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Welcome Yr 5 and 6
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Week beginning 4th May
Hello Yr 5 and 6. I hope you are all safe and well.
I have been looking at all the online sites and it is good to see more of you doing the work that has been set. However, some children still haven’t logged on and completed any tasks. Don’t let your brains rust; get online and start working! If you are having any problems remembering your log in details or would like any help with the activities just email me: yr5.6@swbschool.net
Watch this week's video to find out what Shah, Ellie and Helen have been up to!
Helen Ellie and Shah video week 3.mp4If you would like to share your work please send it to year5.6@swbschool.net
A lot of work is set on Accelerated Maths (homework assignment book). You can also finish exercises, tests and diagnostic tests in all the other assignment books. For more maths activities remember to use Mathletics. In addition to subject exercises here, there are also arithmetic tests set for you to do.
Reading: Remember to read every day! I have been checking Accelerated Reading everyday. Well done to the four children who completed and passed tests this week. to read a book this week and complete a quiz.
Don’t forget to keep logging into Spag.com too. It is important to keep all those Spag terms fresh in your brains so that you don't forget them.
Keep doing your 10 minute a day Sat Buster tests and your reading comprehension exercises (3 per week) In addition to all these here are this week’s activities. If printing off is a problem, don’t worry, just write your answers on a separate piece of paper.
t2-t-656-nelson-mandela-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_8.pdfIn Literacy this week we will continue to look at the lives of people who have made a difference. This also ties in with our IPC topic Champions for Change. The reading comprehension is a biography about Nelson Mandela who was a man who certainly made a change not only for the people in his own country, South Africa, but also for people throughout the world. There are three levels. Either work your way through the levels or choose a level and remember to challenge yourself. Write your answers on a separate piece of paper and the check them against the answers which are given. You can find longer biographies of the people we have been studying here.
Chapters 6 - 10 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.docxReading I hope you are continuing to read a chapter a day of our class reader: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. If you missed any of the earlier chapters, scroll down to week two and catch up. Here are chapters 6 -10.
As you finish each chapter test your knowledge of the chapter by answering the comprehension questions. At the end of the book, if you do well on the Accelerated Reading test, you could score 6 points!
TL TW TW Vocab and RC Questions.pdf.As you finish each chapter test your knowledge of the chapter by answering the questions on that chapter. If you do the comprehension for each chapter, hopefully when we have completed the book you can score well on the Accelerated Reading quiz for that book and earn 6 points!
Creative writing planning sheet.pdfWriting Imagine you are Lucy stepping into the Wardrobe and through to the land of Narnia for the very first time. Watch this clip to help you. Describe in great detail everything you see, hear, touch, smell and taste. Use the writing framework to help you. Art Draw a picture of the land of Narnia based on evidence you have read in the book, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. You may draw your picture before doing your descriptive writing or do your descriptive writing and then draw your picture.
Use Brackets Dashes and Commas to Show Parenthesis Activity Sheet answers.pdfUse Brackets Dashes and Commas to Show Parenthesis Activity Sheet.pdfT2-E-1970-Commas-to-Indicate-Parenthesis-Test_ver_2.pdfSPAG: Go to Espresso, click on English, Grammar , Punctuation and work your way through the video, quizzes and activity on using brackets, dashes and commas for parenthesis. If something is in parenthesis this means that it is an explanation or extra information to the main idea of the sentence. After you have finished, complete the worksheet and the test sheet on this area and then check your answers with the answer sheet provided.
spelling test video.mp4Spelling Grab a piece of paper and a pencil and start the spelling video for this week’s spelling test. The words are all taken from the Yr 5/6 spelling bee list, which is in your homework diary. At the end of the video, the answers will be given. Mark your own test and see how many you got right.
ArithmeticPaper7.pdfMathematics: Do the new arithmetic paper and then afterwards check your answers which are at the end of the paper. Try to beat your score from last week.
Keep your tables ticking over by doing an online tables test . We usually do 80 questions division and multiplication up to 12 times table.
First, watch the video from Khan Academy to help you revise work we have done on finding the area and perimeter of a rectangle.
area of a triangle and parallelogram edited video.mp4Then watch the video Helen has done to learn how to work out the area of a parallelogram and a triangle. Complete the diagnostic test on Accelerated Maths.
Science: Go to Espresso go to KS2 Science on the topic ‘investigating change.’ Click on the ‘experiments in the classroom’ page. Look at the ‘adding materials together’ videos. Click through each video and answer the questions on the question sheet. It would be great if you can write down your answers on a piece of paper but otherwise perhaps you could talk them through with your parents or brother/sister? Check your answers.
SCIENCE home learning week 3.docxscience answers.docxIPC Look at the Powerpoint on Types of government. Pay close attention to it. There is a quiz at the end. Use the information from the Powerpoint and further safe internet research to fill in the information on the table.
Types_of_Governments_lesson.pptTypes of Government.docCoding with Logo.docxIT Go to Purple Mash and log in as a Year 5 or Year 6. Go to tools, coding, Logo. We have used this program before but refresh your memories of how to code by watching the video which is located at the top right of the Purple Mash screen. Draw the shapes specified on this work sheet. After you have finished, explore how to make concentric patterns. (a shape within a shape).
P.E. If you are doing Joe Wicks every day, you will be getting fitter and fitter every day! As it is raining today, I have decided to take my daily exercise indoors and will be doing this workout.
t2-m-4174-pentominoes-game-activity_ver_1.pdfPuzzle Corner I have enjoyed using the shape and space part of my brain this week by doing a pentominoes puzzle. A pentomino is a flat 2d shape that can be made by joining five squares together. Have a go at doing your own pentominoes puzzle.
Good luck with all your homework. Remember, we would love to see some of the work you have been doing at home. Ask an adult to help you to take a photo of your Narnia picture, share your descriptive writing or let us know how the workouts are going. We would love to hear from you all. Contact Helen, Ellie and Shah using this email address: yr5.6@swbschool.net
Stay well and keep safe!
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