1st November
Maths
Maths Videos for the week
Literacy
Gunpowder
Lesson 1
Gunpowder plot ppt (see below)
Discuss showing this event in a comic strip style
How many words are used in a comic strip? Explore how children can use language to be concise.
Task 1 -create storyboard of gunpowder plot to tell story.
limit to 25 words per picture
Lesson 2
Write diary entry as one of key plotters
Write about the day the plan was made?
Discuss emotion of these men – public and private |
Lesson 3
Edit and improve – identify audience and purpose
Make more personal and expressive of the person writing the diary entry
Spellings
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Put in to sentences
Guided Reading
RE
To understand that following Christ demands sacrifices
LO: To research and learn about the lives of key people and how they were followers of Christ
Teach children about some traditional/new/unknown saints and identify how their lives made them saints
- Mother Teresa
- John Henry Newman
- St Bernadette
- Padra Pio
- St Faustina
Tasks
Hot– write a report for a religious magazine about the impact on the world of their chosen saint (children can use homework saint or one that has been discussed in class)
Spicy – create saints information cards to inform people about the key points about 3 saints of their choice (Name, nationality, years alive, mission from God, what made them a saint, Canonisation date, unusual fact)
Mild– Summarise the life of one of the saints studied and explain what we can learn today from this person