Welcome to Year 5

Hi Year 5, what an extraordinarily hot week we had at school! It was lovely to see you there in person and to see those of you who couldn’t come in on our zoom meeting on Friday.  I hope you enjoy this week’s English.  I do a quick overview of the week on https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1TIo5fVc as well as a more in depth look at Thursday’s work so you may want to catch the first five minutes of this before you start on Monday then listen to the rest on Thursday.  In retrospect, it would have made more sense to split the video! I will know next time!

Day 1 – Make predictions from the front-cover then listen to Henry’s Freedom Box and order the events in the story. They read an author’s note and answer questions

Day 2 – Listen to a different reading of Henry’s Freedom Box (don’t skip this bit!) and read an extract yourselves and answer questions. Choose the three most important events from the story, make illustrations and write captions.

Day 3 – Complete a cloze exercise from the start of the story and read about other historical figures and answer comprehension questions. Write a letter in role as Henry.

Day 4 https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1TIo5fVc This ends before I could say goodbye as I ran out of time – so goodbye here instead!  you can also listen to the voiceover on the PowerPoint. Then read the poem, ‘Sea Fever’ and answer questions. Listen to the poem being read (both versions) and practise reading it out loud. Finally write your own version of the first stanza. Your grammar topic is to practise using possessive apostrophes.

Day 5 – Write descriptive sentences and then read a poem: ‘Amulet’. Practise using possessive apostrophes, then use a prompt and frame to write your own poem.

Monday

English

English Y5 Monday

Maths

Y5 Week 12 Day 1

 

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 1

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 1 Powerpoint for Teachers

 

Tuesday

English

English Y5 Tuesday

 

Maths

Y5 Week 12 Day 2

 

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 2

Wednesday

English

English Year 5 Wednesday

Maths

Y5 Week 12 Day 3

 

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 3

 

Thursday

English

English Y5 Thursday

 

Maths

Y5 Week 12 Day 4

Y5 Week 12 Day 4 Powerpoint for Teachers

 

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 4

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 4 Powerpoint for Teachers

Friday

English

English Y5 Friday

Maths

Y5 Week 12 Day 5

 

Easier Maths Week 12 Day 5

 

History

To find out about code breaking in the second world war.

This week you are going to discover how code breaking helped Britain fight the war against Germany. It is believed that because of code breaking in Britain the Second World War ended a lot sooner than it otherwise would have.

Watch the following video – BBC Teach code breaking

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-codebreaking-in-world-war-two/zdq2jhv

Read the PowerPoint about Alan Turing who was a mathematician and code breaker during the war.

Alan Turing

Have a go at answering the questions on the sheets attached using the codes – The letters of the alphabet represent a number. Each code gets more difficult . You can just do one or try all of them.

Code Breaking

Make a cipher wheel (code reader) using your own numbers or symbols to create a code. See attached sheet.

Cipher Wheel

Write a message in code and give your code reader to someone in your family to see if they can solve it.

Science

For the next two weeks your science and geography will be combined as project work. As before you can present your project work as you wish: written, typed, presented in a PowerPoint, newspaper report, model. You can include maps, diagrams, graphs or pictures.

Following on from the work you did about Jane Goodall we would like you to find out about an endangered species of wild animal.

Include the following :

  • Describe what the creature looks like, size, colour etc
  • Where in the world does the animal live? (Include a labelled map)
  • How many animals of this species are there left in the world?
  • What are the reasons they are endangered? e.g. loss of habitat, hunted
  • Are there any conservation projects that are helping to save the species? What do they do?

Using your persuasive writing techniques that you learnt in English do one or more of the following:-

  • Write a letter of speech trying to persuade someone to help save the animal you have researched. Don’t forget to use emotive language in your writing. Example Letter
  • Write a story about the rescue of an endangered animal.
  • Design a poster explaining the threat to the animal and persuading people to try and help save it.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/search-results/?q=endangered%20species

 https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/more-find-out/special-events/endangered-animals/

You can watch “CBBC Steve Backshall Deadly 60 Rhino Rescue” on iPlayer to help.

 

Music/Singing Assemblies

Please see this week's message from our music teacher, Mrs Lawrence:

Hi everyone,

I hope you’ve enjoyed the sunshine this week - it’s been incredibly hot, hasn’t it! For those of you who remember Mr Spider, he’s been sunbathing in my garden and now has a beautiful suntan! 

We have two songs for this week. If you have time to learn one, please choose whichever you prefer. 

Firstly, there is ‘Stand By Me’. You will notice on the lyric video that there are simple chords. Some of you will know that chords are groups of notes which usually make up the accompaniment to a song. They can be played by several different instruments together, like you might hear in a band, or by one instrument, such as a piano or guitar. 

If you already know how to play chords on a musical instrument, perhaps you could play along to the song. If you have access to an iPad with the app GarageBand, perhaps you could have a go at playing along with the chords on a virtual guitar or keyboard. I’ve included an instruction sheet, if you’re not sure how to use GarageBand. It also has the lyric sheet with chords.  

Stand By Me Garageband

If you have a musical instrument, real or virtual, at home, maybe you could make up a chord pattern yourself. Have a listen to the sound of the chords.  What sounds good to you? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agdakp9dis Stand by me – lyrics (and chords)

Secondly, here is one of my favourite songs, the classic ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’. It is from the musical film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was originally sung by Judy Garland. 

If you are singing this, can you hear where Judy breathes in the song? Can you have a go at singing through each line without breathing until the end? If you need to take an extra breath, that’s just fine. See if you can decide where to breathe and stick to those places. Can you imagine each line is like a rainbow and sing through to the end of it? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2j77Qe2Y_Y Somewhere Over The Rainbow – lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTaPkqAoW0 Somewhere Over The Rainbow – instrumental

Have fun with your singing! 

Best wishes,

Mrs Lawrence

 

Here are the previous attached letters about our singing assemblies and ideas: 

Singing assembly songs

Music activities KS1

 

Please click on the links below for previous work:

Week 9, week commencing 8th June

Week 10, week commencing 15th June

Week 11, week commencing 22nd June