We are learning to Add and Subtract Fractions:

First, we need to make sure we really know what the denominator and numerator are:

Adding and Subtracting Fractions when the denominators are the same:

Here are some games to practise:

Fractions PacMan – Click ‘Practise Game’ to practise your new skill without having to beat the clock!

Feed the Moster Fractions that add to a whole: http://www.abcya.com/adding_fractions.htm

For those that would like to practise at home: WORKSHEET

Practise Worksheet – Write in your homework book if you like!

For those that would like a challenge – Adding and Subtracting Fractions with unlike denominators:

 

Try Fractions Fruit Splat – with lots of different levels.

 

We are learning to write a newspaper report on a current Woodford event: Woodford reduces rubbish.

FOR THOSE SICK AT HOME: Here is this week’s Writing Task.

 

NEWSPAPER REPORT TEMPLATE

 

Headline

Title

Woodford Reduces Rubbish Diagram/Picture

 

 

 

 

 

By line

Writer’s name

 
The lead

Summary of most important information, i.e. who, what, where, when and how.

Who: Grade 3/4 students
What: are reducing rubbish

When: currently

Where: Woodford Primary School

Why: to be sustainable

Paragraph 1

 

Most important point

Grade 3/4 students are reducing rubbish in their lunchboxes by using containers and nude lunch boxes

 

 

Paragraph 2

 

Next most important point

Grade 3/4 students are teaching their parents how to reduce rubbish at home and coming to school.

 

Paragraph 3

 

Next most important point

The grade 3/4s know how to look after the school yard by picking up any loose rubbish and only using bins with lids.