Thursday 10th June 2021
LC- To understand the use of vocabulary in a variety of texts.
Many questions in our Sats refer to understanding a writers' use of vocabulary. We will work through some examples together.
Remember to use your skills of reading around the word, putting in a different word to check it makes sense and use of background knowledge.
Music isn’t just a question of sounds. The thing about playing percussion is that you are not just creating sound, not just playing notes or beating out a pattern. You are creating emotions from inside yourself that can be sometimes beautiful and uplifting but are, sometimes, ugly or disturbing. To be a good musician, music has to come from deep inside you, from a seed growing in your heart.
Not far under the surface of the Earth, it is hot. The further down you go inside the Earth, the hotter it becomes. Deep, deep down below our feet, it is so hot that even the rock melts and is nine times hotter than boiling water. In places where the Earth’s surface is weak, this liquid rock can bubble up and burst through. These weak spots are the world’s volcanoes.
The desire for gold has been a basis for stories, mythical and real, for generations. The desire for this most valuable of metals has even cost some people their lives. The first text in this booklet gives some extraordinary facts about gold.
Now try some for yourself on Seesaw. We will discuss the answers together when you have done that.