Good morning everyone, welcome to the last week of learning at home. I cannot wait to see you all next Monday.
Let’s warm our brains up with a little game. Can you spot the odd and even numbers? Remember, odd numbers end with 1,3,5,7,9 and even numbers end with 0,2,4,6,8.
Today, in our maths, we are going to be looking at Carroll diagrams. We will be sorting information into them. Have a little look at this PowerPoint and hopefully it should explain all.
Please can you choose a reading comprehension and have a go. You might want to do some of it today and some tomorrow as there is quite a lot of thinking needed. As usual, comprehension 3 is the most challenging.
This afternoon, we are going to continue our topic work on Africa. Today I would like you to find out a little ore about the amazing country of Kenya. Have a little look at this PowerPoint.
The was one thing I didn’t show you, can you guess what it is? The Kenyan flag. I would like you to research what the Kenyan flag looks like and draw it yourself. If you have time, you could find out what the colours and pictures mean. Remember to always use a safe search and type ‘for kids’ when you research. That way you get the information that is right for you.
I hope you have a wonderful day, let me know how you are getting on,
Good morning everyone, today I am going to try very hard to get the date right…all day!!
This morning we are going to begin by ordering a selection of numbers. You can choose how big the numbers are – to 100, 200, 1000 whatever is going to challenge you.
This afternoon is our computing afternoon. Today we are going to be continuing our programming work but we are using a new programme. Scratch Jr. If you click on the link below, it will take you to the ilearn2 website.
For our RE this week, we are thinking about things that matter to us. If we were in school this would be a chat on the carpet, with everyone adding their ideas and talking about them.
I’d like you to have a little chat with someone at home about the things that matter to you. Things that you think are really important and why.
It may be people or things you enjoy doing are really important. You may think how we treat each other and kindness matters or being healthy and happy matters. Do objects matter? Do all people matter? Does it matter if we find things tricky? Have a little chat and see where it leads you.
Here are your spellings for next week. We are looking at the soft c sound. We will be looking at this more next week.
As we only have a week left of home schooling left, I have decided I will save writing the explanation all about the lifecycle of a frog until we get back into school. That way we can watch it happen with some frogspawn in the classroom. Our English next week, is going to focus on phonics and spelling, sentence writing and reading.
It will be lovely to see you at 2.30 for ‘Show and Tell’ if you are available.
For your maths today, I would like you to follow your favourite recipe and make something delicious to share with your family. The reason I would like you to do this is because I would like you to use your maths skills to weigh out ingredients carefully and make sure you are using the scales correctly. We are going to make Rice Krispie cakes in school. Here is our recipe. You can make whatever you wish to at home but I like this recipe as it is simple to follow and the weights you need to measure are quite simple. I know we always begin the day with maths, but you may do your maths tonight when you are making your tea. Have a crazy day! Make sure you have someone to help you and it may be a good time to offer to do the washing up too!
For our English today, we are going to be organising a jumbled up explanation. You are all experts in the life cycle of a frog. Can you have a look at this muddled up explanation and put it back in the right order?
Have a look at this PowerPoint to get you started.
Please can you practise your spellings and read some of your reading book.
This afternoon is our PE afternoon. So if you are able to, have a bike ride, go for a walk or play a game of football in the garden, have a dance, do something active and make the most of the sunshine.
I hope you have a lovely day, let me know how you get on or if you need anything.
Remember, ‘Show and Tell’ is at 2.30 tomorrow, if you have something you are really proud of, it would be lovely to see you.
LO: To know the difference between fact and opinion and to write facts in a formal tone.
Please watch this clip on whether statements are facts or opinions. fact/opinion
The non-chronological reports you write next week will be based on facts. To get used to writing facts with a formal tone, I’d like you to think of 8 – 10 fact based sentences that you might use in your report next week. You can use all of the information you have looked at this week; layers of the rainforest, animals, tribes, deforestation, general facts about the rainforests, etc. I have also included a word mat here with lots of sentence openers you could use – these will help with that formal tone. I would like you to include 1 or 2 sentences with statistics in them, please eg fractions or percentages. There were quite a few examples in Monday’s and Wednesday’s reading comprehensions. My sentence example is: Surprisingly, 50% of the world’s plants and animals live in the rainforest. Report-sentence-openers word mat
Finally, I would like you to revise the past, present and future tenses in this Quiz
Reading comprehension: Enjoy this fiction comprehension, choose the one which is best for you. You’ll find lots of opinions here rather than facts. Rainforest fiction
Today, for your maths I’d like you to do some estimating and weighing. I’d like you to choose 10 items from around your house. Then I’d like you to estimate (or make a clever guess) how much you think each of them weigh. Remember to write the grams (g) when you are writing a weight.
Next, get your kitchen scales. Look very carefully at how they work. Do they have a dial or face like a clock? If so, what are they counting in? How do you work out how much something weighs? If you have digital scales, how do they work? Are they measuring in grams or kilograms? Remember, both types of scales have to be set to 0 before you begin weighing, how do you do this?
Once you have estimated how much your items might weigh, and have written it in the chart below, get weighing. Remember to write g or kg when you write your weight down. Here is the sheet for you to use if you want to but you could easily draw this chart on paper at home and save some printing ink.
You could try ‘ghost’ writing them. Write your spellings in white crayon, then colour over the top in felt tip pen.
Please can you have a little read, here is a comprehension all about a very famous scientist called Marie Curie. See if you can find out why her discoveries were so important. As always, comprehension 3 is the most tricky.
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a brilliant day yesterday. Hopefully it won’t be long until we are all back in school now. It will be so lovely to see you all, we really miss you all.
Let’s warm our maths brains up a little…
Make your own fruit smoothie with your maths skills! practise your number bonds for 10, 20 and 100 using addition and subtraction. You can choose which you need to practise most.
For our English today, we are going to continue to look at the special vocabulary or technical language we need to write an explanation about the life cycle of a frog. Have a little look at the PowerPoint and see if you can sort out the mess I have made!!
Print out the picture of the continent of Africa below. Cut around the continent then cut it up into 10 or so largish pieces. Don’t cut tiny pieces, it makes the puzzle very tricky indeed. Muddle up the pieces of your Africa jigsaw and then see if you can put them back together again. As you are doing this, look closely at the names of the African countries. Are there any you recognise? Can you beat your parents at doing this?
I have sent out another invitation to the next chapter of The Owl who Was Afraid of the Dark to your school email address. Hopefully we will see you at 2.30.
Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a really lovely half term and you are ready to do a little more fantastic learning!
Our maths this week is all measuring. We are going to be measuring the weight or mass of objects and hopefully have a little bit of time to do some cooking too later in the week.
To get our brains warmed up, I’d like you to have a little look at this popular game. Today I’d like you to practise your number bonds for 10 and 20, if you are very confident, try 13 or 14. Just match the pairs of numbers and as long as the paths between them has no more than 2 turns, they will match.
What I would like you to do now, is have a little look at your kitchen scales. Lots of us have digital scales at home but the scales we are going to read are on a dial, a bit like a clock. Work through this PowerPoint, there is lots of facts to remember today.
For our English, we are going to begin a new topic. For the next few weeks we are going to be focusing on explanations. Explanation texts explain how something works or how something happens.
To begin with, we are going to be thinking about the life cycle of a frog. Today, I would like you to read this explanation all about the process of a frog’s egg becoming a fully grown frog. This is called metamorphosis. This is a really big scientific word which means change, a creature that begins it’s life as one thing, then changes into another.
Today our work is all about vocabulary and getting to know new words. In my explanation there are lots of new words. Words you may not yet know. I would like you to read the text, if you need a little help sounding out some of the words, ask someone at home to give you a hand when they have a minute. I have included a dictionary to help explain some of the more difficult words. Use the dictionary to help you understand those tricky words. It is really important that you learn and use some of these new words because they will help you to explain the life cycle scientifically.
When you have read and understood the life cycle, see if you can explain it to someone at home using some of the scientific vocabulary.
Please can you practise your reading skills. This information is all about famous author and comedian David Walliams. Comprehension 3 is the most challenging.
This afternoon we are beginning are new topic for this half term. We are going to be finding out all about the amazing continent of Africa.
I would like to you begin by writing down a list of things you already know about Africa.
Do you know where it is on a globe?
Can you name any African countries?
What food comes from Africa?
What animals live in Africa?
What is the climate like there?
You may know lots about Africa or you may not know very much yet, but writing down what you know is a good place to begin.
At 2.30 I am going to read the next chapter of The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. It’s called Dark is kind. I’ve sent an invitation to your school email addresses. I hope you can come and have a listen.
Well we have made it to the end of the half term, and you lot have been absolutely amazing! Thank you for all your hard work and perseverance. You have done a fantastic job. We are all really proud of you. Today, I have tried to find some fun activities, where you still get to use all your skills and learning but in a different way.
For your maths today you are going to become detectives. There are 2 maths mystery games below, you can choose whichever one you like the look of most. For both mysteries, you will need to use all of your maths skills to solve the puzzle. I hope you have lots of fun solving one of these puzzles!
For your English today, it’s Free Write Friday. I have recorded a story for you to watch. It is one from our reading area and I know you like this book.
As I mentioned in the video, you can choose any of these pictures to base your own writing on and you can write what ever you fancy writing. It could be a story, poem or information but you might also like to write a spell for the wizards fighting under your bed or design and label your own planet for the super heroes to race to. The choice is yours. I have made a gallery below, just click on the picture you choose and you can make it nice and big.
I think you deserve another brain break!
Please can you read a little from your reading book.
I’m not going to give you your new spellings until the first week back.
I think you have all worked so hard that you have earned all the pieces of Mr Potato Head.
If we were all in school, we would decide what we wanted to do this afternoon. We might watch a film, play with the games we have in the classroom, have an extra long playtime outside, do some art, there are so many choices. So you can do the same at home. Choose something that you would love to do and do it.
I hope you all have a lovely half term holiday.
See you all, bright and refreshed on Monday 22nd February.
Are you all remembering to keep your eye on the clock? You know what I’m talking about Year 5 – Can you tell the time to the nearest minute yet? Then say the 12hr and 24hr digital time for the analogue time? If you can, then can you answer my question…If Mrs Giles started painting her camper van at 11. 25 am and finished four hours and twenty seven minutes later, what time would she finish? Answers in 24hr clock please. If you email me the correct time, I shall send you a gold star!
