Right then - ready for week two?

You survived the first week in Year 6!

Judging by the way you've all settled down to hard work, I can tell it's going to be a year of achievement and learning - so WELL DONE!

Back to business...

MATHS
As you know, we'll be talking about some big numbers in maths this week. We'll be reviewing place value and multiplying/dividing by 10, 100, 1000.

Many of you were asking where numbers go after million, billion and trillion. As promised, you can find out the answer on this link:
http://www.mrhall.org/math/mathtables/numbernames.htm

But how big exactly are some of these numbers? To find out, visit the megapenny project on this link:
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp

You'll be able to see what a million pennies looks like and much more!

Don't worry! You won't need to know any of these huge numbers in order to answer any KS2 SATs questions; it's just for fun.

Last of all, we'll be looking at some function machines. Don't know what a function machine is? There's a brilliant introduction to them on this link:
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book7/bk7i16/bk7_16i2.htm

Read the instructions and have a go at some of the questions. They get harder as you go along so see how far you can get! If you bring a print out of your answers into school and show it to Mr. Hanley or Miss. McCarney before Friday then you will be rewarded with 5 BICD!

LITERACY
We'll be having a go at planning and beginning to write our own suspense stories in Literacy this week. Not read many stories lately? Have a look at a few of the short stories on this site to get you in a narrative mood:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-short.htm

Have fun!