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Friday 1st May (Maths)

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.

 

 

Thursday 30th April ( Last Day Of The month)

Another fun filled day ahead Primary 7. Your tasks can be found in Seesaw. 🙂

Literacy- Similes and Metaphors

PE- Yoga and Chill

Music- The History Of Rap

**Transition Forms- These MUST be completed if you haven’t done so already**

Remember, you can contact me at any point if you are having trouble with todays tasks or any that have gone before.

Mrs Tarburn

 

Tuesday 28th April (Maths)

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

A ticket to the theme park costs £27 and a class of 34 children want to go for a school trip. How much will it cost altogether?

Try the following questions

2a) 13 x 16      b) 25 x 18      c) 52 x 12      d) 83 x 21

3. Swap the digits

  • Multiply 39 × 62
  • Swap the digits around, i.e. 93 × 26, and multiply these.
  • What do you notice?

Do the same for b) 46 × 32 and c) 64 × 23. Investigate whether or not there are more pairs like this and try to explain your findings.

COMPLETE THE EXIT CARD ON SEESAW

Extension

Revision for adding and subtracting formal methods and mental strategies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6jhpg8

Tuesday 28th April (Literacy)

Outdoor Literacy

 

Choose one of the following tasks for Outdoor Literacy;

Rope Trail Instructional Writing – Write set of instructions to move from point a) to point b) outside. Create your own trail, using both high / low areas, under / over tarpaulin, between trees/bushes etc.,

Use imperative verbs for your instructions. Once you have done this, blindfold a family member and ask them to follow your instructions. Would you change any instructions? Why not swap over and have your family member read out your instructions whilst you are blindfolded.

Picture frame – Collect 8 similar length twigs/branches and a range of natural materials. Whilst one person is blindfolded, the other gives instructions for them to make a picture frame on the floor with the sticks, and to create a picture or pattern using the natural items. The location of each item needs to be described so that the blindfolded person can place it without assistance. After 5 minutes, swap roles.

Tuesday 28th April (Health & Wellbeing)

It’s Okay to be Different

Did you know that April is Autism awareness month? It is important that we all appreciate our differences and understand “IT’S OKAY TO BE DIFFERENT” Watch the short video “A Different Kind of Brilliant” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6g8QHWkKZU CHALLENGE – You are going to create a poster with the message “It’s okay to be different”.

Once you have created your poster, take a photograph and either send it via glow or on Seesaw. The posters should be handed in by Thursday 30th April.

Monday 27th April (Literacy)

L.I – Explore the importance of fluency and expression when we read.

Starter Activity – Answer each of the Survey Monkey Questions.

  1. Listen to Poem

Begin by reading Miroslav Holub’s poem The Door. Listen to these two contrasting performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bazJvnuOLMM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011kx3r

2. Listen and Respond

Decide which reading you prefer and why and jot down your response in your jotter.

3. Answer the following (Jotter work or Seesaw)

Now make some notes on the poem:

  1. What did you like about the poem? What was your favourite line and why?
  2. How did the poem make you feel?
  3. Which line in the poem did you find the most interesting and why?
  4. Are there any parts of the poem that leave you with unanswered questions?
  5. What questions would you like to ask the poet, Miroslav Holub?

Extension

Decide how you would perform this out loud and have a go at performing at home.

  • Why not use i-movie (or other media equivalent app) to record yourself and add musicand pictures to your project.

Monday 27th April (Maths)

Maths Starter

Complete Q11-20 of the Rigour Maths Challenge. Answers will be posted on Seesaw during the afternoon.

  Spheres

 

Pyramids & Cubes

 

 

Main Lesson

We are going to start off this morning revising our grid method multiplication strategy. You are going to learn a way of writing calculations for multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.This method is called the grid method.

  1. Watch the teaching video below (up to 2:11):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcsEtIqei8

 

2. Roll the dice

Roll a dice to give the different numbers in a multiplication calculation. Children complete the calculation using either the written method or mental strategies depending on the numbers.

 

If you don’t have a dice, use the link below.

https://www.random.org/dice/?num=4

3. Grid Method Multiplying

Attempt each question using the grid method to layout your work (to be completed on Seesaw or in jotters.)

Pyramids + Cubes (Both slides)

Spheres (Slide 1)

Sheet 1

Sheet 2

Extension –

BBC – Negative Numbers Revision 

Watch the video and play the quiz.

 

Monday 27th April (Home Learning)

Create Your Own Timetable

One of the first things you will get when you go to secondary school is a timetable. The timetable you get will explain what subject, classroom and teacher you will have throughout the day at different time slots called ‘periods’.

For this morning I want you to create your own weekly timetable for home learning that you will try to stick with. Remember your plan must fit with you. If you are never up at 9:00am then don’t bother planning to do your first lesson at this point.

Each time table must have:

  • 3x 1hour lesson periods (usually 1 maths, 1 literacy and 1 other)
  • 1 hour of planned exercise (This could be playing outside)
  • 1 daily household task planned per day (tidy your bedroom, do the hoovering, wash the dishes etc)
  • Plan time for someone special each day. This could be a phone call, an email, writing a letter to post, FaceTime video call etc. It is important to keep in touch with people and let them know you care about them.
  • Plan slots for lunch and breaks etc
  • Don’t forget to plan in when you will be having free time. This could include many things catching up on TV programmes, watching Netflix, playing the X-Box etc.

Weekly Timetable Challenge example

Have a look at the example above.

I have attached a template for you to add to with text boxes, however you might wish to create/draw your own template on paper. If so, take a picture of it and send it to me. (Also available on Seesaw)

Weekly Timetable Template 

Friday 24th April

Thank you for posting your work up today 🙂 Im really proud of all your efforts 🙂

The weather is meant to take a turn for the worse on Sunday, so get out and enjoy the sunshine while you can. *Please remember to adhere to the Lockdown rules though.*

I said I would share some special news with you all this afternoon… so here it is…

Im half way through my pregnancy now and found out today that baby Tarburn is going to be a…. BOY!!

We are delighted and will have a look through the boy names some of you gave me before Lockdown. 🙂

Have a great weekend 🙂 xx