THURSDAY 23rd APRIL —- Shakespeare’s birthday —- St George’s Day
Good morning everyone.
Maths No Problem
1st Yesterday’s answer pages
Chapter 8 Decimals: Lesson 13 Rounding Decimals
Textbook pages 40 – 44 Workbook pages 25 26
Lesson Notes: To begin this lesson, show pupils the In Focus task and the measurements made by each child as shown in Let’s Learn. In Let’s Learn 1, Emma has drawn a line 0.9 cm. Ask pupils to look at the ruler. Where is 0.9 cm? It is between which two numbers? Guide pupils to say that 0.9 is between 0 and 1. Then ask them whether 0.9 is nearer to 0 or 1. It is nearer to 1. We can say that 0.9 cm is about 1 cm. We can also say that 0.9 cm is approximately equal to 1. Write the ‘approximately equals to’ sign on the board. As 0.9 cm is not equal to 1 cm, we cannot use the equal sign, we can only use the ‘approximately equals to’ sign.
Work through the rest of Let’s Learn with pupils. Can we think of some rules for rounding numbers to the nearest whole number? Allow pupils to talk to their partners before agreeing on some ‘top tips’ together.
During Guided Practice, pupils are writing measurements as fractions and decimals, and rounding measurements to the nearest whole number.
Mental Maths / Arithmetic .. using all calculation operations to make 24
Here’s another card game that will help you with your mental maths
Writing Task
The writing tasks over the next 2 weeks will be taken from the Talk For Writing .. Home – School booklet which you can find if you open this link:
The idea is that each day I will post on the daily tasks, which task from the booklet to do. There is no need for you to print out the booklet, you could do the tasks in your exercise book.
Today I would like you to:
1st practise telling the model text using the story map you drew yesterday
2nd read and do the activities on pages 10
3rd can you make up any other reading comprehension questions for the model text (VIPERS)
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. Well done everyone.