Regular Homework
Here are the year 3/4 spellings and the year 5/6 spellings. Please practise the ones you feel you need to. Choose a few each week. We will be working on them in class too...
Please keep reading each day, it really is so important. In class we are reading The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, next week I would like you to talk to the class about the books you are reading at home.
I am reading There's a boy in the girls' bathroom by Louis Sachar. What are your opinions of this books? Who would you recommend it to and why? Any ideas of what I should read next?
Your Times Table Rock Stars login has been sent home today. Please play the games at least three times a week - it will really help!
We have been practising words ending in 'cious' and 'tious'. Here are some examples:
nutritious
superstitious
malicious
vicious
gracious
Find some more and have a go at writing them
Don't forget to look at your spellings too. This week we have been talking about short vowel sounds and double middle letters such as:
swimming
hopping
dripping
tipping
digging
How many can you find that fit this rule?
Read this extract from Goodnight Mr Tom (some of you may want to get the book and read it all - it is fantastic and set during WWII).
We have now got six copies of 'Goodnight Mr Tom' and 'Letters from the Lighthouse' for you to borrow from school if you think they would interest you, just sign up on our reading board in the classroom! They are both fantastic books set in WWII. I was introduced to 'Letters from the 'Lighthouse' last year by a pupil and would highly recommend both books. You could even get our own copy......
Please continue to practise your times tables - it will help you long multiplication a great deal!
Also, try this spelling sheet..
Over half term, please research the Enigma Machine and be ready to discuss what you have found out when we come back to school.
Keep going with times tables. Play 'Hit the Button' online and continue with Times Table Rock Stars. Remember, you should be able to recall all your times tables to 12 x 12 in random order and as quick as possible!
Please also continue to practise fractions. Here are some to try. Choose your level:
2/5 + 6/5
7/8 + 4/8
12/10 + 5/10
8/11 - 3/11
10/15 - 2/15
4/5 + 8/10
3/4 + 5/6
5/8 + 5/6
12/3 - 3/12
8/9 - 2/18
2 3/4 + 5/6
1 8/9 + 2/18
4 5/10 + 2/6
3 5/6 - 2/3
1 2/3 - 2/5
Remember to simplify then make up some more....
6/11/20
Carrying on from the work on fractions, please have a go at these:
2/3 x 5/6
7/8 x 8/9
1/2 x 4/10
3 6/7 x 7/9
5 3/12 x 7/8
3/4 divided by 7
2/4 divided by 9
9/10 divided by 6
5/6 divided by 2
4/8 divided by 8
Have a go at identifying what kinds of words these are. Are they verbs, adjectives, nouns or adverbs?
gullible
imminent
robust
coarse
abruptly
obligatory
Now what do they mean? Use an online dictionary if you are unsure.
Have a go at these:
4 5/6 x 4
6 9/10 x 7
3 2/5 x 9
2 3/4 + 2/5
7 2/9 + 3/8
4567 + 98.67
4567 - 999
3006 - 889
567 - 56.987
456 x 45
654 divided by 16
56 + 8 divided by 2
7 cubed add 3456
8 cubed minus 5 cubed