Year 5 Virtual School
4 May 2020
Maths
Happy Monday! It’s review time! Mr Huxley guides you through all the questions and answers here.
English
Happy Monday everyone! Today’s English includes your next guided reading lesson. The text we’re looking at is called ‘Pieces Of Eight’ – it’s an extract taken from a classic story called ‘Treasure Island’. You can find the video here.
Click here for the text.
Click here for the questions.
Here is a copy of the animated book summary of Treasure Island if it was tricky to hear in the video lesson.
You can watch Mr Huxley read Chapter 16 of our book here.
Year 5 Virtual School
5 May 2020
Maths
It’s time to start a new chapter!
Farewell to measurements and hello to area and perimeter! Think back to what you learnt in year 4 on perimeter and area and that should help you with today. Click here to watch the video.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
It’s that time of the week again! That’s right… it’s spelling time! So grab your favourite pen or a sharp pencil and let’s get started. Today we are looking at Unit 17: ost and oll sounds/words.
View the video here and click here for page 1 and here for page 2 of your booklets if you do not have them.
Today in our main English lesson we’re looking at creating and describing characters. So let’s kick off with listening to chapter 17 here where we will meet the last of the Argonauts.
Then follow the lesson video here to create and describe your own character
Finally, you can listen to chapter 18 here when you get the chance
Year 5 Virtual School
6 May 2020
Maths
It’s Maths time! Mr Huxley starts off by going through multiplication for you to practise at home. After that, it’s time to measure the perimeter of different shapes. Enjoy!
Click here to watch the video.
English
Grammar! Let’s look at clauses and how to make our sentences even better.
Click here to watch the video.
For today’s English lesson you will need to have read up to chapter 20. So follow along with Ms. Fraser here and stop the video before moving on to chapter 21.
You can listen to chapter 21 after completing today’s lesson and writing task here.
Year 5 Virtual School
7 May 2020
Maths
Maths! More perimeter measuring! What’s a regular shape? How can we calculate perimeter when we don’t have all the measurements? All those questions and more will be answered here in today’s fabulous video
English
Let’s kick off English with some handwriting: practice: o, s, t and the ‘ost’ spelling pattern; Click here to watch the video.
Can you spot Ms. Smith’s mistake right at the beginning? Keeping track of time is very difficult at the moment.
Our main English lesson is split into three parts today as we storm ahead reading lots of chapters of the book before next week’s big writing task.
Part 1: Visualising
Part 2: Predicting
Part 3: Sequencing
And here is Chapter 27 to keep you going over the long weekend
Contact
We love getting your emails! Please email us your work. If you have any questions or want to share any wonderful ideas, please email us at year5.charlesdickens@gmail.com
Humanities
We are moving super swiftly through this unit and are already on Lesson 5! First watch this horrible history clip about the British Empire here before watching today’s lesson here and if you want to do some further research you could check out the BBC bitesize pages on The Kingdom of Benin here.
Click here for the booklet.\
Time Capsule
Your time capsule task this week is to create a page introducing yourself (your name, age, your interests, what you want to be when you grow up) and put the page inside your time capsule box so that you can remember yourself as you are now in May 2020. In future years, if anyone opens your time capsule, they can find out who created it!
Click here for the video from Ms Spears:
Click here for the Time Capsule template, which you can print or draw your own.
Art & Music
Art
Using our art packs we’ll be painting and collaging, to create an Eric Carle inspired Mister Seahorse. Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!
Click here to watch the video.
Music
In todays lesson, you will all be learning how to use the online keyboard on SoundTrap to improvise melodies and solos over your Compositions. Click here to watch the video.
Science
Ready for a very windy (nature is what it is) Science lesson?
First, you’ll need to gather a few things:
1) a glass, some soil, some water and a spoon
2) a transparent glass, an egg and some vinegar
Once you have them, grab your “Material World” booklet (here if you don’t have it) and watch the video here.
Active
Click here for this week’s Dance lesson with Delene.
Click here for this week’s yoga lesson with Ms. Fraser:
French
Bonjour Year five!
First please click here to see our Y5 celebration video. We talk about our “star Francaise” introducing Omar Sy, a famous French actor as well as sharing the great work children have sent me.
This week’s activity is learning about the adjective agreement in the singular in order to describe different parts of our castle accurately. Click here to watch the video.
Click here to complete the online worksheet (no printing needed!).
Click here to listen to this funny song where you will able to hear the colours adjectives being used in the feminine (describing cars) and the masculine (describing trucks)!
Au revoir
Wellbeing
This week, you will be learning about what it is to feel glum! You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion. Click here to watch the video.
Click here for the worksheet.
