Steps to success with long multiplication.

Many of you will be completing multiplication calculations for your homework this week. Hopefully you can remember the steps to success, but if you need a reminder, you may find this clip useful. Please ask your parents' permission before watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhf1ldvP-o

Maths in the coming weeks....

Next week we will be revising and building on our knowledge of written methods for multiplication and division. The following week we will be working on everyone's favourites: fractions and percentages! It will help you ENORMOUSLY if you know your times tables. If you don't know them then do all you can to learn them. You could try writing them, chanting them or singing them! Test yourself and have fun at the same time with these online games:

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

Topic Homework.

You can choose any of the following for your Topic homework:

·         Design the packaging for a Fairtrade chocolate bar;

·         Create a 6 slide PowerPoint presentation about Fairtrade; or

·         Make a 3D Fairtrade ‘bag for life’.

 

       If you want to create the PowerPoint presentation, you could bring it in on a memory stick to view in the classroom.

       How could you make a 3D 'bag for life'? You could use paper or card, decorate it with your Fairtrade design and then fold, stick, staple or glue it together to make a bag. I might give it a go myself! Have fun!

Literacy homework.

Take a regular household item and using the features of persuasive writing, write a piece persuading somebody to buy it. Consider the audience and what would appeal to that demographic. Who might think about buying this product? How will you convince them? Remember to use some of the persuasive techniques we used in class: questions, imperatives, sentence openers, exaggeration.

What could you say about an ordinary bar of soap in order to persuade someone to buy it? Or some lemonade, a pencil or a hat? The choice of household item is up to you!

Outdoor shoes!

Please could you bring some outdoor shoes to school tomorrow if possible. We are hoping to take our Maths learning outside in order to collect data for our data handling unit.

Spellings for this week.

Objective: To recognise and spell the suffix: -tion.
A		B		C
1	nation		direction		attention
2	motion		caution		reduction
3	section		emotion		proportion
4	option		ambition		satisfaction
5	station		audition		repetition
6	action		attention		competition
7	fiction		donation		institution
8	creation		correction		preparation
9	relation		situation		opposition
10	location		position		petition

Persuasive adverts.

This week, we have been looking at persuasive writing however there are other forms of persuasion that are used. This advertisement does not use words but is very effective: what makes this advertisement effective? What techniques does it use to convince you that eating at a Chipotle restaurant in America is better than at other restaurants?

Please check with your parents or carers that it is okay for you to watch this video and this homework can be submitted through the blog or on paper by Thursday, 16th January.

Spellings for this week.

Spellings for this week

A		B		C
1	people		electric		optician
2	possible		electrician		electrician
3	sample		politics		technician
4	example		politician		politician
5	tickle		music		clinician
6	handle		musician		musician
7	candle		magic		mathematician
8	circle		magician		magician
9	uncle		physics		statistician
10	struggle		physician		physician

Spellings for this week.

Objective: Revision of words with silent letters.
A		B		C
1	climb		doubt		subtle
2	thumb		Wednesday		Wednesday
3	scene		scissors		wreckage
4	kneel		muscle		wrinkle
5	know		knowing		knowledge
6	knife		knickers		disguise
7	hymn		knuckle		condemn
8	sword		column		autumn
9	wrote		castle		whistle
10	listen		guilty		wrestle