Mental Maths Activities

It is very important that we continue to improve our mental maths skills, they help us to use maths in our every day life as well as helping us to improve our numeracy levels. Work through the activities below and practice your skills, whenever possible, with your friends and families at home.

Click here and here to complete some multiple choice word problems.

Click here and here to complete extension word problems.

Click here for an additional challenge (warning – it is very challenging).

Click here and here for extra support with your core mental maths skills.

To infinity and beyond! – Solar System Dioramas – D.T. Week November 2014

Class 5 learnt a great deal about Design Technology during D.T. Week 2014. Their design brief was to make a diorama themed on the Solar System and to use recycled goods in their creation. They had so much fun researching how to make a diorama, designing and creating their model using various tools and materials and discussing and evaluating their creation as they were making it. Everyone agreed that making dioramas is a fun way to improve their Design Technology skills and can’t wait for their next D.T. project!

Have a look at the photos below and leave a detailed comment in the Comments Section below.

Recording Information

engravingIn our Literacy sessions this week, we have been reading and recording information from non-fiction texts about the Victorians. Understanding the meaning of texts is a key skill and it is important that we are able to extract the main points from what we read. This connects with one of our learning objectives. To develop these skills, read this paragraph about children at work in Victorian Britain and record the main points in no more than one sentence.

If this paragraph is too challenging, click here for a shorter one on slum children.

If you need an extension, click here to read about life for the poor (the top two paragraphs).

Post your sentences as a comment below. I look forward to reading them!

 

Habitats – Reptile Life visit

 

On Monday 24th November, Reptile Life visited school to teach us about animals and their habitats (a habitat is the place where an organism – animal or plant – lives). It was very exciting as they brought in lots of exotic animals for us to look at and learn about. They taught us about the animals, and the habitats that they live in, in addition they taught us about the adaptations (changes) that the animals make which help them live more effectively in their habitat.

Section 1

To get the most out of the visit, complete some independent learning on this subject.

To learn: about habitats, click here;

additional information on habitats, click here;

how plants and animals adapt to their habitat, click here; and

how plants and animals are suited to their habitat, click here.

Section 2

For anyone who is interested in completing additional tasks about habitats, click here.

Anyone who is interested in learning more about evolution and adaptation, click here.

Anyone who is interested in learning about the scientist most closely linked to theories of evolution and adaptation – Charles Darwin – click here.

Understanding Angles

 

 

 

 

 

It is important that we understand how to measure, estimate, classify (in terms of angles this means grouping/labeling angles as ‘acute’ ‘obtuse’ etc) and solve calculations involving angles.

Here are some links to help you to improve these skills:

– an introduction to angles;

classifying angles;

calculating unknown angles;

measuring angles using a protractor;

– estimating angles can be improved by practicing classifying and measuring angles; and

– an extension to understand parallel and perpendicular lines.

If you have access to a protractor at home then click here to practice measuring angles (the first page has the questions, and the second page has the answers).

Au2 Homework in Class 5

Information for families working with pupils in Class 5

Homework tasks in Class 5 this half-term will link to the key curriculum areas, and learning skills, that we will be focusing during the school day. These are as follows:

1) History and Literacy – The Victorians and the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (this will principally take the form of a mini-project in the first three weeks);

2) Literacy – learning more of the Year 5 target spelling words;

3) Music – practicing for the Christmas Service;

4) Literacy – increasing knowledge, and usage, of key Spag terminology;

5) Mathematics – mental maths skills; and

6) Literacy – reading comprehension skills.

These tasks are in addition to the usual recurring tasks of reading, times tables and spelling practice.

The usual structure for homework in Class 5 will be as follows (please note some weeks this usual structure may not apply due to special circumstances, e.g. preparing for/recounting a special event):

Monday – foundation subject links

The class will complete a task that enhances their learning in a foundation subject area – see blog links above for examples.

Tuesday – test preparation

The children will be set 10 new words to learn and write in a sentence (sentences should link to a piece of punctuation that the pupils are currently learning about). In addition, they will as be given a times table to revise. Tests will be sat on Friday with an expectation that the children score 100%.

Wednesday – Mathletics

Pupils are set a range of different tasks on the Mathletics website that relate to current curriculum areas. Once these tasks are complete the children can participate in the Mathletics Live feature which will hone mental maths skills. There is an expectation that the children will score 1,000 points per week (certificates for achieving 1,000 points are awarded by the website at midnight on Sunday).

Thursday – Literacy/Mathematics

The students will be given a task that links to current topics being covered in their Literacy/Mathematics lessons – see blog links above for examples.