Good morning everyone. Hope you are all well.
Just to let you know that I will be at school today so I won’t be able to answer email queries so quickly. If you are having trouble accessing any of the links, I suggest you leave that task until I can get back to you. Thanks.
How did you get on with the daily tasks yesterday?
Here are the answers to yesterday’s mental maths questions. I have got one deliberately wrong. Can you spot which one it is?
51 + 49 = 100 73 + 27 = 100 84 + 16 = 100 36 + 64 = 100 62 + 38 = 100
100 = 64 + 36 100 = 75 + 25 44 + 66 = 100 71 + 29 = 100 53 + 47 = 100
Today’s tasks are as follows …..
Maths No Problem
Chapter 8 Decimals: Lesson 4 Writing Hundredths
Textbook pages 11,12,13 Workbook pages 7 & 8
Today’s lesson builds on from the previous lesson on tenths – introducing hundredths. If your child is struggling with understanding this, then try to do this to help them see (practically) that 1 whole is made up of 10 tenths and each tenth is made up of 10 hundredths.
Cut a strip of A4 lengthways to represent 1. Now divide that strip into 10 equal pieces to represent tenths. Now try to divide each tenth into ten pieces to represent hundredths.
I have also found a video that introduces decimal numbers that might help:
Lesson Notes: To begin this lesson, show pupils the In Focus task and give them some time to study the problem. Draw their attention to the second bar and recap that when 1 is divided into 10 parts, we call each part 1 tenth and write it as 0.1. What about the third bar, how many parts is it divided into? Do we need to count each part? Is there an easier way to find how many parts it has been divided into?
Guide pupils to count the number of parts in each tenth. There are 10 parts. What can we do next? If each tenth has 10 parts, and there are 10 tenths, the third bar must have been divided into 10 × 10 = 100 parts. What do we call 1 part out of 100 parts? We call it 1 hundredth. We can write 1 hundredth as 1⁄100 and 0.01. Then show pupils Let’s Learn 3 and ask them to write the hundredths in decimals.
Ask pupils how many hundredths there are in 1 tenth. There are 10 hundredths in 1 tenth. We can write 10 hundredths as 0.1. What about 30 hundredths and 80 hundredths? What about 32 hundredths?
During Guided Practice, pupils are writing the decimal equivalents of the hundredths shown in the bar models.
Mental Maths / Arithmetic
Number bonds of 1000
430 + ? = 1000 640 + ? = 1000 720 + ? = 1000 650 + ? = 1000 260 + ? = 1000
680 + 320 = 820 + ? 210 + ? = 750 + 250 ? + 550 = 490 + 510
Writing Task
This task might take a few days to complete so take your time.
We all know the story of Macbeth really well now. If there had been newspapers in Macbeth’s day, I wonder how they would have reported the story (parts of it or all of it).
I would like you to have a go at writing a newspaper article about the Battle of Dunsinane.
You might want to firstly, mind-map with your child what they will need to include in the story:
– details of Macbeth’s reign of terror and crimes
– details of the witches’ predictions that Macbeth would not be killed by anyone born of woman or until the woods rose up against him
– details of the fate of Lady Macbeth (ie that she went mad and died)
– details of Macduff’s victory and how he sliced Macbeth’s head off! – details of Malcolm as the new King of Scotland
Look at this prezzi presentation that goes through the writing features of a newspaper report
https://prezi.com/saicq4scvzix/newspaper-articles-features/
Here is an example of a newspaper report. Use it to MAGPIE ideas, vocabulary, layout etc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/themes_macbeth.shtml
Spellings for the week are: mention, minute, natural, naughty, notice. Don’t forget to use all the different strategies to help learn the spellings.
Please don’t forget to read today. ‘The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the more places you will go.’ You should be able to access the book quizzes and don’t forget to go on Lexia (if you have a log in) for 15 minutes each day. Well done everyone.