This week in Maths Year 4 have worked extremely hard on their arithmetic and reasoning papers. They have worked really hard since we last did these and their hard work has really showed this week. We can’t wait to get back to decimals in our final week of term. Well done Year 4!
Category: Maths
Wednesday Home Learning 13.03.2024
Home Learning – Wednesday 13th 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 ratio and proportion. Follow the link to explore ratio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsq7hyc
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
Internet Safety – Health and Wellbeing
Please use the questions below to spark conversations at home surrounding internet safety, health and well-being:
- Do you always have a choice in what you do/see online? Why/why not?
- Have you ever seen something online that never ends?
- Why do you think apps and sites do things for us sometimes or encourage us to spend longer on them?
- What do you think persuasive design is?
- What do you think a nudge technique is?
- What could you do to reduce the effect that persuasive design techniques can have on you?
History
What is the digital revolution? How has it impacted the way we live today? Complete some research and present it however you choose to inform the rest of Westgate about the Digital Revolution.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam
Measuring in Maths. Group 1 Eastgate
In class today, Eastgate Group 1 have begun looking at measuring. They have been comparing sizes and using new vocabulary such as ‘taller than’, ‘longer than’ and ‘shorter than’.
Maths – Unequal and equal parts
Today, Group 3 started their work on fractions by identifying equal and unequal parts. They shared cubes into equal and unequal groups then looked at different shapes and identified if they were split equally or unequally.
Reflecting a shape in the x-axis and y-axis
Continuing our learning in maths, Year 5 have been using their knowledge of transformations, reflections and coordinates to reflect shapes in a 4 quadrant grid, using their understanding of the x- and y-axis to support them.
Home Learning – Wednesday 6th March 2024
Home Learning – Wednesday 6th 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 ratio and proportion. Follow the link to explore ratio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsq7hyc
Year 5 are 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
Internet Safety – Health and Wellbeing
Please use the questions below to spark conversations at home surrounding internet safety, health and well-being:
- How much time do you spend online in one day? In a week?
- What is a healthy ‘digital’ balance?
- Do you think that people can be pressured into behaving differently online than offline?
- How can you balance your online life?
- Can your online experience ever stop being ‘fun and enjoyable’?
History
What is the digital revolution? How has it impacted the way we live today? Complete some research and present it however you choose to inform the rest of Westgate about the Digital Revolution.
World Book Day
Tomorrow is World Book Day, which you are welcome to come to school dressed as a book character or in your pyjamas. We will focus on a book called Flooded and spend time discussing books we enjoy. You could create a poster about your favourite book or the character you are coming to school as.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam
Representing tenths
Today in Year 4 we started our new maths unit of decimals. Today we explored tenths and how we can represent these using fractions and dienes. The children used the dienes to help them covert fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions. They did excellent!
Ratio and Proportion
This week, year 6 have started their learning about Ratio and Proportion. The children have explored how it is similar to fractions and how they can use their knowledge of part and whole to work out ratio.
Fantastic Fractions! Maths Group 1
In Maths, the children have been learning about finding half of a shape. They were able to do this with some very tricky shapes! Then they made some cookies out of playdough to share equally with Paddington.
Mock SATs
This week Y6 had a Mock SATs week. This included the Punctuation and Grammar, Spelling, Arithmetic, Reasoning and Reading papers. This experience of practicing the SATs will reduce any anxiety or worries the children have around these tests as they become more familiar with the process and formalities of the week. The children in year six worked extremely hard this week and I am so proud of each and every one of them.
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