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Wednesday 29th April
Posted: Apr 28, 2020 by: Liam Kershaw (LKershaw) on: Class 5
Good morning, Class 5!
I am enjoying hearing from a lot more of you this week. If you haven't got in touch yet this week, please do! Remember, I do need to hear from you or your adult by the end of the school day on Thursday each week, otherwise I will be giving you a ring on Friday to check you are okay.
Here are the answers to the proofreading task and yesterday's daily questions.
1.) Choose the correct word: My dog has (biting/bited/bit/bitten) his toy and it has popped!
2.) Which 2 words tell us this is in the present continuous tense? He is running every single day.
3.) What is wrong with this sentence? How many metres in a kilometre! It should have a question mark at the end instead of an exclamation mark.
4.) Find the two words in the same word family as 'manager'. Manger Management Managing Mangled
5.) Where is the relative clause? The person who has won is sitting next to you!
6.) Add a comma. When you get in from your walk, make sure you wipe your feet on the mat.
7.) Where is the adverbial? We looked under the bed and found it!
8.) Add an apostrophe to show only one boy owned the football. We had found the boy's football.
1.) -5 + 7 = 2
2.) Round 5501 to the nearest thousand. 6000
3.) Organise these from smallest to largest: 4.006 40.01 0.444 4.5 0.444 4.006 4.5 40.01
4.) 568 X 68 = 38,624
5.) What are the next 3 numbers in this sequence? 0.097, 0.098, ... ...... .... 0.099, 0.1(00) , 0.101
6.) Which of these digits means eight thousand? Write the number in your book and circle the digit that means eight thousand. 8,088.89
7.) What is the difference between 34/100 and 42/100? 8/100 or 4/50 or 2/25
8.) 67,843 - 39,593 = 28,250
9.) 0.79 as a fraction. 79/100
10.) What is the next number in this sequence? 540, 54, 5.4 ? It is been divided by 10 each time, so the next number is 0.54
Reading
Here is a reading comprehension for you.
English
For the next two days in English, I would like you to write a short story that takes place in your country. You have spent a lot of time building up a picture of your country. By now, you should have a map, a description, a flag, a coat of arms, a leader, a constitution, a national anthem, wildlife, a transport system and currency.
For your story, you could:
- Write a story about the leader of your country. Are they evil? Are they kind? Did they come to power in an exciting or unusual way?
- Write about a citizen who encounters some of the wildlife. Maybe the wildlife can talk? Maybe the main character is battling against the leader to stop them from destroying a creature's habitat?
- An adventure story where you start at one point in your (house) country, and have to travel to another point, using the weird and wonderful transport system. Maybe your main character has an important delivery to make in the far corner of the garden, but they have to travel over dangerous stair mountain and through the perilous patio desert?
Anyway, those are just some suggestions. I would use at least half of today's lesson to plan it before you do any writing. Remember, your story needs a 'problem' that needs to be resolved. Tomorrow, you will be continuing with this, so please don't finish it all today!
When you are writing it, please be mindful of your spelling, punctuation and grammar. Don't forget to look at your writing targets as well as thinking about exciting sentences.
Here are the daily grammar questions:
1.) Choose the correct word from the list: My dad has (ate/eated/eaten/eats) all the crisps.
2.) Add a suffix to the underlined word to make it present continuous tense. I am eat..... my lunch at the moment.
3.) What is wrong with this sentence? Hello! he shouted angrily.
4.) Find the two words in the same word family as 'arrange'. arrangement arranging raining organising
5.) Where is the relative clause? That is the house where I grew up.
6.) Add a comma. Since you have won the race you get a prize.
7.) Where is the adverbial? The dog came from nowhere and started barking.
8.) Add an apostrophe to show the bowl belonged to more than one dog. The dogs bowl was too small for both of them!
Maths
I have set a Mathletics task for you today on addition and subtraction word problems. They initially seem quite easy, but the purpose of this task is to demonstrate another way of working out word problems, using the bar model approach. I reminded you yesterday about reading the question 4 times, and about visualising the question, but another way you can do it is using the bar model. Have a go, and let me know what you think. Personally, I prefer other methods, but some of you may find this way is helpful to you. I have posted an example below for you.
Here are the 10 questions for today:
1.) -16 + 32 =
2.) Round 789 to the nearest 1000.
3.) Put these in order from smallest to largest: 1/100 0.56 12% 1/2 37% Hint: change them all to fractions out of 100 first!
4.) 332 X 75
5.) 3.45 + 12.3 (remember to line up the digits correctly. Place the decimal point first!
6.) Which digit means 6 tenths? Write the complete number in your book and circle the correct digit. 65.66
7.) What is the difference between 3/50 and 31/50?
8.) 89,654 - 39,871 =
9.) 6 and 5/6 as an improper fraction.
10.) What is the 9th multiple of 3?
Topic
Today, I would like you to create a full factfile of your country. It needs to have the following information in it. It will kind of be like a Wikipedia page. You should try to make it match the rest of your work on this topic. Try to fit it on one page of your book, and make it as colourful and interesting as possible.
Name:
Flag: (Draw a small version of it)
Population: (How many people live in your country. This could be the real amount, so your family, or a made up amount).
Capital city: (Think of an area of your country that is most important to you and make it the capital).
Leader:
Wildlife: (List some of the wildlife).
Transport: (List the transport you came up with)
Currency: (Name of the currency)
Landmarks: (These are the famous parts of your country. You have probably referred to some of these already. For example, I know Toby has a sea at the bottom of his garden that acts as a border for his country).
A motto for your country: This is a short sentence or phrase that describes your country. For example, the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) is 'Dieu et mon droit' which is French for 'God and my right'. Your motto can be in English though! It could be something like 'A place of true beauty' or 'Peace above everything else'. Try to keep it short and snappy!
Bonus task from Libby F: Libby thought that you could come up with symbols for your country to represent numbers. So you could come up with different symbols to mean 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Sounds like a fab idea, Libby!
By the end of this lesson, you should have a complete overview of your country. Well done! I have really enjoyed seeing all your examples and ideas for your country. I would love to see examples of your factfiles as well so I can share them on the blog later.
PE
Keep up with your active time. An idea could be times table practice with your exercise. So you could ask someone in your house to ask you a times table like 3 X 5 and you have to show the answer in some form of exercise. So you might do 15 star jumps to show your answer. Or you might plank for 15 seconds. Or you could do 15 burpees. I would do a few of these! I wonder who will get asked 12 X 12?!
Keep up the great work, Class 5!
Mr. K
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