Comprehension – VE Day 75th Anniversary Daily News Story

1. Read and answer the questions on the news report.

Choose one of the following activities

• Discover – Where is your local war memorial? What is it made from? When was it erected
• Solve The Tommy figures are 25cm high. The average height of a man in the UK is 175cm. As a ratio, what scale is the figure? The average arm length is 70cm. How long will the arm be on the figure?
• Poems are often written to mark important occasions in history. Write a poem inspired by the 75th anniversary of VE Day. You may want to focus on the sacrifice that soldiers made during the war. You could look at an image of VE Day from 1945 and consider the sounds that you may have heard, as people celebrated the end of the war in Europe.

PAISLEY PATTERN

A selection of ties with the Paisley Pattern

Local History –

Thread making was Paisley’s main industry back in the 19th Century. Under the leadership of Thomas Coats (1809-1893), Paisley became the world centre for thread making.  The pattern known as ‘Paisley’ was produced on shawls and sent across the world. Despite being of a Kashmiri design and manufactured in other parts of Europe, the teardrop-like pattern soon became known as the Paisley Pattern. 

The Paisley pattern remains an important symbol of Paisley and is in the logo of Renfrewshire Council.

Main Lesson – We are going to create our own Paisley Pattern. Click on the link below and follow the step by step guide.

Paisley Pattern Lesson

Today we are going to revise how to simplify fractions. Simplest form means the smallest possible denominator. The concept of simplifying fractions has strong links to multiplication tables – knowledge of multiples and factors is very important.

1. Our lesson teaching contents are at the link below. Do the following tasks:

•  Watch the 2 videos on simplifying fractions
• Complete the interactive practice activities 1 & 2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkkm6v4

2. Complete Simplifying fractions task on Seesaw

Simplifying Fractions

Extension –

Attempt some of the fraction games on Sumdog.

Local and Community History Month is the month-long celebration of community that takes place across the United Kingdom. For instance, we know that Edinburgh has a tramway system in place but did you know that many years ago Paisley had trams?

Organised by the Historical Association, activities occur across the country every May to raise awareness of a strong community and to highlight local history.

CHALLENGE – Research Project

You are going to create a research project on Paisley. Your project should try to include the following;

• Paisley location on map of Scotland
• Location of Ferguslie Park on map of Paisley (compass direction from town centre) 
• Identify surrounding towns/cities that Paisley shares a border with
• The history of Paisley (What was Paisley historically famous for?)
• Transport Links in Paisley (Did you know that Paisley used to have Trams?)
• Research famous people from Paisley 
• Research famous buildings/monuments in Paisley
• Sports clubs/teams in paisley (This doesn’t need to be only St Mirren FC)
• Things to do in Paisley
• Your personal feelings about currently living in Paisley.

This project should carried out throughout the month of May and can be presented as:

• Powerpoint / Sway presentation
• BOOKLET/Selection of posters
• i-movie production / Drama Production

The deadline to be handed in for is Friday 29th May

Good Luck!

As we are using so much technology to enhance our learning, we thought this activity might be helpful!

Click the link below to begin the Dance Mat Typing workshop.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Grammar – Adverbs

Adverbs are words used to describe verbs (doing/action words).  We can use adverbs in sentences to explain how the action is being performed.

Eg, The nervous boy jumped hastily over the river.

Most adverbs end in ‘ly’ although there are exceptions to this rule (fast, often etc).  When starting a sentence with an adverb, it should be followed by a comma.

Eg, Frantically, the woman searched her house for her lost keys.

Task – Copy and complete the sentences into your jotter and write 5 new ones.  You may want to try writing sentences with different adverbs.

Take a photo of your work and send to your teacher.

Comprehension

Activity 1 – Bird feeder activity

Activity 2 – Time lapse activity

Choose one of these outdoor learning activities

Maths (Mental Maths multiplication strategies)

L.I – Use a range of multiplication strategies

Maths Starter activity (SEESAW)

Look at the questions on your page. How would you explain how to do this calculation. Can you show different ways to do this calculation. Use the microphone tool and add new pages to demonstrate.

• Partitioning
• Formal Sum (House sum, Upstairs downstairs)
• Grid Method

Main Lesson

View the video to show you the grid method for multiplication.

JOTTER WORK

Pyramids + Cubes

1a) 71 x 28        b) 37 x 52         c) 88 x 81        d) 397 x 61 (Pyramids only – how would this affect the layout of the grid?)

2) A greengrocer bought 25 boxes of oranges with 36 oranges in each box. He sold each box for £12

a How many oranges was there in total?

b How money did the greengrocer have after he’d sold the 25 boxes of oranges? ?

Spheres (Try Grid Method)

a) 12 x 9      b) 15 x 5        c) 32 x 5        d) 65 x 4      e) 53 x 7

EXTENSION

• Sumdog (The skills we will be focusing on are revision of area and perimeter)

• The Pig Dice Game This game is similar to the skunk game, but there only needs to be one player and one dice. However, even with only one dice things will still get tense!

  What you need to play: 

  • One die
  • A sheet of paper

  How to play:

  Step 1: Throw the die and the player records the number that they roll. As long as a one isn’t thrown, the player can roll again and add the number to their total.

  Step 2: After each throw, the player has to decide whether to throw again or keep the points they’ve scored. If a one is thrown at any point, the player loses all the points scored so far.

  Step 3: The first player to score 100 is the winner.

Maths Starter

Maths a day (Complete Q21-31)

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L.I – Use a grid to work out multiplication calculations.

Send work on Seesaw (Draw Template) or from your jotters. 

1. Use the grid method for the following calculations;

a) 34 x 6          b) 73 x 8        c) 329 x 3         d) 543 x 6

Check your answers by completing a formal sum. (Upstairs, down stairs sum)

2. Watch the video for using the grid method. This time you can watch the full video to see how the grid method progresses to multiplying 2-digit by 3 digit sums.

Example Question