Elm Class Learning Monday 4th May

Good morning Elm Class, welcome back to Monday! I am missing you all lots!

Spellings: You may remember a couple of weeks ago, looking at spellings with the suffix cious or tious. I want to make sure we are really secure in our knowledge of all ous ending words. Here is the rule for adding the suffix:

1) If the root word doesn’t change, just add ‘ous’ – e.g danger —-> dangerous

2) If the word ends in ‘e’, drop the e and add ‘ous’ – e.g. fame —-> famous

3) If the word ends in ‘y’ change it to an ‘i’ and add ‘ous’ – e.g. vary —-> various

Can you find as many ous words as you can? You could add these to a word wall or word bank in a notebook of other spellings you have been collecting.

Arithmetic: Multiplying one fraction by another fraction and multiplying fractions by a whole number. A hint to start off the week: When you multiply two fractions together, you multiply the numerators together and the denominators together. When multiplying a fraction by a whole number, you simply multiply the numerator. Can you have a go at the questions below? (See the photos at the bottom of this page). Challenge: Can you simplify your answer, or if the answer is an improper fraction, could you change this into a mixed number?

Grammar: Last week, we ended the week looking at relative pronouns. Remember relative clauses are added to sentences, to add more information about the noun in your sentence. Relative clauses add information to sentences by using a relative pronoun such as who, that or which. Your challenge today is to have a go at writing some sentences, which include a relative clause. For example: My dog, who has black and white fur, enjoys going out for walks.

English: Today please read chapter 15 (Home) of Goodnight Mister Tom. This chapter is a very sad one, if you need to read a bit and skip a bit, that is ok. Tomorrow, we are going to start a piece of work on VE day- the 25th anniversary of this day is Friday the 8th of May!

Maths:

Welcome to problem solving week! Please see Miss Brown’s introduction to problem solving in the separate post on the page today, explaining why problem solving is an important skill as a Mathematician! These problems we will set each day will get your brain thinking in different ways and are also a bit of fun! Don’t worry if you can’t get to the answer, these problems are about trying different strategies and using your Maths knowledge to have a go and think logically! Jottings and doodles to help you work out the problem are great and encouraged! I have also attached links to class webpage of other interactive online puzzles if you would like more to have a go at and some printable versions too, so you can choose which ones you prefer! Happy problem solving!

Reach 100!

Today I would like you to have a go at the ‘Reach 100’ challenge! For this challenge, you will need to a draw a grid with four squares like this:

https://nrich.maths.org/1130 (Here is the link if you would like to view this online).

Your challenge is to choose four different numbers from 1-9 and put one in each box of your grid. If you look at my example below, I have a 5 and 2 in the top boxes and 1 and 9 in the bottom boxes.

This gives four two-digit numbers:

52 (reading along the 1st row)

19 (reading along the 2nd row)

51 (reading down the left hand column)

29 (reading down the right hand column)

In this case their sum is 151.

Try a few examples of your own, is there a quick way to tell whether the total is going to be odd or even?

Challenge: Your challenge is to find four different digits that give four two-digit numbers which add to a total of 100! If you struggle with this, which numbers get you as close to 100 as possible?

Super challenge: Is there more than one combination of numbers, which help us to reach 100?

Topic: This week, our focus of study on Japan is culture and tradition! See the next post for lots of ideas of research and activities, or you may come up with some of your own!