PLAN FOR THE DAY
SPELLINGS- HANDWRITING
READING- PREDICTIONS
LITERACY- CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
MATHS – TIMETABLES
CREATIVE ACTIVITY – DT (BAKING)
Spellings
Write the following words in your best cursive handwriting.
Curiosity, develop, equipped, existence, frequently, prejudice,
privilege, queue, symbol, temperature
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Reading -Questioning about the text
Write questions around the images about the picture book.
E.g. Who is the boy?
Reading – Predictions using images
What do you think this book will be about?
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What makes you think this?
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Use a dictionary to define the meaning of ‘Flotsam’
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Literacy- Character descriptions
The book starts off with the character below.
What kind of character do you think he is? Write words around
the images to describe him. Think about what his interests
could be.
Now write your character description
Use adjectives, adverbs, powerful verbs and third person.
Include : ; -
Carefully, he held the delicate shell in his hand as his golden
blonde hair danced in the cool sea breeze.
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Maths – – timetables
1. Which train should Frankie catch from the airport if she wants to arrive
in Halifax by 11:45?
2. Carl is meeting his friend in Leeds at 9am. Which train should he catch
from Mirfield?
3. Which show lasts the shortest amount of time?
4. Which show lasts the longest amount of time?
5. How long is the journey from West Ealing to Heathrow on the 11:37 bus?
6. Below is a swimming pool timetable. How long does the inflatable session
last on a Saturday?
7. This is the school football timetable. How long does Class 5 play each
week?
8. True or false? Isla is in Class 4. She will have 7 minutes between javelin and the
sprint.
9. This is part of the parents’ evening timetable for Class 12. Archie thinks
he might have made a mistake.
Is he correct? Explain your answer.
Creative Activity
Have a go at making these amazing ocean cakes.
Upload your creations to the blog!
Recipe for the beach cupcakes
Ingredients
• 3 eggs
• 6 oz. self-rising flour
• 6 oz. butter or margarine
• 6 oz. caster sugar
• Few drops vanilla essence
• Dash of milk
• Blue food colouring
• Digestive biscuits.
1) Simply mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl,
using a mixer.
2) Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases, filling each
one 2/3rds full.
3) Then bake in a muffin tin for 25 minutes at 180
degrees.
4) To make the topping, mix half a cup of icing sugar
with a few drops of warm water and stir until runny.
5) Add a few drops of blue colouring to make it look
like the ocean, then spread it over each cake, once
they were cooled.
6) Bash 5 digestive biscuits until they resembled
breadcrumbs.
7) Sprinkle this all over the icing, covering it up.
8) To finish them off, stick a beach umbrella cocktail
stick into the top of each one
PLAN FOR THE DAY
• SPELLINGS- DEFINITION WORK
• READING- INFERRING THOUGHTS AND SPEECH
• WRITING – PERSUASIVE FEATURES
• MATHS – READING AND INTERPRETING TABLES
• CREATIVE ACTIVITY- DESIGN AN OCEAN DISCOVERY
BOTTLE
Spellings
Find the definitions of your spellings using a dictionary.
Curiosity, develop, equipped, existence, frequently, prejudice,
privilege, queue, symbol, temperature
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Reading- inferring thoughts and speech
Write the characters in the book could be thinking and saying.
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Reading – Predictions based on images
The boy takes the underwater
camera to get the photos
developed and printed. What
does the image tell us about
the boy?
Draw and explain what you think the boy has seen on the
photograph.
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Literacy – identify persusaive languauge features
Look at the text below and underline:
Adjectives, rhetorical questions, exaggeration, imperative
(bossy) language, formal (posh) language.
Maths- – read and interpret tables
1. True or false?
Cape Town is the second furthest destination from London.
2. True or false?
Milan is further away from Manchester than Buenos Aires.
3. Look at the table below.
a. How many more tickets were sold for football and basketball
compared with cricket and basketball?
b. How many tickets were sold altogether?
4. Which two arenas have a combined ticket sales of 697,542?
5. Which two arenas have a difference in sales of 156,197?
6. The table below shows the number of minutes spent on different
activities by five children in a year.
Create three questions about the data.
Make sure you include your answers!
7. The table below shows the fastest speeds (km/h) recorded over three
races.
In race 2, the slowest speed was 241.3lm/h. Do you agree? Prove it.
8. Holly records the number of vehicles crossing a bridge over three
weeks.
Do you agree with Holly? Why?
9. Zain records how many people visit a museum over three years.
Do you agree with Zain? Why?
DT Activity
Today you are going to design an exciting ocean themed
discovery bottle which creates waves and bubbles when
tipped from side to side!
You can do this from a recycled water bottle.
You could use blue food colouring to turn the water blue.
You could add shells, rocks and other things that you
think would be in an ocean.
Below are examples… plan your own discover bottle on
the next page!
PLAN FOR THE DAY
READING- INFERENCE
LITERACY – PERSUASIVE ADVERT
MATHS – TWO WAY TABLES
CREATIVE ACTIVITY – CREATE AN OCEAN DISCOVERY
BOTTLE.
Reading- Inferences
1. Are the pictures real? Explain your thoughts.
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2. Who do you think took them? Explain.
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3. Describe how the boy could be feeling looking at the photos:
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4. What do you think the boy could do next?
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Literacy –Persuasive advert
Create an advert to try and persuade people to buy the
underwater camera.
Use: adjectives, exaggeration, rhetorical questions,
imperative verbs, formal language, a range of
punctuation such as () - ? ! :
Maths
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Maths- – two way tables
1. This table shows the different types of shelving that a manufacturer
makes.
Which letter shows;
A. The number of larger maple shelves that the manufacturer makes?
B. How many pine shelves are manufactured altogether?
2. This table shows the number of pets that children in an infant school
have.
Which letter shows;
A. The total number of children who have no pets?
B. How many Year 1 children have 1 pet?
3. This table shows the number of tickets that were old for a theme park.
A. How many adult tickets were sold altogether?
B. How many more children tickets were sold on Sunday than Friday?
4. This table shows the number of cars in a carpark.
Complete the table using the information given.
5. This table shows the hair colour of members of staff in a department
shop.
Complete the table.
6. This table shows which hand children write with.
Write two word problems where the answer would be A or B. Calculate
the correct answer for each.
7. This table shows the flavours of crisps sold at a tuck shop.
Molly says ‘I think 45 bags of paprika crisps were sold on Wednesday.
Do you agree with Molly? Convince me.
8. Use the information below, complete the two-way table.
• There are 271 children in Year 3.
• 106 more Year 1 children like dogs than cats.
True or false? There are 25 fewer children in Y2 compared to Y3.
Explain how you know.
Creative Activity
Today you are going to create an exciting ocean themed
discovery bottle which you designed yesterday.
Upload your masterpiece onto the blog!
PLAN FOR THE DAY:
READING- RETRIEVE/INFER
LITERACY – SETTING DESCRIPTION
MATHS- DRAWING LINE GRAPHS
ART- SKETCH YOUR OWN UNDER WATER WORLD.
Literacy –Retrieval/inference
Below are the photos which the camera has produced!
1. Retrieve what you can see in them by labelling each of the
images. Look carefully!
2. Explain what you think is happening in them.
Label what you can see in the image.
What is happening in this photo? Look closely at the starfish’s backs!
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Label what you can see in the image.
Label what you can see in the image.
How do we know that this photo has been taken in the ocean?
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Label what you can see in the image.
How do you think this fish swims?
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Literacy – short setting description
Below is another photo from the camera. Your job is to describe
it.
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Setting description success criteria
Steps to success Pupil
I have written in second person
I have described using the senses
My sentence openers are varied.
I have included adverbs
I have used parenthesis using () or -
I have a simile or metaphor
I have included personification
I have included relative clauses
I have used a range of powerful adjectives
I have used a range of rich vocabulary, including a
semi-colon.
Maths- – drawing line graphs
1. The table and line graph below show the distance Harry ran in a race.
Join the points in the line graph to estimate the missing distances in
the table below.
2. The table and line grape below she the distance travelled by a boat.
Use the information in the table to complete the line graph.
3. The table and line graph below show the average temperature in a
week in Leeds. Complete the line graph by adding in the missing
elements, including titles. Use the information in the table to help you.
4. The table and line graph below show the average temperature in a week in
London. Complete the line graph by adding in the missing elements, including
titles. Use the information in the table to help you.
5. Sammy is creating a line graph to show the population growth in Dublin from
2014 to 2018.
Will his line graph work? Draw a line graph to help you explain why.
6. Katie has created a line graph to show the number of kilometres she walked
in 5 days.
Use these pieces of information to draw a line graph.
7. Part of this line graph is missing. It should show 10 minutes of the car race.
If the graph continues in the same way, when will it reach an average speed
of 30mph? Draw the completed line graph.
Art
Sketch your own underwater world.
Think about what you would be in your underwater world and
what you would like to capture.
Draw your sketch on a piece of A4 paper and upload to the blog!
Look at the examples below.
Draw your sketch below or on your own paper!
PLAN FOR THE DAY:
• SPELLINGS- SENTENCE WORK
• READING- QUESTIONING
• LITERACY- DIARY WRITING
• MATHS- PROBLEMS WITH LINE GRAPHS
• CREATIVE ACTIVITY- MINDFULLNESS
COLOURING.
Spellings
Write the following words in sentences.
Curiosity, develop, equipped, existence, frequently, prejudice,
privilege, queue, symbol, temperature
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Reading – questioning the images
Write down the questions which you have about the photos from
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Reading – choice/prediction
1. Which is your favourite photograph? Why?
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2. How do the photos make you feel?
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3. The book has no words – why do you think the author has
not included any?
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4. The boy throws the camera back into the sea.
Predict how the story might continue:
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Literacy – Diary entry
The boy has had a very interesting day!
Write a diary entry from his perspective. Include: 1st person,
key events, adjectives, adverbs, time connectives and a range of
punctuation.
Dear diary,
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Maths- – problems with line graphs
1. True or false? England’s total rainfall in January and February was less than the
total rainfall in March and April.
2. How much longer did it take for the gas oven to reach 160°C than the electric
oven?
3. Complete the sentence.
Sales of blue ribbons were higher than the sale of red ribbons in __________.
4. Complete the sentence.
The number of children visiting the park was higher than adults in _________.
5. Sarah visited the theme park the day before Michael. When she went, there
were 2,000 more visitors than when Michael went. What day did Sarah go?
6. Complete the sentences.
500 more petrol cars were made in ______ than ______. More diesel cars were
made in ______ and ______ than in May.
7. Max thinks that Yasmin ran further than him last week.
Is he correct? Use the line graph to convince me.
8. Fay thinks that the girls raised more money than the boys.
Is she correct? Use the line graph to convince me.
Creative Activity- Mindfulness Colouring
Choose a picture to take your time and colour in! Enjoy
colouring in these images and upload onto the blog!