Category: Primary 5 Blog

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.

Practice	Apply	Correct	Extend
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.

It was lovely to see so many families seeing our CPA approach at parent consultation and in action in the classrooms at ‘Sharing our learning’:

Welcome back to our Mental agility program and our new focus on violet and

MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION, FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTAGES, PROPORTION and RATIO:

Please find attached activities we focus on in school.

Please can you support your child’s learning and practise these at home too:

Practising the connection between multiplication and division:

We are working hard on applying our learning by using word problems including multiplications and division:

Lots of practise to understand the link between fractions, decimals and percentages:

Many opportunities to use concrete resources when focusing on ratio and proportion:

Please also look out for games and home work tasks set on

A brilliant website, explaining many concepts we focus an in school and fantastic opportunities to consolidate learning!

https://go.educationcity.com/

We look forward to sharing some strategies and photos with you from school soon!

We will be working on lots of equal groups and equal shares until the holidays!

If you have any questions please come and see Ms.Brunner anytime.

Always happy to help! 🙂