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 practice 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.
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. Remember 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)
Between now and Christmas we will have a tables test every week.
Literacy
Practice learning your words off by heart for our St Andrew’s Assembly on Wednesday 30th November
Read your group novel: Green Group Read Chapters 3 & 4 (P33-64)
Blue Group Read Chapters 2 & 3 (P27-64)
Red Group Read Chapters 5 & 6 (P32-48)
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 two of the activities and when possible record them in your homework jotter
