Reading time

Please practise reading.  You can read anything...a book in your house, a magazine, a newspaper article, a recipe - literally anything!  Just practise reading to the punctuation, practise your flow and your decoding skills (sound the word out, split the word up etc).

Literacy

In our own story, we are going to be including speech.  Today, we are going to practise using speech punctuation.  Watch this handy video to help you remember the speech success criteria. 

Use the pictures below to have a go at writing some conversations between the boy and the alien.  

Here is a success criteria to help you:

- " " Speech marks/inverted commas

- New speaker, new line

- CL as first letter inside speech marks

- Punctuation before close speech marks (!  ,   ?  or .)

- Synonym (other word) for said

- Adverb(ial) for how

Example:

"Why don't we fly up there?" questioned the puzzled alien frantically.

"Err, like this?" stammered the boy, who was feeling confused.  

OR

The boy yelled at the top of his voice, "Yeeeehaaaa!" as he soared upwards. 

The alien agreed quietly, in a serious tone, "Yes, like that."

Maths

Today, we are going to be practising our 4 and 8 times tables.  In fact, we will be practising these times tables all week.   Practise the songs below and then test yourselves on Daily 10 (click level 4 and then multiplication). 

The main thing we are focusing on today is understanding numbers to 100,000.

Space - space travel timeline!

Have a look at the facts!  See who or what went into space first.  Perhaps you'd like to do a bit more research based on the facts below or if you have a printer, you might like to have a go at completing the timeline.  Have fun!