Revise all of the spellings and their rules!
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Patio Pizzas Tomatoes Cola Clothes
Bananas Windows Benches Boxes Brushes Babies
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Cello Spaghetti Sari Pyjamas Poncho
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During the half term break you need to remember all of the topics and new learning that has taken place this half term. To do this, you need to keep it fresh in your mind by using it!
The above link will take you to a website that will help this. It is the same website that we explored in class. Everyone wrote the username and password down in their planners and there are some great games to play for all abilities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma17frac-game-dolphin-racing-fractions
This is a link to help children with comparing and ordering fractions (often forgotten very quickly unless practised!)
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/mental-maths
This link is for those wishing to develop their mental maths/rapid recall. Again, this link is suitable for a range of abilities.
AND….
Don’t forget to keep using and learning times tables. You could make your own times table chart for your room or just those that you keep forgetting! You are aiming to be able to answer and multiplication OR DIVISION question in under 5 seconds (upto 12×12). You could also extend this to multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 or 1000. You can start with decimals or numbers in the hundreds. There is a lot of vocabulary associated with multiplying and dividing – find out what these are!
As the children are not in on Friday, we have given them their Wednesday homework early to allow them the two nights to complete the work.
In class, the children were given a picture and their task is to write the setting in the picture. They need to think carefully about the senses and how they feel being there. They must be careful not to write a story! Just to describe the setting.
Here is a wordbank to help:
cold
unfriendly
icy
stony
chilly
frosty
misty
dark
dim
shady
shadowy
black
gloomy
murky
dusky
scared
afraid
fearful
terrified
petrified
nervous
startled
alarmed
When editing and improving they need to focus on:
These will need to be finished and handed in on THURSDAY.
Literacy: As the days become shorter and the nights become longer, and with all of this gloomy weather, we thought we would take advantage of this and explore some stories with atmospheric settings. We will be looking at how to create an atmosphere with sentence length, punctuation and of course carefully chosen vocabulary. The children will be looking at writing a setting of their own based on a picture later in the week. Although we are not writing any dialogue this week, speech marks is still a clear area that will need some revision too so if you would like some extra practise you can look here:
http://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/website/2009/04/speech-marks-quiz.html
Numeracy: We are continuing with fractions this week. Towards the end of the week I will be doing a fractions quiz on all of the areas we have covered. This week we are looking at fractions of amounts and also fraction word problems too.
Homework: There is a fractions sheet which concentrates on the end of last week’s work which involved comparing fractions. To begin with you need to remember that all of the fractions being compared need the same denominator and remember the rule: whatever you do to the top, you do to the bottom too!
Here is a link for anyone wanting some extra help (or some extra work!) Have a good weekend!
http://www.carlscorner.us.com/Plurals.htm
Ancient Egypt Project
Over half term, and the next 3 humanities’ homeworks, you are to complete a project related to your learning about Ancient Egypt. You can choose from:
Try to present your research in an imaginative way. For example, you could use the form of a newspaper report, a biography, a diary, a magazine article – just use your imagination! You need to include plenty of pictures, including ones drawn by yourself.
The timeframe for your project will be as follows. Your homework on 18th October, 8th November and 15th November will be to work on your project. We would also ask that you spend some time on it over the half term holiday. We would expect you to spend around 2 ½ hours overall (please don’t spend too much longer than this) on the writing and illustrating of your project, with research time on top of that.
Projects should be handed in on Monday 18th November.
Maths: My group are looking at fractions and will be working on the following:
http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_improper.html
Literacy: We are having a cross curricular week with literacy and history and the children will be learning all about the Egyptian farming in literacy this week. They will be writing a letter and in addition to the history link they will be learning about how to use speech marks correctly.
Maths homework tonight:
Mrs Chronias – there will be a times table test so the boys need to learn these
Miss Martin – either multiplying 2 digit by 3 digit numbers or multiplying decimals problem sheet. All of the boys know which they should be completing and have been given the sheet in their student planner.
Parents should have received an e-mail about the readathon which is fast approaching…
History homework:
Following on from this week’s introduction to farming in Ancient Egypt, we will be making model ‘shadufs’ in next week’s lesson. Your homework is to research what a ‘shaduf’ was, what it was made of, what it was used for and who would have used it.
You will need to draw a picture of a ‘shaduf’ in your history books, labelling it with important information. You will then write a paragraph explaining what it was, what it was made of, what it was used for and who would have used it.
Please hand in on Monday 14th October.
Please also bring in an empty cereal box.