Literacy

Spelling – write a short story using as many of this week’s words as you can.

Languages – look up the weather in another country and write a sentence to describe it using another language.

Main task

Yesterday you took notes about two books including the language, characters, main events and setting.

Evaluate the two texts – remember evaluate contains the word VALUE which means saying if the texts are good/bad and why. Compare the two books e.g. compare the two characters or the language used.

Maths

Warm up task = countdown – try and make the target number using the numbers below. You can add, subtract, multiply and divide. You can only use each number once.

Target = 50

Level 1 = 10              2              4              8              6

Level 2 = 100           200         30            10

Level 3 = 3               3              3              10             8

Main task

I can solve word problems involving time.

Word problem of the day

I want to cook a roast chicken. The chicken takes 75 minutes. I want to eat at 15:00 and I want to leave the chicken to rest for 20 minutes before I eat. What time do I need to put the chicken in the oven at?

(top tip – draw out a time line and work backwards)

EC = the potatoes take 25 minutes less than the chicken to cook, but I want them to be ready exactly when I want to eat. What time do I need to put the potatoes in at?

Monday 30th March

Literacy

Spelling words for the week

-able suffix. These words have the same meaning as last week, but generally, they are common words with –able on the end. It means that you are able to do that thing.

dependable, laughable, fashionable, impressionable, conceivable, transferable, justifiable, knowledgeable, manageable, preferable.

Modern language words = weather.

Revise French weather and create your own French weather report. Or choose another language and learn weather words.

Main task

Evaluating a book/story/piece of text. We have word hard on analysing texts by looking at the language as well as the characters, main events and setting.

Choose two books. Read a chunk of each book and make notes about the book including what language the author has used and about the characters, main events and setting. Tomorrow you are going to use these notes to evaluate the books and compare them.

Maths

Warm up = Sumdog time assessment

Main activity

I can read a calendar and answer questions about it

Word problem of the day

I start work at 7:30 in the morning. I work until 10:45 and then I take a 20 minute break. I stop for lunch at 12:30, but only take 30 minutes. I take another break from 14:00 until 14:20. I finish work at 17:00.

How long did I work for that day (not including breaks)?

How long were my breaks in total?

How many hours would I work in a normal week? Mon-Fri?

Have you been exercising? This is very important at the moment so make sure you do something at least 3 times a week. You can check out Jo Wicks PE classes online or can just walk up and down some stairs for 20 minutes.

Literacy

Warm up task = spelling test. Get someone at home to test your spelling words, or contact someone else in the class and test them on their spelling words from this week. You can also test someone else on their French colours.

Main activity

Continue with your newspaper. You could include an interview with someone famous or someone in your family.

Maths

Warm up

Play this 24 hour time tutorial

http://www.skoool.com.eg/english/skoool_bundle/content/primary/maths/24_hour_time/index.html

Main activity

I can convert between 12 hour and 24 hour time

remember – for converting between 12 and 24 hour clocks: am times are the same, pm times add on 12 hours and take away the pm.

Thurday 26^th March

Literacy

warm up = spelling hangman with this week’s spelling words

writing (two day project)

over the next two days, you are going to create your own newspaper or news website.

Today, spend some time researching newspapers and websites. Try and get a physical newspaper and look through the different sections. Go on a few news websites e.g. dogo news, newsround, bbc news. Look at the different sections within the websites and decide which sections you would like to put in your newspaper/website.

Target is to create at least 3 sections for your newspaper/website that has at least 2 articles each. You articles can be real or completely made up!

Ideas for sections:

Sport, news, puzzles, comic, nature, science, world news, local news, happy news etc.

Each article should have a headline, be written in paragraphs and have a picture to go with it.

If you want to make it on paper and stick it all together that’s great. If you are confident making a website uploading this information that’s great. Send me any web addresses.

Maths

Warm up task = countdown – try and make the target number using the numbers below. You can add, subtract, multiply and divide. You can only use each number once.

Target = 100

Level 1 = 10              2              5              4              50

Level 2 = 30            3              4              40            5

Level 3 = 8               6              2              1               4

Main task

Time revision

I can read timetables

I can add and subtract time

HWB

Cook something with someone in your family. Could be as simple as beans on toast or as challenging as homemade curry!

Wednesday 25^th March

Literacy

Warm up task = write a letter to your favourite celebrity and ask them how they are getting on with self-isolation. Tell them about your experience so far.

Main task

Create comprehension questions about your favourite book for someone at home. This can be a non-fiction or fiction book. Target = 8 questions including different question words.

Grammar

Colons and semi-colons – read the examples and explanations and write 2 sentences for each.

Maths

Warm up = play hit the button 10 minutes – you can do times tables, division, doubles, square numbers etc. challenge someone in your house to a game.

Main task

Negative numbers final lesson.

Word problem of the day

I am playing a new computer game. I have 0 points to start. I score 37 points in the first level, 26 points in the second level and 55 points in the third level.

How many points do I have now?

Unfortunately, I make a huge mistake on the fourth level and lost 250 points. What is my score now? (hint:  it’s a negative number).

Don’t forget to do some exercise! Today I am going to skip for 10 minutes and go for a run including some hill sprints!

ICT

If you would like some extra learning why don’t you make something on scratch to help you improve your coding.

Literacy

Warm up task = sumdog spelling challenge or a spelling task with this week’s words.

Don’t forget about French colours. You could play snap with French colour words and cards with different colours on them.

Comprehension

I can use words from the text and from the question in my answer

I can scan for the answer in the text

Handwriting/typing practice = do some handwriting practice or play type racer to develop your typing skills.

Maths

Warm up task = sumdog assessment

Main task

negative numbers continued

I can research temperatures using negative numbers.

I can display data including negative numbers

research temperatures around the world. What is the coldest place you can find right now? What is the coldest temperatures ever recorded in different places e.g. Glasgow, New York, North Pole etc

Create a table or graph to display this information. Apply your previous learning this year about graphs and data handling.

Word problem of the day

The temperature in Glasgow is 6 degrees less than in London. In London, it is 5 degrees less than in New York. New York is 2 degrees warmer than Moscow and Moscow is 5 degrees colder than Belfast.

The temperature in Belfast is 3 degrees.

What is the temperature in each city?

Monday 23^rd March

Literacy

This week’s spelling words

-ible suffix = this suffix means that you are able to do the thing that the suffix is attached to e.g. audible means you can hear it (audio)

audible, legible, feasible, convertible, flexible, visible, gullible, invincible, responsible, collapsible.

Note – these mean the same thing as –able words but are spelled with an i.

You can do one spelling task a day, plus I have given you a sumdog spelling challenge or if you have an IDLcloud account, you can do a lesson every day!

This week’s French

Revise French colours. If you want to learn colours in a different language that’s great. Why don’t you do a painting/piece of art and label the colours in French.

Warm up task = Stop the bus.

1. Say the alphabet quietly in your head. Get a partner to say “STOP”. Whatever the letter you were on is the letter for the game.
2. Choose a word beginning with the letter for the following categories = noun, verb, adjective. Extra challenge = adverb and Proper Noun as well.

Main activity

We have been learning about figurative language, nouns, verbs, adjectives, similes/metaphors, idioms, hyperbole, oxymoron, onomatopoeia and personification.

Read a book in your house and hunt for different examples of these. Compare this with examples you found in your reading book in school last week. Did they have different amounts? Were some easier or harder to find than others?

If you can’t remember what some of these language features are – google them!

Maths

Warm up challenge = 15 minutes sumdog. I have added new topics and questions for you based on previous learning this year.

Main activity

let’s revise negative numbers. Remember, a negative number is less than zero.

Daily word problem

I have 6 cousins. Each of them is married. Two of them have 3 kids, two of them have 1 kid and two of them have no kids.

If invite all of my cousins and their families round for dinner.

How many dinner plates do I need?

Half of my family gets invited to another party and isn’t coming any more. How many people can come for dinner?

Top tip = draw out the family and count the people.

Don’t forget to do some exercise today! I’m going to do 100 squats, 100 sit ups and 100 lunges.

Birdwatching – spring has started and the birds are very active building nests for their eggs. Find a good spot in your house to do bird watching. You could even leave some bird feeders/food out in for them and pay attention for 30 minutes. Record how many of each different type of bird you see.

Today we planned out the next few weeks of school. Since we will be at home, we decided it would be really important for us to plan out in detail our timetable and how we were going to stay healthy, focused and productive.

If you haven’t been in this week or today, please take some time to plan out the following things for yourself for the next few weeks

• daily routine Monday to Friday
• Some exercise to do at least 3 times a week
• how you are going to stay social during this time
• how you are going to stay healthy during this time
• what you like to do for entertainment
• what treats should you get if you work hard
• something new you want to learn to do e.g. cook, juggle

Put this up somewhere in your house so that you can keep yourself motivated and focused over the next few weeks.

Check the blog every day at 10 am and new work will be uploaded as well as challenges and information about sumdog challenge hour for the week.

Don’t forget, you can always email me with your work so I can see all your success.

Mr McMullan

We are working on our problem solving skills at the moment.

There are lots of different techniques for problem solving.

One key skill is making mistakes and then learning from them or

“TRIAL AND IMPROVEMENT”

Here are two games that will help develop your Trial and improvement skills.

http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/logic/mastermind.html

https://www.archimedes-lab.org/game_nim/nim.html#

here is a more mathematical version of mastemind here

https://supermastermind.github.io/playonline/game.html

Hey there today it’s CP doing the blog today and I’m to tell you what we did today.

First we did some maths on dividing (Epic)

Then we did ICT (Very Epic)

10:30 break time (we had a very long break)

When we came back we did a spelling test then we did more Maths.

12:15 Lunch Time

After lunch we watched some of David Attenborough’s penguin show

Even more Maths

Epic work from CP and AG

  Doing some Problem Solving. 

Then some children helped make lemonade

Simply Lovely