Homework:
1) Maths WB Pg 105 - 110 (2 pages were completed in class)
2) Cheesecake for Grandpa Pg 2,3,4,5 (pupils started one 1 of the pages in class)
English
Today, we talked about collective nouns. Words like group, team, family, audience, etc.
These words refer to a group of people, things or animals.
Sometimes, they will take on a plural verb and other times, a singular verb.
They will take on plural verbs when the things/people/animals in the group are seen individually.
Example: The team move off in different directions.
In this case, the people in the team must have all walked away in different directions and hence they are seen as individuals . Therefore, plural verb is used.
At times they take on singular verbs.
Example: The audience cheers for the million-dollar winner.
The whole block of audience cheers as a group, not seen as individual cheer-ers.
Pupils had to discuss in pairs why they feel a certain sentence should have taken on a plural/singular verb before I revealed the answers in class.
Mathematics
Pupils were given different statements in which they have to decide if they agree with them or disagree. They will also have to make use of what they have learnt for comparing fractions to verify their answers.
Examples:
1) Amy says that 1/5 is greater than 1/6.
2) Amy says that 3/9 is greater than 2/3.
Do you agree? Yes/No
They then had to check with some calculations and conversions.
Finally, they are also asked to justify why Amy might have said those statements. Example for 2, it is incorrect. Amy might have said that as she was comparing the fractions by the numerators only/the denominators only. This got the pupils thinking of the reasons why Amy got the statement wrong and some of the reasons given by the pupils coincided with common mistakes made by others when comparing fractions.
