Today during our maths meeting Group 4 focused on our times tables. This term we have had a focus on both the 6 and 9 times tables.
Firstly, we sang our timetables songs to warm us up before answering quick fire questions on white boards. The children did excellent and our knowledge has improved lots over the past month.
As part of our enterprise learning from Spring term last year, the children have continued this by creating items to sell at our Christmas fair. We had a budget of £40 and we made snowmen on a stick which we sold for 50p each. We made over 200 snowmen and decided to make some vegan to cater for all customers. One of our classmates also made snowmen hamma bead decorations to sell on the day. We had a great evening and made a total of £30 profit which is amazing! Well done Westgate Water!
Today, we have been testing our array learning. We have rehearsed counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s, and applied that to help us solve a problem. We were given lots of cards, which had got muddled up in Mrs Pandyas’ bag! She wanted us to arrange the cards, so that the cards showing the same information were grouped together.
The children used their knowledge of arrays, repeated addition and multiplication sentences to solve the problem.
Next week we have our Christmas Extravaganza! You are welcome to join us in the hall to explore the stalls, cakes, tea, santa’s grotto and much more!
In preparation for this, the children have taken part in an enterprise. We were set a budget to buy resources and then make something to be sold at the fayre. The children have worked so hard creating the products and signs to tell people what we have for sale.
Next week we will look at the money we have made and use subtraction to find out our profit.
Please come and support us in raising the most money through our sales! We look forward to seeing you at such an exciting event 🙂
This week we have been practising counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We have explored arrays that display the multiplications and writing equations to explain them. Some children have been using cubes to display the information, creating equal groups of 2, 5 or 10, then counting in the correct number to know how many altogether.
We have used the sentences:
I can see ___ groups, with equal totals of ___. The whole is ___.
Can you explain this array using these sentences?
This week we have been consolidating all of our Maths learning, focusing on securing our arithmetic skills and knowledge.
This week we have explored word problems, identifying which operation would be required and how we can then record the equation onto our whiteboards.
We are proudly sharing our work, after self evaluating our understanding – what super work!
This week, year six have continued learning about algebraic equations and practising how to find possible solutions to different equations.
The children have used their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division knowledge to solve algebraic problems. They have worked really hard and have grasped these very tricky concepts!
So far this week Group 4 have been building on their known and derived multiplication facts to help them with multiplying mentally. The children have found different ways to represent their learning and timetables facts which has helped to cement their learning. We are going to build on this learning to learn how to multiply 3 digit and 1 digit numbers together.
Home Learning – Wednesday 6th December
This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.
When you complete a task from the list below, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.
Reading:
Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.
Handwriting:
Please complete the handwriting sheet you will be given today.
Spelling:
Your child will come home with a spelling sheet. It will have one of the key stage two statutory words and will encourage children to think about the word in lots of different ways. If you aren’t sure how to complete this, please ask.
Maths:
Complete the times table colouring sheet to reveal the hidden picture.
Y6: Introduction to Algebra: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zghp34j
Y5: Multiplication and Division: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z36tyrd
Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login
You can also use arithmequiz 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to practice a variety of arithmetic style questions to improve your fluency.
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz1.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz2.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz3.html
Christmas Service
For our Christmas service, please learn our three songs: Once in Royal David’s City, On a Starry Night and Because it’s Christmas. Please use the links below to practise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjF4jNKrdZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRrAzapOQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLv__wXtMs (Please note this is a shortened version).
Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam
Year 5 have been using their known facts to solve short multiplication. We have also applied this method to problem solve and answer word problems.
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