Numeracy
We have been leaning to add, subtract and multiply with decimals. One of the most important rules is to keep your decimal points in a straight line; this helps you put all the digits in the correct columns! You can practise your times tables to help with your multiplication.
Ideas for further practise at home:
- Practice making your own sums – just be sure to include DECIMAL POINTS and some really tricky numbers. E.g. 567.42 – 74.189 or 335 – 6
- https://www.mathsisfun.com/adding-decimals.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma13tabl-game-tables-grid-find
- http://resources.oswego.org/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html
Literacy
Reading: Reading with expression and understanding – Can you read an extract of a book at home to an audience (of any size)? Remember to read the punctuation too!
Writing: Fantasy Story – Main characters, real world and fantasy world setting and a trigger in the real world to take you to the fantasy world. Don’t forget to include paragraphs!
Spelling: Soft c sound (after e, i or y) celebrate, incident or literacy
Ideas for further practise at home:
- Practise reading to someone at home being sure to add expression to help make it interesting.
- Create your own fantasy story where the characters have a problems the need to solve before travelling back to the real world.
- Think of some words with the soft c sound in them. You can practise these in pyramid, rainbow or fancy writing.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y5/activity3.shtml
IDL
Japan topic – looking at life in Japan
Ideas for further practise at home:
- Create a bar graph of the populations for Japan’s 5 largest cities. (Rounded)
- Investigate what school is like in Japan.
- Can you play a Japanese game with someone at home?
- http://www.citymayors.com/gratis/japanese_cities.html
- http://www.citypopulation.de/Japan-Cities.html
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
