Good morning everybody, here are your tasks for today:

Maths

Mental Arithmetic: 12x tables.

Today I would like you to revisit the Times Tables site we visited last week and work through practising your 12x tables.  You may do any of the sections you wish – maybe all of them, some of them or just the diploma at the end – but I would recommend completing activities 2 and 4 then the diploma at the end.  Let me know how you get on!

Maths No Problem: Textbook 5B Chapter 11 Measurements.

Lesson 12:  Converting units of time.

In Focus:  Can we draw a bar model to show this problem? Can we show how long it took the winner, Sam? Do we know how long he took? Can we show how long Ravi took? Was it more or less time? How much more? What about Hannah? Did she take more or less time? How much more? Allow pupils time to draw a bar and label it appropriately for each of the children.

Ravi took 95 seconds and Sam took 20 seconds less. What do we need to do to find out how long Sam took? What do we need to do to find out Hannah’s time? Now that we have the time in seconds, can we convert these times into minutes? Is this possible? How many seconds make up 1 minute? Are each of the times greater than 1 minute? Allow pupils time to work out how many minutes and seconds each of the competitors took. Can you use partitioning to find out how many minutes and seconds there are?

Let’s Learn:  Use Let’s Learn to follow how to use bar models to solve the problem and the conversions of time.

Guided Practice:  During Guided Practice, your child will be looking at times taken to run 400 m in both minutes and seconds. They need to convert the times before comparing them. They also need to use bar models.

Workbook: Please complete worksheet 12, p.121 – 122

English

Reading:  Well done to those of you who are reading widely and completing quizzes, keep reading for at least 20 minutes a day and regularly complete quizzes for the books you have read.  If you have a Lexia account, please log on and complete at least 15 minutes a day.

Don’t forget your Book Buzzes! If you have recently read a book which you would really like to Buzz, send it through to me and I will include it in our Home Learning blog post.

Writing:

Now it’s time for you to apply everything you have learnt, we are going to plan our own information text!  What other rare, not yet discovered, creature could you write about?!
First, let’s create a new animal to explore!

You could follow this link: https://www.switchzoo.com  Here, you can create your own creature by blending zoo animals together. If possible, print off your animal and stick it in your journal, or draw it in.

OR you could create your creature yourself. Simply draw in your journals to design a new animal that you might find on land or in the sea.

Now, let’s get planning.  Follow this boxed up planner to plan facts about your new, rare creature!  It follows the same structure as our Rhiswanozebtah information text we have been exploring.  Think carefully about planning in the sentence starters we have explored, any additonal facts you could include using brackets and use your imagination and creative vocabulary when it comes to describing your rare creature:

Topic: History

Well done and thank you to all of you who have sent me your topic work, I am loving seeing your timelines and reading your questions.  You are all staying so focused and resourceful it is just great to see!

This week we are thinking about historical events which have happened in Weymouth and Portland.

Have a look at this website page, 10 Top Historical Facts about Weymouth.  Have a little read through and see if there is anything there you did not already know!

The Historical Facts are in the wrong date order, so your task is to draw a timeline in your journals and list the events in the correct order.

Now, imagine you could meet someone from any of those events and you have an opportunity to interview them.   Which questions would you ask them to find out more about their experiences?!