Every Monday we will have a spelling test of the words we learnt last week through our word power activities, if you are at home ask one of your grown-ups to test you on these words:
obnoxious
unconscious
suspicious
spacious
malicious
nutritious
ambitious
superstitious
pretentious
contentious
You can now use this interactive voting system to tell me how you did. The results are anonymous but it will give me a good indictor of when to move on.
https://www.menti.com/hm85ixv45h
Highlight the link, right click and select go to hyperlink. Tell me which words you got right. You have until 6pm on Tuesday.
In English we will complete our Macbeth topic with witches spells made into poetry. Remember come to Monday’s zoom with ideas of what we might add to our witches cauldron. You need a notebook, pen or pencil and your page prepared like this.
Monday 1st February 2021
LO: TO PLAN INITIAL IDEAS FOR A POEM BASED ON MACBETH.
Please use a ruler, I don’t have one on the computer.
Below are the pdf slides used in the lesson and some ideas for ingredients
We are starting our unit on fractions this week. You will need your notebook, pencil and ruler. During the lesson you need to listen and complete short tasks as the video plays. It would be useful to come to the lesson with the date (1.2.2021) and the LO: To identify unit and non-unit fractions. After the lesson, complete the Frayer chart (explained in the video and you can choose a star challenge, both need sending to me.
Frayer chart – just tells me what you know about fractions. Remember please complete one for unit and non-unit fractions.
This afternoon we have Forest School. Miss Brown has added a new home learning challenge on the Forest School blog. Please send me any photos of you completing the challenges, letting me know if you would like them shared or not on the blog.
Everyone has worked very hard this week, I have been very impressed with the high standard of writing for your diary entries. Thank you all for attending your zoom meetings and completing your home learning whether you are in school or working from home you have all done a fabulous job. We have now completed our Maths unit on statics. I have been very impressed with the standard of work completed. Next week we will move on to fractions. In English we will complete our Macbeth topic with witches spells made into poetry. Remember come to Monday’s zoom with ideas of what we might add to our witches cauldron.
As a group we have read 119,956 words that is an impressive total. Congratulations to Ben, Mireya, Anya, James, William, Daniel and Isla who have all read at least five lessons. However the champion of readers this week has to go to Edgar with an impressive 27 lessons and a comprehension rate of 87% that is an amazing total! A shout out to Dylan and Alex who have chosen to read paper books this week. Dylan recommends A Diary of a Wimpy Kid. If paper book reading is more your thing than please give me a recommendation and I will share with your friends.
Answers to today’s Maths. |Please self-mark but also remember to tell me any problems you had today.
We will be looking at arithmetic in our live lesson today. You will need your maths book (or note book) a pencil and ruler. If anyone needs a maths book with squares in Mrs Watt has some at the front office. Please come by, on your daily walk, and pick one up. You will complete the challenges as we work and then independently complete the arithmetic challenge. If you would like this challenge and the English sheet on paper then please let me know by 10:00am and I will leave them in the foyer in front of school after 10:00am.
Our zoom will finish at 9:30 so we can all join in with Harrogate town live sports challenge.
Recorded lesson English
So that everyone has the chance to finish writing up their diaries I have recorded an extra task for you to complete. This will involve designing your own family shield, just the Lords and Ladies of Scotland. I shall hold a drop in zoom, which is optional, at 10:10 for you to pop by if you have any problems completing your diaries. This will use the regular class zoom log in.
Click this link for a shield outline, there are six designs to chose from you just need to complete one.
We are continuing with cious and tious endings this week. I have included new words as well as a couple repeats from last week that I think would go well in our Macbeth diaries. Please select one activity a day to complete. Our new words are: obnoxious, unconscious, suspicious, malicious, spacious, ambitious, contentious, pretentious, superstitious, nutritious.
Join us for our second zoom at 11:45 to discuss the morning’s work and check-in how we are all doing. We will be reading more witches poetry. Please complete 20 minutes on reading plus and 15 minutes on time tables rock stars. I will be announcing our reading champions this afternoon.
Celebrating home learning.
Here are some of things our children have been learning at home.
I would to point out that sending Mrs McMahon pictures of baking is not good for her diet!
This afternoon – PE
Mr Jeff has a range of PE skill based lessons. Check out his You Tube challenge for some good ideas how to build your skills. Please spend one hour doing something physical today.
We are taking a final look at statics today. You will need your notebook, pencil and ruler. During the lesson you need to listen and complete short tasks as we work. We will look at the same table but you will have the opportunity to answer different starred challenges. It would be useful to come to the lesson with the date (28.1.2021) and the LO: To interpret tables written in your book ready. After the lesson you can choose a star challenge and sent it into me.
Recorded lesson – English
You should be ready to give your work a final edit and improve. If you are not at this stage please don’t worry. This is why we doing this session so you can hear other people’s ideas and magpie just like we do at school. You are going to edit and improve your work in the session and then you will have an opportunity to write up your work neatly. This write up can be sent to me and I will print it and we will make a display of whole class writing. You only need your diaries and a pen.
Send when written up.
We are continuing with cious and tious endings this week. I have included new words as well as a couple repeats from last week that I think would go well in our Macbeth diaries. Please select one activity a day to complete. Our new words are: obnoxious, unconscious, suspicious, malicious, spacious, ambitious, contentious, pretentious, superstitious, nutritious.
Join us for our second zoom at 11:45 to discuss the morning’s work and check-in how we are all doing. Please complete 20 minutes on reading plus and 15 minutes on time tables rock stars.
We will reading and discussing our diaries. You should be ready to give your work a final edit and improve. If you are not at this stage please don’t worry. This is why we doing this session so you can hear other people’s ideas and magpie just like we do at school. If you need extra time to write I will stay on zoom a bit longer so you can talk me through your ideas. We are going to polish our work in the session and then you will have an opportunity to write up your work neatly. This write up can be sent to me and I will print it and we will make a display of whole class writing. You only need your diaries and a pen.
We are continuing with cious and tious endings this week. I have included new words as well as a couple repeats from last week that I think would go well in our Macbeth diaries. Please select one activity a day to complete. Our new words are: obnoxious, unconscious, suspicious, malicious, spacious, ambitious, contentious, pretentious, superstitious, nutritious.
Join us for our second zoom at 11:45 to discuss the morning’s work and check-in how we are all doing. Please complete 20 minutes on reading plus and 15 minutes on time tables rock stars.
This afternoon we are looking at art. Just like our Andy Warhol pictures we are going to choose a famous person and colour them in block colour. You could one famous person or make a collage. Either sketch by hand and then colour or search the Internet for a black and white image which you can print and then colour. Warhol didn’t just do people he also used ordinary items such as tins of soup. Or you could take a picture of yourself on an apple device and use photo edit to create an image.
To remind you of Warhol’s work here was the power point we looked at last week.
We will be looking at time tables in our live lesson today. You will need your maths book (or note book) a pencil and ruler. If anyone needs a maths book with squares in Mrs Watt has some at the front office. Please come by, on your daily walk, and pick one up.
We are continuing to complete your diaries. Most of you are up to Macbeth becoming King and the lesson starts at this point. If you need more time then the teaching are below to guide you. You will be writing the last paragraph – Macbeth’s paranoia about Banquo’s son.
We are continuing with cious and tious endings this week. I have included new words as well as a couple repeats from last week that I think would go well in our Macbeth diaries. Please select one activity a day to complete. Our new words are: obnoxious, unconscious, suspicious, malicious, spacious, ambitious, contentious, pretentious, superstitious, nutritious.
Join us for our second zoom at 11:45 to find out if Macbeth will go to war against Macduff. Please complete 20 minutes on reading plus and 15 minutes on time tables rock stars.
This afternoon – PSHE
Lockdown can be hard but sometimes a smile can go a long way. Find out how keeping a smile diary can boost not only your well-being but of those around you (in a socially distance way – of course!)
Thank you for your feedback on statics learning. In general we feel confident about drawing and reading graphs but would like more on timetables and two-way tables. Well your wish is my command and tomorrow’s maths lesson will be timetables and Wednesday two-way tables.
Answers for yesterday’s early bird. Please self-mark and as always if you any major difficulties with any of the questions please let know.
Math challenges
So far I have been sent two questions to solve.
using the three star table – if i travel from York to London and then London to Manchester traveling at 5KM per hour how long will it take me?
Y-L =325km + L-M = 330 so altogether 655Km if I go 5KM per hour I divide 5/655 so 131 hours. Luckily most cars go a bit faster than this!
Using the sandwich table Which sandwiches are the most popular and the least?
Most popular is cheese on white and least popular BLT on brown.
Well done to the mums and dads who answered their children’s questions. I hear you have all done very well.
Here is another Shakespeare portrait for you to enjoy.
I am going to print off everyone’s picture and make a big gallery in the classroom including the children who are in school.
Good morning Year 5! Welcome to week 4. Don’t forget our second zoom at 11:45 when we will continue to read Macbeth.
9:00 zoom
Today we will be continuing with our Macbeth diaries so please have Friday’s entry, your plan from Thursday, two different coloured pens (one to write and one to edit) and your notebook ready to hand. There are no print outs for this lesson but the teaching slides can be accessed below. You may also want a dictionary.
We are looking at statics again today and trying to pull together everything we have learnt. You need your work from Thursday. We are going to examine what went well and what we still need to do. I have attached the question sheet for reference and the answer sheet. Before you start the video mark your work. Then watch the video, there is a little reflection task for you to send me and then I go over the most common errors we made. Finally there are three star challenge, just like at school, choose that is right for you. I have attached the challenges for ease to the blog below the video.
Today you need the help of your grown up to test you on your spellings. Your grown up could read out the spellings and you can write them down. Ten new words are a lot all at once so try doing a couple at a time. You play a game with your spellings. Get a coin and flip it, if it heads think of a cious ending word if tails a tious ending word. Can you beat your grown-up?
We are continuing with our reading challenge but with the extra challenge of beating last week’s impressive word total over 106000 words read as a class! Log into reading plus and help build that total. Let me know if you need your log in details again. Please also spend 15 minutes on either times table rock stars or hit the button.
Monday forest schools
In school we go to the forest on Monday. Miss Brown has added a Forest School challenge on the Forest School blog. Or you spend some time bird watching either walking outside or from your bedroom window. The RSPB has a bird identifier that is very useful.
You are the reason I smile everyday 
