Thursday 30^th April 2020

Miss Myler and I are very pleased with all the hard work you have been putting in this week. It’s going to be really tricky to choose our Stars of the Week!

Today, you will be learning how to find the area of compound shapes. Just as a compound sentence is made up of 2 or more clauses, a compound shape is made up of 2 or more basic shapes put together.

Step 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osn8P_TiXKg Watch this video from 2:11 – After finding any missing sides, you can find the area by splitting the shape into it’s basic shapes. Then use yesterday’s skills to calculate the area!

Step 2: Complete the White Rose resources for today and check carefully against the answers. Can you see where you may have gone wrong?

Thursday compound

Thursday compound answers

Extension: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/AreaShapesShoot.htm Test your skills so far!

For this week’s RE task, I would like you to answer the question Who was Muhammed and why was he important to Islam?

Here are some links to help you:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zympvcw

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Muhammad/353502

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/re/pdfs/the_story_of_Mohammad.pdf

You can present your work however you like. You could use tools on purple mash or use Google docs/slides or just work on paper.

Some things you might like to look into would be:

Where was he born and when?

What events happened in his life?

Why do Muslims still respect him?

You may even want to compare his teachings with Jesus or Guru Nanak to find similarities across the religions of Islam, Christianity and Sikhism.

I really look forward to seeing what you produce but PLEASE REMEMBER that Muslims do not believe that we should draw natural beings, including the prophet Muhammed.

Wednesday 28^th April 2020

Morning All,

I am so pleased my internet is back up and running this morning! I hope that you will all be able to get stuck in with Mrs Stack’s TTRS competition!

I hope you are feeling confident now in finding the perimeter. If you would like some practise then https://mrnussbaum.com/find-the-missing-perimeter-measure-in-rectangles-online has some great questions. Just be aware that for some of the shapes, you have missing sides, but it does tell you the perimeter. You will have to find the difference between the sides you know and the total perimeter to find the length of the sides.

Today, I’d like you to consider area, recapping finding the area of squares and rectangles. The simple way to do it is to multiply the width times the height. This will give your answer in “square” units. E.g A square with sides of 6cm = 6cm x 6cm = 36cm².

Use the White Rose materials, using this knowledge to help you!

Extension: Find the perimeter (in steps if you don’t have a tape measure handy) of your garden or a room in your house. Can you try and estimate the perimeter? Can you work it out exactly?

https://www.splashlearn.com/area-and-perimeter-games This website has a range of games about area and perimeter.

Wednesday area quadrilaterals

Wednesday area quadrilaterals answers

Tuesday 27^th April 2020

Good Morning!

It’s time for some get up and go! https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-2d-and-3d-shapes-with-homebros/zvsw382 Start waking up your brain with this shape recap. You’re going to need it!

Today you will be learning to calculate the perimeter of shapes where you do not know the length of each side, but you can work it out!

Step 1 – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvmxsbk/articles/zsr4k7h Recap what perimeter is and how we calculate it when we know each side length.

Step 2 – Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osn8P_TiXKg up to 2:11. This will teach you how to find the length of missing sides to help you calculate the perimeter.

Step 3 – Put your skills into practise with the White Rose materials.

Use what you know to find out what you don’t know! You may want to use coloured pencils to help you out with the missing side lengths!

Tuesday Calculate perimeter

Tuesday perimeter answers

After seeing some lovely nature themed science work last week, I thought it would be fun to give you guys the opportunity to produce some Space themed work to recap a topic which we really enjoyed last term. You can choose what you would like to do from the list below. We look forward to seeing your work on the blog, or via Purple Mash email! Keep up the hard work!

• Build a model solar system – You could even try and create one “to scale” at your local park. This will give you a sense of how far apart everything is!
• Keep a moon diary for the next month. This would involve taking a photo or a quick drawing every day. You could keep a note of changes that you spot and even research which “phase” the moon is in.
• Design your own planet – Use lego, drawing, computers etc to design a new planet.
• Set up an investigation to find out how shadows change. It would be up to you to observe and record changes however you see fit. This could be across the day or across the week. It’s up to you!
• Design a space capsule for Mars that would allow a scientist (you) to live there indefinitely!
• You may want to have a literacy focus and create a short story about space. Maybe an astronaut gets left behind by his crew or you might want to write about what is happening to a “shooting star.”
• You could create factfiles or “top trumps” for the planets too.

Be creative!

Monday 27^th April 2020

Good Morning everyone!

I hope you are all well and have had a lovely weekend. Unfortunately, the weather forecast isn’t quite as good this week so you may feel a little trapped inside at times. Remember to keep up with your work as much as possible as it will help you when we return to school. Also, Miss Myler and I will be keeping an eye out for people who are showing fantastic home learning for a special assembly on Friday!

For Maths this week we will be sticking with geometry and we will focus on area, perimeter and volume.

Step 1 – I’d like you to use the internet to find definitions for the words area, perimeter and volume. Remember that there is no point writing down a definition which you can’t understand.

Step 2 – Amy says that to find the perimeter of a rectangle, you multiply the length of the base by the height. Is she correct?

https://www.geogebra.org/m/Yr8kxmtU Use this website to help you develop your answer. Think carefully about your definitions from step 1.

Step 3 – Practise calculating the perimeter of shapes. http://toytheater.com/area-perimeter-explorer/ Use this tool to create regular and irregular shapes, then try and count the lengths of each side. Add them all up to get the perimeter. Then press “Show perimeter”. Can you create 3 different shapes with a perimeter of 13 units?

Extension: Always, Sometimes or Never? The “biggest” room in your house will have the largest perimeter, area and volume.

Let us know your reasoning!

Thursday 23^rd April 2020

I thought I’d get a jump start on tomorrow morning so it’ll be ready for the early birds!

I hope you are well and enjoying learning more about geometry. Today you will be working on finding angles on a straight line. A straight line is an angle of 180 degrees.

Step 1: Watch this video which will help you understand the concept. To find the missing angles, we need to find the difference between what we know and 180 degrees. This will always lead to the calculation 180 – the degrees we know = the degrees we are trying to find. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIJmmz8flI

Step 2: Practise your new skill. You may want to use column method to find the difference, or count on using a number line. https://www.interactive-maths.com/angles-on-a-straight-line-ggb.html If you can, show your teacher your working via a Purple Mash Email. We would like to see your working for at least 5 examples.

Extension: Complete the White Rose reasoning sheet. Remember, the angle of a straight line is 180 degrees!

Thursday straight line angles

Thursday straight line answers