives different strategies of how to learn spellings. This has been stuck in the front of your child’s Homework Book.

English Task: This week I would like you to find put some information about the duck-billed platypus.  Where does it live in the world?  What is i’s habitat?  What does it eat?  How does it look after its young?    Online Tasks: For Purple Mash please read Chapter 2 of our new e-book called ‘Dark Water’ by Sarah Loader.  I have set a Classroom Secrets Kids activity this week entitled Measure Perimeter Maths Challenge.   Your logins for Classroom Secrets Kids and Purple Mash have been stuck in your Homework Book.