Wednesday 13th May
Good morning everybody.
Maths No Problem
1st the answers from Tues 12th Chp 9 Lesson 7
Today’s lesson: Chapter 9 Money Lesson 8
Lesson Objective: To be able to estimate amounts of money.
Textbook pages: 82 – 84 Workbook pages 56 – 57
Lesson Notes: To begin this lesson, ask pupils why estimating is an important skill to have. Ask them when they have they estimated before. Then show them the receipt in the In Focus task. How can we estimate the total amount of money spent? What is meant by ‘estimate’? If necessary, rephrase what pupils say using words, such as ‘approximate’, ’rounding up’ and ’rounding down’.
If we were to estimate the total, what would we need to do with each amount of money on the bill? Show pupils what to do by rounding a few of the amounts on the bill. Then give them time to round the rest of the amounts and estimate the total using mental maths strategies. Remind them about the ‘approximately equal to’ sign.
Show pupils Let’s Learn 4. How can we estimate the price of one smoothie? Do we estimate the total amount of money before division or divide before estimating?
During Guided Practice, pupils are estimating the total amount of money for three items by rounding each one to the nearest pound. Model estimating the amounts to the nearest £10 and ask pupils to compare the totals when rounding to the nearest pound, and rounding to the nearest £10.
Mental Maths / Arithmetic
Each day this week I would like you to spend some time playing Hit The Button.
Follow this link to get to the website:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
I would like you to practice doubles or halves or number bonds
ALSO ….
Don’t forget to access your TTRockstars account and play some games.
Can you get past Beau’s ( ‘TATT’ rockstar – totally awesome times table rockstar!) score of 11,664 points?
Remember, your scores will count towards our whole school competition scores against other local schools this week!
WHITE ROSE MATHS https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
If you want some more maths to do, or perhaps a break from Maths No Problem, go to the link above. 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.
Writing Task
Please note…. ignore the introductory page tilted ‘A Message From Talk For Writing’ where details about making a donation are given. Southill school has made a donation.
Today’s task: I would like you to
1. practice story telling the model text. Use your text map from yesterday to help you.
2. do the tasks on pages 4 & 5. These are all about the vocabulary in the model text.
Spellings
This week’s spelling are: accident, actual, address, answer, appear
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. Well done everyone.
Other Resources you might find helpful:
You have probably seen that the BBC have created lots of video lessons and resources on their BBC Bitesize website which you can find if you follow this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach
Radioblogging, https://radioblogging.net/
……. is another good site to visit. It is linked into Talk for Writing which is how we teach writing at Southill.