Year 5

Week Beginning:  13^th July

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Description and Instructions

Reading

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/

Online books. Please read and re-read two books a week and complete the quiz that goes with each book.

Optional additional task:  complete a Reading Response Bingo activity for a book you are enjoying reading at home.

Scroll down for copy of bingo sheet

English

Genre Focus:  Write a Non-Chronological report

Lesson 1: Reading Comprehension – word meaning

Watch the video and use the buttons on the bottom of the screen to navigate between activities. When you have listened to the input, answer the questions either in your exercise book or on the worksheet. Then, continue watching the video to check your answers. At the end of the lesson, complete the quiz to see how well you have done!

Optional additional task: Research your own Ancient Greek mythological creature. Draw a picture of it and then annotate (label) its key features.

Lesson 2: Reading Comprehension – word meaning and fact retrieval

Complete the introductory quiz and then watch the video. Use the buttons on the bottom of the screen navigate between activities. When you have listened to the input, answer the questions either in your exercise book or on the worksheet. Then, continue watching the video again to check your answers. At the end of the lesson, complete the quiz to see how well you have done!

Optional additional task: Complete the ’60 second read’ linked to Viking longhouses.

Lesson 3: Identifying the features of a text

Complete the introductory quiz and then watch the video. Use the buttons on the bottom of the screen to navigate between activities. When you have listened to the input, answer the questions either in your exercise book or on the worksheet.  Then, play the video again to check your answers. At the end of the lesson, complete the quiz to see how well you have done!

Optional additional task: Have a go at building your own super sentences! Start with a noun and then follow the steps to craft a detailed, reader-grabbing sentence! Completed 1? Aim for 3!

Lesson 4: SPAG Focus – Modal Verbs

Complete the introductory quiz and then listen carefully to the input in the video. Refer to your worksheet for the first 3 activities. Complete the main task in your exercise books, check the video for answers and then complete the exit quiz.

Optional additional task: This website is fab! Choose a 10 minute challenge set by one of these famous authors and illustrators.

Lesson 5: Write a Non-Chronological report

Complete the introductory quiz and then listen carefully to the input in the video. Today, you will be writing your own non-chronological report. Use the WAGOLL, vocabulary and sentence starters to help you. When you close the video, there are slides with extra scaffolds on to help you. When you have finished, edit your writing carefully. We would love you to ask your adult to send these to year group emails. Please do not upload any of your work online to any social media sites.

Optional additional task: Add an illustration/ picture to each of your report sections.

Please follow the correct links as given on the left.

 These lessons will build up skills throughout the unit and you will produce a final written piece in lesson 5.

Use the button in the right hand corner of the screen to navigate between sections of the lesson. You can pause the video and come back to it at any point.

Spellings

See spelling sheet listed in resources below.

Practise and learn the spellings taught in your Oak English lesson. You might like to do a pre-test at the start of the week to see how much progress you make.

Optional extra tasks: keep practising your year 5/6 words. Try :

• playing hangman
• building anagrams
• drawing out words in graffiti style lettering

Vocabulary

L12 Clumsy or Silly Words

Watch the Mrs Worsdsmith lesson and complete the activities in your exercise books.

Maths

NOTE: this week's learning has not been previously covered in class.

All extension/finding it tricky/looking for a challenge worksheets are listed below in Maths Resources.  

Monday – metric units

You may want to use the place value chart provided to support you when converting between units of measure.  Remember what happens to place value when multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000? How many place value spaces do you move up or down each time?

To get to grips with converting listen to this ‘groovy’ math song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djTNUp4XIRo

Optional additional task: Test your converting skills for: capacity, mass and length!

Finding it tricky?  Practise your conversions with this simple pelmanism game: https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Pairs.asp?Topic=18

Wanting an extra challenge?: Complete all three challenges to show off your conversion skills!

Tuesday – imperial units

If you are feeling a bit uncertain about imperial measures explore the BBC bitesize page first: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4nsgk7/articles/zwbndxs

You may want to look around at home to see if there are any containers/ items that are measured in imperial rather than metric units. 

Optional additional task: Test your converting skills for: capacity, mass and length but this time for imperial measures. 

Finding it tricky? 

Measure using both inches and centimetres to compare the measurements.

Wanting an extra challenge?  Test yourself with this mixed bag of problems to see if you have mastered the skills to convert imperial measures

Wednesday – converting units of time

Remind yourself of the different units of time: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and year.  How are they linked?

Optional additional task: Select the right challenge level for you and see if you can work out the code by converting the units of time and measure!

Finding it tricky?

Print off the hours and minutes cards to play some matching same or a trumps style game where the person with the highest value of time wins the hand.

Wanting an extra challenge?  Have a go at solving the converting time fortune teller.  Then try creating one of your own to test your friends and family with.

Thursday – timetables

When looking at timetables remember to check if the times are given as 12 or 24 hour clock times.

Optional additional task: use the calendar to convert between days and weeks.

Finding it tricky?  Try solving some of the challenge card problem by working out when each activity finishes.

Wanting an extra challenge? See if you have mastered following and interpreting timetables.

Friday’s lesson is the Bitesize Challenge. Click here to find out more!

Challenge of the week: Olympic measures

https://nrich.maths.org/14600 

We are working on Week 12 week beginning 13^th July

This week, our learning focuses upon measures. 

If you want an extra challenge, try the challenge of the week or use the link on the left for even more maths!

Maths – online programmes

https://ttrockstars.com/

Please play on Garage for at least 3 minutes per day.

Don’t forget about the battles too!

Science

Key question:  What have you learnt about rocks?

This week there is no video lesson just a short quiz to complete to see how well you have been doing. 

• Click on the here to start your quiz – good luck!

Now for the fun stuff. Choose from one of the activities listed below for creative activities all liked to the theme of Rocks.

• Story of a rock:  Watch this cartoon version of the ‘story of a rock cycle‘ for inspiration.  Then have a go at writing your own version.  You could present this as a comic book or even having a go at using stop frame to produce your own animated version.
• Grow your own crystals. Watch the video which sets out a simple step by step process to follow to grow your own crystals. You will need: fine table salt (Epsom if possible); jar; water; spoon; food colouring; measuring cup. Want a challenge? Try out using different colourings to a variety of shades of crystals or if you place a piece of wire into your jar you can create different shapes by curving and shaping the wire.
• Fossil art: Watch the video which sets out a simple step by step process to follow to grow your own beautiful faux fossils.  Watch the video through at least once before attempting your own artwork.  You will need: canvas panel or stiff card; thin wire or pipe cleaners; pastels or poster paints; PVA glue; tissue paper or kitchen towels.

RE

To plan and write an essay about Buddhism (lesson 1) and Lesson 2

In these TWO  lessons, we will be using all of the key pieces of knowledge we have acquired over the course of this unit to plan and write an essay

You will need a pen or pencil and your exercise book to complete this lesson. Pause the lesson when the teachers tells you to and start it again when you have completed the task.

PE

Jo Wicks Daily PE Lesson (Mon, Weds and Sat)

Cosmic Kids Yoga

Just Dance

GoNoodle

There are a lot of PE activities available that you can do depending on the space or resources available. Here are some suggestions.

Topic

Learn a Viking Saga song! Viking sagas were stories from Norse mythology about Viking Gods and Goddesses.

Click here where Thor and Loki journey to Jotunheim and meet the giant Skrymnir. Scroll down the page to read the final parts of ‘Thor and the giants’ and then scroll down again to learn the song ‘Thor on a journey’

Viking Runes

Viking runes were the letters of the runic alphabet. Germanic people, including the Vikings, developed this system of writing.

To find out more, begin by watching ‘Runes’ video by clicking here

Then complete the NRICH ‘Ancient Runes’ puzzle. Having trouble deciphering?! Open the ‘Viking Runes Handy Hint’ for a helping hand!

Dragon Eye

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ by Cressida Cowell is one of the Year 5 Teachers’ favourites! As you probably know, the story is based around Hiccup, a Viking, who must kill a dragon to mark his passage into adulthood and be initiated into his tribe.

Following on from the dragon eye artwork a couple of weeks ago, have a go at making this fun origami blinking dragon eye using this video:

After an extra challenge? Draw a sketch of the dragon that the eye belongs to.

Wider curriculum

Maths Scavenger Hunt