Cedar class learning 31st March
Please see the weekly activities post/the corresponding section on the class website for the spelling and arithmetic focus for this week, along with additional tasks which can be completed.
English: LO: to write the beginning of a story.
Yesterday you created a list of sub-headings with key information about your story, you also created a story map of the order things will be happening in your story.
Today, I would like you to use your story map to begin your writing. Start with your introduction: introduce the place and the main character. Then, set up the problem that the story will feature. Don’t write any further than this. In Arthur and the Golden Rope, this would be you writing about the Icelandic town, introducing Arthur and writing about all the adventures he had been on, writing about how Fenrir came to the town and knocked over the great fire, and then writing up to the part where everyone was saying that Arthur should go and he was in his room packing his things to leave. I expect you to be using capital letters, full stops, and joining your handwriting. I would really like to see the following in your writing:
Exciting adjectives,
Use of adverbs (these describe a verb: Arthur slowly walked – slowly is the adverb as it describes HOW Arthur walked),
Adverbials (which state where, how, or when something is happening – In the sea, At the town, Without warning, Unexpectedly, All of a sudden, Next, etc.),
And, as an extra challenge, some direct speech punctuated correctly with speech marks.
Once you have written up to the problem, go back and read your story and check that you have included at least some of the items above!
Maths: LO: to calculate change.
Last week and yesterday, you have been working on adding and subtracting
amounts of money. Today I would like you to work on how to calculate amounts of
change as if you were buying something in a shop using a bank note. For
example, if you had a £5 note and went into a shop to purchase a 60p can of
drink, how much change should the person on the till give you? To work this
out, you would need to subtract 60p from £5 (500p). You can change the bank
note used (£5, £10, £20 or £50) to make the challenge more or less difficult.
If you aren’t very confident you could even start with using a £1 or £2 coin.
If you want to really challenge yourself (I would like the Y4s to try this),
you can create a list of items to be purchased from a shop and then calculate
the change. For example, if you had £20 and purchased a pack of AA batteries
for £3.75, a four pack of soup for £2.50, and some washing up liquid for £1.20
how much change would you expect to get back? To work this out, you need to add
up all of the purchases (£3.75 + £2.50 + £1.20 = £7.45) and then subtract this
from your £20 note (£20 – £7.45 = £12.55 change). Try and record 5 questions in your book,
Optional task: If someone in your house has money, use this to set up a small
shop in your home. You could sell items to your family from your cupboards. If
you don’t have lots of change lying around, you could make some!
Music: LO: to create an instrument.
Today I would like you to look around your home and see which materials you could create an instrument out of. For example, I could take a cereal box and cut out a circle in the middle of the front. Then, I could wrap elastic bands of different thicknesses around the box and pluck them – this would be like a home made guitar or ukulele. See how unusual an instrument you can create!