Good morning everybody!
Please note, I am in school today so will be unable to answer your emails promptly.
Here are your tasks for today:
Maths
Mental Arithmetic: 12x tables.
Today I would like you to visit this Whack-a-Mole game. You will need to revisit and remind yourself of all multiples of 12 up to 12×12 and only hit the correct multiples of 12!
Please access your TTRockstars account as well using your Purple Mash logon details and play some games. Remember, your scores will count towards our whole school competition scores against other local schools this week!
Maths No Problem: Textbook 5B Chapter 11 Measurements.
Lesson 10: Converting units of time.
In Focus: First, discuss the In Focus task and think about how to solve the problem. What does ‘orbit’ mean? Why do we think the orbits of different planets take different amounts of time? Allow some time to remember our Space learning from before Christmas and how the distance from the sun would impact on a planet’s orbit. We can see that all of the planets are a different distance from the sun. Is this information important for finding out how many weeks their orbits take? Can the number of days instead help us to find out the number of weeks?
Lead your child to remember there are 7 days in a week and therefore there are 70 days in 10 weeks. Can this help us to work through this problem? Guide them towards using partitioning and removing large multiples of 7. How many lots of 70 can I remove from 88? What is left? Can I take away any other lots of 7? What am I left with? Are there any other methods we can use? Ask them if it is possible to use long division to solve the problem. How would that look?
Let’s Learn: We have covered division, however, I have made a little video of how I would present this to you all in class and to remind you of how these methods of division work:
Mrs Hill long/short division 🙂
Guided Practice: During Guided Practice, you are converting quantities of days to weeks.
Workbook: Please complete worksheet 10, p.117 – 118
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 regulalrly 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 next week’s Home Learning blog post.
Writing:
Please use your storymap to revisit our Talk For Writing ‘Rhiswanozebtah’ information text from Ted Splorer.
Today, we will work on some more sentence imitations and use the sentence starters we thought about yesterday.
First, choose a subject from the list below:
- Unicorns
- Giants
- Mermaids
- Vampires
- Dragons
- Fairies
- Robots
- Teachers
- Ghosts
- Trolls
All the sentence starters below use language that you would often find in an information text and that we looked at yesterday. Use the sentence starters below to write invented facts about your chosen subject:
The first thing to say about …
In addition to …
The most extraordinary thing about …
It is a little known fact that …
Normally,
You may not know but …
Surprisingly, …
Topic: History
Well done and thank you to all of you who have sent me your topic work, I am loving seeing your drawings and reading your research. You are all staying so focused and resourceful it is just great to see!
This week we are going to be thinking about hisorical 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?!
