Monday 22nd June 2020 Elm Class learning
Welcome back to Monday, hope you all have had a wonderful weekend!
Spellings: This week, we are going to practice the spellings of words with the suffix ending ‘tious’. These are the words I would like you to practice this week: ambitious, cautious, fictitious, infectious, nutritious. Could you also continue to practice the cious words from last week? Your test at the end of the week will be on cious and tious ending words to ensure you continue to practice the previous spellings and not forget them! Today I would like you to take a page of your home learning book and design each word as a poster in your book. Some words you may draw a little picture next to, to help remind you of what they mean, or you may write them in different colours or fonts and sizes to split up the sounds in the words and stress certain letters, to help you remember the spellings.
‘cious’ words to practice: vicious, precious, conscious, delicious, malicious, suspicious, spacious, ferocious, atrocious
Arithmetic: This week we are going to practice dividing fractions by a whole number, whilst also still practicing multiplying fractions, to ensure we don’t forget these skills. When you divide a fraction by a whole number, you actually multiply the denominator (the bottom number) of the fraction. Can you have a go at these? If you need a recap of multiplying fractions, the BBC bitesize website will help you with this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/z8fyv4j
2/3 x 4=
3/4 x 5 =
4/7 x 8=
3/5 x 2/8 =
2/5 x 7/8=
4/5 ÷ 6 =
5/9 ÷ 7 =
2/3 ÷ 4 =
Grammar: This week we are going to continue to focus on sentence structure, looking at how we can add extra clauses to a sentence to add more detail. Today we are going to be looking at relative clauses. Relative clauses add more information about the noun in a sentence and start with a relative pronoun – ‘who, which, that or whom’. Relative clauses are marked at the beginning and ending either with commas, brackets or dashes. Have a look at the activity below, can you link the two sentences together with a relative pronoun and mark the clause with punctuation?
English: L.O: To consider the character of the warden.
Today I would like you think carefully about the character of the Warden! What do you know so far from what you have read? Your task:
- Draw a picture of how you imagine the Warden to look on a full page in your exercise book.
- Label the picture with as many ideas about her character as you can from the chapters we have just read.
- Add a quotation from the text to support each idea you have about her. Remember to use quotation marks.
Maths: Our focus in Maths this week is data handling. In year 5 and 6 we continue to develop our skills of collecting and presenting data in different formats including bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. We explore when and why the different types of graph are used and develop our skills in being able to choose the most appropriate graph for the type of data we have collected. We also build on our skills of interpreting and using data presented in pre constructed graphs, to help us in understanding the information the data tells us.
This week, we are going to create our own graphs from the data we have collected. We are going to focus on the weather over this week to form our data.
Could you record the highest temperatures of each day of the week? You may have a thermometer outside at home or you could use the internet or a newspaper to record the highest temperatures each day. A great website for this is the BBC weather website. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
An adult may have access to a weather app on a smart phone that could help you collect the maximum and minimum temperatures of each day next week.
You could create a rain gauge and collect data on the amount of rainfall each week. To help you with making a rain, I have attached some instructions on how to make one to the class webpage.
Could you research the temperature each day for a part of Mexico and record this? Or you could research the average temperature of Mexico each month and record this?
You could find out the highest wind speeds for each day or the percentage of humidity each day!
Monday: L.O- I can design a table for recording my data.
Today you need to think about how you could design the table that you will record and organise your data into. Have a look at the example table below, think carefully about your headings, linking to what you are measuring. You could also design a tally chart to make a tally of the different weather types that happen each day of the week.
Topic: Our weekly focus for this week is about Mexico is Festivals.
Suggested activities for the week:
· Research different Mexican festivals! Find out where they happen and why.
· Find a festival which interests you (some are listed below) and study the history of it. Is there a traditional story behind the celebration? Is it similar to any festivals we have in the UK?
· Consider the religions of Mexico. What are the main religions? Do they celebrate the same things that we do?
· Lots of festivals have traditional songs. Can you find any and have a listen? Do you enjoy them? How is the music made? Does it sounds like music we have at our festivals in the UK? Why/why not?
· You could look up some of the foods associated with the festivals and try to recreate them.
· Festivals you could consider:
o Day of the Dead
o Carnaval
o Cinco de Mayo
o Independence day
o Las Posadas.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Coates.
