Maths
JG Set: Calculate the angles in the triangles and along the stright line. Remember that angles in a triangle will always equal 180°.
English
JG & AA Set: Plan and write a balanced discussion about whether children should have a bed time. Use the planning sheet to help you. Remember that good discussions are:
not polemic (in the middle), use persuasive language and have rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questions.
The SAM Learning website is at http://www.samlearning.co.uk
JB Maths Group: algebra worksheets; look at the two algebra websites below; test your parents/carers with algebra problems.
JB English Group: write a one-sided argument against the amount of dog muck in the street outside the school and on the school playing field. You may need to look up ‘toxicara’ on the Internet (it’s a disease caused by dog muck).
JB Science: play on this gravity simulator. How much force do you have to use when the gravity is strong compared to when it’s weak? How much force do you have to use to keep the lander hovering in the air, not going up or down? When are there balanced forces & when unbalanced forces?
Reading: don’t forget to fill in your reading journal & read with your parents/carers every night. Reading at your level is a discussion about what you’re reading - not that you can get the words right.
Work on long division worksheets given or use the ones on:
We’re using this site in lessons on Wednesday. http://www.math.com/students/worksheet/algebra_sp.htm. I’ll show you how to choose an appropriate sheet.
Have a go at this really - and we mean REALLY - tough algebra Millionnaire quiz
Try this activity on the BBC Revisewise website to practice your argument skills
Use this school uniform for & against argument site to help you with your homework (JB English group)
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.
