Category: Year 5 Blog

We are aware that this will be a very different Easter holiday for many.
We have created a range of ideas and activities that you can get involved in.

Reading – READ, READ, READ! One of the most important life skills and links to so many areas of your learning. Read books at home. Read Fiction Express. Read magazines. We would love to hear about what you have been enjoying reading and some recommendations.

Maths – TT ROCKSTARS!! We know we say it all the time, but play, play and play some more. Challenge your teachers. Challenge your friends. Improve your ‘Rock Status’. Look out for live challenges with the teachers too. (The first one will be Tuesday 14^th April at 10am)

Creative Curriculum –
This work could be completed in your exercise books or on the computer (as a powerpoint or even a video presentation)

This website is a good starting point http://www.mayankids.com/mmkplaces/mapregion.htm

Your challenge is to then create a travel guide for tourists on a visit to Mayan Mexico.  Considerations to make: clear accurate information with the location of attractions, best way to get the attractions, how much seeing the attractions costs, what the must see and must do things are etc…

Disappearance
Why did the Mayans disappear? Use your research skills to try and find reasons why the Mayans disappeared. When you have completed your research write a short discussion text explaining the possible reasons for their disappearance.
Some useful websites include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxwxTgFVUDE&t=25s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTCSTUfRTMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odJDGKPPTU

Review
Write a review about your learning of the Mayans for year 4. What have you learnt? What was the best part of the topic? (e.g. Learning about the sacrifices, learning about the gods, map work, Mayan myths?)

More Activities – (You do not need to complete all of these activities!)
Have a look at the ‘100 Things to do at Home’. Which ones will you try and complete??
Have a look at the ‘Home Learning Grid’. Which ones will you try and complete??

During this holiday, it is also important that you do some of the things that you enjoy and we look forward to hearing all about it when we are back at school.

Yours Sincerely
Mr Scott, Mr Tooby and Miss Bates

New chapters have been released today (Friday 3rd April) on Fiction Express.
The final chapter is now available to read for ‘Takeover’, ‘Ghostwriter’ and ‘The Cape of Bad Hope’. Did you vote for what should happen at the end of chapter 4?
Now read the final chapter and complete the quiz.
You can also interact with the author in the book forum.

Some children have also been reading different books that are on Fiction Express.
Chantelle has read ‘Spycase’, ‘Spychaser’ and ‘Mystery Box’
Jacob M has read ‘Pants on Fire’ and ‘Cool like Zelda’
Luke has read ‘Banana Boy Slides Again’
Lexi C-W has read ‘Stormwolf’
Ana – who has been a star – has read ‘Takeover’, ‘Being Super’, ‘Pants on Fire’, ‘The Golden Amulet’, ‘Gran is a Werewolf’, ‘Banana Boy’ and ‘Zero to Hero’
What did you think about these books?
Write a book review and email it in – we can add it to the blog!

Well done to our readers on Fiction Express. Remember you can read lots of different books on-line and have a got at answering the quizzes too! Our reading stars are:  Ana, Robert, Navtej, Daniel, Chloe T, Chantelle, Luke, Antony and Chloe K

Maths: Click on the links below for some extra Maths questions.
Have a go at answering these in your books.
You can then check the answers by clicking on the ‘Mark Scheme’ tab.
https://hueagok.exampro.net/
https://4ccb7299.exampro.net/

We understand that now the government have taken the step to close schools this will be inconvenient and possibly a bit overwhelming. It certainly wasn’t in our plans.  We have developed a pack for ideas and activities over this time.

Tip 1: You don’t have to recreate school in your house. Desks and tables are not mandatory. In fact, sitting on a couch (even upside down) or in bed can make it more comfortable.

Tip 2: Read every day. Read to your child / children. Listen to them read. Read comics, read picture books, read on-line, read books that you loved when you were a child. And if you need some chill out time, find an audiobook.
(Check out this website for more reading tips https://readforgood.org/reading-inspiration/ )

Tip 3: Play. Play board games and card games. Play charades. Play Pictionary. Have lego competitions – but try and stay away from the consoles!

Tip 4: Write letters and diary entries documenting your days. Keep them! It will be interesting to look back at these and remember the time they were stuck at home!

Tip 5: Enjoy a slow rhythm together at home…no early morning rushing to get to school on time.

Tip 6: Be creative. Do the things you don’t normally have time for. Build a fort. Design a robot. Bake cakes. Paint.

Tip 7: Make a record of what you have done with the day – take photos and email them to school. (Look out for updates on our Twitter feed to see if your photo makes it onto our twitter feed)

Tip 8: Get physical and get active. You may be in the house but that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise.
Useful links:       Youtube – Cosmic Kids Yoga, Joe Wicks kids workouts, Go Noodle, Just dance

                              Twitter – Follow CapnPetesPE

We look forward to when school is open again and the children can share all the activities that they have been doing.

Yours Sincerely

Mr Scott, Mr Tooby and Miss Bates

Activities: We have organised a range of activities. Some of these we have printed and put in your pack and some are on-line. Please use your new exercise book to keep a record of all your learning. You could decorate the outside of your book and create a title page at the start, with a title such as ‘My Home Learning’.

Complete your POWer Projects:  See the Project sheets for more information

Complete your ‘Dennis to the Rescue: Recycling at Home’ Booklet

English
Complete your English Quest (See separate sheet with Maths Quest)
‘The Nowhere Emporium’ home learning: See sheet for more information
Grammar: Relative Clause Activity, Adverbials Activity (see separate sheets)
Use Grammar sheet when you create any of your writing.
Spellings: Practice challenging words from the exception words from key stage two. Can you create a story using as many of these words as possible?
Write book recommendations and reviews for the books you have read over the period. Create some art work related to the book to go on display when we start back at school.
Extra: Design yourself a superhero and create a comic strip of their adventures. What makes the superhero unique? What superpower do they have? What adventure will they get up to? Be as imaginative as you wish.
Maths
Complete your Maths Quest (See separate sheet with English Quest)
Complete PAL activities – Practice some similar questions
Complete Arithmetic activity – which questions did you struggle with. Practice some more examples of these.
Fitness and Wellbeing: See separate sheet for ideas and activities

On-line Activities:

TT Rockstars – What level can you get to in ‘Garage’? Can you get faster in ‘Studio’? Aim to play at least 10 games a day. Send ‘Rock Slams’ to your teacher. Look out for when your teachers are playing a live Battle (Keep an eye on school website and year group area for more details)

Fiction Express – Use your new log ins and start reading. Mr Scott recommends ‘Ghostwriter’ (new chapters published weekly with the option to vote to decide what happens next). Mr Tooby recommends ‘Mystery at Moon Base’ which is a complete book. Miss Bates loves the quizzes based on each book. Which one will you recommend?

Testbase – Maths questions taken from lots of example tests – Look out for the URLs on your group pages for the questions. (The questions will also come with a tab for the mark scheme so you can check your child’s answers too)

Reading / English / Maths – Visit Oxford Owl for a wide range of resources – including over 350 e-books https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome-back/for-home

Maths / English / Science – Visit Collins website for range of ideas and resources – even whole study books that you can download! (You could choose some to complete in your exercise book)
https://collins.co.uk/pages/support-learning-at-home 

Literacy Shed – Visit the ‘Literacy Shed’. Watch different short films to get some inspiration for your free writing. (Below each clip are some ideas for your writing). Mr Scott recommends ‘Powerless’.

Maths / Spelling Shed –  Choose the games you wish to play – Use your new log ins to do this.

History – Check out National Geographic for kids https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/teacher-category/primary-resources/ Search for information about the Mayans or Mexico and create a fact file or presentation. Or choose your own topic that interests you.

Music – Have a look at this website for ideashttps://home-ed.info/heresources/music_resources

Spanish – https://spanishtown.ca/index.html

Other useful websites to check out:
The BBC have announced that they are updating their on-line content. Keep looking for lots of ideas and resources. https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html (Links to our Space topic)
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/ (For Science ideas and videos)
https://sciencebob.com/ (More Science ideas)
https://gridclub.com/ (Lots of on-line games and activities)
Still need more ideas – check out https://www.robinhoodmat.co.uk/learning-projects/#parents for lots of activities and ideas for each week

Resources

Adverbials

English Quest

Fitness & Well-Being

Home Learning Nowhere Emporium

Maths Quest – Mexicans and the Mayans

Nowhere Emporium Plan Ideas

Outdoor and Mindfulness Learning Ideas

POWer Projects

POWer Projects 2

Relative Clauses

Vocabulary Grammar & Punctuation Mat