Author: year5

Remember this week there will be a daily 10-15minute Zoom session at 9.30am to set you up for the day. Check out Classdojo for the invitation. In addition to these, there will be 2 drop-in sessions on Monday and Wednesday at 1pm (I will re-post the invitation for this too); you can pop in to these if you are needing some help (at these sessions I will speak to one child at a time so you will be kept in the waiting room until I have finished talking to the child before you).

It is really important that you continue to read as much as possible; this can be completed online with Reading Plus, a home reader or look at some of these great websites which enable you to read e-books for free.

For Focus Reading this week, we continue our reading of Ice Trap by Meredith Hooper.

There will be video resources available – see Dropbox 

Today’s focuses are:  *Can I find words or phrases that evoke emotion?  *Can I provide reasons (justifications) for thoughts and opinions?

Read the page which begins “Enduranceentered the pack ice”.  Visualise and discuss the images they could see in their minds as you read.

Look up some of the words you are unsure of (e.g. ice floe, striven, plummeted)

Which lines do you find memorable? Give reasons for your choices.

Extract 1 

Endurance entered the packed ice..

Today’s focus: *Can I make inferences about characters?

Read the next extract (beginning – ‘Winter came with fearful cold. Think about what happened to the crew.

Prepare a short playscript thinking about what happened in these 2 pages.

Extract 2

winter came with fearful cold

Today’s focus: Can I draw inferences about characters and how they are feeling?

What should Shackleton and his men do now that the ship is sinking?

Read the next page beginning ‘Shackleton looked away’ and think about the illustration of the men pulling a lifeboat.

Using the resource sheet – add captions to the men. What would they be saying? Remember that you need to convey how they would be feeling at the same time.

Resource 1

Resource 1

Extract 3

Resource 1

Shackleton looked around at his men…

Today’s Focus: Can I draw inferences about characters and how they are feeling?

Read the page that begins… ‘Life on the flow wasn’t bad’. What was the crews reaction to the boat sinking? How did the men feel? Why did they feel like this? How did Shackleton feel as the leader?

Write an entry into Shackleton’s log after the sinking of the Endurance. Think about what might have been written that would sum up how Shackleton’s feelings and emotions.

Extract 4

life on the floe

Today you will complete a number of questions about Ice Trap.

Comprehension

Ice-Trap-Comp 1

This week we will continue to look at the suffices ify, ate and ise.

A Powerpoint slide show will be posted in Monday’s Dropbox that will help you. 

The spelling activities will be posted in Monday’s Dropbox link. 

Here are some additional grammar activities that you may like to do…

SPAG

Video resources available in the daily Dropbox file.

This week in English we will be writing a diary entry. We will be taking the role of one of the crew members of the Endurance and writing in role. The focus for this week will be relative clauses and apostrophes for possession.

L.I. Can I identify and use relative clauses to add information about the noun in my writing?

Watch these videos all about relative clauses and complete the quizzes.

Now complete the tasks in the resource pack

Monday_Tuesday relative clauses ws

L.I. Can I use apostrophes for possession?

Watch these videos about using apostrophes for possession and complete the quizzes.

Now complete the tasks in the resource pack.

Wednesday apostrophe for possession

L.I. Can I use relative clauses and apostrophes for possession in my writing?

If you need to, recap what a relative clause is and an apostrophe for possession.

In your writing today, I would like to see examples of both of these.

Your task today is to write about the picture. Think about what you can see and describe it. This will help when writing your diary entry tomorrow.

Thursday _ resource

L.I Can I write a diary entry in role?

Today, you are going to put all your learning into practice.

Using subordinate and relative clauses and apostrophes for possession, you need to take the role of one of the crew of the Endurance.

The ship has got stuck in an ice floe and they are now having to set up camp as the ship is sinking.

You need to think carefully about the feelings and emotions of the crew member as well as explaining what has been going on. Remember that a diary entry will be in first person and written in past tense.

Friday _ resource

Maths

Check Dropbox for Video resources.

This week in maths we will continue to learn about fractions and start to learn about the link between fractions and decimals.

Watch the video on related calculations and think about the questions below. Now answer the questions on today’s activity sheet.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-1-number-multiplication-division/

Think about:

What is the same and what is different about the place value counters?

How does this fact help us solve this problem?

If we know these facts, what other facts do we know?

Can you prove your answer using manipulatives?

Monday _related calc

Watch the video again.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-1-number-multiplication-division/

Look at the information on yesterday’s worksheet and the worked example on today’s.  Now completed the problem-solving questions on today’s activity sheet.

Tuesday_rel_calc_PS

Watch the videos titled Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (no exchange) activity and Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (1)

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-1-number-multiplication-division/

Now think about these questions…

How does multiplication link to addition? How does partitioning help you to multiply 2-digits by a 1-digit number? How does the written method match the concrete representation?

Use the videos and the information sheet to complete today’s activity sheet.

Wednesday_multiplication_2x1

Watch the videos titled Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (no exchange) activity and Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (1) again.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-1-number-multiplication-division/

Use the videos and the information sheet to complete today’s problem-solving activity sheet.

Thursday_PS_2x1

Watch the videos titled Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (with exchange) and Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (2)

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/spring-week-2-number-multiplication-division/

Use the videos and the information sheet to complete today’s fluency questions. This is an opportunity to practise this skill. You could try and make some of your own questions up too. Maybe use a dice to create the numbers.

Friday_cal_2x1_exc

Video resource available

Perplexing Poles

The focus for this lesson is to find out about the physical geography of the poles and what it is like on the poles?

You will be thinking about: What do you think it looks like on the Antarctic? Do you know what Antarctica means?  What do you think the seasons are like in Antarctica?

I wonder, when would be the best time to plan an expedition to Antarctica? 

Your task for this week is to make a fact-file all about the Physical Geography of Antarctica. This can be drawn/written or created using PowerPoint or similar.

The areas that you need to find out about and display on your fact-file are:

·                Time zones at the South Pole (including length of the ‘day’ with sun)

·                Mountain ranges and volcanoes

·                Changing ice mass and glaciers throughout the seasons – the climate

·                What flora and fauna (plants and animals) you might find there.

Videos to support your learning.

·                KS2 simple facts: Antarctica: Simple Facts and Figures

·                YouTube: Tourism in Antarctica

·                https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyhp34j/articles/zjg46v4

·                https://divediscover.whoi.edu/archives/antarctica/index.html

From your fact finding, can you answer the initial questions…

I wonder, when would be the best time to plan an expedition to Antarctica? 

Video Resource available

Focus: To be able to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets,relative to the Sun in the solar system.

This week you will be looking at how the movement of the earth and how this affects seasons and day and night.

Watch this video

How do we have day and night on planet Earth?

How do you think we have day and night on our planet? What would need to happen so that we were stuck in day or night?

Watch this video…

Have a go at this activity but use a light in your house as the sun – a light that doesn’t move!

Picture 1

Now write a paragraph and draw a diagram to show how night and day occur. You can use the resource sheet to help you.

Science Resource 1

Resource sheet_support

t2-s-1454-ks2-day-and-night-activity-sheet

Video resource available

Firstly, can you think about these 2 questions about last week’s learning.

Why did Moses follow God?

I wonder, why did Moses follow God’s will to get the slaves released?

Recap on what the first 4 parts of Moses’ life were –

The Jews prayed to God to help them as their life was miserable. God answered their prayers.

Complete the 2 conscience alley activities about what Moses and the Pharaoh should do.

RE Week 2

Finally complete the 10 Plague activity sheet.

This week we are going to draw and shade spheres.

Watch the video and then watch and pause it again to try it for yourself. Send me your creations.

Over the next few weeks you are going to learn how to say different animals in French and ask what they are.

The worksheet has 4 different tasks to complete. You can do one a week.

Use the PowerPoint and the video to help you.

Tennis

This week we have some ‘Tennis at home’ activities for you to do. These are exercises which help you with fitness and movements that you need for tennis.

Hand Ball Rally

Continue with the tennis activity cards that you could try to do too. Remember some of them may require some research.

Research your ideal job/ career using the internet.

Record this on the ‘My Ideal Job’ resource sheet.

You will need to find out about and record:

• Job title

• Job description/main duties

• Qualifications needed

• Salary

3 steps needed to take to achieve my dream job, e.g. work hard at school, get some relevant work experience (mechanic/hairdresser), go to university, work in my dad’s shop, etc.

Watch video clip:

While you listen, draw a picture of how the music makes you feel.

In this piece of music, you hear a lot of string or bowed instruments.

Holst gave an instruction for the instrumentalists to strike the string with their bow, rather than draw it across the strings.  This gave the string instruments a more percussive sound.

See a demonstration of col legno here

Space Music

Many modern pieces of music for space films have been based on Mars, the bringer of war.

Listen to this piece of music, and see what instruments you can hear.

How does it sound similar to Mars the bringer of war?

What does it make you think of?

How does it make you feel?

If you can…

•       Make a tissue box banjo

–      Make a 2 inch hole in one end of the box.

–      Insert a kitchen roll tube 3 inches in and tape in place.

–      Tape down 4 elastic bands stretched around the box, covering the centre hole.

–      Experiment with different widths and lengths of bands.

–      Pluck the strings with your fingers.

–      Use different size elastic bands – what happens to the sound.

Computing – If you have access to a computer, you could use Scratch to make a space invader game. Follow these instructions…

https://scratchprogrammingforkids.com/how-to-make-simple-space-invaders-scratch-game-step-by-step-scratch-game-tutorial/

Remember to keep going with your Reading Plus and Home Reader too.

This week, we are going to look at a poem called The Dreadful Menace and focus on authorial choice. We will also start reading Ice Trap by Meredith Hooper with a focus on inference and prediction.

Here are the resources you need for this week’s reading: Reading

This is a copy of the poem: The Dreadful Menace

Find the meaning of these words: conundrum, fathom, devoid

Can you find where winter is showing power in the poem?

metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, alliteration, onomatopoeia

Figurative language Worksheet 

Inferred Meaning Worksheet 

Look at the map from Ice Trap

Extract 1: Map

What information can you find out from the map?

Read the extract. Now in role, as one of the crew, describe the beginning of the expedition and finding the stowaway. You could video it.

Extract from Ice Trap

Remember to use Spellingframe.co.uk to support your learning too.

This week we will look at the suffix -ify, -ise, -ate which turns nouns or verbs in to adjectives. E.g. sympathise, intensify, communicate

 See spelling activities

Adding-ate-ise-and-ify-Worksheet

This week in English we are going to be writing a persuasive advert. We will look at Ernest Shackleton’s recruitment advert and try to write one for ourselves using modal verbs.

Weekly resources and information sheets:English Resources

Remember to use TTRS and Prodigy Maths to support your learning too.

This week in maths we are going to be continuing our work on fractions.

Fascinating Imagery

For Topic this week you are going to be learning about Shackleton’s discovery of the Antarctic and in particular the work of Frank Hurley (a photographer).

What do you know about the Antarctic already?

Do you know when this continent was discovered?

First watch these… jot down your first impressions of the Shackleton’s adventure.  You could do a spider diagram.

Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition Trailer:

Endurance Trailer:

Your main task this week is find out what Shackleton would have found whilst exploring the Antarctic.

I wonder, what Frank Hurley (the photographer on Shackleton’s Endurance Adventure) would have been able to take photos of whilst on The Endurance and whilst exploring the Antarctic?

Draw pictures (or cut and stick images) of what Frank Hurley would have seen – use the photo template to help you.

Frank Hurley Discoveries

This challenge for this week in science will be learning about the different planets in our Solar System (The Milky Way).

I wonder, can you learn the order of the planets?

Can you develop a mnemonic to help you learn them?

Science_order of planets

Upload a video to Classdojo to show me.

You could watch these clips to find out a bit more about the Solar System.

I wonder, can you complete the Fact Hunt sheet? Use the fact cards all about the planets to answer the questions about the solar system.

Fact Cards

Fact Hunt

Look at Exodus 1:8–14 and Exodus 1:22 and find as much evidence as possible about what life must have been like for a Hebrew slave in Egypt. What would they have had to do as slaves?

Exodus 1:8–14 and Exodus 1:22 Bible verses

4) The burning bush.

Watch clip

You can now…

Write adjectives linked to each part of the story to describe Moses’ feelings throughout the event of the burning bush:

Moses sees the burning bush_picture_adjective

Moses sees the burning bush,

God speaks to Moses,

God tells Moses to return to Egypt and lead His people,

Moses knows God will be with him.

Or…

create a conversation between Moses and a friend. Moses describes his experience, his feelings, how it has changed his life but his friend doesn’t believe him.

Now write a paragraph starting with:

After Moses saw the Burning Bush and heard God I think he………… because and he ……… because

Learning how to stay active at home.

See additional planning sheet and Bingo resource sheet.

PE Bingo

Tennis

This week we have some ‘Tennis at home’ activities for you to do. These are exercises which help you with fitness and movements that you need for tennis.

Double Trouble

Watch this video and try to replicate the move. Don’t worry if you don’t have a tennis racket you could try using your hand and a ball instead.

There are also some tennis activity cards that you could try to do too. Some of them may require some research.

lta-youth-activity-card-8-11-years

Over the next few weeks you are going to learn how to say different animals in French and ask what they are.

The worksheet has 4 different tasks to complete. You can do one a week.

FRE-Pets-worksheet

Use the PowerPoint and the video to help you.

name the animal in french

Talking with someone else you live with finish the sentence:

‘If I won lots of money my dream would be…’

Talk about whether you think your dreams could be accomplished without money.

Discuss how money affects our lives and whether money stops us from having everything we want to have in the present.

Using the Job cards, rank the different jobs from most important to least important.

Jobs and their salaries

Then match the Salary cards to the Job cards. Talk about these questions with a grown-up.

1. Who earns the most and why might that be?
2. Who contributes the most to society?
3. Who should earn the most based on the job they do?
4. Do we always choose a profession based on salary?
5. Does a high salary mean that we are successful?

Create your own Solar System mobile.

solar-system-mobile

There is a step by step guide of how to do this or you could come up with your own design! Here are a few examples.