Numeracy

We have been developing our understanding of the cost of items that we buy and profit and loss. To help us do this we have calculated the overall cost for our Jelly Bean Reindeer that we made for the Christmas Fayre. We have been able to identify the best value between all of the jelly beans that we priced. We then calculated the profit or loss that was made by selling them.

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Create your own product that you think people would like to buy.
• Calculate the overall cost to make your product then decide on a price to sell it. You should try to make a profit rather than a loss!
• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Multibuy
• https://www.studyladder.co.uk/games/activity/profit-and-loss-28349?lc_set=

Literacy

Reading: Prediction – We have been revising prediction in our reading. We have been learning to note down some clues that we find in the text to help us make accurate predictions and use them when writing our own.

Writing: Poetry – In class we have been learning about structuring a poem. We created a poem describing ourselves where we had been given an exact structure to follow; this helped us to create our verses.

Spelling: sounds created by ____ed  – We have been identifying the three different sounds that are produced when ed is added to a word. We have been able to identify the ‘t’, ‘ed’ and ‘d’ sounds in our spelling words, for example in stopped (t), needed (ed) and covered (d)

 

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Can you predict what is going to happen next in a T.V. programme? Everyone make a prediction and see who is the most accurate.
  • Can you use the same structure to write a poem about someone else? You will need to think hard about the things they like ad don’t like! Use this website to help with the structure: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson391/I-am-poem.pdf
  • Using an article you have in the house – from a magazine, newspaper or online – write down all of the ____ed words you can find then categorise them into their sounds: t, ed and d
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page3.shtml

 

 

 

IDL

Charles Rennie Mackintosh – Where?

Ideas for further practise at home:

• Identify some of the famous buildings Charles Rennie Mackintosh has worked on. Do you recognise any parts of the designs?
• Can you create a new school badge in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh?

 

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