Phonics: Use the bl blend to make the words blink, blend and blur. Say the words, sound them out, write the words, read the words to someone in your home. Use letterjoin to work on your handwriting. I have been seeing some super handwriting, some of Oak Class are giving joined up handwriting a go too! Just remember to start letters on the line!
Maths: Can you make a tessellation picture today? Draw around a shape and see if you can fit it together without having any gaps. This may look like tiles in your bathroom or bricks on the wall. Which shapes work better to tessellate?
Literacy: Use your story starter idea with your puppet character to start writing your story. Try 3 sentences today, then we can add to it tomorrow. If you can write more then that would be great!
Topic: Mexico. Mexicans traditionally wear large hats called sombreros. This comes from the Spanish word sombra which means shade. A sombrero is worn to keep the sun ans heat off the face and help keep people cool. They are often decorated in bright colours too. Can you have a go at making your own hat and decorating it with lots of lovely colours.
Spellings: Can you choose some of these word today, to practice in your neatest handwriting?
Rule:
Use -cial after a vowel, like after the vowel ‘o’ in social, ‘e’ in special, ‘i’ in beneficial
Use -tial after a consonant, especially, after ‘n’ in substantial, essential, and ‘r’ in partial
Potential
Essential
Substantial
Partial
Influential
special
social
official
crucial
artificial
official
beneficial
Arithmetic: This week we are going to continue to looking at multiplying fractions, but include mixed number fractions and multiplying these by larger numbers. All you have to remember is to change the mixed number fraction into an improper fraction first and then multiply the numerator (top of the fraction) by the whole number.
Definitions:
Mixed number: A whole number and a fraction combined into one mixed number for example:
2 1/3
Improper fraction: A fraction where the numerator (the top number) is greater than or equal to the denominator (the bottom number). … Example: 5/3 (five thirds) and 9/8 (nine eighths) are improper fractions.
Can you have a go at these questions below? You can leave your answer as an improper fraction, but if you are feeling really brave, can you convert your answer back to a mixed number?
For example: Camp Green Lake, a dry barren wasteland, was littered with holes that the campmates had dug over the months.
English: – Thursday- L.O. To research, and write notes on, an animal from Mexico.
Today you are going to research an animal from Mexico and write up some notes about it. Consider your audience when you are researching your creature (children may want to know some funny facts or even some disgusting ones!). You may want to draw a picture of the creature to go with your non-chronological text.
Maths: L.O- I can identify missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals.
Can you have a go at the suggested activities below, using your knowledge of angles and shapes so far, to work out the missing angles?
Topic: Our weekly focus for this week is culture and tradition.
Suggested activities for the week:
• Learn some numbers/ greetings in Spanish. There are some great videos on YouTube for this and the free language learning app Duolingo has a course in Spanish (this app is excellent!).
• Mexican Spanish is slightly different to Spanish from mainland Spain, can you find out more about this?
• Research the traditional sports of Mexico and present these as a poster or try some yourself (unless they are dangerous!)
• Try some Mexican food. There are lots of Mexican dishes in our local supermarkets!
• Research the main religions in Mexico.
• Research the Mayans! What happened to them? Have they influenced any of modern Mexico?
• Research the clothing in Mexico and design your own traditional outfit.
• In England we have the monarchy and government. Is this the same as Mexico? Do they have any laws which are different?
• Is there anyone who is famous who was born in Mexico?
Spellings – Visit Purple Mash-English-SPaG-Phonics-Phase5-Cloze and pick two more different sets of sounds to explore.
English- collect your favourite jokes together and make your own joke book. They can be jokes you have made up and written yourself, or you can copy some from books or research you have completed. Remember to decorate your pages with objects from the jokes, and make a front cover too.
Maths – today continue the shape assessment questions, naming the shapes and describing them.
Theme – this week we will be learning all about some of the culture, traditions and language in Mexico. Below is a suggested list of activities to choose from, maybe pick one a day to explore.
– which language do they speak in Mexico?
– How would you say “hello”, “goodbye” and “thank you” in Mexico?
– How would you count to 10 in Mexico?
– Can you explore writing in Mexico?
– How would you write your name in Mexico?
– What is the national sport of Mexico? Can you research and practise some of the actions?
– What food is traditionally eaten in Mexico?
– Do people in Mexico have any traditional good luck symbols?
Today I would like you to write your scary story. Use your story map, your spider diagram, and the word bank you created on Monday to help you. The main thing you need to focus on is using all of your spooky adjectives and adverbs to build up the atmosphere for the reader. Try and make the reader feel as uncomfortable as possible so they feel that something spooky will happen any second!
Even if the scary thing in your story isn’t that scary, having a really tense atmosphere will make reading your story a frightening experience.
Can you scare someone in your home? Feel free to email me any of your stories, I’ll let you know if they scare me!
Maths: LO: to investigate creating shapes.
Today I would like you to carry out a shape investigation:
If you cut a square diagonally from corner to corner you get four right-angled isosceles triangles.
How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
You may only fit long sides to long sides and short sides to short sides. The whole length of the side must be joined.
Draw each shape you have created and name it.
Challenge: describe the shape in terms of sides and vertices, describe the angles using the terms you have learned this week.
English – To watch a video about an incident at a lighthouse and then come up with questions for the lighthouse keeper. We will be using this ‘interview’ in a newspaper report over the next 2 weeks.
Afternoon – Carry on with your learning about Mexican traditions, culture and language.
Spellings – Visit Purple Mash-English-SPaG-Phonics-Phase5-Cloze and pick two more different sets of sounds to explore.
English- try to write your own jokes today. Think of a joke you know and use that to help you. Can you change some of the words, but use the same format? Write it down and then tell it to someone else.
Maths – today try the shape assessment questions, naming the shapes and describing them.
Theme – this week we will be learning all about some of the culture, traditions and language in Mexico. Below is a suggested list of activities to choose from, maybe pick one a day to explore.
– which language do they speak in Mexico?
– How would you say “hello”, “goodbye” and “thank you” in Mexico?
– How would you count to 10 in Mexico?
– Can you explore writing in Mexico?
– How would you write your name in Mexico?
– What is the national sport of Mexico? Can you research and practise some of the actions?
– What food is traditionally eaten in Mexico?
– Do people in Mexico have any traditional good luck symbols?
Phonics: Use the letters b and l to blend together to make the sound bl. Can you say the words blink, blend, blur. Say the words, sound them out, write the words. Can you use the words in a sentence? Can you type your sentences using a computer?
Maths: Can you use 2D shapes or objects to make a repeating pattern? Can you try with 2 shapes and 2 colours to start off with. Now try with 3 shapes and 3 colours.
Literacy: Look at a range of story starters in your books at home. Think of how you could start a story about the character you have chosen. You could use, It was a dark night, or Once upon a time, or once there was a…How will you start your story? Write down the start idea of your story.
Topic: Mexico. A Mexican tradition for a party or celebration is to have a pinata where a paper animal is hit with a stick to set free all the goodies inside! You could look up this tradition using Google or you could have a go at making one yourself! Get crafting!
Spellings: Today, can you practice the words below using one or more of the strategies from the spelling menu? Rule:
Use -cial after a vowel, like after the vowel ‘o’ in social, ‘e’ in special, ‘i’ in beneficial
Use -tial after a consonant, especially, after ‘n’ in substantial, essential, and ‘r’ in partial
Potential
Essential
Substantial
Partial
Influential
special
social
official
crucial
artificial
official
beneficial
Arithmetic: This week we are going to continue to looking at multiplying fractions, but include mixed number fractions and multiplying these by larger numbers. All you have to remember is to change the mixed number fraction into an improper fraction first and then multiply the numerator (top of the fraction) by the whole number.
Definitions:
Mixed number: A whole number and a fraction combined into one mixed number for example:
2 1/3
Improper fraction: A fraction where the numerator (the top number) is greater than or equal to the denominator (the bottom number). … Example: 5/3 (five thirds) and 9/8 (nine eighths) are improper fractions.
Can you have a go at these questions below? You can leave your answer as an improper fraction, but if you are feeling really brave, can you convert your answer back to a mixed number?
33/6 x 56=
2 1/3 x 24=
1 2/9 x 36 =
Grammar: This week, we are going to focus on parenthesis. Parenthesis adds more detail to a sentence. The parenthesis clause can be taken out of the sentence and the original sentence would still make sense. Today, we are going to practice using brackets. When marking parenthesis in a sentence, you can use brackets, dashes or commas. Today I have attached some sentences with some gaps, can you add your own examples of parenthesis and mark your parenthesis with brackets, dashes and commas?
English: – Today I would like you to continue to read Holes (up to page 44 of the PDF document or up to chapter 23 in the book.
Maths: Wednesday: L.O- I can identify different types of angles.
When looking at different shapes, each shape is made up of angles. Some of these angles may be acute, a right-angle, obtuse, a straight line or a reflex. Can you remember what each of these angles look like? How many degrees does an angle need to be to acute or obtuse? You challenge today is to create an informative poster on the different types of angles to help you and others remember them and how to spot them! Can you include how many degrees are in a full turn?
Topic: Our weekly focus for this week is culture and tradition.
Suggested activities for the week:
• Learn some numbers/ greetings in Spanish. There are some great videos on YouTube for this and the free language learning app Duolingo has a course in Spanish (this app is excellent!).
• Mexican Spanish is slightly different to Spanish from mainland Spain, can you find out more about this?
• Research the traditional sports of Mexico and present these as a poster or try some yourself (unless they are dangerous!)
• Try some Mexican food. There are lots of Mexican dishes in our local supermarkets!
• Research the main religions in Mexico.
• Research the Mayans! What happened to them? Have they influenced any of modern Mexico?
• Research the clothing in Mexico and design your own traditional outfit.
• In England we have the monarchy and government. Is this the same as Mexico? Do they have any laws which are different?
• Is there anyone who is famous who was born in Mexico?
English: LO: to create a story map for a scary story.
By now you should have a good idea of what your scary story will be about. Today, I would like you to create a story map to help your when it comes to writing the story tomorrow. Think very carefully about the kinds of adjectives you will use to create the suspense we need to make our story scary! Draw pictures on your story map to help you visualise which words will be suitable.
Maths: LO: to consider different types of angle.
Today I would like you to carry out an angle walk throughout you house, or outside if you are able to. Back in the Autumn term we looked at three different types of angle: acute angles (smaller than 90 degrees), right angles (90 degrees), and obtuse angles (greater than 90 degrees). We also recognised that straight lines are 180 degrees (like two right angles added together). On your angle walk, write down the angles you can see and say whether they are acute, right, obtuse or straight. Challenge: estimate how many degrees the angle is.
For example:
Man-hole cover – 4 angles, all right angles – 90 degrees.
