Year 5 Virtual School
11 May 2020
Maths
Hello everyone and welcome to our new Mixed Maths Mondays! Every Monday, Mr Huxley will give you the chance to practice previous learning and challenge yourself with something a bit different. Please let us know what you’d like included next week by email us with your requests.
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We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks. If you are not a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here
English
Your guided reading text today is an extract taken from the classic story Arabian Nights. Watch the video here.
Click here for the text if you do not have it.
Click here for the answers if you do not have them.
Year 5 Virtual School
12 May 2020
Maths
More perimeter work lies ahead in today’s Maths lesson! We will be using floorplans to understand the use of scale when measuring perimeter. Enjoy!
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English
Check out your unit 18 spelling lesson here.
Click here for the booklet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Switch on your writer’s brain for your planning lesson with Ms. Smith, Click here to watch the video.
And if you need some help with ideas for your story mountain, take a look at the attached PDF example here .
Year 5 Virtual School
13 May 2020
Maths
We’ve moved on from perimeter to study area! Have a think back to what you’ve learnt previously on area.
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English
Let’s kick off today’s English with some grammar practice. Click here to watch the video.
Then we get creative as we start to think about writing the missing chapters of Kasper in the Glitter. Click here to watch the video.
Year 5 Virtual School
14 May 2020
Maths
Happy Thursday everyone! What’s a square number? How does this relate to area? Those questions and more are answered in today’s fabulous Maths lesson
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We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Give your fingers a stretch and a wiggle as it’s time for some handwriting practice: ‘ear’ & ‘ough’ spelling patterns. Click here to watch the video.
And then we can continue writing the missing section of ‘Kasper in the Glitter’. Click here to watch the video.
For today’s success criteria look at the lesson guide here.
Year 5 Virtual School
15 May 2020
Maths
Happy Friday Maths fans! Let’s get area-tastic with the fantabulous Mr Huxley. How do you find the area you say? Watch today’s video here to find out more!
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Hurrah it’s Friday and the last day of our independent write. Today we continue to write our endings to Kasper in the Glitter by finishing up with the resolution and ending.
Watch today’s video to hear some examples of your writing so far and tips on how to edit and improve as you go. Click here to watch the video.
Continue listening to the story;
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’re trying something different in history today. We’re heading on a virtual trip to the Horniman Museum.
First, watch the virtual tour here and answer these questions
- Where is the Museum?
- Who founded it?
- When was it first opened?
- What can be found there?
Then join Ms. Smith on her journey around Ancient Benin. Click here to watch the video.
Today’s task can be printed off or you can jot down your answers to the clues in Lesson 6 of your booklets.
Click here for the booklet.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have one.
Here is the link to Ms Spears’ video on the time capsule project
Art & Music
Art
Using oil pastels from our art packs we’ll be creating our own Keith Haring TV dog. Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!
Music
You have a set of musical challenges this week! Singing a harmony line with a ‘Mr Nathan’ vocal ensemble and rhythmic dictation with a twist. Enjoy!
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Science
Today’s lesson will be on reversible and irreversible changes, but first, let’s catch up on our egg-speriment! Ensure you have your “Material World” booklet and click here for the video.
Click here for the lesson guide.
Click here for the booklet if you do not have it.
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 to apply the rules of the agreement of adjectives in the singular and plural with some accuracy. This is the last preparation before we make our trioramas next week! Click here for our lesson.
When you have finished our lesson, click here to download the writing frame.
Au revoir
Wellbeing
This week, you will be learning about feeling excited! You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion.
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SRE
In today’s SRE lesson, you will be learning about the changes during puberty in more detail for males and females.
You can click here for the lesson.
RE
This week in RE we are carrying on looking at how Muslims respond to climate change by finding out about a very special new mosque that has opened recently in Cambridge and how this eco-mosque is tackling climate change.
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Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have one.