Friday 1^st May 2020

 

Good morning Year 5!  Today, if you are happy to, please would you send me a photograph of you in your home-schooling spot?  I’d like to put them into a collage so we can all see where each other are working!  I’ve been really impressed with the work you have all done this week – well done and enjoy your weekend.

 

Today, please can you:

 

• Complete Day 8 in your Early Morning Workbook.

• Complete the English and maths activities:

  • Bitesize weekly challenge on Seesaw, along with pages 42 and 43 of your CPG book

  • Write your article about a famous refugee.  Make sure you proof-read this before sending it to me.  Some sentence starters and a suggested plan are on yesterday’s Seesaw activity.

• Read chapters 13 & 14 in The Boy at the Back of the Class before the end of the weekend

• In your spelling book, complete special focus 10 on page 51

• Complete the science work on the parts of a flower.  If you are able, please print out and make a paper flower from the template provided or dissect a real flower!  Always check with an adult before handling any plants.

• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

I hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing all your work!

Take care

 

Mrs Bond

 

Thursday 30^th April 2020

 

Good morning, Year 5.

 

I’m glad lots of you are enjoying seeing the daily pictures of our caterpillars.  When do you think they are going to form their cocoons?

 

Today, please could you:

 

• Complete Day 7 in your Early Morning Workbook
• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw
  • Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence
  • The Journey Day 8 – work through the slides today, in preparation for writing your article tomorrow
• Read chapters 11 & 12 in The Boy at the Back of the Class
• In your spelling book, complete choose the right word on page 50
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

Over the next two weeks, complete the French project to write a sequence poem by following the tutorial at https://youtu.be/2aRA9HneOa4.  Please post your finished videos on Seesaw.

 

Finally, complete the gratitude activity on Seesaw and think about all the good things in your life!

 

Wednesday 29^th April 2020

 

Good morning Year 5!

 

Today’s work is based upon your CPG books rather than on Seesaw.   This is a good opportunity for you to catch up on any activities you haven’t yet completed and to make sure you’ve read to the end of chapter 10 of The Boy at the Back of the Class.

 

Please could you:

• Complete Day 6 in your Early Morning Workbook.
•  Complete the reading comprehension about Gertrude Ederle, on pages 2&3 of comprehension book 2.  Later in the week you will be writing an article in this style about a famous refugee.  Whilst you are working on this comprehension, think about the features of this style of writing.
•  Complete pages 40 and 41 in your maths CPG book on percentages
• In your spelling book, complete dictation and four in a row on page 49
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

In Life-skills last term, we were developing our understanding of the brain and mindfulness.  Attached are some ideas about how to take a mindful moment – try to do three of these today.

 

Over the last few weeks you have been really developing your IT skills!  We need to make sure you also continue to develop your programming skills, so each week, I’d like you to choose one of the following:

•  Complete an hour of code by choosing an activity at https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
• Follow a tutorial on Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/
• Get involved with a weekly online lesson at 6pm UK time every Wednesday at https://code.org/break

 

Remember to do some exercise and keep active.

 

I hope you have a great day!

Mrs Bond

 

Tuesday 28^th April 2020

 

Good morning Year 5!

 

Today, please can you:

• Complete Day 5 in your Early Morning Workbook.
• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw.
  • White Rose maths – Percentages as Fractions and Decimals
  • English – Writing Speech (The Journey - Day 7)
• In your spelling book, complete word changers and the dictionary challenge on page 48
• Read chapters 9 & 10 in The Boy at the Back of the Class
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

In DT this term, we are thinking about preparing food to take on a journey.  Today, I’d like you to plan what food you would pack if you were going travelling.  What would you need to consider?  How would you make sure your food was safe to eat?  What sort of products would you include?

 

Create a slide on Seesaw showing the different food you would prepare and answering the questions above.

 

On a second page, please tell me what meals, if any, you already know how to prepare and what safety rules you consider when cooking.

 

Remember to do some exercise and keep active.

 

I hope you have a great day!

Mrs Bond

 

Monday 27^th April 2020

 

Good morning Year 5.  I hope you’ve had a lovely weekend.  

 

Your work is listed in the order you should complete it each day.  Please do as much as you can, making sure you complete at least the English and maths activities.  Today, please can you:

 

• Complete Day 4 in your Early Morning Workbook

• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw

  • White Rose maths – Understanding Percentages

  • The Journey – Day 6

• Read chapters 7 & 8 in The Boy at the Back of the Class

• In your spelling book, complete the spelling zone and dots and dashes on pages 47 and 48

• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

In music this term, we are thinking about the sea.  The sea has inspired many musicians and music about the sea has been written in many different genres.

 

Listen to “Storm Interlude” by Benjamin Britten at https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/intro-films-and-orchestral-films/zv2gqp3, “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA  and “This is the Sea” by the Waterboys  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA as three very different examples. 

• Which of these do you like and why? 

• Can you find other examples of music inspired by the sea? 

• Share your research on Seesaw, explaining what music you like the best and why.

 

Remember to do some exercise and keep active.

 

I hope you have a great day!

Mrs Bond

 

Your PE session could include Joe Wicks or setting up your own free account on Go Noodle

 

Remember, you have free access to Minecraft Education Edition until at least June 2020.  Go to https://www.minecraft.net/ to find out more.  Your username will be firstnamelastname@cookhamrise.org (e.g. joebloggs@cookhamrise.org) and your password is the same one that you use to log onto the computers at school.

 

Furze Platt Senior School will be live-streaming maths lessons for Years 5-8 every day on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgMzej0h874.  Today you can practise the 6 times-table at 10am, or, if you'd like an extra challenge, you can learn about negative numbers at 11am.