Hello Year 5 and families! We hope you are all well.

Parents, you may have seen that a list of useful resources has been added to the school website to help you with some activities to help your child with their learning at home.

Below you will find some more activities specific to Year 5 that will help continue some of the things we have been doing in class.

This is a great time to read as much as possible!

You could read a chapter of your book and then discuss using the 5 PS:

· Patterns and Connections (what patterns do you see within this book or between this and other books)

· Point of View (what is your opinion on the book/ the story/ the characters etc)

· Puzzles (is there anything that you find confusing?)

· Picture (what is the bigger picture of this book e.g. the moral of the story?)

· Prediction (what do you think might happen in this story/ to the main character?)

You could also hold your own ‘book talk’ session with people at home.

If you have younger brothers and sisters, you could read to them or listen to them read. You could read to mum, dad or your carers when they are doing other jobs around the house.

Don’t forget – reading doesn’t just have to be stories. You could read recipes whilst doing some cooking at home, you could read an information book/website to research more about a certain topic (this will link in nicely with some of the other topic areas I’ll speak about later) or you could read poems and jokes.

There are some websites that are offering free downloads of books https://www.researchify.co.uk/audiobooks.html and Amazon Audible are allowing you to download audio books for free www.stories.audible.com

We have recently been writing using suspense and mystery in our writing. We've also been writing our own story based on Pie Corbett's 'Fowler's Yard.'

Every weekday morning from 9:30am, Pie Corbett (yes Pie Corbett himself!!) and some of his friends are presenting a radio show all about ideas for writing. You can listen live and share your ideas with everyone else who is listening (they give instructions on the page) or you can listen again later in the day. I will listen and join in on the mornings I’m not in school and we might be able to spot each other’s writing! www.radioblogging.net

The more you read, the more ideas you’ll have to write about. You could do your own writing invention tasks:

e.g. write a newspaper report about an event that occurred in your favourite book

write an information text about an object in your house

write a spine poem about an interesting object/ picture/ photograph

write a story ( you could even draw a map of your setting like we did in class)

create your own theme park and write a persuasive text to try to get people to visit

write a letter to me or to one of your classmates

You could also choose you favourite book, try to pick out the key things you like about that writing and write your own story in the same style.

We’ve added some information about spelling to the school website for your parents to see. It includes the spelling lists that we use in class. You could choose 10 words, learn them one day and ask a family member to test you the next day. Keep working on the ones you feel less confident on.

Continue to practise your times tables facts. You could 'roll' you time tables to your family (both forwards and backwards). Make sure you focus on the ones you find tricky or aren't as confident on.

You can use the White Rose website. https://whiterosemaths.com/ If you click on the pink Home Learning tab at the top of the page and then choose Year 5 you can access lessons, activities and the answers.

The Twinkl website https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ also has a home learning tab. It has a daily 'maths hour' activity where you can practise your maths skills. If you are not able to print of the worksheets you can have the questions on your computer and work out/answer the questions on some paper.

Lots of practise on multiplication and division would be great! Multiplication - use the long method and try to multiply up to a 4-digit number by up to a 2-digit number. Division - use the short method (bus stop) to divide a up to 3-digit number by a 1-digit number. Remember to write the remainder if there is one.

You should be able to access Times Table Rockstars for the duration of the school closure using the password in your reading record. I will be setting you some tasks and targets in the coming days. Remember you can access this through the website https://ttrockstars.com/ or download the app.

Continue working on your Doodle Maths activities. I will be sending you some added extras shortly. Again remember you can get to this through the website https://www.doodlemaths.com/ or through the app.

You can also find lots of problem solving activities on the NRich website https://nrich.maths.org/14536 

So far we have completed one lesson of our science topic 'Materials and their Properties.'

In this topic we would learn to:

· compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

· know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

· use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

· give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic

· demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes

· explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda

STEM science has free resources that families can use at home.

Try these two links: https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/community/collection/12742/year-5-properties-materials  https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/community/collection/14764/year-5-changes-state 

We are coming to the end of our California topic.

You could:

Create a presentation on what you have learnt and present it to you family

Write a newspaper report if a volcano were to happen in California

Write a diary entry as a volcanologist

Create a fact file on everything you have learnt

Do some more research on volcanoes

Remember the tour guide we created on places in Hollywood - you could choose some other places, research them and present it to your family

Joe Wicks if doing a live PE lesson every week day at 9am. You can follow this live each morning on Youtube or re-play it later in the day. This is a great way to get some exercise each day!

Also don’t forget to look at the ‘Useful websites and apps’ page for ideas for

P.E., computing and D.T.

We hope this is useful for you and your families to give ideas of some of the things you could be doing to continue your learning.

We will be in touch with more ideas soon and to see you’re all getting on.

Look after yourselves and your families– we miss you very much!

Miss McArthur and Miss Yildiz