Monday 27th April
Good morning everyone. I hope you are all well and have had a great weekend.
Maths No Problem
1st Answer pages for last Friday’s Lesson 14 Rounding Decimals
Today’s lesson: Chapter 8 Decimals … Lesson 15 – Writing fractions as decimals.
Lesson Objective: To be able to recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1⁄4, 1⁄2, 3⁄4.
Textbook pages: 48 49 50 Workbook pages 29 – 30
100 block template file file of 100 block template
Lesson Notes: To begin this lesson, show pupils the In Focus task and ask them to read the fractions. Provide them with printouts of 100-blocks. Ask them to show each fraction by shading the 100-blocks and share their answers with each other.
Use the shaded 100-blocks from pupils to relate fractions to decimals. Start with 1⁄2. Get pupils to look at their 100-block printout and ask them how many tenths there are in the 100-block. Show them how to count the tenths and then count together with them. There are 10 tenths. Ask pupils how many hundredths are there in the 100-block. Show them there are 10 hundredths in each tenth, and count together with them in multiples of hundredths. There are 100 hundredths. Ask them how many tenths and hundredths there are in 1⁄2. Count the shaded part in tenths together with pupils. There are 5 tenths. So we know that 1⁄2 = 5 tenths. Ask pupils to write the tenths as a fraction and decimal. 5 tenths = 5⁄10 = 0.5. Since 1⁄2 = 5 tenths, then we can also write 1⁄2 as 0.5. Then show pupils how to write 1⁄2 as tenths as a fraction using multiplication and convert it to a decimal.
Using the same methods, show pupils how to convert 1⁄4 and 3⁄4 into decimals, asking them to help demonstrate where appropriate. Encourage pupils to commit to memory the decimal equivalents of 1⁄2, 1⁄4 and 3⁄4.
During Guided Practice, pupils are writing 1⁄2, 1⁄4 and 3⁄4 as decimals.
WHITE ROSE MATHS
If you want some more maths to do, or perhaps a break from Maths No Problem, go to the link below. It is by White Rose Maths who have created some video lessons and associated worksheets (+answer sheets) for each year group. It is very good and self-explanatory. Have a look and see what you think.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Mental Maths / Arithmetic
Watch this video to show you how to play Countdown.
Writing Task
We will continue with the Talk for Writing – King of the Fishes
Today I would like you to:
1st … how good are you at story telling the King of Fishes? Do you need to practice it a bit more?
If you are confident in telling the story with great expression and maybe some actions, you could (if you want to) video yourself telling it and email it to me. I’d love to see how you are getting on and I’ll post them onto the class blog.
2nd do the tasks on page 12 which is some grammar work about making sentences better for the reader
Weekly Topic Task – Road Trip USA
Now that you have become a little bit more familiar with the states that make up the USA, I would like you to choose just one of them and create a holiday itinerary for a Travel Company to sell to a client visiting that state.
Open this link to see some examples of some itineraries.
2014-road_dev_infp_example_itineraries
Here are some useful links that might help with your research
https://www.trekamerica.co.uk/our-trips/top-usa-road-trips?gclid=CPiIkpiR1cQCFYLItAodvUEA9Q
https://www.virginholidays.co.uk/destinations/usa-tours
Spellings
Don’t forget to practice this week’s spellings: early, earth, eight, enough, exercise.
Make sure that you know the meaning of each word. Perhaps you could write sentences with the words in.
Reading
Please don’t forget to read today. ‘The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the more places you will go.’ You should be able to access the book quizzes and don’t forget to go on Lexia (if you have a log in) for 15 minutes each day.
There are also the book quizzes you can do on Accelerated Reader when you have finished your book.
Well done everyone.