Week Beginning 18 January 2021
Monday 18 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and Planet Earth text and activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson, spelling list and suffix sheet
- Multiplying 3 digits by 2 digit: video, worksheet, answers
- Science lesson
- RE: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- PE with Marcus Rashford
Tuesday 19 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and match report with activity
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Multiplying 4 digits by 2 digit (basic practice): video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Wednesday 20 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Multiply 4 digits by 2 digit: video, worksheet, answers
- Science: lesson and video and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Joe Wicks has a live lesson at 9:00am each Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Thursday 21 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson, Pig Heart Boy extracts and Kahoot quiz challenge
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Divide 2 digits by 1 digit (1): video, worksheet, answers
- Topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Friday 22 January 2021
- Reading skills: lesson and crossword task
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson
- Spellings: lesson
- Divide 2 digits by 1 digit (2): video, worksheet, answers
- Topic: lesson and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
- Joe Wicks has a live lesson at 9:00am each Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Week Beginning 11 January 2021
Monday 11 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Interpret charts – video, worksheet, answers
RE: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson, planning pdf and word
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Comparison, sum and difference – video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Music appreciation: Gustav Holst’s ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’.
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson and Steve Backshall video
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson and texts for comparison
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Introducing line graphs – video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
PE: Joe Wicks is back with his school workout three times a week.
Thursday 14 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson and planets video
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Read and interpret line graphs – video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
Music appreciation: Which is better? Mars or Mercury? There’s only one way to find out…
Friday 15 January 2021
Reading skills: lesson, text and quiz
Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
Writing skills: lesson
Writing texts: lesson
Spellings: lesson
Maths: Draw line graphs – video, worksheet, answers
Science/ topic: lesson and text
Other mini lessons that you could complete at any point during the day:
Times Tables Rock Stars (email teacher if you have forgotten your login)
08 January 2021
Today, we’re starting a new way of supporting home learning. Below you’ll find seven lessons with videos to follow created by teachers in your school and in other schools in the federation. It should give you a taster of how we’re planning on delivering your lessons from now onwards.
Don’t forget you can send some of your work to your teacher if you’d like to -we’d be particularly interested in any tasks that you found tricky, or ones that you feel particularly proud of. Email addresses can be found in Mr Roundtree’s recent communications.
Today’s lessons:
- Reading skills: lesson and RIC
- Reading fluency and vocabulary: lesson and text
- Writing skills: lesson
- Writing texts: lesson and text
- Spellings: Introduction video. Now, practise words that’ve you’ve been given to learn in previous weeks, using any of the spelling strategies we usually list.
- Maths: Please find your next lesson on the White Rose links posted below.
- Science / topic: lesson
Other mini sessions that you could complete at any point during the day:
- Times Tables Rock Stars (ask your teacher if you’ve forgotten your logins)
- 5 minute moves
Important: changes to home learning
Hi everyone,
Happy New Year! But what a strange start… I’m here to help, so please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help support learning at home: [email protected]
I’ve recorded this short video explaining some changes that will be made to home learning from Friday. Mr Roundtree will be communicating more tomorrow.
I hope you and your family are all well.
All the best,
Mr Owen
Week beginning: 04 January 2020
Happy New Year!
I hope you’ve had a restful break.
Don’t forget you can email me at [email protected] for help if you need to.
Maths
This week, we’re learning about multiplication. Children should use these resources:
- Multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit: video, worksheet, answers
- Multiplying 3 digits by 1 digit: video, worksheet, answers
- Multiply 4 digits by 1 digit: video, worksheet, answers
- Multiply 2 digits (area model): video, worksheet, answers
- Multiply 2 digits by 2: video, worksheet, answers
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rock Stars, too. I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything. Email me if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rock Stars daily)
Reading fluency
Linking to our new Space topic, this is the fluency text that we’re using this week. It’s an introduction to a webpage from NASA about five amazing women who influenced our knowledge about space. You can see the whole webpage here, but we’re only focus on one section of it today.
We usually follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
- Day 1: Read as much Wolf Brother as you can, picking up from where we read to last term, which is p10 I think!
- Day 2: Read the fluency text and answer the RIC questions on the page (see fluency text above).
- Day 3: Use Week 1 slides (Tuesday’s lesson) to find as many facts as you can.
- Day 4: Use the slides (see above and use Wednesday’s lesson) to write some interview questions.
- Day 5: Book Club. Look at the slides for Friday to write a book review.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Follow these lessons on non-chronological reports from Oak National Academy. There’s a whole series of lessons, but start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing one (or maybe even two) each day. (If you’re self-isolating in your second week, stick with the series of lessons you’ve already started and aim to complete the full series.)
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes for each)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page. Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about geography. We’re focusing on climate and climate change.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy is all about water, weather and climate, closely linked to our learning in school.
Follow the sequence of learning and let me know how you got on!
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re starting a new topic all about space.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy links closely to what we will be doing in class.
Follow the sequence over the course of the half term or, if you’ve not done any home learning yet, choose one you’ve got a particular interest in.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
PE
Don’t forget to do some daily exercise!
Do two or three of these Five Minute Moves from Joe Wicks each day – spread them across the day as if they were playtimes, maybe!
Try working through this series of 25 lessons from the Association for Physical Education – do two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 5 minutes daily, plus 30 minutes for the longer PE lessons)
Week Beginning: 14 December 2020
Hi everyone!
I hope you and your family are well. If there’s anything I can help with, please don’t forget you can email me: [email protected]
It’s the last week!
Maths
In school this week, we’re reviewing the assessments that children have just done. Below, you’ll find links to some tests which children could do to revise what they’ve learnt. Send me your completed sheets so I can see what I need to help you with more! The answers should provide a good opportunity for you to see how to approach each question. If you’ve already done these, please email me for different work!
- Place value: test and answers
- Addition and subtraction: test and answers
- Multiplication and division: test and answers
- Area and perimeter: test and answers
- Arithmetic : We’ll be using this test and reviewing the answers.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything.
Email me if you need your child’s login and password details.
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page.
Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text that we’ll read in class this week.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: Watch this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert and complete this RIC
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Read this First News Article and answer the questions. The answers are on the final sheet – no peeking until you’re done!
Day 4: Read your fluency or RIC text again. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read or heard in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
We’re editing and improving our stories this week, but not doing much writing because of all the assessments.
National Oak Academy have a good sequence of lessons on story writing that you could work through if you’re working from home.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about history. We’re continuing our topic all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt – an advanced ancient civilisation.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy is all about prehistoric Britain. Choose one lesson to do that you’ve got a particular interest in.
As always, let me know how you got on with your learning.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re carrying on with our learning about forces.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy links closely to what we’ve done in class.
Choose one you’ve got a particular interest in or, if you’ve been doing home learning already this term, choose one you’ve not yet done.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
Week beginning: 07 December 2020
Hello everyone working at home this week. I hope you and your family are well. If there’s anything I can help with, please don’t forget you can email me: [email protected]
It’s not long until the holidays, we keep working hard!
Maths
In school this week, we’re assessing children on what they’ve understood so far this year. Below, you’ll find links to some tests which children could do to revise what they’ve learnt. Send me your completed sheets so I can see what I need to help you with more! The answers should provide a good opportunity for you to see how to approach each question.
- Place value: test and answers
- Addition and subtraction: test and answers
- Multiplication and division: test and answers
- Area and perimeter: test and answers
- Arithmetic : We’ll be using this test and reviewing the answers.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything.
Email me if you need your child’s login and password details.
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page.
Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text that we’ll read in class this week.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: Watch the video about Tutankhamun and answer these three questions:
- R: How old was Tutankhamun when he became Pharaoh?
- I: Why was Tutankhamun more popular than his father?
- C: Why has the film maker made this a cartoon, rather than a real live-action programme?
Send me your RIC answers for some feedback!
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Read this First News and answer the questions. The answers are on the final sheet – no peeking until you’re done!
Day 4: Read your fluency or RIC text again. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read or heard in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
We’re editing and improving our stories this week, but not doing much writing because of all the assessments.
National Oak Academy have a good sequence of lessons on story writing that you could work through if you’re working from home.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about history. We’re continuing our topic all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt – an advanced ancient civilisation.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy is all about prehistoric Britain. Choose one lesson to do that you’ve got a particular interest in.
As always, let me know how you got on with your learning.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re carrying on with our learning about forces.
This series of lessons from Oak National Academy links closely to what we’ve done in class.
Choose one you’ve got a particular interest in or, if you’ve been doing home learning already this term, choose one you’ve not yet done.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
Week beginning: 30 November 2020
Hello everyone working at home this week. I hope you and your family are well. If there’s anything I can help with, please don’t forget you can email me: [email protected]
Maths
In school this week, we’re learning about area.
Children should use these resources:
- Calculating area by counting squares: video, worksheet, answers
- Area of rectangles: video, worksheet, answers
- Area of compound shapes: video, worksheet, answers
- Area of irregular shapes: video, worksheet, answers
- Arithmetic lesson: We’ll be using this test and reviewing the answers.
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 9 times tables again this week , but I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything.
Email me if you need your child’s login and password details.
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page.
Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text that we’ll read in class this week:
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: Read this extract of Wolf Brother and answer the RIC questions at the bottom.
Day 2: Agree with your child three words from any text they’ve read which they’re less familiar with. Your child should find out what they mean (eg by checking an online dictionary or simply discuss with you) and how to use them in sentences (both when speaking and when writing). Challenge your child to write a sentence with each word in, or to drop the words into conversations at home.
Day 3: Read this First News article and answer the questions. The answers are on the final sheet – no peeking until you’re done!
Day 4: Read your fluency or RIC text again. Next, do one of the following:
- Your child could list at least ten facts they’ve read in the text. (If it’s a fiction text (a story), then the facts would be based on the story, like ‘Harry Potter picked up his broomstick’, rather than actual facts from the real world.)
- Your child could create questions and answers for what they’ve read. (For example, it could be a TV or radio interview based on what they’ve read.)
- Your child could create their own ‘RIC’ questions.
- Your child could draw and label a character or setting that they’ve read about.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
We’re writing stories this week.
These are the slides we’ll be using in class to help you.
Day 1: Plan your story using this sheet and referring back to this extract from The Hobbit
Day 2: Plan your setting and character descriptions by drawing and labelling your own villain, hero, messenger and setting, for your story.
Day 3: Write your story, referring to your planning sheet and drawings.
Day 4: Edit your story, looking out for Must Dos especially – see slides. Use the assessment grid to help you understand what you’ve done well. If you realised you haven’t included something, now is a great time to add it!
Day 5: Write your story as neatly as possibly, illustrating it once you’ve finished. You could even add a border if you have time.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about history. We’re continuing our topic all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt – an advanced ancient civilisation.
This week, just like we’re doing in class, you’re going to learn about the mummification process.
First, have a look at these slides to learn about the process. Next, summarise it in your own words using this activity.
Finally, use this template to design your own canopic jar! Which Egyptian god will you use for its lid? What hieroglyphics will you include on the outside? What colour would you paint it?
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re carrying on with our learning about forces. Use these slides to learn about friction and have a go at the Kahoot if you can so make sure you’re reading the information carefully!
Next, use this sheet to plan an investigation involving friction.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
Week beginning: 23 November 2020
Good morning Y5!
Maths
In school this week, we’re learning about perimeter and area.
Children should use these resources:
- Measuring perimeter: video, worksheet, answers
- Perimeter on a grid: video, worksheet, answers
- Perimeter of rectangles: video, worksheet, answers
- Perimeter of rectilinear shapes: video, worksheet, answers
- Calculating perimeter: video, worksheet, answers
Don’t forget to practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 9 times tables this week, but I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything.
Email me if you need your child’s login and password details.
You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
This week’s spellings are on our spelling page.
Complete one task each day:
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This is the fluency text on mummification that we’ll read in class this week. It also contains our RIC questions.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
Day 1: Read the fluency text and answer the RIC questions on page.
Day 2: Read this extract from the Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien. Do the activity on Hobbit – inference matching lesson
Day 3: Re-read the Hobbit extract. Take photos of yourself acting out different parts of the story, or if you can’t then draw picture to summarise it.
Day 4: Re-read the Hobbit extract. Summarise the story in 10 sentences.
Day 5: Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
We’re starting a new unit of work linking to our new learning about the Stone Age and Ancient Egypt. We’re going to write stories!
Use these slides to help you.
Day 1: Read the Fire and Water extract from the hobbit. Find eight words that you’re less familiar with, find out their meanings and write sentences with them in to show to you understand how to use them in sentences.
Day 2: Create a story map of the extract. This is where you draw a simple picture or icon to represent each part of the story. You could just look at the slides, or cut up the statements on this sheet to sort them physically.
Day 3: Create a table to analyse the different ways that Tolkien starts sentences, having a go at creating your own versions. Use the slides to help you. You could use this sheet to record your own sentences.
Day 4: On a subject of you own choosing, write a paragraph showing that you can start sentences in different ways.
Day 5: Recap what parentheses are and practise adding them to sentences. Use the slides to help.
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about history. We’re continuing our topic all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt – an advanced ancient civilisation.
This week, just like we’re doing in class, you’re going to learn about how life was in Ancient Egypt for different groups of people.
First, have a look at this website and use the different tabs to read about a day in the life of a pharaoh, nobleman, craftsman, priest, solider, farmer and woman.
Next, use these slides and complete the tasks involved.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re carrying on with our learning about forces. This lesson from Oak National Academy links closely to what we’ve been doing in class.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
Week beginning 16.11.20
Good morning Y5!
It’s anti-bullying week this week. Watch this video to find out about Odd Socks Day!
Maths
We’re continuing to think about multiplication this week.
Children should use these resources:
- Multiply by 10, 100, 1000: video, worksheet and answers
- Divide by 10: video, worksheet and answers
- Divide by 100: video, worksheet and answers
- Divide by 10, 100, 1000: video, worksheet and answers
On Friday, we’re doing arithmetic sessions which include lots of different aspects of numbery maths, such as addition, subtraction, place value, times tables and number facts. If you’re at home on Friday, spend some time practising these aspects of maths.
You could set yourself some addition and subtraction calculations by randomly picking two four or five digit numbers to calculate with, and then practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. We’re concentrating on the 12 times tables this week, but I’d like everyone to do at least one ‘sound check’ to see how you’re doing on everything.
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You don’t have to print the worksheets. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
Look on our spelling page for this week’s words.
Your child should complete one task each day.
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. (You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our learning.)
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This week, we’ll be reading this text about hieroglyphics to build up fluency skills.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
We’re continuing to read Wolf Brother in class, but we’ll also be reading other things too.
1 and 2: Matilda, Who told Lies and was Burnt to Death by Hilaire Belloc (it’s a comedy, honest!)
Follow these slides and complete the lessons explained on them.
3. Do this RIC on bullying.
4. Read this First News article and answer the questions. The answers are at the back.
5. Book Club. Once a week, we have a relaxing lesson where we sit and read quietly, often with an adult. At home, we’d like you to read your favourite book or text, too. If possible, discuss the book with an adult, talking about some or all of the sections of this grid.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Activity 1: Your child should practise skills they’ve learnt recently by using the following sequence:
Task 1:
- define relative clauses
- list different examples of relative clauses
- find and highlight relative clauses in a book you’re reading at home
Task 2:
- write sentences, each with a different relative clause.
Task 3:
- write a short piece of writing about Ancient Egypt using lots of relative clauses
Activity 2:
Children should write six sentences about a picture or photograph you choose. Your child should remember capital letters, finger spaces, joined up letters (use our handwriting guide to help, paying particular attention to tall letters and letters that go beneath the line), and a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?) to end the sentence. Encourage interesting words to make their writing more interesting.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Topic
This week’s topic learning is about history. We’re continuing our topic all about prehistoric Britain compared to Ancient Egypt – an advanced ancient civilisation.
This week, just like we’re doing in class, you’re going to learn about what hieroglyphics were and have a go at writing some with this lesson from BBC Bitesize.
Next, we’d like you to learn about what pyramids were built for using this website.
- Why were they built?
- How were they built?
- How did different people feel about them being built?
- How do we know all this information?
- What is your opinion on the pyramids?
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
We’re carrying on with our learning about forces. This lesson from Oak National Academy links closely to what we’ve been doing in class – gears, levers and pulleys.
Email me to let me know how you got on!
(Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)