Good morning everybody, here are your tasks for today:
Maths
Mental Arithmetic: Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.
Today we will be focusing on rounding to the nearest 100. Remember, you will need to think of the two mulitples of 100 either side of a given number and if that given number if half way or more between those two mulitples, it rounds up; if it is less than halway, it rounds down. I would like you to write these numbers on separate cards: 200, 300, 285, 264, 237, 212, 255, 298, 250, 249, 222, 205
Place the 200 and 300 cards on opposite sides of your working area. Select the other cards in turn and round them to the nearest 100 then place them in the correct place either with 200 or 300. You can advance the activity by drawing a numberline going up in 100s from 0 – 1000, then rolling a dice to generate other 3 digit numbers and write them above their nearest 100 on the numberline.
Negative Numbers
Today I would like you to follow the attached sheet and complete the tasks in your home learning journals. This sheet is moving on to using and finding the difference between lower negative numbers. You will need to remember again that negative numbers work opposite to positive numbers so take care when counting backwards or forwards beyond zero! Using the numberlines will provide a visual support and really help when finding the difference and counting between two given numbers.
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 next week’s Home Learning blog post.
Writing: To continue our learning on adverbials and sentence openers and to prepare us for your writing activities this week, your task today is to complete the BBC Bitesize lesson here in your home learning journals. Watch the videos, play the games and complete the writing in your journals. This will also be a good practice for completing your daily home learning after half term!
I also thought it might be nice to publish our information texts! So if you would like to, please follow this link to watch a video on how to make a paper book, or have a look here to follow some instructions on how to make one. Then you could wite up your book over the rest of the week and include some pictures!
Alternatively, and if you have the facilities to do so, you could type up your information text onto computer or laptop and include some pictures.
Please send in any photos as I would love to see your finished information texts if you do choose to publish them, they will look amazing!
Topic – History
I am absolutely thrilled with all the History learning you have been sending me Year 5, well done and thank you! I have loved your questions and am so pleased to see you putting your historical skills into action.
This week we are going to think a little more about local famous landmarks in and around Weymouth and what it may have been like to be at these landmarks at key events in time.
Please have a look through the photographs below and read the captions attached to them.
Your task this week is to choose one and write a diary entry as if you were one of the people spectating in the photograph. You could include in your diary entry information on what you did that day, where you went, who with, what you were wearing, the weather, what you saw, how it felt, what you think may happen next and anything else you think a person of that time may recount in a personal diary.
I know how creative you all are Year 5 and how engaged you are in this project and I am really excited to see your diary entries and your empathy for local people in the past!
The Town Bridge as we know it today was opened in 1930 by the Duke of York, later to become King George VI. It joined the two rival townships of Melcombe Regis and Weymouth and enabled traffic, commerce and residents to move freely between the two.
Weymouth’s Jubilee Clock was built in 1888 to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, 50 years of reign as Queen of England. This photo shows the clock in 1889 on a typical summer day, not unlike modern times!
On the afternoon of the 13th of April 1954 disaster struck Weymouth Pavilion with the building catching fire during refurbishment. The wooden, Edwardian theatre took little more than an hour to burn despite the efforts of ten fire pumps from around the county. Practically the whole of Weymouth turned out to watch the Pavilion burn down.
As a tribute to King George III, the Kings Statue was unveiled in 1809, 50 years after his ascension to the throne. This photo shows the celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 60 years on the throne, by the King’s Statue in 1897.
Weymouth Nothe Fort was built between 1860-1872 to protect the Naval Harbour at Portland. It saw it’s most military action during World War 2 when anti-aircraft guns were used to defend Weymouth and Portland. Here you can see the anti-aircraft gunners manning the guns.
