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Thursday 21st May
Posted: May 20, 2020 by: Liam Kershaw (LKershaw) on: Class 5
Morning, Class 5! I hope you enjoyed the lovely weather yesterday. I do love living in the Holme Valley - it always looks so lovely in the sunlight. Here is a photo I took of the fields across from my house.
Here are the answers to yesterday's questions:
1.) Where is the determiner? We couldn't find the right one.
2.) How many pronouns? He was unsure of himself, but he was determined to complete the race. 3
3.) Where is the preposition? The finish line was over the next hill.
4.) Punctuate this sentence: "Are you okay?" asked the teacher.
5.) Is the word I've underlined singular or plural? Women's right to vote was an important movement in the early twentieth century. Plural
6.) Can you match the correct pronoun to the correct noun? I am not sure that Emily is ready to do her driving test. The 'her' is referring to Emily.
7.) Where does the comma go? Are you sure that is correct, Felix?
8.) How many nouns overall? What types of nouns are in this sentence? The school of fish darted quickly from one end of the aquarium to the other; they seemed full of joy. Fish, end and aquarium are all common nouns, school is a collective noun in this sentence and joy is an abstract noun. There are 5 nouns overall, so you can get the mark for 5. However, 'other' is a pronoun in this sentence with a determiner before it, so if you said the answer was 6, you can also give yourself a mark.
1.) 499 X 32 15,968
2.) 8,000 X 400 3,200,000
3.) 77,000 divided by 110 700
4.) 7.703 X 10 77.03
5.) 64.229 divided by 1000 0.064229
6.) 5 and 1/3 X 4 21 and 1/3
7.) What is the area of a square with 20cm sides? 20 X 20 = 400 cm squared
8.) What is the perimeter of the same square? 80cm
9.) 8 squared divided by 2 cubed. 8 squared = 64 2 cubed = 8 64 divided by 8 = 8
10.) How do you know straight away that 5,672 is not a prime number? Because it is an even number larger than 2. The only even number that is a prime number is the number 2, so any other even number is definitely not prime because it will be divisible by 2 as well as 1 and itself.
Reading
Here is a reading comprehension for you.
English
Use today to finish your biography. If you have finished it, please proofread it carefully. You may want to use a different-coloured pen to correct your mistakes. Use a dictionary to check spelling, look for missing punctuation and check your sentences make sense. Also check to see which writing targets you have included. If you want, you can spend some time writing up a neat version of it today, but you don't have to write it up in neat! This afternoon, I will be creating a special biographies blog to publish all your wonderful biographies. I must say, you guys are teaching me lots as well about all the great women in history that you have researched.
In the meantime, as some of you have finished, Alex and his family gave me a good idea for a bit of of debate. As you will be writing balanced argument texts next year in Year 6, I thought we could practise making points on either side of a debate.
So the question I am asking (courtesy of Alex) is 'Are video games good for children?'. There are of course reasons why they are AND reasons why they aren't good for you. When writing a balanced argument, you need to talk about reasons from both sides of the debate. I would NOT like you to write a full balanced argument piece of writing, but I WOULD like you to follow the link to a Padlet I made, where you can put your thoughts on this topic on a display board for others in the class to see. I would like you to write one reason why video games are good for children, and one reason why video games are bad for children. You may not think there are ANY good reasons or ANY bad reasons, but to try and see the other side of an argument is a good skill to develop.
Some of your siblings have used Padlet already, with their teachers, so please have a look at the link and write your thoughts. It's a good way for us all to feel connected. You just click the 'plus' sign and add your comment underneath each heading. Make sure you add the correct thought under the correct column! Also, please remember to sign it with your first name, so I know who wrote it! I have to approve your comments, so they may not show up on the Padlet straight away.
https://padlet.com/class54/gwznkmed8qqd74g5
Follow that link and put in this following password: peppapig - That password is all one word and no capitals.
Here are your 8 questions for today:
1.) Where is the determiner? This pencil is broken!
2.) How many pronouns? We shouldn't listen to him.
3.) Where is the preposition? The clouds below the plane looked like cotton wool!
4.) Punctuate this sentence: i couldnt find the answer yelled justin
5.) Is the word I've underlined singular or plural? The school's car park was full of cars.
6.) Where is the adverb? Kevin is arriving soon.
7.) Where does the comma go? We needed to test the temperature check the cake and leave it for another 20 minutes.
8.) Add the brackets. The car purchased in 1967 was a classic.
Maths
Today, we are going to be adding and subtracting fractions under 1. Some have the same denominator and this is easy - you just add/subtract the numerators together and keep the denominator the same. Then, we will be adding fractions with different denominators, where you need to use your knowledge of equivalent fractions to change one fraction so it has the same denominator as the other, then you can add it. The first video shows you how to do this.
The second video gives you some important information about why we need to change a denominator to add two fractions with different denominators. I think the way the person explains this in the video (near the end) is a brilliant way of explaining it.
When you have watched the two videos, have a go at the two activity sheets. The answers to them are in a link underneath the link to the sheet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z42vgwx
Here are your 10 questions for today:
1.) 703 X 49
2.) 6000 X 6
3.) 70,000 divided by 70
4.) 78.09 X 10
5.) 89.9 divided by 100
6.) 7 and 2/3 X 8
7.) What is the area of a rectangle with a length of 400cm and a breadth of 30cm?
8.) What is the perimeter of the same rectangle?
9.) What is 10 cubed divided by 10 squared?
10.) Name a prime number that is more than 20 and less than 25.
Science
Now, you won't know this, Class 5, as when we finished school back in March, this was a very long way off, but I was in the process of organising us a school trip to Jodrell Bank, to enrich our knowledge of outer space that we learnt back in the first term of Year 5. The trip was meant to be this term, but obviously that cannot happen now. So instead, I thought we could do some Jodrell Bank activities at home.
Jodrell Bank is an education centre with a huge telescope called the Lovell Telescope which has been observing space for over 50 years. Whilst at Jodrell Bank, there are lots of activities to do to learn more about outer space. One of the activities you can do at home is investigating why craters of different shapes and sizes form on the Moon. Here is a link to the activity you can try, with permission from your adult. I have also included a link with pictures of craters on the Moon. We did look at some of these way back in October, when we did a chalk drawing of the Moon. See if you can remember any of the crater names.
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/LRO/activities/craterCreations/Lunar_Crater_Images.pdf
When you have looked at these, here is the link to the investigation you can do:
https://www.jodrellbank.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cratering-Investigation-Age7-11.pdf
I would love to see the results of your experiment!
PE
Libby F did 15,684 steps on Tuesday. The top step count this week so far is Alex with over 19,000. Can anyone beat him?
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