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The David Williams Challenge - Humbert the Hungry Baby

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Every day David Walliams will read aloud an extract from his book and we will set tasks for each year group to complete.

Click here to listen to the story

Your task:

  • YR – Find some of your toys, (animals, dinosaurs, dolls, books…) order them from smallest to largest. Think of some describing words for the smaller items, and some opposite words that could describe the larger items. 

  • Y1 – Can you make an acrostic poem using the letters H-U-M-B-E-R-T to describe the main character? 

  • Y2 – Write a review of the story. What are the main points? How would you describe the characters? Who would you recommend it to? Why? 

  • Y3 – Write down a range of describing words that you can hear in the story that are used to describe Humbert. Can you join some of them together to create some expanded noun phrases? (Where does the comma need to go?) 

  • Y4 – Write a detailed character description of Humbert or his mother or father. You can be inventive… maybe Humbert’s Dad is a golf professional, sumo-wrestler or skydiver? 

  • Y5 – Write a diary entry from the point of view of Humbert’s father. How does he feel about the rate at which Humbert can eat?! 

  • Y6 – Focus on a small section of the story that involves a conversation. Can you re-write it including the correct speech punctuation? 

If you need an extra challenge:

  • Create a menu for Humbert. What food do you think he might enjoy?

Don’t forget to send your work to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com and your work will be forwarded to your teacher!

Look out tomorrow after lunch for your next set of challenges. 

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The David Williams Challenge - Tandy's Tantrums

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Every day David Walliams will read aloud an extract from his book and we will set tasks for each year group to complete.

Click here to listen to the story

Your task:

  • YR - Can you draw different fruits and label them to describe what they look, taste, feel and smell like? 

  • Y1 – Draw Tandy and describe what she looks like. Try to put these adjectives into sentences using conjunctions such as and, because, when.

  • Y2 – Write some interesting sentences to describe Tandy and explain why you think she has so many tantrums! 

  • Y3 – Compare Tandy to some other characters that we have met so far. Describe some of the similarities and differences between Tandy, Grubby Gertrude and Trish the Troll.  

  • Y4 – Imagine you are Tandy’s brother or sister. What would you say to her? Do you think she is being silly? Would you join in too, hoping that you might get some ice cream as well? Can you write the conversation using speech punctuation? 

  • Y5 – Why do you think Tandy has become like this? Were there any clues in the text? Can you write a prequel to show what might have happened before this story began? 

  • Y6 – What do you think might happen next? Can you extend the story or create a sequel? What will Tandy be like when she is older? 

If you need an extra challenge:

  • Create a new front cover and blurb for ‘Tandy’s Tantrums’. How can you convince people to read this book?

Don’t forget to send your work to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com and your work will be forwarded to your teacher!

Look out tomorrow after lunch for your next set of challenges. 

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SPAG and Arithmetic for Year 5 and 6

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Share your work and earn points for your House

It is lovely to see our children engaging in their learning this week. We would love to see what you have been doing, so please share your work with us by sending it to us by email to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com or if you’re in Catkins class keep continuing to upload your work to Tapestry.

When you share your work with us, you may well earn points for your House. The work below shows some of the fantastic examples of work you have been doing this week.

Spring Term House Points

My Grubby Gertrude challenge – Rebekah Year 5

“Ugh my Gertrude is so grubby. Her room is a complete and absolute horror!”, mum unhappily exclaimed to Pretty Penny, her next door neighbour.

“Oh what a pain that must be my Polly would never leave her room in such a state she likes to keep neat and tidy!”, Penny proudly beamed back at her neighbour.

“It’s so rather unfair that you are pretty and perfect, just like me, and yet your daughter is the exact same as you, but my child oh no that horror is nothing like me at all! Her room is waist high full of rubbish and if you open the door one crack that rancid whiff hits your nose like bull horns smack bang on your head. She is so rather horrid that girl of mine I have no idea how she lives in there and I don’t even want to know what she does in that dirty dump!”, Mum ashamedly proclaimed.

“Oh how horrid that must be, so annoying! If I were you I would just get my vacuum cleaner and suck it right up all of it VUSH, gone all of  your problems solved and then you get the girl and give her 50 good baths wash all her clothes 20 times and don’t  let her near rubbish ever again!”, Penny happily proclaimed to unimpressed Mum.

“Oh you will never guess what happened today Penny. I got my vacuum and opened the door [and of course nearly fainted] and then I turned on the vacuum and you don’t know how happy I was with myself when five minutes later the trash pile was down to my knee! But then, the vacuum suddenly droned and before I could get out, BANG my precious exploded! At first I thought it was some monster, but of course it wasn’t I think all the rubbish must have overwhelmed it, but the worst thing is I got drenched in rancid rubbish!  I took 30 baths until I was sure everything had gone and when it was I decided to give up on trying to rid my horrid child of her rubbish and socks, as I could tell It was never going to work!”, Mum sighed unhappily.

“Well how unfortunate that must be for you, I would be horrified if it was me. I would try and slowly clean it down without her noticing I know that when Polly has something in her room that she wants and I don’t, I sneak it out of her room and confiscate it and she doesn’t even notice!”, Penny proudly announced.

“Well that’s a marvellous idea I’ll try that later and… Oh dear I can hear Gertrude screaming her horrid phrase “bog off!” that can’t be good. Well I’ve got to go see what that is bye Penny!”, Mum quickly said and immediately ran to the house before Penny could say anything else...

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The David Williams Challenge - Trish the Troll

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Every day David Walliams will read aloud an extract from his book and we will set tasks for each year group to complete.

Click here to listen to the story

Your task:

  • YR – Can you draw a picture of Trish the Troll? 

  • Y1 – Listen to the story and write down some of the alliterative phrases – eg. Trish the Troll

  • Y2 – Draw Trish the Troll’s home and label it with expanded noun phrases to describe it. 

  • Y3 – Write a descriptive paragraph of Trish the Troll, think about what she looks like as well as what type of character she is (kind/unkind). 

  • Y4 – Choose a small section of the story and see if you can write it as a playscript. Can you include stage directions and a scene description? 

  • Y5 – Recreate a conversation in the story, perhaps between Trish and Megan. Can you include all of the correct speech punctuation? 

  • Y6 – Can you compare Trish the Troll to another character from a story that you are familiar with? What are the similarities and differences? 

If you need an extra challenge:

  • Draw a picture of your own troll, write a character description. Will your troll be mean or kind?

Don’t forget to send your work to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com and your work will be forwarded to your teacher!

Look out tomorrow after lunch for your next set of challenges. 

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