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.

Look at catalogues, websites etc and analyse the cost of different items in different shops and analyse impact of special offers on their overall costs and budget.

Christmas Budget Challenge- children to budget for a family for Christmas including dinner, gifts, transport/travel, clothes, special treat such as panto/cinema.

Children take on jobs for modest pay (concepts that money has value and finding the best deal will get them most for their money). Discuss concept of saving money from several jobs to purchase more expensive items.

Using newspaper/ internet/ adverts compare interest rates on credit cards and other companies and the impact this has on final cost items.

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. Between now and Christmas we will be having table tests every week. 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)

Literacy

We have been working on Thriller stories. Here are some ideas for a triggers:

• A Hobby- Two children go fishing. One of them falls in the loch. Who will come to rescue them?
• Noises- Odd sounds are coming from the professor’s workshop. The main character decided to investigate.
• The box- A parcel arrives marked ‘Fragile-open with care@. Someone clumsy tries to open it!
• Night Lights- Two friends see strange lights at night. They decide to stay up one night and solve the mystery.

Text Detectives- We have been looking at how powerful verbs can help writer show what characters are like rather than telling the reader what they are like. Look through different books and find examples of powerful verbs for walked , said and looked.

 

Advent

Research charities that show care and love for others at Christmas. Make a list of them and a brief outline of how they show care and love.

 

CHRISTMAS SONGS ANAGRAMS

1. Deck the halls with gbuobs of holly!
2. When Santa got stuck up the nyiecmh!
3. Whilst pershedhs watch their flocks by night!
4. egiljn bells eginjl bells elginj all the way!
5. Joy to the rowdl, the Lord is come!
6. In the akleb mid winter!
7. We wish you a merry mactshirs!
8. You’d better not thous, you’d better not cry!
9. Sleigh bells ring! Are you glinsetni?
10. Come and join the blatienorce, it’s a very special day.
11. Tip, if you are stuck write the letters on paper and rearrange, look for patterns-tion sp ie etc

Christmas Baubles

Choose 3 colours. You may not use any other colours. Now colour the baubles but make sure that each one is different. (You may use each colour more than once on any bauble if you wish.) How many different designs can you make?   See your jotter for the bauble design.