Thursday 21st May 2020
20 May 2020
Hi Class 3!
I hope you had a good day yesterday and enjoyed the sunshine, it was lovely and warm! I fell asleep in my back garden reading my book and got a bit sun-burnt, but at least I can say I'm well red (sorry, grown-ups!).
Thanks for the pictures of your work, it is always great to see what you have been up to.
PE
For our PE this week we have something a bit different. We are going to take place in an athletics competition! But how do we do that I hear you say. Well here's how...
We (or you, I'm too old sadly) are going to do the events at home and then if you want to take part email me your scores and I'll put them together and send them off to Mrs Speed (best name for a PE teacher ever!!) . She will then compare our scores to all of the other schools who have sent their results in and see who wins. You do need a fair bit of space for this and a bit of imagination too to alter the equipment (maybe for the speed bounce you could jump over a rolled up towel for example). Sending in your scores is optional but it would be great if we could get at least five back so we can enter.
You don't need to send your scores today, have lots of goes to get the hang of it and then send me your best scores by Friday. You could even have a competition at home to see who wins in your house.
My email again is mrgamble@gfschools.co.uk
-Home Intra School Athletics Year 34 Festival - pupils.pdf-
Maths
Year 3
Today we will be looking at money again and thinking about how we add different amounts of money together. This is really important for when you buy things.
The picture is tiny and I must admit it took me a while to think what they mean, but I think Emma has a £5 and two £1 coins . 
For this we need to add the amounts together. I'd start by adding the pence and then doing the pounds.
Remember to add the pence first. It might look easier to add the pounds first , but when the numbers get bigger adding the pounds first will make it much harder.
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Don't worry if you have used a decimal point instead of the "and" sign, in fact if you have that is better!
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Year 4
Today we are still doing money, but we are revising rounding up and down too. Some of us found this a bit tricky last time so a bit of extra practice is really useful.
Julio says he bought something that is about £2 , so he means it is nearly £2, but not exactly £2 . It could be just over that amount, or it could be just under.
The 50p point is really important. If it is 50p or more, it goes up to the next pound. If it is 49p or less, it goes down.
You need to look very carefully where the numbers are on the number lines. If you want to today then drawing a number line to help you would be a great idea.
The strange looking equals sign is different to the equal sign we normally see . It means "roughly" or "approximately" equal too.
£ 2. 01 is roughly equal to £2, not exactly equal ( I hope that makes sense!)
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Challenge
The challenge sheet today does get harder towards the bottom, so look very carefully at how the number lines are drawn and how the numbers are split up - it will test your place value a bit too!.
English
Today is our handwriting day, so as usual please copy out the poem in your bestest, neatest most amazingest handwritingest everest. 
As ever, if you would like to find your own piece of writing to copy out then go for it.
-R L Stevenson From A Railway Carriage Poem Handwriting Practice.pdf-
Once you have done that then please have a go on Reading Plus and do two activities on there (some of you might have an extra couple of reading sheets in your learning packs about making cheese or farmyard babies, if you do then please do one of those instead).
Afternoon activities.
Please carry on with your mini-gardens this afternoon, or any of the other projects that you want to complete that you might need a bit more time on.
If you have finished all of those then you could spend some time on WordShark, Rockstar maths, SumDog or even having a go at improving your scores for the PE competition. Don't forget of course that there is the half an hour of daily reading to do too.
We have been looking at money in maths so you could even make yourself a shop and practice adding up the the amounts of the things you are selling and seeing how much change you get. This reminds me of being young myself because my dad had a paper shop, sadly though it blew away.... (and now might be a good time for me to leave...).
Have a great afternoon,
Mr G