Here we are again, back at Wednesday! The weeks are rolling round  and round – aren’t they? It made me think of another song! Sit back and enjoy this music and history lesson from 1980! How many of the instruments can you name?

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Literacy

For your spelling practice, I have set up a Sumdog challenge of 10 words – some et words and some silent w words.

Today’s focus is all about Non- fiction text features. 

I know that some of us get a bit mixed up with what is a fiction text and what is a non-fiction text, so here is a quick reminder of the main differences.

There are lots of non-fiction text features but we are going to start by looking at two of the most important features for finding information in a text quickly.

Please write the date and I can use the Contents and Index pages of a non-fiction text to find out information.

The instructions are very clear, so read each question carefully and answer in full sentences, applying all of your punctuation and spelling skills. Remember to read over your answers to make sure that they are clear and make sense.  Question 7 asks you to give a definition – the meaning for each word and here is a link to an online dictionary to help. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

How did you get on using the Contents and Index pages? Remember to traffic light 🚦 your work and make a comment about your learning. Here are some games where you have to use different non fiction texts to complete the challenges.

https://pbskids.org/molly/games/dogsled

Numeracy

For your starter today, please go to Sumdog and practise for at least 10 minutes- it’s the end of the NLC competition tomorrow, so let’s keep going!

This link shows you that when you have to find the difference between two numbers e.g. 67-18, the strategy that you can use is to count up from the smaller number to the bigger number.

Let’s try this strategy ourselves by calculating the answers on this page. It starts by checking your understanding of odd and even numbers and as we know, even numbers have partners and odd numbers have one left out!

Please write the date and I can find the difference between numbers.  For question 2a you find the difference between the red and orange discs, so the sum would be 84 – 32. Remember that when you subtract, the biggest number is written first.

For a finisher today, why not add this strategy to the poster you were asked to create, and show some examples of how it can be used.

Have you ticked off any acts of kindness yet? I’m sure that you will be demonstrating great kindness and consideration.😇

Well, we’re at the end of another day of home learning. Goodbye and I’ll be back with you again, tomorrow.