Preview sheet 3.10.16

W/C 3.10.16 Preview Sheet

 

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

 

Next week we will be returning to our work on relative clauses and fronted adverbials to support the writing of our newspaper reports.

 

Relative clauses:

Emily, who was very kind, helped the old lady across the road.

 

Fronted adverbials: extra information added before the verb.

eg. Awkwardly, James stepped into the room.

Completely exhausted, Emma collapsed after the race.

 

We will also be finding synonyms for more basic words to improve our writing and looking at how modal verbs can be used to indicate degrees of possibility.

 

Synonyms:

Words with similar meanings eg happy, ecstatic, overjoyed

 

Modal verbs: might, could, will, should, must.

There is a possibility that Groosham Grange might be closed within the need few days.

 

Maths

 

Next week we will be:

 

·        continuing with number sequences and extending this to work with multiplication and division steps. We will also continue to work with decimal numbers and negative numbers.

Eg. 7, 14, 21, 28 ____, ____, ____,

Multiply by 3 and take away 4

6, 14, 38, ____, ____

Square each prior number

2, 4, 16, ____, ____,

·        using written methods for multiplication and solving word problems.

Examples of this are on the website under ‘parents’ and then ‘school policies’. We use grid, expanded and compact methods of multiplication.