English

ENGLISH

This Term we are studying Information Texts.  We will be discussing how to be responsible and be a good neighbour.  We will be introducing News this Term where children will need to discuss certain topics in front of the class.  All children will have a set week and topic to prepare for.  Spelling rules and the grammar and punctuation that we will be learning are listed below.  Please note these are not set to the dates below and may be changed throughout the Term according to student's needs.
This website has a range of Informative Texts (news articles) which children will be studying in class: http://teachingkidsnews.com/ 

GrammarWeek 1
Action Verbs - Watch this video to learn about action verbs
Catapult game - Test your action verbs to win this game
Choose the correct action verb to complete this circuit

Week 2
Past, present and future tense verbs
Watch this slideshow to learn about past, present and future tense verbs

Week 3
Connectives

Week 4
Punctuation - Capital Letters
Capital letter activity

Week 5
Punctuation - Commas

Week 6
Synonyms & antonyms

Week 7
Adverbs

Week 8 - 9
Prepositions

Week 10
Revision
Test your knowledge on parts of speech on this grammar activity
                        Term 4 News Topics:

Friday weeks 1 & 2 – My neigbours (current or past) OR my close friends Discuss what neighbours/friends do for one another and what they like about their neigbours/friends.
Alanah	Atilla
Amira	Bilal
Aneesa
Friday weeks 3 – My favourite book Bring in your favourite book.  Rather than read the story, summarise what happens and explain why this book is your favourite.
Enes	Yezda
Talha	Yusuf
Mehmet	Zak
Friday week 4 – My suburb Discuss the suburb where you live, what you like and/or don’t like about their suburb.  Where would you like to live if you could choose to live anywhere?
Malik	Farhi
Arisha	Zane
Talha	Zara
Friday week 5 – My favourite toy Bring in or talk about your favourite toy and why it is your favourite.
Thahiat	Aneesa
Alanah	Atilla
Amira	Bilal