Numeracy
We have been leaning about place value (the value of each digit within a number e.g. 255 = 2 hundreds, 5 tens and 5 units or 200 + 50 + 5) with large numbers into millions. Also squared numbers e.g.  (is the same as 9 x 9) = 81

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Reading and writing large numbers that you see and hear in the news and media – including house prices and football transfer amounts. E.g. £6.5 million
• http://www.softschools.com/math/place_value/teaching_place_value/
• http://www.math-play.com/Place-Value-Millionaire/play.swf

Literacy
Reading: Visualisation (visualising a scene from a text using its descriptive words to help create a picture.)
Writing: Leaflets – Main heading, sub-headings, categorised information and related pictures

Spelling: Contractions (There is = there’s, they will = they’ll, will not = won’t…)

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Try creating a visualisation for a book you are reading at home. (Remember to include the exact word from the text!)
• Create an information leaflet for a place you like to go.
• Highlight contractions you have found in a magazine.
• http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/matchgeneric.asp?filename=jwildecontractions
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/en29punc-game-beat-the-clock-apostrophes

IDL

Japan topic – looking at life in Japan, its landscape and traditional Japanese artwork

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Show someone where to find Japan on an atlas or globe.
• Find out how long it would take to fly to Tokyo.
• Research some of Japan’s favourite foods.
• http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/

Remember you can use your thinking jotter to record any thoughts or ideas you have when looking at these topics and I would love to see anything you create at home!

Mrs Park