Hello Year 5,
I hope that home learning is going well and that you and your families are keeping safe and well.
Well done to those completing online learning as well as enjoying practical activities too. Please continue to send emails to year5@eastbierleyprimary.com and tweeting us @eastbierleyPS. It is great to see what you have been up to at home and hearing about the creative activities you have engaged in. If you haven’t emailed yet, please try to do so this week!
Are you enjoying reading during DEAR time? Which books are you enjoying?
In school, I am reading the Ickabog by J.K. Rowling with my bubble and we are loving it, we definitely recommend it! In Chapter 1, you are introduced to towns that are famous for particular foods such as pastries and cheeses. We then designed our own towns based on our favourite foods! Could you design your own town? Send us a picture to year5@eastbierleyprimary.com
For those of you who enjoyed the book, The Roy of the Rovers: Teamwork by Tom Palmer, the author is reading a chapter of D-Day Dog on youtube - here are the first four chapter:
In our Maths lessons, we have been revisiting part-whole models and making some using counters and drawing in our books. Could you make some at home? Try to be as creative as you can by using different resources from your home!
During topic, we are promoting equality of all and looking at significant people from BAME backgrounds. If you interested in learning about this too, take a look at our Black Lives Matter page on the school website as there are many resources and learning ideas.
We are looking forward to having you all back in school with us in the future.
Stay safe and look after yourselves,
Miss Williams, Mrs Webb and Mrs Robson
English - 04529657
Brain teasers - 01419990
Weekly Maths Tasks
| Get your child to test their times table knowledge by finding the products and factors in this game. Can they work through all of the levels? |
| Play multiplication war with your child with a deck of cards. Flip two cards over and multiply. Whoever has the highest product keeps the cards. Ask your child what the inverse division fact would be. Use 3 cards as a challenge. |
| Encourage your child to practise their column multiplication and short division with these missing digit games. Can your child make their own versions? |
| Choose three or four countries and record the temperature over the course of a week for each of the countries in a table. Your child can draw a line graph showing each country's temperature each day across the week. You can find some guidance here to help. |
| Give your child the digits 3, 7, 8, 0, 6 and ask them to make as many whole numbers as they can (e.g. 38,067). How can they be sure they have found all the potential numbers? After, give them five different digits and ask them to repeat. Do they find the same amount of potential numbers? If so, why could this be? What is the best way to make sure all numbers have been found? Can they see a pattern? |
Weekly Reading Tasks
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Weekly Spelling Tasks
Challenge your child to complete an alphabetical list of cities from around the world. Where possible, include capital cities.
Find some interactive spelling games here
Practise spelling cious / tious words here
Can your child create their own wordsearch using cious / tious words for a family member?
In school we are using able / ible words to name our new class social distancing bubbles (e.g. ‘incredibubble’ is a play on the word ‘incredible’). Can you come up with some more ideas? What could you call your family bubble?
Weekly Writing Tasks
| Your child can pick a city or country of their choice to find out about and create a travel leaflet all about it. Make sure that they include information on: weather, travel time, key tourist spots, accommodation and the local cuisine. I wonder if they could persuade us to visit! |
| Listen to Zahra. Discuss what the story is about and how we know Zara is from a different country. Ask your child to rewrite the story of Zahra. |
| Use the story of Zahra to ask your child to create an advert to support WaterAid. What persuasive language could they use? How could they make their advert eye-catching?
Visit the Literacy Shed for this wonderful resource on The Blackhat or your child write a description about their ideal world. |
| Ask your child to create a poster which will assist younger children to learn about where the continents, particular countries and oceans of the world are. It must provide key facts and an imaginative layout/design to get children to learn where key places are around the world. |
Learning Project - to be completed through the week
- Flags of the World- Flags are a national symbol for all countries. Cultures use different symbols and colours on their flags which are meaningful to them and represent their history and people. Ask your child to pick 5 countries and investigate their flags. What symbols and colours have they used? Why are these significant to this country? Can your child create a flag for the UK which they feel represents our culture, history and people? Share at #TheLearningProjects.
- Tastes of the World- Children all around the world eat a variety of food and many of the foods we eat today are inspired by other countries. Can your child research and make a dish from another country which they have not tried before? They could find a recipe, source the ingredients via an online shop and follow the recipe to create a dish for the whole family.
- International Games- As part of the London 2012 Olympics a variety of countries were asked to name a traditional game which represented their culture and traditions. These can be seen here. Ask your child to research these games and take inspiration from them to design their own game. Encourage your child to think about how the game is played, how you win and what equipment is needed. Where possible, they should test their game and make any changes needed. Ask them to present their game through writing and pictures. These could be handwritten or digital.
- From Bradford to Johannesburg- Direct your child to think about what it would be like to live in another country. Do they think their life would be the same or completely different? Use the following clip to compare living in the UK city of Birmingham to Johannesburg. Ask your child to show the similarities and differences between their life and Nwabisa’s life in South Africa. They may wish to show this in a Venn diagram, table or a poster.
- Exploring the World- Throughout history many people have explored new places. You can find out about some of them here. Ask your child to pick an explorer from the list or one of their choice. They could map out the places that the explorer visited or they could create a piece of art inspired by the places they visited using digital images as support. They may wish to write a diary entry from the explorer’s point of view to share what they have seen and experienced.
STEM Learning Opportunities
Engineering Around the World – Telescopes
- The James Webb telescope will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space in 2021.
- The telescope will be launched into space using a rocket, this means it will have to be strong enough to withstand the vibrations during the launch. Use an egg to represent the telescope and design a rocket that will surround and protect the egg/telescope during the launch.
- For more information and ideas look here.
Additional Learning Resources
BBC Bitesize - Lots of videos and learning opportunities for all subjects.
Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - Reading, writing and maths activities for different ages.
Twinkl - Click on the link and sign up using your email address and creating a password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.
White Rose Maths online maths lessons. Watch a lesson video and complete the worksheet (can be downloaded and completed digitally).
Times Table Rockstars and Numbots. Your child can access both of these programmes with their school logins. On Times Table Rockstars, children should aim to play Soundcheck for 20 minutes daily.
IXL online. Click here for Year 5 There are interactive games to play and guides for parents.
Mastery Mathematics Learning Packs. Take a look at the mastery mathematics home learning packs with a range of different activities and lessons.
Y5 Talk for Writing Home-school Booklets are an excellent resource to support your child’s speaking and listening, reading and writing skills.
J2Code – A range of activities to explore computing and coding. There are short lesson activities but also the opportunity to be more creative within the ‘JIT’ Platform.
https://app.gonoodle.com/ - Website with videos that encourage exercise with guided dances as well as videos to help with mindfulness.
