Vlad and the Great Fire of London (A Flea in History)

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It contains all the information you need to teach the topic to a greater depth, whether it is the first time or if you want to refresh your knowledge and find out some fun facts to keep the subject lively. There are Big Questions that test both deeper factual knowledge and critical thinking, and ideas about where to look for visits and other activities. For today’s ten minutes of reading, you are going to choose a book of your choice to share with a member of your family. Talk about your likes and dislikes. What are your favourite phrases or sentences? Are there any words that you particularly like?

Make a prediction – which liquid do you think will work best at stopping the apple from turning brown? Why do you think this? Please remember that any worksheets do not need to be printed, they are there to support and guide you and you can have a go at these activities on a piece of paper at home. Choose the text that you read yesterday and read again. Now have a go at answering the questions. Can you locate the information in the text to help you answer the questions. Try scanning the text, like we did on Monday, to find key words.

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When we are changing a word from singular to plural you don’t always add an ‘s’. Look at the following information and watch the video that explains the different rules for changing a word from singular to plural. I want you to focus on the rules for adding just ‘s’ or when the singular ends in a ‘y’. This is not a lesson resource book, but was written as a fun activity book, which could be used as homework - the contents are listed below and can be seen on the attached video. Late one afternoon, Boxton and Vlad sneaked into the bakery on Pudding Lane. It was perfect in there! The warm floor was covered with a sprinkling of tasty breadcrumbs. Boxton settled down and began to gobble up the breadcrumbs. Starter: Let’s think about verbs. What is a verb? What job does it do? Use your learning from yesterday’s starter to help.

You are going to write the beginning of the story today. Introduce the reader to Boxton and Vlad and tell them about their arrival at the bakery on Pudding Lane. Begin by saying your sentence three times before you begin to write. This will help you to remember it. Now have a go at writing your sentence, listening carefully for the sounds and leaving spaces between words. Here is another video filmed by your friends with some new makaton signs to practise. First you can watch the alphabet. There is a link below that you can use to practise to learn this further. We used this to then sign the names of some significant people from the GFOL. To sign a name you sign the first letter of their first name and the first letter of their last name. Once you have practised the alphabet, could you make a video signing your own name?

Year 2 – You’re All On Fire!

Practice reading and spelling this week’s common words. Make sure you put the apostrophe in the correct places. Please complete this SPAG lesson if you have finished your diary entries from earlier in the week. If they are not complete, use this time to finish them. Starter: Just like yesterday, we are going to try substituting the verb in our sentence for a more interesting verb, a verb that gives precise information to the reader. Who am I? – five people who saw the fire give a clue to their identity. Unscramble their names from the letters given.