Kestrels - Year 4/5

 

Welcome to Year 5

 

Your class teachers this Summer term are, Mrs John (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Chapman (Thursday and Friday).

Your Teaching Assistants are Mrs Smith and Mrs Piggott.

 

We will work hard, we will find things difficult at times; we will learn a surprising amount and have fun along the way.

 

Things to Remember:

Reading books and records need to be in class EVERYDAY.

Please have your PE kit in school EVERYDAY.

Homework is set on Fridays and is to be handed in by the following Friday. You will be notified if there are any changes to this.

 

 

 

Hello Kestrels. I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and looking after each other within your families. Keep applying the sun screen and please look at your home-school packs to keep your brains ticking over! Mrs. John.

work for week beginning 22nd June.

below is a slow write. Follow the instructions to complete a paragraph.

below is math for the week, interpreting and solving time problems from a railway timetable.

science. Recap the topic Earth, Sun and Moon from the Spring term.

work for week beginning 15th June

reading comprehension

maths week beginning 15th June

science week beginning 15th June

researching life cycles here are some examples and suggestions for you to find out about.

Work for week beginning Monday 8th June

 

Please try some of these tasks and keep working through your home learning packs when you can.

Maths.  This week use the Top Marks website to play some maths games to help you practice the skills that you need to improve.  Usually in each game there are different levels to challenge yourself.  On page 1, try Hit the button, subtraction grids, mental maths train, rounding rocket and the toy shop money game.  Move on to page 2, try the daily 10 - pick a level and an area of maths and see how many questions you can answer - measuring in cm, Blast off - a place value activity and place value basketball.

Science week beginning 8th June

Work for week beginning Monday 1st June.

 

 

Below is your writing task for the week.

 

Maths for week commencing 1st June

Science for week commencing 1st June.

Hello Kestrels I hope you are all staying home keeping safe with your families. I understand it is hard for some of you to independently work while at home, but I strongly encourage you to try. Remember to keep practising your times tables and to read as often as you can. Also use the links below to explore fun ways to learn. Keep being kind to each other and hopefully we shall all be back at school soon. Missing you all, from Mrs. John.

work for week commencing Monday 18th May.

writing. Grammar activity below 'Commas to clarify meaning'.

Work for week commencing 11/5/2020

writing this term. we will be reading and writing a recount about the true adventure of the explorer Alexander Von Humboldt. below is the text we shall be reading. Which other famous English explorer does the text remind you of?

week beginning 27.04.20

writing.

this week it is your turn to write a recount about some of your experiences during 'Lock down'. Below is a writing frame to help you plan.  Remember a recount is in sequential order. You could write about what activities you have been doing at home.

Week beginning 27.04.20

Maths

Describing position.

I can translate shapes horizontally and vertically, describing how it has been carried out.

 

 
 

week beginning 27.04.20

Science

New topic, all about plant classification. I have attached power points and information sheets for you to read through as your introductory lesson.

week beginning 20.04.20

writing task.

read the text from last week. using the power point from last week identify features of the recount. you could print out the text and underline or just write a list.

 

'Box Up' the recount ( you will need to divide a piece of paper into nine squares, (ask an adult to help) and retell the story of Alexander Von Humboldt with pictures and phrases.

 

Write your own version of the recount.

maths shall begin with learning about time. below are some activities to keep you busy.

 

 

 

week beginning 20.04.20

maths

 

multiplication and division problem solving.

balance and missing number problems

scaling problems involving rates

to complete our work last term in science please look at the following all about forces.

science week beginning 20.04.20 please remember this is year 5 children only.

see the below work on air/ water resistance.

 

 

For this second week of Geography, watch the powerpoint first and then follow the document to do the activities.

 

 

Computing at home:

Software needed: This is free. https://wordpress.org/download/

This Summer term children are web page developers; they will create a web page using WordPress using the research they have collected about ……… (Favourite video game, favourite band, favourite sport/sports team, book recommendations, food recommendations, things to do during lockdown)

Activity 1: I can use search engines effectively.

Children need to come up with 3-5 ideas they would like to research about their topic. These will be sub-headings in the web page. You will need lots of information about these ideas – you can record this information using your device or by writing it down.

Activity 2: I can refine my ideas and plan my web page.

Children need to play around on the WordPress software and choose their web page layout and plan what information they are going to upload on to the webpage. You can draw out your plan and decide what information is going to go where

Activity 3: I can collect images/videos from the internet and place use on my webpage.

Children need to use search engines to retrieve images or videos (Use the URL link/web address link for this by copying and pasting it). Place these in the shown places on your WordPress webpage.

Activity 4: I can use a variety of software to complete my webpage.

Children need to add their information to their webpage and finalise their page to then show others what they have created. Is it clear what your website is about?

Autumn Term 2019