Thursday 21st January
Daily News
Yesterday was another fantastic day for submissions of work. Some of the writing that you are producing for The Highwayman is quite superb – I am really enjoying reading it.
Again, I was going to share an example, but it was impossible to narrow it down to one piece so here are four that I was particularly impressed with.
James 
Iris
Zoe 
Caden
Again, hearty congratulations to all four of these.
And now, the results of the House Battle Times Table Rockstars:
Massive congratulations to Blue house. It gives me pleasure to announce that the top 3 scorers in the competition were:
1st: Zoe
2nd: Cameron
3rd: Charlotte
Coming soon we will be having another battle – watch this space for details!
Mr Simmons’ Joke of the Day
Maths
Our final session on decimals today looks at a one last way to express a fraction as a decimal.
Finally, try these questions:
And submit your answers to your Dojo Portfolio.
English
We continue with The Highwayman today. Watch the video as I talk you through Verses 3 & 4
As asked in the video, I would like you to produce a playscript of the conversation. You can do this on paper or on a computer and forward me what you have done on ClassDojo.
I look forward to seeing your scripts. If you wanted to, and there was a willing participant at home, you could even act out your playscript!
Reading
I would like you to read for at least 30 minutes each day. You can get more ideas and suggestions of reading material from the Reading@Home section above.
Geography
Last week you started to discover some information about the features of Brazil and where it can be found in the world. I wonder if you have seen that Brazil has recently been in the news because of a Brazilian variant of the Coronavirus.
If you did not do last week’s session, I suggest you go back and do that first before we move on today to look more at Brazil’s climate:
Genius Square Challenge
Some more co-ordinates today for you to play on your Genius Square games (as made here).
Game 1: E1 A6 D4 B3 C6 F5 E2
Game 2: B6 F1 D4 C2 C6 E5 F3
Game 3: F2 A6 D4 B3 C6 E5 D1
Game 4: E1 F1 C3 A2 A4 E5 F3
Stay in Touch
Please stay in touch, letting us know how you are getting on with your learning.
Hi, I was just wondering about club 99 because there might not be enough time back at school to reach the goal of club 99, maybe could you find away to do it online?
It’s a good question and one I have been thinking about. If we are back after half term I think we should be OK timewise to get through the challenge. Obviously, we don’t know at the moment what is going to happen. The potential problems with doing it online is that (a) everyone is on different sheets and (b) it does rely on the sheets being printed out and not everyone has access to a printer at home.
Okay thats fine, thanks for the update and happy 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
Thanks!
I had spotted all the 21s in today’s date but hadn’t made the connection to the 21st century – I shall have to make sure I celebrate at 21:21.21 this evening!
I was annoyed that I missed the symmetrical nature of 12.1.21 – must do better on 12th February!