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Week beginning 30/03/20
Maths
This week will be similar to last week with a few added challenges to help keep you busy.
Remember there are extra ideas of things to do inside the front cover of your yellow home learning book.
There is a daily maths lesson to complete. Watch the video first (by this link and finding the correct video), after this complete the worksheet in your yellow home learning book. Once you have finished you should check your answers.
Extra maths activities to complete include the White Rose Problem of the Day and some ‘creative challenges’ word problems which will be updated regularly through the week.
Remember you can also log into TT Rockstars to practice times-tables.
Username: first three digits of your first and last name
Password: class name
Daily fluency activities
Multiplication practice
Problem of the day
Maths lessons
More Maths lessons
Extension activities
Year 5 Creative Challenges
Monday
Roll a dice to create a 3-digit number multiplied by 2-digit multiplication question. Work out the calculation. Repeat 6 times. Can you use the digits 1-9 to create a 3- digit multiplied by a 2-digit question that will give you an answer nearest to 10 000? You can use the digits more than once. How close can you get if you can only use each digit once?
Tuesday
Roll a dice to create a 4-digit add a 4- digit addition question. Work out the calculation. Repeat 6 times. Can you use the digits 1-9 to create a 4- digit add a 4-digit addition question that will give you an answer nearest to 10 000? You can use the digits more than once. How close can you get if you can only use each digit once?
Wednesday
Roll a dice to create a 4-digit subtract a 4-digit question. Work out the calculation. Repeat 6 times. Can you use the digits 1-9 to create a 4- digit subtract a 4-digit subtraction question that will give you an answer nearest to 1000? You can use the digits more than once. How close can you get if you can only use each digit once?
Thursday
Can you create 2 mathematical statements that will always be true? Can you create 2 mathematical statements that will sometimes be true? Can you create 2 mathematical statements that will never be true? Can you convince me you are correct? Do you need to draw a picture to help you?
Friday
What are the factors of your number? Are any of them prime? What is the 10th multiple of your number? What is the 100th multiple of your number?
Now make a three-digit number. What are the factors of your number? Can you use any divisibility tests to help you?
https://www.mathsisfun.com/divisibility-rules.html
Are any of the factors prime? Using mental and written strategies work out the answers to the following questions:
- What is the 23rd multiple of your number?
- What is the 46th multiple of your number?
- What is the 99th multiple of your number?
- What is 1/10 of your number?
- What is 0.25 of your number?
- What other facts can you find of your number?
English
English tasks are below and will include writing, reading and grammar activities.
Handwriting, spelling and reading
Monday: complete 20 minutes handwriting - either in your printed book or copying from your reading book
Tuesday: read a chapter of your reading book and write a prediction for what could happen next
Wednesday: choose 10 words from your spelling list to practise (silly sentences, pyramid writing etc)
Thursday: 20 minutes handwriting and 20 minutes quiet reading
Friday: spelling practise (rainbow writing, finding the definition etc) and 20 minutes quiet reading
Reading Skills and Grammar - choose one a day
Writing/ Geography Tasks for the week beginning 30th March
Below is a list of all the places reached through the sharing of our school rainbow last week, through the use of social media. Take a look at the list and consider the following:
Which places have you heard of already?
Which is the furthest place from here?
Do you know anyone who lives in these places?
Undertake some general research on the location of these places and then choose one of the following tasks:
- Write a report about one place including details of its human (people/ towns/ villages) and physical geography (mountains/ rivers/ lakes etc).
- Write a travel diary as if you had visited this place.
- Put together a travel brochure including useful information/ pictures etc
- Write a letter to someone who lives in this country telling them about you and the place where you live- how is it different/ the same?
Here's the list of places:
Togo, Africa
Brooklyn, New York
Christchurch, New Zealand
Nakhon Sawan (not sure where this is!)
Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas
Korat, Thailand
Alameda County, USA
Polk County, USA
Denmark
Hong Kong
Australia
Netherlands
Japan
Switzerland
Melbourne, Australia
Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco, USA
Norway
Science
These activities link to the topics of electricity, sound, forces, and changes of state and require simple equipment you may already have at home. Once you have tried the activities yourself, challenge yourself to record your findings using a scientific diagram in your yellow exercise book and to explain what you observed. We would love to see photos of the experiments in action and how you have recorded them!
Here is one possible activity to get you started. The rest can be downloaded below.
Topic
Have you seen our new virtual tours and museums section on the website? Have a good look around and we will be uploading questions and challenges for you to complete throughout the week. You can also continue with your coding project or the PSHE lessons from last week.
Remember when using scratch you will need to join and create your own account if you want to save or share your projects.
PE
Join in with the Joe Wicks live workouts at 9am each morning.
Complete Mr Dalton's PE workouts here
Go for a daily walk or bike ride (with your parent's permission!)