We figured that you must be bored with enjoying yourselves over Christmas, so here’s a site for you to practice your story planning! Actually, it’s a great cartoon creator site. Have fun! (There are lots of other cartoon creator sites too). Send us your finished cartoons in a comment.
Y6SB set: use these sites during Friday’s maths lesson to reinforce the work we’ve been doing on ratio & proportion. You can continue with them for homework too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/ratioandproportion/ratio/game.shtml
http://www.thinkingblocks.com/ThinkingBlocks_Ratios/TB_Ratio_Main.html
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/steigerwald/balance/default.html
http://www.galaxygoo.org/math/allAboutRatios.html
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/users/pavel/java/balance/
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/worksheets/ratiows.htm
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/files/ratioproportionrecipes.pdf
If you’re having trouble with the maths problems, here’s the problems with the answers -division-word-problems.doc 
. Don’t just write in the answer though - you’ll learn nothing. Use them to confirm whether you’re right & if you’re not, see how you could get to the answer - that’ll show you how to answer the next ones.
Maths - JG Set: Practice the level four previous SATs questions? How comfortable do you feel with these, do you need some more time to practice? Leave a comment on your work or on the blog.
Play on the Mission Magnetitie game via the blog.
Maths - SB Set: Show parents/carers KF method of division with own selection of numbers, expressed as remainder (10 or 5 using KF & 5 standard method).Use Numbernut site via blog.
Maths - JG Set: Find the common denominator of the fractions. Convert them so that all of the fractions have the same denominator and then order them from smallest to largest. Once you have done that convert them back to the original fraction.
Maths - SB Set: Look at prices of goods in the shops, in newspapers or on the web & calculate different percentage increases/decreases. Choose your own level of difficulty. Try calculating the percentage increase/decrease if you’ve only got the amount increase/decrease or the new price.
History: We are thinking about why people move from one place to another. (Human migration.)A good starting point will be for you to discuss with your family:· What has brought them to Sheffield/ Wadsley/ Hilsborough?· Where they may have come from?· What traditions (eg foods, customs) they may have brought with them? (eg fish on Fridays)· Would anyone from your family like to come and talk to us about their reasons for being in Sheffield?
You could find out about information from previous generations.
Try to make notes that would make an interesting case study for you to share and write up at school.Remember, everyone has a past and history that is interesting.
Science: Complete the sheets about light and the direction that it will travel. Plus you need to find as many different sources of light and categorise them as either natural or man-made.
Use this bit of the site on Monday to look at division & remainders & this bit on Tuesday to look at division word problems. Look at this and the rest of the Numbernut site as part of this week’s homework.
