Category: Year 5

Good morning Year Five and Happy Thursday!

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a new story from the website Audible for you. This week you will be 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.13-18 today. You will start planning your information text about elves.

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 the Week 11 page, lesson 4 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: RE

In today’s lesson, you will use the knowledge you have acquired to plan an essay on Buddhism. The lesson will take you step by step on how to do this.

Click on the link below to access the lesson:

BUDDHISM

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 Wednesday!

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a new story from the website Audible for you. This week we 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 we are working on 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.13-18 today. Today you will start thinking and gathering ideas about the elf you want to write about !

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 the Week 11 page, lesson 3 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: Spanish Wednesday!!

Today’s lesson is about learning how to say the weather in Spanish. You will learn vocabulary to describe different types of weather. Make sure you continue to revise and practise the Spanish you learn every week, based on the notes that you take.

To access the lesson click below:

WEATHER IN SPANISH

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 Tuesday!

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a new story from the website Audible for you. This week you will be 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 will be completing 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.7-12 today. You will continue to read and complete some activities based on the text.

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 the Week 11 page, lesson 2 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: Science

In today’s Science lesson you will look at what happens in a circuit when we change the components. In the lesson, you will learn about voltmeters and ammeters. A voltmeter is an instrument that helps you to measure electricity power between two sections of a circuit. An ammeter is used to measure the flow of electricity in the entire circuit.

Click below to access the lesson:

WHAT HAPPENS IN A CIRCUIT WHEN WE CHANGE THE COMPONENTS?

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

I have selected a new story from the website Audible for you. This week you will be 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 your Literacy you will be completing 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.2-6 today. You will need to read and complete some activities based on the text.

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 the Week 11 page, lesson 1 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 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!

Please, read the blog post below and complete the different activities. Remember that it’s better to do it everyday at the same time so you don’t get disorganised with your learning.

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a story from the website Audible for you this week. This story is about a boy who begins a new school full of superheroes. It has a good sense of humour. 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:

KID NORMAL

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Biography

This week, the focus of your literacy task is biographies. Biographies are long texts that retell the life of important people. They are often written by journalists or writers that have studied the life of the person they are writing about. For your final lesson, you will plan and write an extract of a biography.. Click on the link below to start your lesson:

PLAN AND WRITE A BIOGRAPHY

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 10 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on identifying and calculating angles. You will also revise how to use a protractor. We have done this previously in class, but it will be useful for you to revise your knowledge of angles. 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 10 page, and your 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: Art

In this new series of art lessons, you will look at artistic techniques. Your first lesson will look at the ‘weight of line’. This is how dark a line can be when you are sketching. You will also be focussing on basic shapes for your work. These shapes work as the basis for most drawings we do.

Click below to access the lesson:

ART LESSON: LINE, SHAPE AND TONE

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five and Happy Thursday!

Please, read the blog post below and complete the different activities. Remember that it’s better to do it everyday at the same time so you don’t get disorganised with your learning.

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a story from the website Audible for you this week. This story is about a boy who begins a new school full of superheroes. It has a good sense of humour. 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:

KID NORMAL

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Biography

This week, the focus of your literacy task is biographies. Biographies are long texts that retell the life of important people. They are often written by journalists or writers that have studied the life of the person they are writing about. Today’s lesson will have a grammar focus. You will look at the use of parenthesis in biographies. Click on the link below to start your lesson:

PARENTHESIS IN BIOGRAPHIES

MATHS

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 10 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on identifying and calculating angles. You will also revise how to use a protractor. We have done this previously in class, but it will be useful for you to revise your knowledge of angles. 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 10 page, Lesson 4 click on the link below:

CALCULATING ANGLES AROUND A POINT

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: RE

Today is our RE day. This will be your final lesson on Buddhism. In this lesson you will begin by learning about reincarnation, which is the Buddhist notion of rebirth. You will learn about karma and the belief that a being’s actions determine whether the rebirth is positive or negative. We will then go on to learn about the Dalai Lama, who is someone some Buddhists believe has reached enlightenment.

Click below to access the lesson:

BUDDHISM: WHO IS THE DALAI LAMA?

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund

Good morning Year Five and Happy Wednesday!

Today it’s the 1st of July! I can’t believe how time has gone by so quickly!

Audio/Reading Book

I have selected a story from the website Audible for you this week. This story is about a boy who begins a new school full of superheroes. It has a good sense of humour. 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:

KID NORMAL

Reading & Literacy – Genre Focus: Biography

This week, the focus of your literacy task is biographies. Biographies are long texts that retell the life of important people. They are often written by journalists or writers that have studied the life of the person they are writing about. Today’s lesson will focus specifically on the features of biographies. Click on the link below to start your lesson:

BIOGRAPHY FEATURES

MATHS

Well done to those who completed the Sumdog competition last week you did really great by answering all those questions!

This week, you will need to access Summer Term – Week 10 on the home learning White Rose page. This week’s focus is on identifying and calculating angles. You will also revise how to use a protractor. We have done this previously in class, but it will be useful for you to revise your knowledge of angles. 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 10 page, lesson 3 click on the link below:

CALCULATING ANGLES ON A STRAIGHT LINE

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: Spanish

Today you will access you sixth Spanish lesson. The focus will specifically be on saying where you live in Spanish ‘Donde vives?’ You will need a pencil and some paper for the lesson. Click on the link below to access it:

WHERE YOU LIVE

Have a good day 🙂

Miss Berglund