Wednesday 25th March 2020
24 Mar 2020
Good morning class 4 
Time table
P.e – 9am start
Maths
English
Reading
P.E – Joe Wicks, a fitness expert, is leading live p.e lessons on his Youtube channel each day. Let’s all follow along with him by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6r99N3kXME&fbclid=IwAR2YYO8DSRkepnwzNTuksmbXDUcJg7WhYibGuz2HG4_bStk-37ipg4DWGMQ&app=desktop
Maths –
Group one: We’re adding and subtracting fractions today! If you had ¼ and I gave you another ¼ what would you have? You’d have 2/4, right? How many more quarters to make a whole?
What about 3/8 + 2/8? Do you get 5/8 too?
Why are both those questions really easy to do?
It’s because they both have the same denominators. I could just suggest we do that, but sadly not 
What about if I said what’s 1/3 + 1/5 – Aha! That’s a bit harder because you can’t add 1/3s and 1/5s mixed like that. If only they had the same denominator like the previous questions. Well they can! 
If I convert them both to another fraction which is equivalent where they’d both have the same denominator then I could add them. Don’t forget equivalent means the same, like ½ is the same as 4/8 or 5/10, it’s just been split differently, but the fraction’s still the same.
You might remember that to make a fraction equivalent you just multiply or divide BOTH parts of the fraction. So If I’ve got 1/3 and 1/5 and I want them to have the same denominator then I’ll have to think what number goes into both of them... Hmm what number is in the 3 and 5 times table? Ah yes, 15 is!
So 1/3 x both by 5 will get 5/15
And 1/5 x both sides will get 3/15
And so if I add them both together I get 8/15.
I would do the same if I was subtracting fractions too except I’d obviously take one away from the other once I’ve converted them.
Please do either column B or C depending on your confidence levels. You only need to do the first 10, 5 adding fractions and the first 5 subtracting. Then do the word problem(s) too.
(P.S – If you do do column C then where it says 11/4 – 1/3 then you’d also have to think of it as 5/4 as you’ll need to break up that whole to be able to subtract it)
Group two – Percentages. Remember percentages are out of 100 so to find 1% you’re dividing by 100. 1% of 50 is 0.5 (there are 100 0.5s in 50 so that’s why 1% is that)
So if I wanted to know 4% I’d divide it by 100 (to find 1%) and multiply it by 4.
There are lots of other short cuts I know you'll know, like how to find 5% if you know 10% etc.
Do page 3 in your pack 'column C' and find the percentages of the numbers, for some questions like Q6 I’d convert the units to another form like 4kg to 4000g to make it easier to work with.
For Q9 – 16 you have to think what the whole would be. You have been told what 10% is. You haven’t been told what the whole is but If I know 10% is 25 then I could use that to find out what the whole number was. How many 10%s are there in a whole? So if you know one of them is 25 then you’ll be able to find out the whole.
Answers will be posted tomorrow.
Here are yesterday’s answers for the ratio questions
Column B -1) 48 2) 24 3) 35 4) 24 5) 18 mins 6) 14 7) 30 £10, 50 £20
Column C – 1) 42cm x 28cm 2)36 3)40 4)a-16 b-64 5)a-12 b-30 6)9 large, 12 small 7)30mins, 45mins, 45mins 8a) 72cm, 60cm 8b) £20, £45 8c) 4h 40 mins, 1h 20mins, 8d) 250g, 750g, 1Kg 8e) £1.62, £1.08, £2.70. 8f) 250ml, 50ml and 450ml.
Extra? Play https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/264/Crystal-crash-fractions-numbers
I’d recommend level 8 or higher.
English:
Good effort with pronouns yesterday; most were filled out correctly. One or two people hadn’t picked the right pronoun for the sentence E.G Those p.e bags belong to us. The possessive pronoun you’d need is ‘ours’ They are ours. Anyway, I saw some interesting animal drawings and my favourite was by Jack of an owl enjoying the peace of the night sky.
In your green books, the first picture should be of a boy peering through a fence. Look at the picture. What could be capturing his attention so much? Read the text that comes with it. He’s obviously suspicious about the strange goings on. Why would things be going missing from his garden? What use would they have to anyone? Yet his parents seem to know more than they’re letting on – why aren’t they concerned about objects going missing from their garden? Tomorrow we’re going to be doing some creative writing based on this picture.
Task - First highlight or underline all of the pronouns you can find in the first picture’s write up.
I get 4 in the first paragraph and 14 in the second paragraph. Remember pronouns replace names or repeating the same noun. (some of the pronouns are the same)
Then I’d like you to look at the same picture below and see the ‘sick sentences’ they’re called sick because they’re not very good!
‘The boy went towards the fence’ – Imagine this boy is a quite anxious, things have been going missing, he doesn’t know who it is. How would he move if he was heading to this fence? Went is the most unhelpful description of a verb you could use.
Rewrite that sentence in your green books to make it much more interesting. Even better If you can start with a verb or noun to capture the reader’s attention from the beginning. Here’s mine:
Edging cautiously closer to the hole In the fence, Richard took a gulp and clenched his fists together. He had seen the faint flicker of light from behind that mysterious, garden fence and now was his time to find out. Filled with a mixture of curiosity and dread, he lowered his head to the hole in the fence and carefully positioned his eye. What met his vision was a bigger shock than he could have ever imagined…
Whoops – I got a bit carried away and did all three. I’ll look forward to reading yours. Try to think about how to begin your sentences and use good vocabulary.Don't forget, if you do begin with a verb then you'll need a comma when that clause ends - I've made mine red so you can see :-)
Reading: Either do a reading plus or enjoy listening to one of these ebooks on
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
To access it, find the ‘My class login’ button at the top of the page; it looks like this picture.
There are loads of books but I’d click the age groups 9 – 11 option and search those; you may find some you’d like to read in other age groups though.
Login details – Copy them exactly
Username: grewelthorpe4
Password: Leedsarethebest (please note Leeds has a capital L!)
That’s it for today,
Mr Breckon.