Hello Year 5! I hope you had a GREAT half-term!

You are pros at this remote learning now! As before, our work is organised into the days of the week below.

Please try your best to have a look at the Maths and English lessons at a minimum for each day of the week. Remember: you choose your challenge. If you want to do a few questions or ALL of them, that's fine.

We all work at different levels, speeds and abilities. You just work to the best of yours! 

Afternoon sessions are there on the days we would usually do them in school but you can do them in any order if you want.

Morning messages are there with the instructions for the day. 

Don't forget to scroll to the end of the page to see some extra projects and activities like Action for Happiness Calendar/Times Tables/Mental Maths websites and other extra learning websites too! 

You can send me work or questions you may have to the Year 5 mailbox: year5@st-jo-st.dudley.sch.uk

I promise I am looking at everything that is coming in but I might not reply to each of your lovely individual emails that you send during the week but I will try and respond once a week at a minimum! 

Don't forget to watch Mr Carry's Monday Gospel Assembly back out on the main Remote Learning Page as well

Monday https://youtu.be/4u7YTCQXBus 

Tuesday https://youtu.be/fh-SVhafEuY 

Wednesday - Apologies, no video today. 

Thursday https://youtu.be/Us9S5u4aOyw 

Friday Message from Mrs Hickman

Why not take a moment in the day to share a prayer with your family, friends or by yourself, especially during the season of Lent. Have a look at the document to guide you through. 

You can also write down your Lenten Promise.

Fabulous Feedback from Mrs Hickman!

Watch this video for some whole class verbal feedback.

Maths revision here:

Maths 

Topic - Fractions

Lesson - Compare and order fractions less than 1 PART 2

There are some get ready/fluency questions on the video to get your brains warmed up! 

We started this objective before half term. This is the second part of the lesson. 

Watch the video caefully and answer your questions. I have also chosen the questions for you to complete. 

English

Topic - Talk for Writing unit 

The Ultimate Guide to Elves and Sprites booklet (linked with Harry Potter)

World famous elf and sprite expert Pie Corbett is putting together The Ultimate Guide to Elves and Sprites. Pie is well-known as an elf whisperer and has researched elves of the Americas and sprites living in Iceland.

Your job, should you accept this mission, is to provide Pie with another entry for his book by writing about a type of elf or their smaller cousin the sprite.

I will tell you which pages to work on from the booklet each day this week.

Today: Pages 2 – 7

Read/listen to fictional information about a cave elf.

Activity 1: Match the vocabulary to their definition

Activity 2: draw a cave elf

In the box, draw an adult cave elf with a toddler and label them with information taken from the writing.

Activity 3: Where do cave elves live? Give three reasons for your answer

Activity 4: Design a cave elf’s menu

Music Whole School Project

This week you will be learning about Benjamin Britten.

1. Go through the "Find out about Benjamin Britten" Presentation. 

2. Then, you need to complete the Creative Response Tasks. 

3. After that, there is a Quiz for you to complete too! 

A busy, musical afternoon for you! Have fun! 

Extra optional tasks:

-Write a summary about everything you have learnt in today's music lesson. 

-Create a poster/fact sheet/biography about this week's musician. 

Picture News

Have a look at this week's Picture News resource and what has been going on this week.  

"Do walls protect or divide us?"

Mrs Hickman addressing a question from yesterday and support with common denominators and comparing/ordering. 

Maths 

Topic - Fractions

Lesson - Compare and order fractions greater than 1 (PART 1)

Watch today's tutorial video and answer the questions for part 1.  Taking things slowly today! 

I have also chosen the questions for you to complete. 

English

Topic - Talk for Writing unit 

The Ultimate Guide to Elves and Sprites (linked with Harry Potter)

Cave elves have to make occasional journeys to the market in order to buy provisions or seeds for their gardens. What 6 things might you find in a cave elf’s knapsack? Here is a list of 6 things found in a goblin’s knapsack. You can hear it read aloud here (also in the booklet): https://soundcloud.com/talkforwriting/knapsack/s-PzqyzJwV8Rb

Page: 8 – 13

Activity 5: What’s in a cave elf’s knapsack?  (use the goblin example to help)

Activity 6: Magpie openers & useful words

Activity 7a: Spot the underlying pattern from yesterday’s text and Additional paragraphs

Activity 7b: Sort the structure activity

Activity 8: Let’s look at the toolkit

Before we start thinking about our own ideas for our monster, we need to look closely at the text and see what writing tools/tips/tricks the author has used so we can do the same in ours.  Read the toolkit in preparation for tomorrow.

PSHE

Topic - Be Yourself

Lesson - Do the right thing

This is the last session of this unit. You will have a look at some tricky situations, think of strategies you could use to help make positive choices and how you can apply them to your life. 

PE

Please try and stay as active as you can during lockdown. 

PE Challenge

Why don't you try as many activities as you can from the PE Lockdown Challenge a day sheet?

Youth Sports Trust

Have a look at the fun PE activities from the Youth Sports Trust. They can be done individually or in pairs/small groups with your family members! 

Choose one or two to do today and you can complete more as the days/term goes on. There are even videos to help you along if you can't visualise the game from the activity card.

Joe Wicks

Joe Wicks is back to get our heart rates pumping this lockdown. He will be online every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 

They will be broadcast live on his YouTube channel The Body Coach TV at 9am.

If you miss any session, they will be saved so you can work out to them at any time, especially if you are working on your maths and English in the morning. They are 20 minutes each so please try to do these! 

Wednesday Word 

Please share the Wednesday Word together. It is the Gospel message for this coming Sunday. This week it is the story of the Transfiguration. There are always very good questions, discussion points and activities on there.

This week's Wednesday Word is SACRED.

"The invitation at the Transfiguration is to listen to Jesus and to follow him, laying down our lives as a gift of love for one another." - Pope Francis

Maths 

Topic - Fractions

Lesson - Compare and order fractions great than 1 PART 2

Continuation of yesterday's lesson.

Watch the video.

I have also chosen the questions for you to complete. 

English

Topic - Talk for Writing unit 

The Ultimate Guide to Elves and Sprites (linked with Harry Potter)

Now comes the fun part! Your challenge is to write an information text about a type of elf or sprite. The choices are endless and I am sure that you already have an idea about the type of creature that you might write about.

Pages: 14 - 20

Activity 9: New ideas - list of suggestions and some ideas and pictures that might inspire you

Activity 10: Create a Passport

Activity 11: Draw and label your chosen species of elf or sprite

Activity 12: Read and raid. An entry from the Ultimate Guide About Forest Sprites. Notice what the different paragraphs are about, taking ideas that you might employ in your writing. Also, magpie any useful vocabulary that you can use in your own writing. Have a read below and listen to the text read aloud here: https://soundcloud.com/talkforwriting/ultimateguide/s-kK1juktwplw

Activity 13: Planning - Now you are going to organise your ideas into a boxed-up planner to help structure your writing.

RE

NEW Topic - Lent 

We are going to pause our parables unit and start our Lenten topic this week. In half-term we celebrated Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Watch the video from Busted Halo and read the presentation to see what Lent means and for your task I would like you to design an informative poster.

‘LENT – A time to repent, a time to pray.’

Suggestions:

Repent- examples of strengthening your relationship with others

Prayer- examples of strengthening your relationship with God

Be more like Christ – How?

Maths 

Topic - Fractions

Lesson - Add and subtract fractions

Today, you will be adding and subtracting numbers with the same denominator. They gradually get more challenging so make sure you watch the video! 

English

Topic - Talk for Writing unit 

The Ultimate Guide to Elves and Sprites (linked with Harry Potter)

Pages 21 – 22

Activity 14: Talk your plan through

It is really important to have a good read through your plan to make sure that it makes sense. Why not read it aloud to someone in your house and see if they have any suggestions for how to improve it. Then try saying out loud exactly what you are going to write.

Activity 15: It’s time to write your report about your chosen type of elf or sprite for the ‘Ultimate Guide’.

Activity 16: Map your imaginary land

(OPTIONAL activities from page 23 onwards)

Science

TOPIC: Scientists and Inventors

Lesson - Mission to the Moon - Margaret Hamilton

Today you will learn about Margaret Hamilton. Hamilton worked at NASA, and was responsible for programming the onboard flight software on the Apollo
computers. 

She wrote the code that the computer used to navigate from Earth to the Moon, and made sure that the computer would land the spacecraft safely on the surface
of the Moon.

Find out more in the presentation and have a look at the space travel response task! 

Maths 

Today I would like you to complete Skills Check 5.

Complete all the questions you can and the answers are attached in a separate document. Topics not fully covered yet on this week's sheet - Fractions (we have started- there are some you might be able to answer this week), decimals and angles. Don't worry if you can't answer these questions. :-)

Please have a look on Education City and complete the Times Tables tasks. Some of them you can only play on a laptop/computer but most of them are tablet versions. Make sure you turn your device landscape.

(If you have completed them, play again and try to beat your score - it is good revision!).

Use the other websites that I have mentioned below like TT Rockstars and "Hit the Button" etc. too. 

English - Reading

Today's reading exercise is based on some song lyrics! They are taken from the Villain's Song from the film Tangled called "I've Got a Dream". Listen to the song and read the lyrics. 

Then, work your way through the tasks. Enjoy! 

Other Reading Activities this week

-Ask your child to read a chapter from their home reading book.

-Following this, ask your child to summarise the events from the chapter. They could bullet point what happened, create a comic strip or present the information in their own creative way.

-Encourage your child to note down any unfamiliar words from the chapter they have read. Explore the meanings of these words by using a dictionary, reading around the sentence or using print conventions.

-Challenge your child to read something around the house that isn't a book. They can then keep a record of all these. 

MORE READING INFO! 

Oxford Owl have some eBooks to read. Stage 16 onwards are suited to Upper Key Stage 2. 

If you want to read some online stories or if you have run out of your own to read, click the Magic keys link below (scroll down to "Books for Older Children" or "Books for Young Adults")

Have a look at The Reading Home Links file for more ideas as well. 

Humanities

Topic - Ancient Greeks 

Lesson - gods and goddesses

This is our last lesson on Ancient Greeks! I hope you have enjoyed the topic so far!

Today, you are going to learn about Greek gods and goddesses, research facts about them and create fact files. 

You can use the lesson presentation, information sheets provided below, websites suggested below or you may even have books at home too! 

Art

This week, we're going to take inspiration from New York basedartist and designer Paula Scher. 

She loves art with WORDS! This is She has designed hindreds of logos, posters, signs, leaflets and record sleeves. 

Look at the lesson presentation and have fun!

Action for Happiness Calendar

This month's theme: Friendly February

We need each other more than ever right now! This month let's focus on reaching out to connect with others and doing our best to be a good friend. Our acts of kindness and connection ripple out and impact so many more people than we realise - and they also boost our own happy hormones too! In stressful times people around us may be feeling the strain, so let's try to keep calm, take time to listen and show compassion.

Times Tables/Number facts 

You should know all times tables to 12 x 12 with their division facts.

Please say them to yourself or with someone in your house, write them out, write/say the multiples etc. Please continue your times tables practice on TT Rockstars. There are lots of other websites and activities you can use if you want to such as:

Hit the button https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

Mental Maths Train (if you are not too quick with them yet) https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train 

Coconut Mutiples https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples 

Daily 10 Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks 

Archery Arithmetic https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/399/Archery-Arithmetic-Multiplication 

EXTRA LEARNING

If you are managing to finish all the set work for the week, here are some extra websites for more challenges/lessons/projects if you want to. Feel free to do your own and take responsibility for your own learning. Don't forget you have your Education City Logins and you can free play through the subjects without me setting any. Hope these websites help a little bit! 

If you are looking for more...

English writing and grammar:

https://www.pobble365.com/

https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/browse/free-resources

Maths Challenges/Revision:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10 

https://corbettmaths.com/5-a-day/primary/

https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-5-mini-maths/

Maths games:

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html

All subjects:

BBC Bitesize Learning from home: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/this-terms-topics

Oak National Academy: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-5