Homework due Friday, 11th May 2018

TIME CONJUNCTIONS

When, after, before, until, since, while, once, as and as soon as are conjunctions which can be used to connect an action or an event to a point in time. Conjunctions must be followed by an action done by someone, or something. If you take the conjunction out, the sentence would not make sense!

Task

Complete the following sentences by putting a time conjunction into them. Make sure they make sense! Then write five of your own sentences using time conjunctions.

She was a lot smaller  _________      she was young.

We must be quiet    ______   everyone has gone to bed.

Put your pyjamas on     ________________   you go to bed!

I’ll wait with you    ­­­­­­­­­­­___________________ the train comes.

I’ve been very busy   ____________    I started my new job.

No one left the classroom  ______________   the lesson was on.

I’ll call you   ___________________ I arrive.

We always have some popcorn  _______   we get to the cinema.

I saw him   _____________   I came out of the supermarket.

Homework due Friday, 4th May 2018: Persuasive Letter

Our local and global community have a plastic problem. We want you to do something about it! Have a look at the facts below:

1)      10 million metric tonnes of plastic waste end up in our seas and oceans each year. This is the same weight as about 2 million elephants- imagine that!

2)      Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose and rot away!

3)      There is an enormous pile of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean which is now larger than France!

4)      It is predicted that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.

5)      Some of our sealife is dying due to the fact that these vulnerable creatures are eating the plastic which poisions them.

6)      Hounslow Borough Council do not collect recycling from schools!

Task:  We are asking all children at Chatsworth to work together as a community to write a letter to Hounslow Borough Council to PERSUADE them to start collecting recycling from schools in the borough. Your letter should give at least three reasons why they should collect recycling from schools. You may decide to write a paragraph for each reason. Try to include persuasive sentence starters (Surely you agree that…..Everybody knows that….I strongly believe that….) and rhetorical questions (How would you feel if…? Don’t you know that….?) Please write your letter on PAPER.

You do not need to include any addresses on your letter as we will send a covering letter as a school. You could set out the letter as below:

Date

Dear Councillor,

I am writing because….

…….

…….

Yours sincerely

Your name

Homework due Monday, 30th April 2018

This week we have been looking at biographies and autobiographies. Your homework is to find out as much as you can about the life of someone you admire. It could be a family member or somebody famous that you have heard about. Please make notes about their life on paper and bring it in to school on or before Monday, 30^th April. Try to sort their life into sections.

For example,

1)Date and place of birth/early years/ family life
2) Life at school
3) Early adulthood and first job
4) Marriage? Children?
4) Later jobs/achievements
5) Life now or date and details of death

Remember to include any important and interesting events and achievements.

I'm looking forward to seeing who you have chosen to research and what you have found out.

 

Homework due Monday, 16th April 2018

Homework due Monday, 16^th April 2018

Please write two diary entries over the holidays. You should focus on using adverbial starters and remember to use a comma after your adverbials. Below are some examples of the different ways that you can start your sentences.

Each diary entry should include at least two activities that you completed that day, what you did, who you were with, describing what you could see/ hear/ feel, describing your thoughts and feelings.

Homework due Friday, 23rd March 2018

What is your favourite game?

Remembering what you have learnt this week, please write a set of instructions for your favourite game.

Use the frame below to help you plan your instructions before you begin writing them.

Introduction

What you will need:

What to do:

Final note:

You can also include diagrams to help you explain each step.

Homework due Friday, 16th March 2018

We have been looking at ways to show how a character is feeling by using a range of vocabulary to imply (hint at) their feelings without explicitly saying the adjective.

For example,

The boy was feeling sad.

The boy’s lip trembled as tears dripped down his cheek.

 

How do you think these characters are feeling?

Try to use SHOW not tell sentences to imply how the person is feeling. Think about their facial expression, body language, what they may say and how they may say it.

Can you think of at least 5 different sentences to show how eachcharacter is feeling?

Homework due Friday, 9th March 2018

We have been looking at ways to write direct speech into our stories this week. Can you remember the things we found out? 

Ask a parent's permission to view this clip for some tips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zvftsbk

Task :  Rewrite the following sentences so that the speech (and everything else) is written correctly. Can you think of some alternative words for 'said'?


 what time is it asked Sachin.  “What time is it?” asked Sachin
 let’s have chicken for dinner said Monica.
 can I play on the computer Mum asked Kayla.
 i would like an ice cream please said Zara.
 that costs 12 euro said the shop-keeper.
 would you like to read a book asked the teacher.
 where is the cheese asked Kayleigh.
 what’s five times eight asked Miss Byrne.
 hooray shouted the children.