Day 1(Monday 29th June)

• Spelling Test – take a 10 word test or challenge yourself to 30!

• New Spellings

• 60 second read comprehensions

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Day 2(Tuesday 30th June)

Dictionary skills

Compound words

Adjectives

Short comprehension on aliens

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What do these wordsmean?Use a dictionary and/or thesaurus to find out

1. humanoid

2. cocoon

3. vegetarian

4. dislocate

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Compound words are made when two words are joined to form a new word, for example: blackboard.

I have taken compound words from your language and split them up. Your challenge is:1. Join a word in column 1 with any word in column 2.2. Write the new word in the box below.3. Invent a definition for your new alien word.

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Remember, when you use two adjectives, you separate them using a comma. The alien I saw had fiery, oval eyes.

Write some interesting adjectives to describe different bits of the alien.

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1. Aliens can run up to 450mph.

2. Candyarian means they are vegetarian but also enjoy eating sweet foods (they have a sweet tooth).

3. Aliens usually sleep in pods or space shacks made of ice. Some like to sleep in a cocoon which is woven by space worms.

4. Exploring means the same as investigating.

5. The smallest alien species is called the Pigmy alien.

6. False. Aliens have tough, green skin which is often wrinkled. Some also

have hard, shiny scales.

7. They would have chocolate, cakes, desserts, ice-cream and fizzy drinks on their shopping list.

8. They might scare humans because they have green skin, are very tall (often more than 10 metres), they can make themselves invisible and they can run extremely fast.

9. Aliens are known to be excellent mathematicians who can calculate the answers in their head.

Answers:

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Day 3(Wednesday 1st July)

Use your imagination to answer questions and create your own questions.

Draw your own alien

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet an

alien?

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Imagine you are world expert on aliens and you are answering the interview questions below. Make up one fact for each question.

★ Start your answers with one of these generalisers. These are words that sum up things e.g. most, all, some, many, a few. For example: Most aliens like cheese.

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★ Now write your own questions to ask an alien. Use the question words: who, what, when, where and how. Don't forget to end your sentence with a question mark.

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Think about:How many eyes will it have? How many legs? What colour will its skin be? What special powers will it have?

Label your alien to show what it can do e.g. laser eyes for fighting enemies.

Finally, colour it in.

A CREATIVE CHALLENGE.On this page, or in your home learning book,draw your own alien

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Day 4(Thursday 2nd July)

• Headlines

• Writing a newspaper paragraph containing the 5 W’s:

• When? What? Who? Why? Where?

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Writing a newspaper report

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Can you identify the 5W’s in these two articles?Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Why?

Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Why?

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Use the exampleon the previouspage to help you.

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