Language

Spelling

We are doing a few different mixes of spelling words for this week.

• Plural words ending in o e.g. pianos, videos, photos.
• The suffix (ending) –ly e.g. suddenly, finally, really, hardly.
• Words with ph and kn e.g. phone, knock, knot.
• Some trickier homophone e.g.muscle, mussel, principal, principle.

I have set a huge 200 word challenge on sumdog. That is 40 words a day! Spend some time every day working through these spelling words.

 

Modern languages

Let’s learn some food vocabulary in Italian. If you would like to recap the French food vocabulary, check out the food section on digital dialects.

 

Vegetables

 

Fruit

 

Have a look at these videos and record some to learn. If you want to find out other food words, you can look them up.

 

You can try the food game for Italian on digital dialects as well

https://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian/Fruit.htm

 

Extra Challenge = Design a menu in Italian or French – starter, main and dessert with at least 3 options for each.

 

Holes

We are getting a good bit through Holes the book. The story is really picking up and getting exciting.

One of our key language skills is fluency and reading for an extended period of time. Today you need to try and read these pages in one focused session. Get rid of all distractions and focus only on reading the pages of the story. These will then be used for the language lessons for the rest of the week. If you want to take notes or write a summary after that’s great as well.

Maths

 

Mental maths

Countdown maths game = choose numbers and try and make the target number by using add, subtract, multiply, divide and only using each number once.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=countdowntimerv3

 

 

Probability

We looked a little bit at probability on Friday, so let’s look again at what some probability words mean.

 

Certain means that it 100% will happen. It has to happen. For example, you will get older every week is CERTAIN. You cannot get younger.

Impossible is the opposite. It means that it absolutely CANNOT happen. It does not mean the same thing as unlikely. It means that it has 0% chance of happening and cannot happen. For example, I will swim to the moon. This cannot happen.

 

These words help us to put a number on how likely something is to happen.

Impossible is 0 and certain is 1 or you can use 0% for impossible and 100% for certain

That means that if something is almost impossible, but has a small chance of happening, a number to represent how likely it is to happen would be 0.2 (or 20%) for example.

And if something is very likely to happen, but not certain, then a number to represent it would be 0.8 (or 80%)

If something had a 50/50 chance of happening for example, heads when you flip a coin, then it would be 0.5 or 50%.

 

Put the events on the line where they are between certain and impossible.