👋🏼 Good morning everyone! I hope that you are all doing well. Before we start our lessons today, why don’t you ‘take a moment’ with Mrs McMillan? This week, she has created a meditation video for us to relax and calm down to. 🧘🏼♂️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjugSmJ_W3c
Literacy:
Today for our literacy task we will be revising parenthesis. Brackets, dashes and commas show parentheses (plural of parenthesis). Parenthesis is a word or clause inserted into a text to show an afterthought or as extra information. A pair of brackets, commas or dashes can be used to enclose the extra information or afterthought. You can choose which to use depending on how you want the information to be read.
Examples
- Brackets: ‘The otter (who was very cute) swam down the river.’ Brackets are used here as the parenthesis isn’t vital to the sentence.
- Commas: ‘The otter, who was swimming in the river, caught a fish.’ Commas are used here as the parenthesis is important to the sentence.
- Dashes: ‘The otter – who wasn’t very clever – stood on some rocks.’ Dashes are used here as the parenthesis is informal.
Thursday 4th June
Parenthesis
I can identify and use parenthesis.
Warm Up:
Watch this clip to remind yourself about parenthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZJbRaA3LUI
Main Task:
Activity 1: Which Sentence?
Choose the sentence which uses parenthesis correctly. Write that sentence into your jotter.
Activity 2: Identifying Parenthesis
Copy out these sentences, and add punctuation (either brackets, commas or dashes) to show the extra information.
- Mr Grumble who could only run backwards managed to win the teachers’ 100 metre race.
- The sabre-toothed badger which was covered in purple fur chased my poor old granny through the town.
- My favourite toadstool which was pink with blue spots was deadly poisonous to teachers and dentists.
- Phil a man-eating Spanish donkey escaped from prison and hid in my attic.
- Eleanor the most dangerous parrot in the world robbed three banks in Germany last weekend.
- The runners all 24 of them lined up at the starting position.
Activity 3: Add Parenthesis
Copy these sentences adding in some extra information through use of parenthesis.
- Sarah and her friend went to the park to play on the swings.
- My car is in the drive.
- John watched his favourite film last night.
- My dog fetched the ball.
For example:
Sarah and her friend, who lived next door, went to the park to play on the swings.
Extension:
Create your own sentences that include extra information and use commas, dashes or brackets to highlight the extra information.
Maths
Warm Up: Mental Maths
- I think of a number, then subtract 15. My answer is 426. What number did I start with?
- What is 63 shared between 7?
- Continue the sequence: 2,674 2,774 2,874 2,974 _____
- Partition 32,562
- What is double 84?
- Round 8,369 to the nearest 10.
- Using ><, compare these numbers: 45,730 ____ 45,293
- If I save £3.10 for 6 weeks, how much will I have saved in total?
- If the time is five past 7, what time will it be in two and a half hours?
- What is half of 742?
- Calculate 17 + 2 + 13
- What is 5,432 subtract 40?
- Divide 76,000 by 100.
- What number is 10 after 2,369?
- 6 x 3 = ?
- If I spend £13.45, what change should I expect from £20?
Main Task: Nine Times Table
04.06.20 Multiplying by 9
I can build up my knowledge of table facts.
Activity 1: Supermovers
Let’s revise our knowledge of the nine times table today. Start by joining in to the Supermovers song along with my favourite – the rapping unicorn! https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-9-times-table/zr2gt39
Activity 2: Factor Pairs
- _____ x _____ = 18
- _____ x _____ = 45
- _____ x _____ = 72
- _____ x _____ = 99
- _____ x _____ = 27
- _____ x _____ = 9
- _____ x _____ = 54
- _____ x _____ =36
- _____ x _____ = 108
- _____ x _____ = 90
- _____ x _____ = 63
- _____ x _____ = 81
Activity 3:
Build your knowledge of the nine times table by answering these questions!
Traffic Light today’s work and leave a comment to say how you found multiplying by 9 today. 🚦
Extension:
Today for some additional 9-times table practise you could head to the following website: https://www.timestables.co.uk/9-times-table.html (the games work on tablets and mobile phones too!).
Alternatively, work on your speed and accuracy on Hit The Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Or the Daily 10: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
For this week’s assembly the focus is on Article 28.
Hop on over to the main blog to read more about Article 28 and why the right to education is so important. Then, complete the follow up task to explore Article 28 further.
Additionally, if you want to experience some true assembly vibes then you could watch Fischy music’s online assembly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRsUwT50iDM
Miss Donaldson 🍎
