Good morning, Year 5!
I really enjoyed reading your responses yesterday.
Today’s focus: Grammar
Please complete the following activity in your yellow home learning book. You do not need to write the answers to these again in the comments but you can ask questions if you need clarification.
Please revisit the following to help with your task:
BBC Bitesize: How to use commas in sentences
BBC Bitesize: What is a comma?
BBC Bitesize: How to use a semi colon
A conjunction is a word, or words, used to connect two clauses together. Words such as: ‘although’, ‘because’ or ‘when’
Task: Can you write some super sentences with conjunctions in your Home Learning book?
In the blog comments, perhaps you can also tell us about your week or weekend by including some or all of the grammar rules in the task above?
Once you finish this, why not try the: Using-Different-Types-of-Conjunctions-Quiz
Remember to check out the videos if you need support or ask for help in the comments!
Mrs Avdiu xx
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Hello everyone,
I hope you had a great so far!! 🙂
These are my answers:
1* It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
2*I climbed the tree while my mum was speaking with my friend’s mum.
3* (Miss you did an error, the end of the sentence doesn’t mean any thing).
4* Declan has always has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them. when he would be older.
5* This are the conjunctions in both phases: when; although.
Thanks Violette! Hope you will join us for the Zoom meeting next Monday 🙂
Good morning everyone, here are a few of the sentences that I wrote for today’s task.
As Lila trudged up the wet rocky slope, she heard wolves howling in the distance and carried on, afraid.
Silhouetted against the horizon, Ray spotted a figure cloaked in darkness, and tore down the hill.
Quickly, they pulled Jack’s limp body of the water, hoping that he was still alive, but he had lost so much blood, that there was hardly any chance left for him.
My weekend:
This weekend, I cycled to Alexandria Palace and back; it was quite tiring. Although we had to go up a lot of hills, going down was very fun. On Sunday, we went to primrose hill and fired water rockets with my scout pack.
I hope that you have a great day! ?
Wow! My favourite phrase has to be: Silhouetted against the horizon.
I love it! I actually live near Primrose Hill and go there quite often for my walks. Good thing you didn’t hit me with your water rocket!
Hello everyone!!!! Hope you are all well! This is my paragraph for today?:
Yesterday, my family and I went to the park and played with our new toys. Although I like the frisbee, I prefer the boomerang as it will come back to you and I find that very amusing. Luisa and I went into the garden and found some bugs; a ladybug, a spider, an iridescent beetle, and a bumble bee.
Thank you Gabi for this well written paragraph. It sounds like you had a wonderful day yesterday!
Hello everyone!
I hope that you are safe and well!
I miss you all so much and I really cannot wait to see you all again!
These are my answers for today:
– It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
– I climbed to the tree while singing loudly.
– I enjoy sitting my bedroom, even though it is quite small and listening to music.
– Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
– When is the conjunction in the sentence.
– Although is the conjunction in the sentence.
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-EVEN though it was raining, Sophie went outside.
– I had a chocolate cake AND some a vanilla Ice-Cream.
– ALTHOUGH I fight with my friends sometimes, we still have fun together.
– I enjoy eating snacks WHEN I am watching films.
– They rushed to the hospital, BUT they were late.
– I tried to hit the nail BUT I hit my thumb instead.
– I have a cat AND two dogs in Serbia.
– Not to boast, BUT I have a bike AND a scooter.
– ‘You can have peach ice cream OR a brownie sundae.’ said Lucy.
– Coco bought a shirt AND a book.
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Have a great day everyone!
Thank you for your answers Nika. How lucky you are to have a bike AND a scooter!
Hello Miss,
Yes I will try to join you for te next ZOOM!!
I did not go to the Zoom because my parents are in England and I am in France at my grand parents house!
SEE YOU!u 😉 🙂
No problem, Violette! I phoned mum this morning and spoke to her 🙂 I am glad you are all safe and well.
‘See’ you next Monday!
Hi everyone.
These are my sentences with conjunctions.
. Suddenly, the bunny started chasing me but they’re still my favourite animal.
. I started approaching the place until it started raining and I had to go inside.
. The mysterious door opened so I went inside.
My weekend was okay and on Saturday we went to Berneam beaches, which isn’t actually a beach, and we kind of went the wrong way and it started raining and hailing.
Well done Sara. Can you please revisit your sentence about the weekend? Please check punctuation and choice of vocabulary to turn it into a SUPER sentence! 🙂
Good morning everyone, I hope your all well. Here are my answers for the questions:
1. It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
2. I climbed the tree while making sure my ice cream wouldn’t fall.
3. I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it’s quite small, and listening to music.
4. Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about fascinating creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5. We like to eat popcorn WHEN we go to the cinema. ALTHOUGH my sister likes salted popcorn, I prefer sweet.
I am going to go write the sentences on some paper, here is one of the sentences:
I enjoy talking with my friends AND spending time with my family, during lockdown, ALTHOUGH we can’t do all the things we normally would.
Hi Elsa. Thank you for sharing your answers.
Please check spelling for your
Well done for using those words in your sentence – you used them in the right way. I am also really glad we can communicate with our friends and family 🙂
Hello everyone.☀️
Here are the sentences I made up with conjunctions.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~1. We decided to go for a trip to the mountains, although the weather wasn’t appealing.
2. We bought a shirt even though it was expensive.
3. “ will we go outside now or later?” asked Anna.
4. We will travel to Poland to visit our family, when the government advises that it is safe to do so.
5. My little cousin enjoys riding on her scooter and jumping on the trampoline but she is afraid to swim.
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I hope you all have a wonderful day.
Maia??☀️?
Excellent, Maia! Have you tried the extension?
Hi everyone I hope you all had a wonderful morning!
It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
I climbed the tree while my mum was on the phone.
I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it’s quite small, and listening to music.
Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic animals. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
We like to eat popcorn when we go to the cinema. The conjunction is ‘when’.
Although my sister likes salted popcorn, I prefer sweet popcorn. The conjunction is ‘although’.
Challenge:
In the future, people will probably be living on the moon or on mars but that won’t happen for quite some time.
Thanks Iggy, I hope you are having a wonderful morning too!
Your sentence is good and it includes the words. However, please ensure Mars has a capital M. Do you know why this is?
Hi Everyone,
1) It was a beautiful day; i felt so lucky.
2) I climbed the tree while i ate a sandwich.
3) I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it is quite small, and listening to music.
4) Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5) ”When” and ”although” are the conjunctions.
Good job Marco! Have you tried the extension?
Great work, Marco! Have you tried the extension?
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well!?
It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
I climbed the tree while my dad parked the car.
I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it is quite small, and listening to music.
Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would to study them when he is older.
We like to eat popcorn when we go to the cinema. When is the conjunction.
Although my sister like salted popcorn, I prefer sweet popcorn. Although is the conjunction.
Challenge
We wanted to go to the beach ~but~ it was raining.
Sam loves ice-cream ~while~ I love sweets.
My mum wants to go ~although~ we are late.
I hate vegetables, potatoes ~and~ cabbage.
We have no spare magazines but we do have some books!
Great work, Seb! Thank you 🙂
Good Afternoon Everyone!
1. It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
2. I climbed the tree while looking at my phone.
3. I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it is quite small, and listening to music.
4. Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5. The conjunction is when.
The conjunction is although.
CHALLENGE:
As Mina walked across the wet, slippery hill, she heard something move behind her, and froze.
Ben looked down to see a huge shadow, and then very slowly turned his head upwards and looked in the blood red eyes of the monster, he opened his mouth to scream, but no noise came out.
The shrill scream echoed through the building and awoke everyone in the flat.
The howl of hyenas are terrifying enough to chill you to the bone but the howl of wolves are scarier.
The hooded figure moved swiftly through the night, scaring everybody in sight, but he was to quick and nobody even saw his face.
Hi Theo! They are brilliant sentences and I really like the words ‘shrill’ and ‘howl’. How could you start the last three in a different way rather than with ‘The’?
Hi everyone hope you all had a great morning!?Here are my answers for todays grammar?
1) It was a beautiful day; i felt so lucky.
2) I climbed the tree while, I was laughing at a funny joke.
3) I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it was quite small, and listening to music.
4) Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read so many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5) We like to eat popcorn (when) we go to the cinema.
(Although) my sister likes salted popcorn, i prefer sweet popcorn.
Hope you all have an amazing rest of the day and keep washing your hands!!! ??
Hi Angie! Super work.
Thanks for reminding us to keep washing our hands!
Hi Elena, I have had a look at your English. Thank you for sending it through! Well done Elena, there were no issues.
Hello everyone I hope you are all well and having a nice day this is my blog for today:
It was such a beautiful day; i felt so lucky.
I climbed the tree whilst my parents were drinking coffee.
I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though its quite small, listening to music.
Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures jellyfish fascinate him the most. He would like to study with them when he is older.
We like to eat popcorn WHEN we go to the cinema [ when is the conjunction].
ALTHOUGH my sister likes salted popcorn, i prefer sweet popcorn [ although is the conjunction ].
Challenge:
My Weekend
Last weekend i didn’t really do much i ha two exercise classes talked and played games with my friends and family and had a movie night. I really enjoyed talking to my friends again and i was looking forward to the zoom call on Monday.(⌐■_■)
Hi Claudia! Please have a look at where you could fit in a comma. Also, at the end you can say ‘I looked forward’. Well done!
Hello everyone! Here are my answers for the grammar today. ?
1) It was a beautiful day; I felt so lucky.
2) I climbed the tree while my dad took a video.
3) I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it is quite small and listening to music.
4) Declan has always been fascinated by animals. He has read as many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5) We like to eat popcorn ‘when’ we go to the cinema.
‘Although’ my sister like salted popcorn, I prefer sweet popcorn.
My Weekend:
On the weekend, the weather was really nice so my family and I decided to go to the forest (there is a forest 5 minutes away from my house). I cycled while my mum and dad were jogging behind me so basically, they were trying to catch me.
Next, we had a delicious BBQ at home. Although it’s just us, we still had lots of fun ?❕
Then on Sunday, the weather was very good so me and my dad played a card game called UNO in our garden and then he fell asleep from the relaxing breeze. At night time, we had a family movie night (as we call it) to end the week. ?
I hope you enjoyed reading my work ?. Have a wonderful rest of the day! ?
Thanks Renee- your weekend sounds lovely! Thank you for this well written writing- good punctuation and spellings!
Hello everyone
1. It was a beautiful day ; I felt so lucky
2. I climbed the tree while my cat was chasing a dog.
3. I enjoy sitting in my bedroom, even though it is quite small, and listening to music.
4. Declan has always been fasciated by animals. He has read many books about exotic creatures. Jellyfish interest him the most and he would like to study them when he is older.
5. the conjunctions are although and when.
On the weekend, I played in my courtyard and in my garden ; it was so sunny and warm. I also went to the park with my dad and we saw cute baby chicks. When I got home I played with my friends online, I had a great weekend !
I hope everyone has a great day???
Sounds like you had a wonderful weekend! Mathilde, could you check the punctuation in the sentence ‘When I got home..’ ?