Here is some short English work that you can complete each day. It includes paragraphs to edit and improve, some spag related questions and some spelling practise.
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Number facts and times tables
Here is some short maths work that you can complete each day. It includes a 4 a day (as we would do each day in school) and fluency practise for number facts and times tables.
If you would like some more work to do, head over to https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ where they are uploading a lesson for every day of the week which includes a video, worksheet and answers.
Spellings
Hey there year 5, I hope you are all well and keeping busy.
I have listed 10 spellings for you to practise so you don’t forget them completely!
Get someone to test you on them.
I will put 10 new ones on each Friday.
All the words below have had either a suffix or a prefix added:
according
attached
criticise
determined
equipment
especially
frequently
immediately
unnecessary
sincerely
Stay safe and hope we see each other again soon.
Mrs Calbreath
Writing our homework excuses!!
The Kestrels in year 5, today in English, wrote their emails to Mrs Butterworth to explain why they couldn’t complete their homework!
Unfortunately Joey’s family car broke down on the way back from visiting a family member.
Somehow Mellissa’s pet fish spoilt her homework and she was unable to finish it.
Newspaper report: Spanish Armada
Following one of our previous History lessons where we analysed a newspaper report, today, Kestrels started their own newspaper report about The Spanish Armada.
We wrote notes and started planning the report on a sheet, we thought of a name for our newspaper, what event of The Spanish Armada we wanted to report and a snappy headline for our report.
Opposing conjunctions
This morning, year 5 started mind mapping reasons for not doing their home work, these reasons are going to be written in an email form to Mrs Butterworth!
Kestrels had some brilliantly creative ideas; the homework was completed in secret agent pen and is therefore invisible, the home work was accidentally folded into a paper plane and flew away on a gentle breeze, somehow the pet fish escaped from its bowl landed on the home work and made it wet!
Under our reasons, we made a list of opposing conjunctions we could use when writing the email.
Designing our bridges
This afternoon Kestrels in year 5 started designing their bridges, working together in small groups, we thought carefully about the design brief and the materials we have available.
We were asked to make a bridge that would connect two towns separated by water, our bridge would go over the water and needs to allow boats to go under it and cars to go over it. When designing we need to think about scale… is our bridge going to be one way or a two way bridge?
We need to decide if it if is going to have a drawbridge to allow the boats to go under and if we incorporate this into our design… how is it going to work?
Sophie used the bridge she made at home for inspiration.
Kenny and Joey worked really well together, they came up with different ideas and took the best aspects of each one and amalgamated them together into one fantastic design!
Some final designs in progress…
Once our design was finished, we could start planning how we are going to make it.
Analysing a piece of music
This afternoon year 5 had music, Kestrels listened to theme tune to The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, which first aired in the 80s! We discussed whether we liked the song or not, we also discussed the verses and noticed, there are no choruses!
We clapped our hands and clicked our fingers along with the beat.
We stood up and clapped along with the beat of Will Smith’s rap.
We took it in turns in small groups to clap a rhythm to 4 beats and the rest of the class clapped it back.
We sang/rapped along with Will!
In a future Music lesson we will be given the opportunity to write our own rap!
Fact files about Queen Elizabeth I
Today, Kestrels in year 5 finished their fact files about Queen Elizabeth I in History.
We then learnt about The Spanish Armada and ordered the events that happened.
The picture we inferred from earlier in the week was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to celebrate defeating The Spanish Armada. We then understood why she had her hand on the globe in the painting!
We finished the lesson by reading a newspaper report about Henry VIII marrying Anne Boleyn, this will help us when we start to write our report about The Spanish Armada.
Queen Elizabeth I
In today’s history lesson we focused on Queen Elizabeth I in year 5. Looking at a picture of her, we inferred things about her. For example, from her clothing Chandler said she could be childish as she had a lot of bows on her dress. Niah inferred that she could be interested in fashion and that’s why she’s wearing that style of dress.
Using a fact file we could also read and find out facts about her. We learnt that she, like her father Henry VIII, was a Protestant when she felt threatened by her cousin, who was a Catholic, Elizabeth had her cousin’s head cut off!
