Friday 15^th May 2020

 

Good morning, Year 5.

 

Well done for everything you’ve achieved again this week!  I love seeing your creativity and am sharing examples of your work on the class blog.  Keep an eye out for more being added next week.

 

• Complete Day 17 in your Early Morning Workbook
• Complete the BBC Bitesize weekly maths challenge set on Seesaw
• Today, you should finish, proof-read and edit your story.  If possible, please read through your work with an adult before emailing it to me or uploading your story as a pdf to Seesaw.
• For your science work today, complete the Seesaw activity on the sexual and asexual reproduction of plants
• In your spelling book, complete special focus 11 on page 56
• 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 make the most of the opportunity to get outside for a bit more exercise!

 

Take care

 

Mrs Bond

 

Thursday 14^th May 2020

 

Good morning, Year 5.

I loved seeing some of your mini-books yesterday – keep them coming in over the next few weeks!

 

Today, please could you:

 

• Complete Day 16 in your Early Morning Workbook
• Complete the arithmetic maths activity on Seesaw
• Today and on Friday, please write the story you planned yesterday.  Make sure that you write at least five paragraphs and that your work is carefully edited before uploading a pdf to Seesaw or emailing it to me.  Please check:
  • There are capital letters at the beginning of every sentence and proper noun
  • Each sentence ends with a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark
  • Every paragraph and most sentences begin in different ways.  Think about using adverbial phrases and conjunctions to vary your sentences and use a mixture of long and short sentences
  • You have spelt all homophones correctly, especially there/their/they’re, where/were, are/our
  • You have used the attached checklist to ensure that your writing is as good as possible!
• In your spelling book, complete choose the right word on page 54
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

For French this week and next, please ask your parents to help you set up a Memrise account and join the Beech 5 group by visiting https://www.memrise.com/group/397919/.  Try and do 5 minutes every day and see if we can get a class competition going!

 

I’ve mentioned to some parents on the phone that next half-term we will be reading “A Boy and a Bear in a Boat” by Dave Shelton.  I will hopefully have a few copies of the book available from school, but it would be really helpful if families can buy or borrow the story.  Please could parents let me know if they will need school to provide a copy?  We will also have new Early Morning Work booklets ready to collect after half-term.

 

As ever, I’m really impressed with everything you are sending through and I hope you have a lovely day.

 

Mrs Bond

 

Wednesday 13^th May 2020

 

Good morning Year 5!

Today, please could you:

• Complete Day 15 in your Early Morning Workbook.
• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw
  • English – the Journey – Day 15
  • Maths – division with remainders
• In your spelling book, complete dictation and four-in-a-row on page 54
• Read chapters 25&26 of The Boy at the Back of the Class by the end of the weekend 
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

As an art and life-skills project this week, I’d like to start creating a Beech 5 mini-book library with at least one contribution from each member of the class.  Please follow the guidance on Seesaw to create your own mini-book and bring it back to school when we return..  It could be a book of recipes, poetry, your own short story or a retelling of your favourite book!  I’ve written “Mrs Bond’s Guide to Surviving Lock-down” as my contribution and you can hear me read it aloud on Seesaw.  You can make as many books as you like over the next few weeks – I think I will make more!

 

For computing this week, 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

 

Make sure you do some exercise - I hope you have a lovely day!

 

Mrs Bond

 

Tuesday 12^th May 2020

 

Good morning Year 5!  I continue to be really impressed with the quality of your work and love reading it every afternoon – thank you!

 

Today, please could you:

 

• Complete Day 14 in your Early Morning Workbook.
• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw
  • English – The Journey Day 14
  • Maths - Multiplication
• Read chapters 23 & 24 in The Boy at the Back of the Class
• In your spelling book, complete dots and dashes and word changers on page 53
• Go through the topic work on the oceans.  Label the map attached to the slides and create a poster or film inspired by the Hopscotch Ocean song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BE4VcYngQ
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

In DT we are continuing to investigate biscuits.  Make biscuits and take photographs of your baking.   Lots of recipes are at https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-biscuit or use your own.  If you’ve made two different sets of biscuits, which did you prefer and why?  What do you think makes a good biscuit?  Upload your photographs and comments to Seesaw.

 

I hope you have a lovely day.

 

Mrs Bond

 

Monday 11^th May 2020          

 

Good morning Year 5.  I hope you’ve had a lovely long weekend and enjoyed the sunshine.

 

Today, please could you:

 

• Complete Day 13 in your Early Morning Workbook
• Complete the English and maths activities on Seesaw
  • White Rose maths – Area of irregular shapes
  • The Journey – Day 13
• Read chapters 21 & 22 in The Boy at the Back of the Class
• In your spelling book, complete the spelling zone on page 52 about words ending in -tious
• Handwriting exercise – The Eagle, by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Take a break and watch Bitesize Daily at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g0cc/bitesize-911-year-olds

 

Squared paper for maths and the handwriting exercise are on the class website

 

In our story today, the family watch birds migrate.  Go to https://www.origami-fun.com/origami-birds.html and create an origami bird.  On your bird, write a message of hope to the family in the story.  What do you hope their lives will now be like?  Upload a photo of your bird to Seesaw.

 

For music this week, watch the videos at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z44x6v4.  Choose your favourite song, or a song that makes you feel good and look online for a karaoke version.  Practise singing your song and think about how it makes you feel.  If you’re confident, I’d love to see a video of you performing – I promise not to share it without permission!

 

Remember to do some exercise and keep active.

 

I hope you have a great day!

Mrs Bond