http://www.hqprimary.co.uk/gorilla/

 

http://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html

 

Tonight’s homework is set on the Mathletics site:

www.mathletics.co.uk

All of the boys were given their username and password on a card to stick in their homework diary.

Parents, if you are trying to access the website from a Mac and having difficulty then you can try downloading Google Chrome and use this to access Mathletics instead.

Literacy:  We are continuing to use our class reader this week and the boys will be working on an informal letter from one of the characters to his twin sister.  The boys will be writing a part of the book that doesn’t actually happen so they will be looking at how the author portrays the characters to imagine what would be written.  Later in the week they will be working on nouns and identifying proper and common nouns (which links to when we use capitals and when we do not).

Maths:  We are revisiting data analysis this week and they boys will be exploring a range of graphs and answering questions relating to the data.  Some of the work will also involve drawing graphs accurately.  Later in the week we are looking at mean, median and mode too.

For those who enjoyed today’s palindromic number challenges…

Start with a 2-digit number such as 32

Reverse it and add the result to the original number 32 + 23 = 55

After one reversal you get a palindromic number!

 

Try another 2-digit number such as 57

Reverse it and add the result to the original number 57 + 75 = 132

It is not palindromic, so reverse the answer and add it again:

132 + 231 = 363 – after two reversals it is palindromic!

 

CHALLENGE:

How many palindromic numbers can you find after one reversal?

How about after two reversals?

After three reversals?

After more than three reversals?

(HINT: 89 and 98 both take 24 reversals to make them palindromic!!)

 

Good luck!

From Miss Thomas

Here is the text we used in class today to help you structure your biography but remember all of the ideas you had to improve it.  You must remember to bring your book in tomorrow as you will need it.  You will need to complete the writing by Friday.

 

Roald Dahl

In 1922, Roald began at his first school Elm Tree House. In 1923, he moved to Llandaff Cathedral School.  When Roald was nine, in 1925, he was sent to a boarding school called St Peter’s in Weston-super-Mare, England. He was very frightened at first and was very homesick.

 

In 1929, at the age of thirteen, he moved to another boarding school called Repton in Derbyshire. He liked this even less than his previous school, as the teachers were very strict and the older boys bullied the younger boys.

 

When Roald left school in 1934 he began a job with Shell Oil Company in London and he hoped he would get to travel abroad. In 1938 he was sent to Tanzania in Africa to sell oil. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Roald joined the Royal Air Force so he could learn to fly. He went to Kenya to train as a pilot and in 1940 he was ordered to join the fighting around Egypt.

 

In 1941 Roald was sent to fight in Syria but due to his injuries he was told he was no longer fit to fly and he returned home.  He was not at home for long because in 1942 he was ordered to go to the USA to work in Washington. Here, he started writing and in 1943 his first story was published in the USA, called Gremlins. After the war finished he stayed in the USA and here he met a Hollywood Movie star called Patricia Neal. They married in 1953.

 

Roald Dahl had five children. Roald’s first daughter was born in 1955 and she was called Olivia. In 1957 another daughter was born called Tessa, followed by a son called Theo in 1960. In 1964 Roald’s third daughter Ophelia was born and his book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ was published in the USA to great success! In 1965 his final daughter Lucy was born.

 

In 1966 another of Roald’s famous books ‘James and the Giant Peach’ was published. This was an instant success and practically flew off the shelves! Later, his other books including ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ and ‘Danny, Champion of the World’ were published.

 

In 1978 Roald met the illustrator Quentin Blake and from then on, Quentin drew the illustrations for Roald’s books. Roald’s most famous book, ‘The BFG’ was published in 1982 but sadly he and his wife got divorced in 1983. Later that year, Roald won an important award called the Whitebread Prize for his book ‘The Witches’. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of 74.

 

Maths:  This week we are looking at decimals.  We will start by looking at the link between fractions decimals and percentages (linking back to last week’s work) and then move onto doubling and halving numbers with up to 2 decimal places.  This will also include finding the mid point between decimal numbers as a challenge.  Later on in the week we will be looking at ordering decimal numbers (a mixture of 1,2 and 3 numbers after the decimal place) and decimal sequences towards the end of the week.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=dartboarddoublesandhalves

 

Literacy:  We are working from our class reader ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ this week which will begin with a discussion about the themes and opinions of the book and looking at the author.