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Tuesday 24th March – Maths

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L.I – Explore the perimeter of compound shapes.

Maths Starter –

There are two maths starter activities attached on Seesaw which each pupil should attempt.

  1. Perimeter Calculation
  2. Miss Todd’s Maths Challenge

Main Lesson –

  1. If you didn’t get the chance to watch this yesterday please do so. The link is a video explaining how to calculate perimeter.

2. There are 3 differentiated tasks attached to Seesaw.

Spheres

Cubes

Pyramids

3. Jotter Work

 Spheres – Q6, 7

 Cubes – Q6-8

 Pyramids – Q6, 8, 9, 10

 

EXTENSION

Sumdog Challenge

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Home Learning Booklet – Maths Activity 1 p28-29

Monday 23rd March (Global Goals Topic)

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For the next part of our topic, you are being asked to carry out a research project on “LIFE BELOW WATER”. Your research can be presented as:

  • a report
  • a video
  • a powerpoint
  • sway presentation.

In your report I am looking for you to include the following:

  • locate the major oceans on a map and take account of where they are in relation to countries and places of interest
  • research key facts about the main oceans of the world
  • explore the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans
  • research the ‘bleaching’ of the Great Barrier Reef and how climate change is contributing to this
  • suggest ways humans could slow down the process of climate change
  • investigate which oceans have particular problems with pollution
  • suggest ways the governments of countries around polluted oceans can work to improve them
  • investigate some of the marine life which are threatened by human intervention.

SEE USEFUL WEBSITES 

EXTENSION – To up-level your project you could add some of the following:

  • research to find out about organisations who work to protect oceans
  • choose and research something which lives under the water
  • research the Great Barrier Reef and how organisations work to protect it
  • how sound vibrations travels through waves and water
  • investigate how dolphins communicate
  • research why sound travels faster through water than through the air
  • investigate why the temperature of the water effects the speed that the sound travels
  • give my opinion on why looking after the oceans are a priority

THIS WORK IS DUE FOR COMPLETION ON – Friday 27th March

You will be expected to research and add to your project every afternoon this week + any extra time you put in.

I look forward to seeing your final projects. Please send them to me on seesaw or glow.

Monday 23rd March (LITERACY)

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Crash!

We are going to do some imaginative writing. We will use this picture as our writing stimulus. Use your jotter for all tasks and remember to use your imagination.

1) Question time! (Remember to answer in sentences and be imaginative)

  1. How has the helicopter crashed?
  2. What do you think he should try to do next?
  3. Who might be able to help in this situation?
  4. What do you think you would do if you were in a similar situation?
  5. Why do you think he is afraid?
  6. What might he be afraid of?

2) Sentence challenge!

Using an adverb at the beginning of a sentence makes your writing more interesting.

Add an adverb at the beginning of these sentences:

Copy and Complete

_________, he wondered where he was.

________, the helicopter was whirring.

Now write your own sentence and remember to use an adverb at the beginning.

 

3) Story starter!

Lawrence was injured, afraid, lost and completely alone. He had been thrown viciously from the aircraft after the flock of birds had attacked the propellers. As he laid there, listening to his racing heart, he wondered what would happen to him. How would he make it out alive?

CONTINUE ON THIS STORY SHOWING

  • A beginning, middle and ending
  • Include examples of VCOP
  • Make sentences interesting

 


TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR WORK AND SEND THEM TO ME VIA GLOW OR SEESAW.

Monday 23rd March (MATHS)

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Starter Activity

  1. Please see your Seesaw page and glow email. I have added a Maths a day challenge for the month of March. Complete the days 1-10. Pyramids and Cubes group should do CfE 2nd Level whilst Spheres should do CfE First Level Qs. A maximum of 10 minutes is allowed. Click here for timer.

2. When you are finished try to complete the countdown challenge. Again give yourself 10 minutes to see how many different ways you can complete it. The Spheres maths group may use a calculator to help.

 

 

Maths Lesson – Perimeter

L.I – Explore the perimeter of 2D shapes.

 

  1. Teaching Points

  • Perimeter is the length of the boundary around any 2D shape.

Click here to watch a video explaining perimeter.

 

2. Jotter Work – Making Links

In your jotters record what type of people/jobs might use perimeter? Think about when people need to know about perimeter. What kind of people are they and why do they need to know? Record three examples. Take a photograph of your work and send to me via Seesaw or Glow.

 

3. Choose 1 of the following activities:

a) All the possibilities

The perimeter of a rectangle is 30cm.  Can you work out all the different possibilities for the sides.

Try working systematically

*Remember you can halve the perimeter to give you the length plus the width, so you can work out the combinations of two numbers which add to that total.

CHALLENGE – Work out the AREA of each rectangle you have created

 

b) Area and perimeter at home

Can you measure the perimeter of 3 items/surfaces at home. These could include the kitchen work top, the front cover of a book, the living room, windows etc.

Use a measuring tape if you have one. If not use your knowledge of reference measures for length (e.g. longer side of A4 paper is about 30 cm).

 

CHALLENGE – When you have calculated the perimeter, record these and use this to calculate the area.

 

PLEASE TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS AND/OR VIDEOS OF YOUR WORK TO SEND AND I WILL PUT THEM ON OUR CLASS BLOG.

 

4. Plenary – Add traffic lights colours to the success criteria on seesaw/glow.

 

Extension

Log onto Sumdog. I have set a challenge based on previous work learned on Percentages, Decimals and Fractions. The challenge is to get 50 correct answers in the least number of questions. I will send you your results when your are finished. GOOD LUCK!