It was lovely to return to school today and receive a warm welcome from P5/6, especially on such a miserable day- thank you boys and girl!!
In Maths we continue to look at money. Some children are working on money to £1, £5, £10, £20 or £100 so the activities below can be adapted to allow the children to practise with the amounts of money they are most comfortable with.
Create some special offers Ask children to make up some special offers for a favourite product. They show the price for an individual item and the special deals. Back in class they share the deals they created.
Using coins Ask your child to choose an item from home with a price shown on the item (e.g. from a pizza menu, food packaging or newspaper, etc.). Ask children to record the coins or notes that could be used to pay exactly for this item. Can they make up a different combination for the same total?
Price list Ask children to choose a type of shop and think of items that the shop is likely to sell. They think of three items costing less than £5 and three items costing more than £5. They write these in order from lowest to highest price to make a price list for the shop.
Catalogue buying catalogues Give your child a catalogue page. Tell them they have £5 to spend. What items or combinations of items could they buy? Discuss the combinations together.
My budget Ask children to imagine they earn £5, £10, £20 or £100 a week. They draw up an imaginary budget showing how they plan to spend and/or save that money.
Saving up Ask children to select some items advertised in a catalogue and record different ways that these items would be saved up for. For example, they could save up at £12 per month over 10 months for an item costing £120, or £10 over 12 months, £5 over 24 months etc. They bring these into school and ask a partner to see whether they agree with their calculations.
Bank words brainstorm Ask children to create a display of as many words as possible connected with different bank accounts. They traffic light these to show their understanding of the words.
Here are some websites that you may find useful!
The Cost of Money Quiz – http://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/finance-education/personal/students/07-11_cost-of-money/int_quiz.php
Financial Soccer – http://www.financialsoccer.com/index.php?language=12&countryID=49
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-shape-and-weight.html#quad
Many children still need to spend time learning their tables. It would be helpful if the children could have their times tables “at their fingertips”. The times tables help the children in so many areas of maths. Each child in the class knows what tables they should be working on. Here are some ideas to help your child learn their tables:
TGT (Team Game Tournament) children can make the cards at home.
Chant/Sing/Write the tables out
http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/ (this website has links to many other websites)
Between now and Christmas we will have a tables test every week.
Literacy
Choose a book you have read previously. Think about Bloom’s Taxonomy (see separate sheet given to you by Mrs Pollock for help). Choose at least six reading activities- at least one from each of the six taxonomies. Record them in your thinking jotter.
Create a poster or power point presentation to help teach other pupils about Bloom’s Taxonomy. Use this website to kick start your ideas:
St Andrew’s Day
Use sources to research the life of St Andrew. Select key information to create a fact sheet possible areas to consider could be: St Andrew’s Life; St Andrew’s Day Traditions; The Saltire and Patron Saint of Scotland and Other Countries.
Have a look at web link below.
http://digital.nls.uk/oor-wullie/
It comes from The National Library of Scotland. It is all about Scots Language learning and features one of Scotland’s best kent cartoon characters, Oor Wullie. Choose at least three of the activities and when possible record them in your thinking jotter.
