Home Learning Week 1 Primary 5

Home Learning Activities

Week 1: Monday 23^rd March – Friday 27^th March

Homework:

Link: Accelerated Reader

https://ukhosted3.renlearn.co.uk/2235372/default.aspx

Literacy:

• Spelling Activity:

Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities

Grammar: Exclamation marks

• Link: The Punctuation People: Ms. Exclamation 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHSKFbdYq1U
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• Write down a sentence, full stop, question mark and exclamation mark. What if we changed this full stop to an exclamation mark?   

• What if we changed this exclamation mark to a question mark?
• Explore the relationship between these and ask children to shout out the sentence.
• When do we use exclamation? What do they do to a sentence?
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• Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities
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• Writing: Creative Writing Story - These Booklets have already been sent home

• Comprehension: Thrills City
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• Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities

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• Friday Spelling Test

• Hand Writing - letter p

Numeracy:

Lesson 1: I can find simple fractions of a number using my multiplication and division facts

Link: Calculating a fraction of an amount

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4DL4UleRuI

• Draw 12 objects on the board. How could we find 3/4 of these? Link back to 3/4 of a shape. The four is the important number, so we need to share the 12 items into four equal groups. How many in each group? (Three) If 1/4 of 12 is 3, what is 3/4 of 12? Three lots of 3 is 9.
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• Ask children to use their mini-whiteboards to work out which of the statements you read out are true and which are false. Use statements such as:

• A fifth of 20 is 4
• 12 divided into four equal parts is 3.

Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities

Lesson 2: I can work out a fraction of a number (whole number answers)

Link: Fractions of Amounts – Corbettmaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJOIs7vXMs

Write and solve different calculations, e.g.

A: 3/5 of £25   e.g., £25 divided by 5 is £5. £5 multiplied by 3 is £15

B: 4/7 of £28   e.g., £28 divided by 7 is £4. £4 multiplied by 4 is £16

C: 7/12 of £48 e.g., £48 divided by 12 is £4. £4 multiplied by 7 is £12

D: 5/6 of £24  e.g., £24 divided by 6 is £4. £4 multiplied by 5 is £20

E: 3/8 of £56   e.g., £56 divided by 8 is £7. £7 multiplied by 3 is £21

Which is larger?

Call out pairs of questions for children to find fractions of numbers,

1. 6/7 of 42, 5/9 of 63.

Ask children to say which answer is larger and explain why

1. 7/10 of 50 and 5/8 of 40.

Ask children to say which answer is larger and explain why

Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities

Lesson 3: Estimation and measurement of area in square centimetres

Link: Introducing the square centimetre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83i8AT2ESx0

Choose two items and ask children which has the greater area. Use some that are quite obvious, e.g. a sheet of paper and a table top, and build up to some that are quite close together.

Children need to know why it is important to know about area, so provide opportunities to discuss real-life circumstances where this is relevant, e.g. a farmer needs to know the area of land on their farm in order to plan how much to use for growing crops or grazing sheep. House floor plans, so that children can see how the area of different rooms is represented.

Discuss why the different sizes of the counters make an unreliable method for finding the area of a shape and that they also don’t fill the shape exactly.

Introduce square centimetres: Ask children to draw a rectangle on 1 cm squared paper, drawing along the darker lines on the paper. How can you find the area of your rectangle? Establish that children can count the number of centimetre squares inside their shape. Ask them to do this, write the area inside

Please refer to See Saw for Group Activities

Other Curriculum Areas

This term our class topic is Journeys and Explorers, please find below suggested activities:

Week 1:

Christopher Columbus - we would like you to complete the following activities at home

Links:

Video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/ks2-christopher-columbus/z7j3hbk

Information: https://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/christopher_columbus.php

• Research and create a Christopher Columbus Fact File.
• Imagine you are an explorer who has just discovered a new island, create a map of your island, then draw and label plants and animals that might be found there.
• Create a pencil study of Christopher Columbus ship - The Santa Maria.