Category: Year 5

Good morning Year Five – this is the last day of term…

I would like to share with you some photos of Hosaenna’s planting in her garden. She followed the videos I posted during the lockdown and grew some beautiful vegetables in her garden.

Click on the document below to see her photos:

HOSAENNA-GARDENING-WORK.PDF

This is the final work that will be posted on the blog, so make sure you complete it!

Reading & Literacy

Today you will continue to work on short story comprehension. If you haven’t had a look at the literacy shed website yet, click on the link below:

THE LITERACY SHED SHORT STORIES

Today you will write a short story based on a Greek myth. Click on the link below to access the lesson:

SHORT STORY COMPOSITION

MATHS: Reasoning

This is the last week where you will be doing Maths online. For this week’s work, you won’t be accessing the usual White Rose website.

Today, I would like you to complete the following two lessons:

LESSON 3: TO MULTIPLY DECIMALS BY WHOLE NUMBERS

LESSON 4: TO MULTIPLY DECIMALS USING A FORMAL METHOD

Don’t forget that you can access sumdog for extra maths activities:

SUMDOG

Topic: Friday Art

Today in your final art lesson you will continue to experiment with sketching techniques drawing from still life.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

DRAWING FROM STILL LIFE – PART 2

Remember that Ms Durrant and Mr Postles have posted PE and Music lessons on their blog pages.

Make sure you continue to access these until the end of the week.

Have a good day,

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five – Happy Thursday !

This is our final week together before you return to school in September! Well done, you have made it until the end of the term.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning online 🙂

Reading & Literacy

Today you will continue to work on short story comprehension. If you haven’t had a look at the literacy shed website yet, click on the link below:

THE LITERACY SHED SHORT STORIES

Today you will review useful grammar to write your short story. Click on the link below to access the lesson!

GRAMMAR FOR SHORT STORIES

MATHS: Reasoning

This is the last week where you will be doing Maths online. For this week’s work, you won’t be accessing the usual White Rose website.

Today, I would like you to complete the following two lessons:

LESSON 1: SOLVING PROBLEMS INVOLVING DECIMALS

LESSON 2: MULTIPLYING WITH DECIMALS

Remember that you can also access Sumdog to do extra maths. You can continue to access Mathletics and Sumdog over the summer:

SUMDOG

Topic: Environmental Science and Geography

In this lesson you will learning about a Brazilian city named Curitiba. We will be learning abotu how it has become a ‘green’ city that includes innovative design and holds sustainability at its heart.

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT CURITIBA?

Remember that Ms Durrant and Mr Postles have posted PE and Music lessons on their blog pages.

Make sure you continue to access these until the end of the week.

Have a good day,

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five – Happy Wednesday !

This is our final week together before you return to school in September! Well done, you have made it until the end of the term.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning online 🙂

Reading & Literacy

Today you will continue to work on short story comprehension. If you haven’t had a look at the literacy shed website yet, click on the link below:

THE LITERACY SHED SHORT STORIES

Today you will study the features of short stories. This will review some of the work you have done last week, but it is essential in order to be able to write your short story at the end of the week.

KEY FEATURES OF SHORT STORIES

MATHS: Volume, Capacity, Mass

This is the last week where you will be doing Maths online. For this week’s work, you won’t be accessing the usual white rose website.

Instead, I have uploaded a booklet for you to complete below.

This booklet reviews one last mathematical area that you have not reviewed with white rose: Volume, Capacity and Mass. For today complete pp. 10-15.

VOLUME-CAPACITY-MASS-BOOKLET.PDF

Remember that you can also access Sumdog to do extra maths. You can continue to access Mathletics and Sumdog over the summer:

SUMDOG

Topic: Languages- Spanish

Today you will access your last Spanish Lesson! Last week you have learnt how to describe the places where you live. Today you will learn how to express your opinion about where you live.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

EXPRESSING YOUR OPINION ABOUT WHERE YOU LIVE

Remember that Ms Durrant and Mr Postles have posted PE and Music lessons on their blog pages.

Make sure you continue to access these until the end of the week.

Have a good day,

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five – Happy Tuesday !

This is our final week together before you return to school in September! Well done, you have made it until the end of the term.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning online 🙂

Reading & Literacy

Today you will continue to work on short story comprehension. If you haven’t had a look at the literacy shed website yet, click on the link below:

THE LITERACY SHED SHORT STORIES

For your task today, you will continue to read and answer a variety of questions for short stories:

SHORT STORY COMPREHENSION PART 2

MATHS: Volume, Capacity, Mass

This is the last week where you will be doing Maths online. For this week’s work, you won’t be accessing the usual white rose website.

Instead, I have uploaded a booklet for you to complete below.

This booklet reviews one last mathematical area that you have not reviewed with white rose: Volume, Capacity and Mass. For today complete pp. 6-10.

VOLUME-CAPACITY-MASS-BOOKLET.PDF

Remember that you can also access Sumdog to do extra maths. You can continue to access Mathletics and Sumdog over the summer:

SUMDOG

Topic: PSHE – Creating hope for the future

Today you will complete a PSHE lesson linking to the Black Lives Matter movement. The lesson is about creating hope for the future, a future that is not based on the colour of someone’s skin but the content of their character.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

PSHE: BLACK LIVES MATTER

Remember that Ms Durrant and Mr Postles have posted PE and Music lessons on their blog pages.

Make sure you continue to access these until the end of the week.

Have a good day,

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five,

This is our final week together before you return to school in September! Well done, you have made it until the end of the term.

I hope that you have enjoyed learning online 🙂

Reading & Literacy

As it is our last week of literacy and you have already worked through a variety of literary genres, I thought that finishing with short stories will be interesting.

A short story is a piece of short fiction.

First have a look at the short stories on the Literacy Shed website. These are short stories filmed.

THE LITERACY SHED SHORT STORIES

Then, access the link below to complete the comprehension work on short stories.

SHORT STORY COMPREHENSION

MATHS: Volume, Capacity, Mass

Today is the last week where you will be doing Maths online. For this week’s work, you won’t be accessing the usual white rose website.

Instead, I have uploaded a booklet for you to complete below.

This booklet reviews one last mathematical area that you have not reviewed with white rose: Volume, Capacity and Mass. For today complete pp.1-6.

VOLUME-CAPACITY-MASS-BOOKLET.PDF

Remember that you can also access Sumdog to do extra maths. You can continue to access Mathletics and Sumdog over the summer:

SUMDOG

Topic: Environmental Science.

This week instead of doing our usual PE. We will continue some of the Science lessons you have begun last week.

This will be your second lesson on how we produce energy. To access the lesson click on the link below:

HOW DO WE PRODUCE ENERGY? PART 2

Remember that Ms Durrant and Mr Postles have posted PE and Music lessons on their blog pages.

Make sure you continue to access these until the end of the week.

Have a good day,

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five!

Happy Friday!

Audio/Reading Book

This week, we are using the Chinese Stories page on the story nory website. You can choose a story to listen to or read everyday.

These stories are myths and legends.

Click on the link below to access the story:

CHINESE STORIES

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Newspaper articles

This week we are pretending to be a journalist writing a newspaper article. In today’s lesson, you will plan and write a newspaper report based on what you have studied this week. Make sure you include all the features you have learnt about and that you include some direct and indirect speech!

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

TO WRITE A NEWSPAPER REPORT

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 12 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on units of measurements. In the two first lessons, you will look at different units of measurements in whic context you use them. Then the next lessons will look at conversions of units. To access the activities that go with each day’s lesson, you will need to click on the BBC bitesize link on the right side and then click on Year 5/P6 to access the activity of the day.

To access the FRIDAY CHALLENGE click on the link below:

FRIDAY CHALLENGE

When you have completed your daily lesson and activity, continue to challenge your mathematical reasoning by accessing Mathletics and the new tasks I have set for you:

MATHLETICS LOGIN

Topic: FRIDAY ART

In today’s art lesson, you will be drawing still art. Still art is representing things that cannot move; things that are inanimate!

Click on the link below to access you lesson:

STILL ART

PE – MUSIC

Have you looked at our PE and Music Blogs recently?

Every week Miss Durrant sets PE and sports activities for everyone to try at home.

Mr Postles posts videos in which he talks about learning how to sing and play music, famous composers etc.

You can access these two blogs by clicking on PUPILS section and then on PE or MUSIC.

Have a good weekend 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five!

Happy Thursday!

Audio/Reading Book

This week, I would like you to access the Chinese Stories page on the story nory website. You can choose a story to listen to or read everyday.

These stories are myths and legends.

Click on the link below to access the story:

CHINESE STORIES

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Newspaper articles

I hope you have enjoyed writing about elves and sprites. This week you’re going to pretend to be a journalist writing a newspaper article. In today’s lesson, you will practise reporting information using direct and indirect speech; this will help you to write your article on Friday. Later during the week, you will review how to use direct and indirect speech and the use of speech marks.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

USING DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 12 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on units of measurements. In the two first lessons, you will look at different units of measurements in whic context you use them. Then the next lessons will look at conversions of units. To access the activities that go with each day’s lesson, you will need to click on the BBC bitesize link on the right side and then click on Year 5/P6 to access the activity of the day.

To access the Week 12 page, lesson 4 click on the link below:

WEEK 12: METRICS AND IMPERIAL UNITS

When you have completed your daily lesson and activity, continue to challenge your mathematical reasoning by accessing Mathletics and the new tasks I have set for you:

MATHLETICS LOGIN

Topic: Environmental Science and the Industrial Revolution

Today I would like you to access another lesson on environmental science. This lesson will explore how energy is produced – it is really interesting. You will be learning about how power was historically generated and the rise in the use of electricity throughout the industrial revolution, which is a topic you should have learnt about during the Summer term. This led to huge advancements in humas’ capacity to power our world. We will learn about non-renewable and renewable energy and consider the pros and cons of fossil fuels.

HOW DO WE PRODUCE ENERGY?

PE – MUSIC

Have you looked at our PE and Music Blogs recently?

Every week Miss Durrant sets PE and sports activities for everyone to try at home.

Mr Postles posts videos in which he talks about learning how to sing and play music, famous composers etc.

You can access these two blogs by clicking on PUPILS section and then on PE or MUSIC.

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five!

Happy Tuesday !

Audio/Reading Book

This week, I would like you to access the Chinese Stories page on the story nory website. You can choose a story to listen to or read everyday.

These stories are myths and legends.

Click on the link below to access the story:

CHINESE STORIES

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Newspaper articles

I hope you have enjoyed writing about elves and sprites. This week you’re going to pretend to be a journalist writing a newspaper article. In today’s lesson, you will continue to read a newspaper article and analyse the features of articles. Later during the week, you will review how to use direct and indirect speech and the use of speech marks.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE – PART 2

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 12 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on units of measurements. In the two first lessons, you will look at different units of measurements in whic context you use them. Then the next lessons will look at conversions of units. To access the activities that go with each day’s lesson, you will need to click on the BBC bitesize link on the right side and then click on Year 5/P6 to access the activity of the day.

To access the Week 12 page, lesson 2 click on the link below:

WEEK 12: METRICS AND IMPERIAL UNITS

When you have completed your daily lesson and activity, continue to challenge your mathematical reasoning by accessing Mathletics and the new tasks I have set for you:

MATHLETICS LOGIN

Topic: Environmental Science

This week in Science you will start a new topic on the environment and sustainability. This first lesson explores what is sustainability and sustainable development? You will also look at how it impacts the decisions we make every day. Click on the link below to access the lesson.

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?

PE – MUSIC

Have you looked at our PE and Music Blogs recently?

Every week Miss Durrant sets PE and sports activities for everyone to try at home.

Mr Postles posts videos in which he talks about learning how to sing and play music, famous composers etc.

You can access these two blogs by clicking on PUPILS section and then on PE or MUSIC.

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five!

I hope that you have enjoyed the weekend and that you have taken some time to go out.

Audio/Reading Book

This week, I would like you to access the Chinese Stories page on the story nory website. You can choose a story to listen to or read everyday.

These stories are myths and legends.

Click on the link below to access the story:

CHINESE STORIES

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Newspaper articles

I hope you have enjoyed writing about elves and sprites. This week you’re going to pretend to be a journalist writing a newspaper article. In today’s lesson, you will read a newspaper article and analyse the features of articles. Later during the week, you will review how to use direct and indirect speech and the use of speech marks.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 12 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on units of measurements. In the two first lessons, you will look at different units of measurements in whic context you use them. Then the next lessons will look at conversions of units. To access the activities that go with each day’s lesson, you will need to click on the BBC bitesize link on the right side and then click on Year 5/P6 to access the activity of the day.

To access the Week 12 page, lesson 1 click on the link below:

WEEK 12: METRICS AND IMPERIAL UNITS

When you have completed your daily lesson and activity, continue to challenge your mathematical reasoning by accessing Mathletics and the new tasks I have set for you:

MATHLETICS LOGIN

Topic: P.E.

Today is our PE day on our blog, and I am making some slight changes. As usual, please access one workout to complete in your home by clicking on the link below:

P.E. WORKOUT

Once you have completed the workout, click on the PE shed link below and choose a game that you would like to try at home:

THE P.E. SHED

PE – MUSIC

Have you looked at our PE and Music Blogs recently?

Every week Miss Durrant sets PE and sports activities for everyone to try at home.

Mr Postles posts videos in which he talks about learning how to sing and play music, famous composers etc.

You can access these two blogs by clicking on PUPILS section and then on PE or MUSIC.

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five and Happy Friday!

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a new story from the website Audible for you. This week you are listening to a classic, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. You are probably already familiar with the story. To listen to the story, you will need to click on the play button at the bottom of the page on Audible. You can also choose a chapter on the right of the play button.

Click on the link below to access the story:

RUDYARD KIPLING’S THE JUNGLE BOOK

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Non-Fiction

This week in Literacy you are working through a new booklet released by Pie Corbett called: The Ultimate guide to Elves and Sprites. The purpose of the activities is to help you revise how to write a report or information text. At the end of the week, you will be writing an information text about Elves and Sptites. Please complete pp.19-27 today. I would really like for you to share your final piece of writing with me over the phone next week.

Click on the link below to access the booklet:

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ELVES AND SPRITES

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 11 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on reflections and translations. In the two first lessons, you will look at regular and irregular polygons, as well as 3D shapes to revise what you know about their properties. Then you will move on reflections and translations, which is about identifying reflected shapes or objects between a mirror line and recreating a reflection of a shape on a quadrant. To access the activities that go with each day’s lesson, you will need to click on the BBC bitesize link on the right side and then click on Year 5/P6 to access the activity of the day.

To access your FRIDAY CHALLENGE on Reflection and Translations, click on the link below:

WEEK 11: REFLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

When you have completed your daily lesson and activity, continue to challenge your mathematical reasoning by accessing Mathletics and the new tasks have set for you:

MATHLETICS LOGIN

Topic: Friday Art

In today’s art lesson, you will reuse the sketching techniques you have developed last week to create an abstract art work. The word ‘abstract’ means that what is represented does not have to be something real.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

CREATING AN ABSTRACT ART WORK

PE – MUSIC

Have you looked at our PE and Music Blogs recently?

Every week Miss Durrant sets PE and sports activities for everyone to try at home.

Mr Postles posts videos in which he talks about learning how to sing and play music, famous composers etc.

You can access these two blogs by clicking on PUPILS section and then on PE or MUSIC.

Have a good weekend,

Miss Berglund