Hello and welcome back to another exciting week of learning.

I can’t believe it is …

Throughout the week, please make sure that you cover a range of activities which can be found here:

• https://www.howard.croydon.sch.uk/classrooms/virtual-sports-week-2020/

• There is a .pdf document explaining the activities and different scores to aim to get etc.

• Please make sure you choose 5 activities out of the 10 activities and track your progress.

  • Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1

  • Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1 (PDF)

For each activity, the children have 60 seconds to complete as many reps of the activity as they can. The aim of the week is to beat your personal best. The .pdf documents that explain the activities have Bronze, Silver and Gold targets for you to get to. There is a corresponding section on the tracking sheet to tick off which level/medal you have achieve the Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Furthermore, the tracking sheet also includes extra daily challenges for you to choose from. I can’t believe it, but on Thursday there is an opportunity to dress up as your favourite character whilst practising.

Have fun.

With regards to our learning, during the next weeks, things here will be slightly different as we are partially going back to school and are therefore more limited with our time. You will notice that there are some contents for the next days already, but please stick to the days like we did in the past. Also, in Maths we are going to switch to using the fabulous lessons from the “National Academy“ (Oak), so you simply watch/follow their lessons and complete the tasks set in those lessons.

In Science, due to the fact that we are not in school together, we have decided to move the topic “Animals and Humans“ into the next school year. This is needed, because the topic is connected with PSHE which we need to teach in person, but cannot do at the moment.

Anything else should be “business as usual“.

As the timetable is quite light, please make sure to complete the “Virtual Sportsweek“ challenges on a daily basis.

Enjoy your learning.

Year 5

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• Please just use the time over the weekend to catch up with any tasks you haven‘t yet done.

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Math:

• Starter: There will not be a starter today.

• Main Task 1: Follow lesson 2 on “Describing position after translation“ (b) and complete the integrated tasks.

  • https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/describe-position-after-translation-87505b

• Main Task 2: Complete the family Maths challenge.

  • Su2-Wk3-Family-Challenge-Friday-19th

English:  Floodland – Session 9;

• Listen to chapter 6.https://youtu.be/eEgBKFxsgTQ
• Which questions would you like to ask to be clear as to what is happening in this chapter . Write them down and send them to me. Use this notebook to help you.
• After you have written your questions listens to these speeches:
  1. Emmeline Pankhurst delivering the speech commonly known as ‘Freedom or death’:https://bbc.in/2KpNbur,
  2. Malala Yousafzai delivering this address on education to the United Nations Youth Assembly on ‘Malala Day’, her 16th birthdayy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqIotJrFVM
  3. Michelle Obama’s last commencement speech – Transcript: https://bit.ly/2rGW0Ju Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB1eGI8Gqcg

Class-Novel Reading:

• We have now reaching part 9 of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 9: Jack Will; Mr Browne‘s October precept; Apples; Halloween; School Pictures).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txsTXIidwMI

• • • Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

• • • • Describe how Jack and August‘s friendship is developing.

      • What would you mix together to squirt at the rude kids? (Can you “up-level“ Jack‘s suggested mix of slug juice and dog pee?)

      • What would you have written in response to Mr Browne‘s October Precept: “Your deeds are your monuments.“?

      • When is August‘s birthday and when exactly was he born?

      • How was August‘s birthday this year different to normal years?

      • What do we learn from Julian‘s reaction to August‘s birthday invitation about him and his family?

      • What is Summer‘s favourite book (especially when she was younger)?

      • What does Summer like best about August?

      • What do you have an aversion or phobia to?

ICT: I can stay safe online.

• Please follow the lesson on BBC Bitesize.

  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpxp7yc
    

Spanish:

• Follow the second lesson in our new Topic “En classe“ using the home-learning log-in from language-angels.

• Please simply …

  • go to http://www.languageangels.com

  • click on “Log-in“ at the top lefthand side

  • click on “Log-in Home School“ → FREE (for language angels schools) → log-in: Howard1986 pw: lahome

  • choose Spanish (top-middle – Spanish flag)

  • complete “En classe“ – Lesson 2.

• There are extra Dojo points for children who submit an audio of their practising via Class Dojo.

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Here is a quick “Music-note“ to start with.

Thank you sooooooooooo much to everyone who has done their music and submitted work to Mr Regan via Seesaw. That really makes us so incredibly proud of you.

As I am writing this, he is putting more things onto Making Music for you to do/play with in your “Music / artistic time“. If you fancy more music, check this out:

• https://youtu.be/EqHGDzHwLQs

• https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music-years-5-6 (session 6)

Maths Starters

                                      Mild/Hot                           Hotter/Hottest

 Maths Main Activity 

Describing position after Translation.Pleaase follow the link and send in your answers

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/describe-position-after-translation

SPAG

ENGLISH Floodlands  Session 8

letter Writing to ZoeThursday literacy

Chapter 1https://youtu.be/tSap8FUQaaA   

Chapter 2https://youtu.be/gSYfG3dPRFs

Chapter3 https://youtu.be/RBOkKgPTImo

Chapter4https://youtu.be/9EA6B2EBaPw

Chapter 5https://youtu.be/iXZ2JiliuPw

Class-Novel Reading:

• Here is your next section of “Wonder“ read by the two Rinkes.

• Please listen to the 8^th part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 8: One to Ten; Padawan; September)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFvwDfrZLiQ

• • • Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

• • • • How do you give your parents feedback when they ask you about how your day was? Have you also got a scale of 1-10 or another system?

      • Name at least 2 things that you think have really surprised August‘s mum about his first day at school. Why do you think those things surprised her so much?

      • Share your opinion on August‘s comment about him and Summer being like “Beauty and the beast“. Describe how you felt when you first heard him say that.

      • Which symbol shows that August is changing and also that things are really affecting August‘s emotions?

      • Describe the relationship between August and his dad.

      • Explain how the relationship between August and mum very different to the one between him and dad.

      • How did August feel about the other children‘s reactions when he bumped into other children?

      • Explain what a Wookiee is.

RE

Journey of life;Special Moments

Use the notebook to explore this subject.

Special moments PDF

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First of all: Let’s read the news! I will do the same this morning.

FIRSTNEWS_730

Maths:

Starters  

Mild/Hot                                       Hotter/Hottest

Maths Main Activity

Describing position and  Coordinates

This is closely related to a subject we studied together in maths. Please follow the link below and  send me your results in Class Dojo.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/describing-positions-and-coordinates

English Session 7 ; Book Talk

• SpaG starter: Please complete the SpaG Starter on a piece of paper or electronically. Remember to ask us when a questions was particularly tricky.

• Listen to chapter 3 up to  ‘she had a stitch’    https://youtu.be/RBOkKgPTImo
• Then answer theses questions
  • Who is William?
  • Does the story of Brother Elmer remind you of any other story?
  • Why might William be important in the story?
  • What did William and Zoe talk about. Write you answers on this word document: Weds English word document
• When you have  written your answers on the word document listen to the rest of chapter 3 and chapters 4 and 5. 
  • Chapter 4https://youtu.be/9EA6B2EBaPw       Chapter 5
  • Chapter 5https://youtu.be/iXZ2JiliuPw
• Now go back to the word document to complete  the questions.

Class-Novel Reading:

• Today, there is only a short session of the class-novel reading/listening.

• Please listen to the 7^th part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 7: …)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5-NHquesI

• • • Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

• • • • Explain what is special about lunch in Middle school?

      • How does August know that people talk about him?

      • Explain what a cleft palate is.

      • Describe Summer‘s character.

      • Explain how Summer is a special character.

Music:

• • I was a bit sad to see that not many people had done some music work on Seesaw.

  • This week, please have a proper push for it and complete at least one more activity and then submit it.

  • Have you completed the activities on Making Music? If the answer is no again, then please complete at least one (That is now a total of 2.):

    • https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music-years-5-6

    • Tell me 3 reasons, why music is important for us? (Send your answer on Class-Dojo.)
      

  • Remember, Mr Regan and his colleagues have spent valuable time preparing all the activities for us!

Geography: After those wonderful coverpages, today, I would like you to look at two key aspects related to rivers.

• Firstly, please explore the Rivers of the UK and the Rivers of the World.

  • • Hot: Label the UK rivers on the map with a colour or number. Then, to the UK and world rivers add the source and mouth in the tables.

    • Hotter: Label the UK rivers on the map with a colour or number. Then, to the UK and world rivers add the source, mouth and one key city (UK) / the countries in the table.

    • Hottest: Label the UK rivers on the map with a colour or number. Then, to the UK and world rivers add the source, mouth and more than one key city (UK) / all countries on its course in the table.

  • Extension: Can you find the length of the rivers?

  • Recording Sheet: Rivers-Mapswork (.doc editable) Rivers-Mapswork (.pdf for print)
    

• Secondly, recap what you know about the driving force of all rivers, the Water-Cycle.

  • Watch this video. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z8qtfg8
    

  • Complete the brief overview in the attached document. Water Cycle (.doc editable) Water Cycle (.pdf for print)
    

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Maths:

• Starter

mild/Hot                                                 Hotter/Hottest

Main ActivityDescribing Translation. please follow this link and carry out the activity. Send me your results. https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/describing-translations

English:

• SPAG Starter:

Main Lesson: Session 6 Floodlands.

• • Today you will be Hot-Seating as Zoe.Please ask a family member to help you. Maybe they  can ask you the questions. Or even film you !
  • Please also share your 5 or more questions and send them in via Dojo with your answers as Zoe.
  • First, listen to the next part of the story: https://youtu.be/gSYfG3dPRFs
  • Next use the notebook to help you create 5 or more opened ended questions to be asked as Zoe.
    • Tuesday hot seating open ended question.notebook PDF

Class-Novel Reading:

• • Please listen to the 6^th part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 6: Around the Room; Lamb to the slaughter; Choose kind),

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNDkUvaG4Q

    Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

1. 1. 1. 1. Tell me 2 things that you think everyone needs to know about you.

         2. What are 5 things you learn about August in these chapters?

         3. Why is August upset about the Darth Sidious reference?

         4. Share your opinion on Julian‘s behaviour/reference?

         5. What was the subject of the next lesson?

         6. Describe the teacher. Name at least 3 things about his appearance and character.

         7. Explain the word “Precept“.

         8. What kind of person are you? Describe and explain.

         9. Share your opinion on Mr Brown‘s first Precept: When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.

         10. What influence did the lesson have on August? Explain, please.

Science: I can describe and explain how igneous rock is formed.

• Over the next weeks, we will be revising and deepening our learning about rocks from the previous years.

• We will do so by following the Science lessons from the OAK National Academy.

• Please click on the link and follow the lesson which also includes activities.

  • https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-5/subjects/foundation  -> Lesson 1 (Igneous Rock)

• Enjoy.

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Maths:

• Starter:

• Today, please follow the first lesson on translation called “An Introduction to translation“.

  • https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/an-introduction-to-translation/
    

English:   Can you visualize a location from the story, draw an annotated  Onepicture to describe the scene from  ‘one’

use this notebook to help you  monday English   listen  here

https://youtu.be/tSap8FUQaaA

• SpaG: Please complete the tasks on a sheet or Dojo and send us your answers. Thank you.

• Main: …
  

Class-Novel Reading:

Please listen to the 5^th part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 5: Home, p. 33; First day jitters, p. 35; Locks, p. 37)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEczD000eU

Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

1. 1. What is the name of August‘s dog?

   2. Explain why August is sad.

   3. Explain what it means when we called Julian “two-faced“.

   4. How did the parents‘ opinion about August going to school changed after the visit?

   5. What type of “block“ does August normally avoid when going to different places?

   6. What is the name of August‘s neighbourhood?

   7. Why is everyone nervous on that day?

   8. What does the type of hug August gave mum tell us about his feelings?

   9. What is the similarity between August‘s and Bradley‘s place in the classroom?

   10. Give the name of 5 different children in August‘s class.

   11. What short, but very clear impression to we get about Miles? Give evidence from the text.

   12. What is the comical element of Mrs Petosa saying that children forget their locker combination about 3.2 times per semester? Explain.

   13. Share your opinion of Henry‘s behaviour.

DT:

• Let‘s get practical … and a bit crazy today. Have fun while following the lesson below.

• Here are the links if they don‘t work from the slide/file: Su2-Wk3-DT 01 contraption
  

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Voc1RynSs

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMfAx7kvF3Y

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#b6f1d6″ border_width=”2″ border_color=”#8b1a1a” ]Welcome to this week’s Year 5 blog, [/dropshadowbox]

Have a look at out timetable, which is slightly different. To give you proper time for RE and as the introduction to rivers doesn‘t take ages, we have swapped RE and Geography. Also, due to time limitations please read “Wonder“ on Wednesday during “Reading for Pleasure time”.

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It is almost time to say, “Happy weekend.“ Enjoy today‘s learning.

Math:

• Starter: Please complete the following arithmetic starter.

• Main Task 1: I can apply my knowledge of statistics in a test situation.

  • Please finish yesterday’s tasks, …

    1. the Statistics Revision.

       • All students should complete the Mathletics Statistics booklet: Statistics_student_GBR
         

         • But if you normally work with an adult in class and find this booklet tricky, try this one instead: statistics_student_GBR
           

       • Please send us a few lines about how you got on with the test when you send us your answers. Your feedback is incredibly important to us.

    2. Complete the test from yesterday’s blog -> Su2-Wk2-Mini-Assessment-Block-3_Year-5-Statistics

• Main Task 2: I can apply my Maths knowledge and skills in an Investigation situation.

  • The originally expected family challenge has been replaced by White-Rose this week with a recap lesson on time.

  • Since you already had a lot of work from yesterday, the following task is optional, but I really recommend it to children who find “time” tricky.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbdwg7h

English:

• Starter: Please complete the SpaG Starter on a piece of paper or electronically. Remember to ask us when a questions was particularly tricky.

• Main Lesson: I can use clues from the text to further explore characterisations and setting descriptions.

  • Follow the attached document. … Su2-Wk2-L04-Floodland-Friday
    

    • Listen to the chapter: https://youtu.be/tSap8FUQaaA (the print is within the slides)

Class-Novel Reading:

Today, please listen to the 4^th part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“(Part 1 – August Part 4: The performance Space; The deal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDGYXSq3S4

Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

1. 1. What is the most common behaviour of other when they notice that August is not watching?

   2. Explain the words “sarcastic“ and “obnoxious“.

   3. How did Julien feel when finding out about August wanting to choose the Science elective?

   4. What do you think about Julien‘s questions and the way he asks? What does this tell us about Julien and their possible future “relationship“?

   5. How does August explain that he was almost smiling at Jack Will?

   6. What do you think about Charlotte‘s behaviour?

ICT:

• In the past in ICT we have noticed that some of you seem to have an understanding where which key on a keyboard is, some of you found this however confusing. Therefore, today, please complete the lesson on “Touch-typing“

  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

  • If that seems to childish, over the next weeks you could also regularly visit this more detailed and expanded touch-typing course (but it is very focussed and less fancy):

    • https://sense-lang.org/typing/ (use a range of activities – maybe try several and see which ones suit you best)

Spanish:

• This week, we will move on to our new Topic called “En classe“, which is much easier with the homelearning log-in from language-angels as I don‘t have to do the screenrecording anymore.

• Please simply …

  • go to https://www.languageangels.com/schools/
    

  • click on “Log-in“ at the top lefthand side

  • click on “Log-in Home School“ → FREE (for language angels schools) → log-in: Howard1981 pw: lahome

  • choose Spanish (top-middle – Spanish flag)

  • complete “Mi clase“ – Lesson 1.

• Some of you (for example Emiliana and Magnus) have in the past recorded themselves practising Spanish and submitted the audio via Class Dojo. That was fabulous. Thank you so much. The others could try and do the same.

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I can‘t believe it is Thursday already! Where has the week gone? I really hope, you are enjoying your learning. Why not send us a message on Dojo to let us know, especially if you are somebody who hasn‘t made much contact via Dojo. This also goes to parents. If you haven‘t made much contact, please let us know. There might be questions you have for us, please feel free to ask. It feels like the way out of lockdown is more difficult and nerve-wrecking then the way into it was.

Have a lovely day.

Best wishes from us all here in Year 5.

Math:

• Starter: Please complete the following arithmetic starter.

• Main Task – I can apply my knowledge of statistics in a test situation.

  • Since we are unfortunately in the distance from each other, there is no strict way of assessing what you have learnt and how well, but I thought that it would be useful for you and us as your teachers, to see how you get on with these tests. This way, you can show and tell us what you found tricky and we know what we need to consider for next year. Please send us a few lines about how you got on with the test when you send us your answers.

    • We as your Year 5 teachers will be compiling a list of things (topics, skills etc.) that we haven’t had the chance to study so that your Year 6 teachers know the gaps and can prepare accordingly for the autumn. Since things with schools are very confusing at the moment, we need to plan very thoroughly so that we all can do well next year and are prepared for all eventualities. So your feedback is incredibly important to us.

  • There are two tasks which you can complete over the course of today and tomorrow.

1. 1. 1. All students should complete the Mathletics Statistics booklet:

         • Sorry there was the wrong link in here before. Statistics_student_GBR

• • • • But if you normally work with an adult in class and find this booklet tricky, try this one instead: statistics_student_GBR
        

1. 1. 2. Complete the Su2-Wk2-Mini-Assessment-Block-3_Year-5-Statistics (This can be done tomorrow before the Family challenge)

         • Su2-Wk2-Mini-Assessment-Block-3_Year-5-Statistics

English:

• Starter: Please complete the SpaG Starter on a piece of paper or electronically. Remember to ask us when a questions was particularly tricky.

• Main Lesson: I can use clues from the text to describe a setting.

  • Before we start, please read chapter 2,
    

    • https://youtu.be/B-QsA94mSw8 (Scan/picture of the pages at the end of the lesson sheet);

  • Follow the attached instructions and complete the tasks on paper or electronically.

    • Su2-Wk2-L04-Floodland

Class-Novel Reading:

• Today, please listen to the next part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“

  • August Part 3 (Jack Will, Julian, and Charlotte; The Grand Tour)

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjeIOAQjrCA

  • Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

    • What impressed August about Mr Tushman‘s office?

    • Who is the famous Mr T?

    • How do we know that Mr Tushman feels a little funny about his name?

    • What is the painful difference between little and big kids?

    • How do we know that the Jack, Julian and Charlotte were not very comfortable?

    • Share your first impressions of Jack, Julian and Charlotte with me.

    • Which room was August‘s favourite room? Explain why.

    • What is an eraser and what does the use of this word tell us about the author of the book?

RE:

• This week, we will continue to work on our “Challenge“ Topic/Project called “Journey of Life – Exploring change“.

• Thank you for your life-journeys you had shared with us.

• For today‘s lesson, please follow the attached document as a lesson guide otherwise this blog would be too overcrowded.

  • Sorry, that took a little longer, but should be quite interesting. L02-ChangeCircumstancesRolemodels

• Enjoy.

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Sorry for the slight delay. Have a good day.

Math:

• Starter: Since the main part is a little longer, there will be no Arithmetic starter today.

• Main Task – I can read and interpret timetables.

  • Follow the attached instruction. Su2-Wk2-L03-TimeTables-Instructions
    

  • Then complete the attached tasks in the style that we would do it in class. Su2-Wk2-L03-TimeTables (pdf)    Su2-Wk2-L03-TimeTables (doc)
    

    • All students: Fluency,

    • Most students (expected): Fluency and Reasoning

    • Some students (greater depth): Fluency, Reasoning and Diving deeper,

English:

• Today, there will be a break from your SpaG Starter (ignore the reference in the first slide).

• Main Lesson: I can use clues from the text to describe a character.

  • Follow the attached instructions and complete the tasks on paper or electronically. Su2-Wk2-L03-Main
    

    • Listen to chapter 1 again: https://youtu.be/45ExqpnIZyo

    • Or read it:

• • Optional: Even though this will be tomorrow‘s focus, you might already find time to listen to chapter 2: https://youtu.be/B-QsA94mSw8

Class-Novel Reading:

• Today, please listen to the next part of Elizabeth Rinkes‘ reading of “Wonder“

  • August Part 2 (Driving; Paging Mr Tushman; Nice Mrs Garcia)

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKp4c31PMww

  • Answer these questions (You can copy-paste these questions into Dojo or a Word-Document and then answer & send it.):

    • What were the parents arguing about? Who had which opinion?

    • What is the famous simile used in the chapter Driving?

    • How did August feel?

    • Explain what a “White lie“ is.

    • Why did the discussion end up in loud laughter?

    • Explain what August‘s statement, “Mr Tushman is the principal of my new school“ says about the outcome of the argument and the future.

    • Explain how you think August felt during his tour of the school.

    • What surprised August about his mum at the end of the chapter?

Music:

• • First, join Mr Shepherd (Brass and Piano) for Making Music Week 5 – Dynamics:

    • https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music-years-5-6 or via Youtube https://youtu.be/gz2qrQVAgEs

    • I wonder, “What is a crescendo and a descrescendo?“.

    • Can you tell me a fact that you found out about one of Mr Shepherd‘s music heroes from Iceland (Not the shop!!!) called Bjork?

    • What is the capital city of Iceland?

    • Who is the famous British classical composer of the orchestral suite “Mars“?

    • Where is the Youth Orchestra from that played the last track a “Mambo“?

    • What is a “Mambo“?

  • Next, complete the activities that Mr Regan left for you on Seesaw.

    • There are 4 activities set for you, please complete at least 1, ideally 2 and record yourself. Please send it to Mr Regan as he has put so much effort into all that and has deserved more than just one response. Well done Emiliana for working with enthusiasm on Seesaw.

1. 1. 1. 1. (in reverse order) Song-Writing 1

         2. Play the piano at home

         3. Song-Writing 2

         4. Song-Writing 3

Enjoy!

Geography:

• Our new topic is “Rivers“ since it is in a way linked to Floodland, but mainly that part of Geography that we have not yet looked at this year.

• Since this is only an introduction and the Music catch-up is in the centre the afternoon, please thoroughly complete the following tasks:

1. 1. Please design an appealing, creative cover page for the topic. This will be stuck into our Geography books when we are back.

• • • Think outside of the box.

    • Include Art.

    • Include key-words (see attached wordbank from Twinkl: ni2-g-4-river-glossary-activity-_ver_3
      

1. 2. Create an acrostic with your first or middle name as well as the word “river“ using names of rivers from all over the world. Present both on another page in an appealing, artistic way.

e.g. (Please don‘t copy!)

1. 3. Create a table/overview of …

What I know about rivers.	What I think I know about rivers.	What I wonder (would like to find out) about rivers.
e.g. the longest river in the UK is the Severn, …	e.g. the gradient (how steep an area is) has an influence on how fast a river flows, …	e.g. Why are some rivers crystal clear and others very murky? …

Optional: Research and find 10 facts about the key process behind the existence of rivers, the Water-Cycle. This will be the centre of our next lesson.

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NEWS: Before we start, here are this week‘s First News.

First news – Week Beginning 8th June

Math:

• Starter: Please complete the following arithmetic starter.

• Main Task – I can read and interpret two-way tables.

  • Follow the attached instruction. Su2-Wk2-L02-TwoWayTables-Instructions
    

  • Then complete the attached tasks in the style that we would do it in class.

    • • • Su2-Wk2-L02-TwoWayTables-Tasks(.doc)    Su2-Wk2-L02-TwoWayTables-Tasks (.pdf)
          

    • All: Fluency,

    • Most: Fluency and Reasoning

    • Some: Fluency, Reasoning and Diving deeper,

English:

• Starter: Please complete the SpaG Starter on a piece of paper or electronically. Remember to ask us when a questions was particularly tricky.

• Main Lesson: I can respond to an image and make predictions about a text.

  • Follow the attached instructions and complete the tasks on paper or electronically. Su2-Wk2-L02-Main Lesson
    

  • Here is the direct link to the reading at the end: https://youtu.be/45ExqpnIZyo
    

Class-Novel Reading:

• If you haven‘t done so yesterday, please reading Wonder.

  • Listen to Elizabeth Rinkes reading of “Wonder – August Part 1“ (Ordinary, Why I didn‘t go to school, How I came life & Christopher‘s house)

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILafWHTXvFQ

  • After listening to it, read it with expression yourself. (You may even want to record yourself and send your recording in via Dojo or email → howardyear5@gmail.com .)

    • https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/wonder-by-r-j-palacio-extract/

    • We will do similar exercises in the future using “Wonder“.

Science

• In theory, we have come to the end of the topic. Before we conclude, I would like you to consolidate a few general aspects. Please complete the following tasks:

1. 1. Watch this video about the Physics behind the Change of State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYU7RSoOZ0U

   2. Watch the awesome annimation under https://www.footprints-science.co.uk/index.php?type=States%20of%20matter and complete the quiz.

   3. Complete the little overview of properties and uses of materials. 35874-Y5UsefulMaterialsAndTheirProperties
      

   4. Complete the short assessment on “Materials and Change“. 35869-Y5AssessmentMaterialProperties
      

• To look beyond the previous learning focussed at Science, I would like you to combine your Science learning with DT and Geography (but also to some degree with PSHE).

  • Complete the activities around Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy from the BBC Bitesize Daily lessons:

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4d48xs

    • All: Complete activity 1.

    • Most: Complete activity 1-2.

    • Some: Complete activity 1-3.

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We hope you had an excellent weekend. The plants finally got some rain.

Before we start, “Happy World Oceans Day“ – Please find optional activities on Class-Dojo.

Another exciting week lays ahead of us. The biggest thrill lays in three different things:

• first of all, we will finally start with “Floodland“ which will be the focus in our English lessons

• secondly, in our Class-Novel time, we have chosen to read/listen to “Wonder“ by R. J. Palacio (one of the best books that intrigue adults as well as children and even seasoned bookworms and therefore a great book/investment to purchase),

• and thirdly, in Geography we will be moving into River Studies and then towards the end of the term, we will – linked to Floodland – study Global Warming,

When it comes to reading, please make sure that you do not read ahead with “Floodland“ as it would spoil parts of the English lessons. Thank you.

Math:

• Starter: Please complete the following arithmetic starter.

• Main Task – I can read and interpret tables.

  • Follow the attached instruction. Su2-Wk2-L01-Tables
    

  • Then complete the attached tasks in the style that we would do it in class. Su2-Wk2-L01-Tables-Tasks (.pdf) Su2-Wk2-L01-Tables-tasks (.doc)
    

    • All: Fluency,

    • Most: Fluency and Reasoning

    • Some: Fluency, Reasoning and Diving deeper,

• English:

  • Starter: Please complete the SpaG Starter on a piece of paper or electronically. Remember to ask us when a questions was particularly tricky.

• • Main Lesson: It feels a little lazy for us here, but please complete the following lesson from BBC Bitesize and please let us know your impression of the book as we are forever looking for suitable new book-corner books.

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkmkd6f
      

• Reading for Pleasure:

  • Share with me on Class-Dojo which book you are reading at the moment, the name of the main character and what you particularly like about the book at the moment.

• Class-Novel Reading:
  • Please use the time to complete the bookreview on Street Child (see resources and prompts from Friday).

• • As an option, you could then start reading Wonder.

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILafWHTXvFQ

    • Youtube (Elizabeth Rinkes) – Wonder: August Part 1 → Ordinary, Why I didn‘t go to school, How I came life

  • You can read along here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2017/wonder-by-r-j-palacio-extract/
    

• DT:

  • Since we did Art last half-term, this part of the term we should be spending on DT, but might on occasions look at Art in order to cover the things he have not yet quite covered (like the past resist Art using a Greek Pattern which we never got to do, but I will show you on a video and using household items so that you still get to do it – or that could be an activity we could do if ever we get back to school).

• • To build up our technical knowledge (my dream/aim is to design and build a contraption towards the end of the term), please go through this fantastic BBC Bitesize Daily lesson on “Mechanical Systems“.

    • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zktckmn

      As the outcome please …

      • create a learning poster with key facts and sketches on Cam Mechanisms,

      • complete the Activities 1 and 2 (I am excited to see your designs).