Homework – Week beginning 30/04/18

Well done to all of you who managed to complete their homework last week, I really enjoyed seeing you Koi Nobori illustrations! Your homework tasks for this week are as follows:

Literacy

Red

  1. arrow
  2. narrow
  3. elbow
  4. borrow
  5. sparrow
  6. window
  7. sorrow
  8. burrow
  9. shadow
  10. shallow

Green

  1. growl
  2. prowl
  3. scowl
  4. brown
  5. elbow
  6. arrow
  7. pillow
  8. follow
  9. hollow
  10. borrow

Blue

  1. vow
  2. gown
  3. town
  4. howl
  5. clown
  6. crown
  7. down
  8. drown
  9. frown
  10. crowd

Task: Copy your spelling words, in your neatest handwriting, into your jotter three times.  In each line, circle the one you think is written the neatest.

 

Maths & Numeracy – Multiplication

Task 1:

1) William loves biscuits! He eats 9 biscuits every day! How many biscuits does he eat in a week?

2) It’s a busy Saturday in McDonalds! 12 children each want 6 chicken nuggets. How many nuggets need to be cooked?

3) Primary 5 has run out of whiteboard pens! Miss Donaldson orders 8 boxes, and each box contains 6 pens. How many pens will she have?

4) Frank loves to go to football matches! He goes to watch the football 5 times a month! How many times will he have seen the football in a year (12 months)?

 

Task 2: Play hit the button.  Write down the fastest time you achieved.

Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Other Multiplication Maths Games

Maths Fishing: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication

Times Tables Grids: http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/3124

Sum Sense: http://coolsciencelab.com/sum_sense_multiplication.html

Number Fact Families (x): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

 

Topic:

This week, we have been learning about why Japan suffers from so many earthquakes. Research a time when an earthquake occurred and write a short newspaper article describing what happened. (This can be an earthquake that happened in Japan, or anywhere else).

 

Apologies for the late upload!

Miss Donaldson  🙂

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