Thursday

Grammar Warmup

Fronted adverbials

When we write sentences remember:

We are going to use these images to create our own sentences with fronted adverbials for when and where.

Thursday 8th October 2026

LC: Use a writer’s toolkit to create an effective description.

Task: After the teacher modelling for you, write a sighting of the monster using the writers toolkit.

When you are writing, remember:

When you are reading a sentence, check that you have used the punctuation needed.

08.10.26

LC: To be able to subtract without renaming.

Thursday 8th October 2026

LC: Know what life was like in a Roman villa. 

Vocabulary             luxury            banquet              slave          courtyard                          

In Roman Britain, people mainly lived in small villages of wooden houses with thatched roofs.

Wealthy Romans also built grand country houses called villas.

• Villas were large farms with a big house for the owners.
• They had many rooms, some with beautifully painted walls, and mosaic floors.
• They had lots of servants and farm workers to help run the villa.

Most of the Roman villas found by archaeologists are in the south of England. The governor of Britain had a palace in London. Another palace was beside the sea, at Fishbourne (near Chichester in West Sussex).

 

Use the link below to find out more about what the rooms in a Roman villa were like.

In the video below, a wealthy Roman housewife, Romola, takes a merchant on a tour of her villa. She takes him to see her newly painted frescos and describes how they were painted, before relaxing in the dining room and reminiscing about some of her famous banquets. She explains that most of the food for the banquets comes from the farm and how her slaves would prepare and serve the freshest of food. However, Romola’s favourite dish may not be to everybody’s tastes.

Watch the video again on your iPad. Turn the subtitles on and turn the volume down. Find and write the answers to these questions. Your teacher will model for the first question how to write your answer in a sentence.

What are frescoes?

......................................................................................................................................................................................................................  .

What were the paints made from?

What was used to thicken the paint?

What was done to make the frescoes last longer?

Where did some of the food for the banquets come from?

What did people drink at the banquets?

Where did this drink come from?

What foods had to be bought?

Who prepared the meals?

 

Extra challenge:

Draw your own picture of a Roman villa, showing and labelling the different rooms.

Write about a Roman villa underneath your  picture.

Thursday 8th October 2026

LC: Reflect on what it means to respect the differences and similarities between people and recognise what you have in common with others.

Vocabulary:

similarity            How things are alike

difference          How things are not alike                                    

 diversity         The variety of different things or people.  

How are these apples alike? How are they different?

Different people have lots of things in common with each other. They also have lots of differences. 

Let's find out what these differences might be.

Although we are all part of our Stoneyholme School community and we are alike in many ways, each one of us is unique - there is no one quite like me!

Let's find out in what ways we are different . Work with the person you are sitting next to.

Does having differences mean that we can't get along?

Mutual tolerance and respect means accepting and respecting those differences.

It would be a very boring world if everyone was the same.

Thursday 8th October 2026

Identify and spell irregular past tense verbs.

Review

Let's look at the sentences we wrote yesterday. Did we write the irregular past tense verbs correctly? 

Learning

Let's play ping-pong. I will say a word or sentence in the present tense. You will bat it back to me in the past tense.

Practise and Apply

Sentence Doctor

Can you fix these sentences? Identify and correct the errors then rewrite each sentence in your journals, with the corrected spellings.

 

I brung my favrite book to share at the libry.

altho ella new the anwser, she did'nt speak.

I hurd that in scool you hav been tort about importent wimen in historee.

I speaked up to adress the qestion.