Remember to bring your homework on Thursday

Thursday is World Book Day.

You need to find the book character you are going to present to your group on Thursday morning during English.  You need to explain why they are unmissable, tell a little bit about them and perhaps find a bit of the story you need to read out to the group.

Make a simple costume that represents your “Unmissable Character”. Design it in your book and collect the things you need… recycle things. Use newspapper and cardboard boxes. Maggie used a huge paper bag from Primark and drew her costume on that! You will need to put it on in school. (or come dressed in it!)

STORIES

Make a storyboard for one of the creation myths that you have heard this week… If you have a myth or a fairytale at home you might choose to do those or make your own… Tell the story to someone at home.

MATHS

Make sure you know your 8x table.

When I went into a classroom earlier this week a child rushed up to tell me she was 8 that day! Well, Happy Birthday to everyone who has a birthday today!

(Most of you are 9 or 10. Just change the number to make a different challenge.

There is not a lot to say to introduce this challenge. It’s really just to find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.

Things like 6+2, 22−14  etc.

 But you need to get examples that use all the different mathematical ideas that you know about.

1   So you could show some multiplications and some divisions.

2   If you know about fractions then you can add or subtract numbers involving fractions. You could also ask questions like “What is half of 16  ?”; “What is four-fifths of 10?” and so on.

3  If you’ve come across decimals then do a few of those also, perhaps using all the four rules [addition, subtraction, multiplication and division].

Use whatever mathematics you know to find as many different ways of getting the answer 8.

You may find some patterns that would go on for ever and ever. If you do, just put down a few, and then see if you can describe how the pattern works.

So maybe you’ll write something like this:

16÷2, 8÷1, 4+4 , 2+6 , 9−1, 12−4

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1,  2+2+2+2

15−3−2−1−1,  5+3+6−3−3

and so on.