Monday 15th June 2020, Elm Class learning

Welcome back to Monday, hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Spellings: Today we are going back to practicing words with the suffix ending ‘cious’. With these word, usually if the root word ends in –ce, the sound is usually spelt as cious rather than ious – e.g, grace – gracious, space, spacious.

Your task: Can you remember any words ending in cious or can you make your own list?

Arithmetic: This week, we are going to recap multiplying fractions. Remember, when you multiply a fraction by a whole number, you multiply the numerator (or top of the fraction) and when you multiply two fractions together, you multiply both the numerators together and both the denominators. If you want to challenge yourself further, you can have a go at simplifying the fraction after the calculation.

See if you can attempt these below:

3/10 x 5 =

4/8 x 7 =

3/7 x 6 =

2/9 x 5/6 =

5/8 x 4/5 =

6/7 x 2/3=

Grammar: We are going to continue this week looking at sentence structure and main and subordinate clauses. Can you identify the main and subordinate clauses in the activity below? Can you write your own definition for what a main and subordinate clause are?

English: Today we are going to read more of Holes! Can you read up to page 16 and answer these questions after reading:

Why didn’t Elya want to marry Myra in the end?

Is there a lesson to this story? What do you think it is?

What do you think about this part of the story? Why do you think the author included it?

Maths: This week our focus is Fraction! Have a look at the list of suggested learning ideas below, there are lots of practical and printable activities to have a go at, I would love to see some of the activities you have had a go at! Can you challenge yourself?

Topic: For the next four weeks, you will be studying Mexico!

Everyone in the school is doing the same project so that if you have younger siblings, then you can all do similar activities and teach each other things.

I have suggested some activities below which are suitable for a Year 5/6 class but can also be done by younger children with some help.

Choose the activities you would most like to do and present them creatively! You can present your work however you like, for example, in the form of artwork, a scrapbook, a PowerPoint.

Our weekly focus for this week is Climate and Geography.

Suggested activities for the week:

• Locate Mexico on a map and describe its location. What continent is it in? Which other countries are near it? Is it in the northern or southern hemisphere?

• Research the weather in Mexico. Is it similar to the weather in the U.K.? Why might this be the case? Could you create a temperature/rainfall graph to show the temperature/rainfall throughout the year?

• Are the seasons the same in Mexico? Why/why not?

• Research the plantlife in Mexico. Are there any species of plant native to Mexico? Could you draw or paint these?

• Research the wildlife of Mexico. Present this information in a fun way- perhaps in a poster.

• What is the landscape of Mexico like? Are there any famous mountains or rivers? Is it similar of different to the U.K.?

• Have there been any big natural disasters in Mexico? Why have these happened? You could write a newspaper report of one of these or a diary entry from someone who was there.