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Home Learning Week Commencing 27/11/23

Spelling

Core Words 

Haul 

Haunt 

Taunt 

Cause 

Pause 

Launch 

Mild Words 

Because 

Sauce 

Saucer 

Trauma 

Hot Words 

Applause 

Laundry 

Augment 

Caution 

Maths and Numeracy

Create and draw nets for common 3D shapes including triangular based pyramid, square based pyramid, cube and cuboid. Can you do a cyllinder?

Learning Across the Curriculum

Think about the SHANARRI indicators, can you write an example of what each of them mean to you.

Safe, healthy, active, nurtured, achieving, respected, responsible and included.

Primary 5 Blog

Home Learning Week Commencing 20/11/23

Spelling

Core words

enjoy, toys, boys, convoy, employ, destroy

Mild Words

annoy, oyster, loyal, cowboy

Hot words

coyote, employment, joyful, flamboyant

Maths and Numeracy

This week in maths we will be looking at multiplying two-digit numbers together using both the grid method and formal written method.

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Use the top marks daily ten to answer a range of times tables questions. You could also challenge yourself to come up with other numbers facts using multiples of 10 and 100.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
(Level 3, multiplication)
Write down the following questions in your jotter and then find the solution using a method of your choice.
23×45=
56×34=
23×67=
67×34=
94×64=
75×32=
Write down the following number sentences and mark them correct or incorrect. If they are wrong please write the correct answer.
1. 45×34= 1530
2. 67×35= 2347
3. 55×34= 1870
4. 73×22= 1608
5. 67×26= 1742
Follow the link below to complete this week’s extend challenge.
https://nrich.maths.org/5576

Learning Across the Curriculum

Choose an environment or habitat you find interesting. Come up with three different examples of food chains from that environment. There is a video below if you would like some extra help.

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Home Learning Week Commencing 13th November 2023

Spelling- oi

Core words

avoid, toilet, voice, choice, spoil, noise

Mild Words

joint, point, spoilt, boil

Hot Words

android, ointment, disappoint, appointment

Learning Across the Curriculum

Have a look over the Book Week resources that have been posted on the blog and have a go at the character quiz.

Maths and Numeracy

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Write down times tables facts and write associated facts using multiples of ten. 3×4=12 30×4=120Practice answering two-digit by one-digit numbers. 34×4= 35×7= 23×4= 85×4= 98×3= 73×5=Create your own correct and incorrect number sentences.Create your own word problems using 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication.
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Home Learning Week Commencing 6th November 2023

Maths and Numeracy

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Answer times tables questions in your jotters. You can use the Topmarks Daily Ten resource to give you questions (level 3, multiplication) or just come up with your own.In your homework jotters, solve the following multiplication questions using the grid method. 32×3= 25×5= 34×6= 56×2= 87×8= 93×6=Work out which of the following number sentences are incorrect and correct them in your jotter. 45×3= 125 72×8= 576 84×4= 420 93×6= 558 74×5= 450 54×3= 160Follow the link below to complete this week’s home work problem solving challenge. https://nrich.maths.org/1129

Spelling

This week’s spelling sound is g (making the same sound as a j, like danger).

Core words

giant, legend, tragic, magic, gentle, general

Mild words

damage, danger, energy, digest

Hot words

emergency, gymnasium, intelligent, engineer

Learning Across the Curriculum

In line with this week’s literacy learning on creating a spooky podcast or audiobook, listen to some of the stories on the Stories Podcast website below. Please write down the name of the story you listened to, a brief summary of what happened in the story and how many stars out of five you would give it.

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Home Learning Week Commencing 30th October

Maths and Numeracy

Please complete one of the activities below to support learning in class on multiplication and division.

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Practice drawing out arrays for different multiplication questions. You can check you were right by using the Array Builder.In your home learning jotter practice writing out simple multiplication questions with the linked facts below.  E.g. 3×4=12 4×3=12 12÷3=4 12÷4=3Look at the examples below. Please spot the mistakes and correct them in your home learning jotter. 3×6=18 30×60=180 4×9=36
40×9= 3600 7×7=49
70×70= 490 8×3=24
24÷3=3
Create a design for your dream house. Draw the different rooms showing the length, width and area of each room. Your design must have: -A living room with a length of 7m and a width of 11m. -A garden with an area of 320m2. Everything else is up to you.  

Spelling- soft c sounds

Practice this week’s spelling sounds using look, say, cover, write, check.

Core words- face, race, dice, slice, rice, ice

Mild- nice, trace, space, spice

Hot- surface, price, chance, recite

Across the Curriculum

Choose an animal from either a dessert, polar or rainforest habitat. Either draw a picture of it or find a picture to stick into your jotter. Label any adaptation that the animal has to help it in it’s habitat i.e. a polar bear is white so that it can blend in to it’s surroundings.