Today in maths, Year 4 worked on adding and subtracting decimals. We started the lesson by adding and subtracting decimals that were less then one. The children mastered this quickly so we then moved onto adding and subtracting decimals greater than one. The children found this trickier so we used dienes to help us represent the problems we were answering. This helped us to see the problem and helped us to see the answer develop as we moved around the dienes. Great work Year 4.
In maths this week, we have been looking at numbers 50-100. The children have had great fun using Dienes to find large numbers and to count in 10s. Why don’t you try counting in 10s at home? It’s so much fun and we’re experts at it!
This week Year 6 have been exploring 3D shapes and their properties. The children started by recapping the names of 3D shapes and explaining the difference between a prism and a pyramid. The children then looked at the different 3D shapes and created their own SATs style questions to ask the rest of the class before moving onto nets.
The children completed the following NRICH task involving nets of 3D shapes: Cut Nets (maths.org)
Home Learning – Wednesday 10th April 2024
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.
Book Review
If you have read a good book recently and you’d like to recommend it to others, write a book review which we can share with the rest of Westgate.
Maths:
To support your child’s learning please use the following links. Year 6 are learning about 3D shapes and circles, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt7xk2p/articles/z247tv4
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvmxsbk/articles/z8c7qty
Year 5 are learning about fractions, decimals and percentages, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znjqtfr/articles/zrkw2fr#z26cjfr
Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login
Trust
This term our value is trust. What is trust? How do you gain someone’s trust? What happens if someone breaks their trust? How can we forgive someone who may break our trust? You can discuss these questions with an adult at home, create a poster, leaflet or advert about the importance of trust and being trustworthy.
Managing Information Online
Discuss the following questions with an adult or older sibling at home:
Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam
This week in French, Year 3 have been revising numbers 1 to 10 as well as learning numbers 11 to 31. They discussed the importance of being able to count to 31 and how this is useful for telling someone the date any day of any month.
After playing lots of games – counting on and Bingo – to practise these new numbers, some pupils were very excited to be able to use their new knowledge to try to count backwards in French.
Images from Twinkl.com
Year 4 have been putting their knowledge of French numbers to use this week by learning to tell the time for o’clock and half past times. They learned the words for hour (heure) and half past (et demie) in order to be able to answer the question ‘Quelle heure est-il?’ – What time is it?
Test them out on these times before checking the answers in the final image.
Here are the answers.
Images from Twinkl.com
Westgate have been putting their knowledge of French numbers to use this week by learning to tell the time for o’clock and half past times. They learned the words for hour (heure) and half past (et demie) in order to be able to answer the question ‘Quelle heure est-il?’ – What time is it?
Test them out on these times before checking the answers in the final image.
Here are the answers.
Images from Twinkl.com
Today in Year 4 we looked at comparing decimals. The children looked at different strategies that we can use to notice whether a decimal is greater or less than another decimal. We used dienes to help us represent these strategies and also looked at using number lines to count in tenths. The children then used dienes to help them represent a range of problems. Well done year 4!
Home Learning – Wednesday 20th March 2024
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.
Book Review
If you have read a good book recently and you’d like to recommend it to others, write a book review which we can share with the rest of Westgate.
Maths:
To support your child’s learning please use the following links. Year 6 are learning about percentages, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znjqtfr
Year 5 are going to be learning about measure and conversions, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4nsgk7
Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login
Easter
How does the Easter story show us compassion? How does Jesus show his love for his disciples and his people through the Easter story? You could create a story map, write some ideas on a mind map or create a poster to explain how the Easter story shows compassion.
Easter Break Ideas
You could complete some of the following ideas over the two week break, if you do, please send us a photo on DoJo!
Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam
Today we have been learning about a metre stick and how to measure with it. We’ve had great fun guessing whether something is taller or shorter than a metre and then checking it. Have a look at the pictures below!
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