Class 5

Welcome to the Class 5 School Closure page

For this final week, we have a change to our normal home learning. You will not find the usual booklets on the class webpage.

Instead we have put together a summer holiday home learning booklet for you and a reflection booklet ready for moving to your new class.

The summer home learning booklet contains a range of activities to help keep you occupied over the next six weeks. You will find a variety of tasks linked to spellings, handwriting, reading, writing, maths and times tables. The reflection booklet is a great way for you to think about what you have achieved this year and goals to set yourself for next year.

Of course, there are no expectations for you to complete all of these tasks or try to follow a normal school routine during the summer holiday. If you have some spare time and are not sure what to do, we are here to help you with some suggestions. It is an extra resource for you to have at hand if needed. It will though be a great way to keep your skills up ready for a new start in September!

Hello and welcome to Class 5's school closure page. As schools are still not fully open, we will be keeping you updated on this page with learning activities and ideas.

Here is the joint booklet for Year 5 and Year 6 for this week. You can download it below or you can collect a printed copy from the school foyer.

You also have a separate booklet that includes your new spelling words and Time Table Rockstar challenges for the week. Again, you can download it below or you can collect a printed copy from the school foyer.

We will still be using our Class Dojo page as a way of communicating and sharing things so do please keep posting on there with all the wonderful things you have been up to.

If you prefer to try some online lessons, then check out BBC Bitesize for a range of daily activities. The online lessons appear daily so check out the schedule below to see what is going to appearing soon.

As well as BBC Bitesize, you might also want to check out the daily lessons available on the Oak National Academy website. Oak National Academy is a new collection of high-quality lessons and online resources. Backed by the Government, it has been created in response to the coronavirus lockdown.

New lessons and resources are provided each week. You can either follow the daily suggestion or pick and choose lessons that are of interest to you.

Oak National Academy will fit perfectly alongside other resources such as BBC Bitesize and our own school closure booklets. Together, these can offer a structure to the day for children until schools fully reopen.

We absolutely do not expect you to be replicating school at home. The activities that we are posting are ideas for you to try and are a way of ensuring you are keeping up the skills we have learned in school. Try and do as much as you can and make it work for your family.

Unfortunately, schools are not yet open for Year 5 children.

As the teachers will all be in school doing different jobs for now, it does mean we need to make a few changes to our home learning.

From Monday 8^th June, our Year 5 School Closure website will not contain daily tasks for you. However, I will still be posting our new spelling words and Times Table Rockstar questions every week.

There will though be a Y5/Y6 joint work booklet that you will be able to collect from the school foyer each Monday. It will be important that you all try to do some work each school day to keep your skills up.

Each morning I will still be saying 'Hello' on the Class Story page on the Class Dojo app. You'll also be able to ask me any questions or just tell me about what you have been up to! As I will be in school, remember I might not be able to respond straight away. You will still be able to post things to your Class Dojo portfolio but it might not always be me who approves and leaves comments for you.

We will keep you informed when there are any changes.

Week beginning Monday 15th June 2020

These tasks will work best if they are done in order. You can complete a task in your workbooks or online.

Here are your online Maths tasks you can follow this week.

Task 1	Task 2	Task 3	Task 4	Task 5
Decimals as fractions	Understand thousandths	Rounding decimals	Order and compare decimals	Challenge day!

Week beginning Monday 8th June 2020

These tasks will work best if they are done in order. You can complete a task in your workbooks or online.

Here are your online Maths tasks you can follow this week.

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4

Task 5

Multiply unit and non-unit fractions by an integer

Multiply mixed numbers by an integer

Fractions of an amount

Using fractions as operators

Challenge day!

Week Beginning Monday 1st June 2020

	Task 1	Task 2	Task 3	Task 4	Task 5
English	Using similes and metaphors	11-Year-Old Breaks Skating World Record: reading task	Using homophones and paragraphs	Record-Breaking Rower Crosses Atlantic: reading task	Using modal verbs
Maths	Add and subtract fractions	Add fractions	Add mixed numbers	Subtract mixed numbers	Challenge day!
Topics	Sustainability and plastics	Adaptation	Saying how you feel in Spanish	Natural resources	Who was King Henry VIII?

Writing Challenge	Extreme Weather: plan, write, read, edit and publish
Spellings	homophones and near-homophones
Times Tables	2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Times Tables

Week Beginning Monday 18th May 2020

	Task 1	Task 2	Task 3	Task 4	Task 5
English	Writing a formal report	Astronauts Prepare for Mission to Space Station: reading task	Writing a recount	Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: reading lesson	Cosmic Cookies: reading task
Maths	Area of rectangles	Equivalent fractions	Converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa	Compare and order fractions less than one	Challenge day!
Topics	Who was Tutankhamun?	To identify pulse and rhythm in music	How to say the date in Spanish	Ancient Greek Myths	Painting, Collage and Printmaking - Daily Life

You can choose to do the tasks in any order. I have included the answers where possible so you can check your own answers afterwards. No peeking! You can complete your tasks online or in your workbooks.

If you want to include some structure to your day you could try following this home learning timetable:

9:00-9:30 Exercise to wake up your brains

9:30-10:30 Select your first task – either English, Maths or Topic

10:30-11:00 Break time – have a snack, read a book, do some colouring or play a game

11:00-12:00 Select your second task – either English, Maths or Topic

12:00-1:00 Lunch time!

1:00-2:00 Select your final task – either English, Maths or Topic

2:00-2:30 Exercise - Try to create your own at-home workout. You could watch some online tutorials for inspiration!

2:30-3:00 Reading - Take some time to just enjoy your book!

A printed booklet will also be available for you to collect from the office foyer every week if it is safe for you to do so. The booklet contains a selection of English, Maths, Topic, Spelling and Times Table tasks. You may find having the printed booklet easier if you are having difficulties accessing the internet. As some of the tasks are the same as on the website, there is no expectation that you need to complete both the booklet and online tasks. A copy of the printed booklet is provided below for you to see.

If you need some more ideas:

Practice your times tables – multiplication and division! Create your own times tables game to help you practice.

Practice the Y5/Y6 spellings words. You can use look, cover, write, check as well as have a go using some of the words in your own sentences.

Read for at least 30 minutes. This could be a story book or a non-fiction book, a magazine or comic. Even being online involves reading!

Spend at least an hour on different tasks. Have another look through our old Home Learning booklets. There are also lots of other tasks you could choose from on our Class 5 web page.

Write your own story chapter book. You could focus on one chapter a day. Don’t forget to follow what we would do in the classroom – plan, write, read, edit.

Use your username and password to log into Times Table Rockstars and Sumdog to practice your maths skills.

Most importantly though, look after yourselves and your families and stay healthy!

Reading

The most important thing you can do at home is read, read and read a little bit more!

Try to aim for at least 30 minutes every day. This could be one of your own books or an eBook online.

Check out this fantastic website for even more eBooks.

You just need to click on the tap that says 'My class login' and enter the following:

My class name: stdenys

Password: pupil

When you click on 'My bookshelf' you will be able to browse a large library of books including some well known classics.

If you would prefer to listen to a story try out this free library of books:

Elevenses with The World of David Walliams

Now, every day at 11am, David Walliams, author of The Boy in The Dress and Gangsta Granny, will be sharing an audio story from one of his best-selling World's Worst Children short story collections.

Whether you are already firm fans of the author or not, this is a sure way to add some fun and laughter to your mornings. The daily treat is perfectly named 'Elevenses', and everyone can tune in for a tale brilliantly told by David Walliams. And, yes, he does all the voices!

Spellings and Writing

Practice reading the Y5/Y6 spellings words. You can use look, cover, write, check as well as have a go using some of the words in your own sentences. Also, check the meaning of any words you are not sure about.

Maths

Practice your times tables every day – multiplication and division! Create your own times tables game to help you practice and challenge someone in your family to play with you.

Watch and listen to our times table songs just like in the classroom.

If you want to try Times Table Rockstars at home yourself, here are two weeks of questions. Get someone to time you for three minutes and then work out your Rock Status at the end of the week!

Here are some more Maths activities you might like to try at home with your families. You don't need to complete them all. You don't need to complete in order. Pick and choose any you'd like to try!

Staying fit and healthy

During this time at home, it is really important for you to stay fit and healthy. Try doing some daily exercise. You could even get some family members to join in with you!

Try these workouts for children by Joe Wicks:

There is always something fun to try on GoNoodle!

Lots more will appear soon on our class page. I will let you know whenever anything new appears.

Have fun and don't forget to let me know what you have been up to by sending me a message!

Welcome to the Class 5 School Closure page