Other curriculum activities

This grid outlines a number of activities that your child can complete this half term. The activities cover a range of curriculum subjects that we would usually explore across the week at school.

It is likely that each of these activities will take longer than one session. They could be started and then completed over a number of days or could be repeated a number of times.

I hope that every child can find something on this grid that inspires them. If your child seems particularly interested in one activity, please feel free to get in touch and I will think of ways that we can extend that area of learning!

Writing Activities

Below is a grid with a selection of writing challenges.

Children should plan, draft, edit and rewrite to create their final piece of work. The following success criteria should be used for each piece of writing and children can self assess against it. Encourage your child to use the success criteria to support their editing and rewriting.

*I have used the layout of my page to show what type of text I am writing

*I have considered how formal or informal the writing should be

*I have included appropriate text features for the genre of writing (e.g numbered steps in instructions or Dear ______ , in a letter)

*My writing is split into appropriate sentences or paragraphs

*I have used adventurous vocabulary to make my writing exciting

*I have used parenthesis to add detail to some of my sentences (brackets, dashes, commas)

*I have started my sentences in different ways and used commas after fronted adverbials

*I have described with expanded noun phrases (adjective, adjective noun)

*I have used SMOPAR to make my writing interesting for the reader (similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, repetition)

Maths activities for Summer 2

Hello everyone,

This blog will hopefully sign post you to a variety of maths resources that you may find useful over the next seven weeks. I have tried to add a selection of maths activities so that people can find what suits them and their current home learning set up. Please remember that alongside these resources, children have access to maths resources on Purple Mash, can complete the Purple Mash daily maths activities and can access the paper based worksheets available from the school office.

BBC Bitesize:

The following links use BBC bitesize. Each one has a video to demonstrate a concept and then a short quiz or activity. We have covered all of these topics in school so children should be able to access this independently.

Square and cube numbers

Prime numbers

Factors

Negative numbers

Fractions This page has links to a number of concepts and activities linked to fractions

Number sequences

Time

 

Nrich:

Nrich is a website that looks at mathematical thinking and problem solving. This link opens up a range of mathematical problems. Each activity is clearly explained on screen but sometimes can be easier to solve with physical resources (number cards, objects to order or count etc.). It would probably by most beneficial to choose a problem together, discuss it to check understanding or make a plan for solving and gather any resources. Children may then be able to work through the problem independently once they have had some support to get started.

Problem solving

 

Oak Academy and White Rose:

Some people have been finding it easier to follow more structured lessons. These websites offer lesson sequences on a number of different maths topics. These resources are more similar to a classroom maths lesson and as such will likely require adult input to work through. Lesson sequences and the lessons within those sequences are resourced and logically ordered.

Oak Academy

White Rose

 

If there is anything else I can provide, please let me know!

Reading Activities

Hello,

I have put together this grid of reading activities that could apply to any book your child is reading. I have added a selection of activities that could be used before, during and after reading and all of these tasks could be completed multiple times for different stories. I have tried to ensure that they are activities we have completed or discussed at school so children should feel comfortable with them.

I hope you are all getting on ok and have enough to read. If you need support accessing any reading material, please let me know and I will do what I can to help!

Year 5 Summer 2

Hello,

I hope you all had a lovely half term and enjoyed the sunshine!

I have added a number of ‘2dos’ on Purple Mash that children can continue to work through.

Over the next few days, I will add further blog posts with useful resources and activity ideas for the rest of the half term. Please find this half term’s spellings today and keep checking back for reading, writing, PSHE, maths and topic ideas!

 

 

Daily activities on Purple Mash

On top of the Purple Mash activities that have been set as ‘2dos’ there are also lesson sequences that children can work through.

To access these, find ‘Weekly Activities’ in the scrolling menu at the right hand side of the home screen. Select the appropriate age range for your child and then start at Week 1 to ensure the learning occurs in a logical sequence.

Maths learning

Hello Year 5,

I hope you are well! White Rose maths have created some home learning tasks. If you follow the link below, you will find that Weeks 1 and 2 follow on from the decimal work we have just started.

The Week 3 work looks at area model multiplication. We have already covered this in class (a lot of you prefer formal method for multiplication) but if you would like to use it to revise you can.

White Rose Year 5

Fractions and Decimals

The next thing we need to have a look at in maths is fractions and decimals.

To do this we will add 2 more columns to our place value table. These represent tenths and hundredths. Notice how they are represented by a lower case letter and how they appear to the right hand side of the decimal.

A tenth is when one whole has been cut into 10 equal pieces (think about what the denominator would be). A hundredth is when one whole is cut into 100 equal pieces.

What is one tenth as a fraction?

What is one hundredth as a fraction?

How many hundredths are equal to a tenth?

 

You need to make sure that you are able to show fractions as decimals and decimals as fractions. When working with tenths and hundredths, once you spot the pattern (or write them in a place value table) it is quite easy.

Other equivalent fractions and decimals are more tricky. It is easier to learn them off by heart.

One quarter = 0.25

One half = 0.5

Three quarters = 0.75

I have added a link to a matching game that is really useful to reinforce this knowledge.

Make sure you select ‘level 5’ > ‘fractions’ > ‘fraction decimal equivalents’ > ‘quarters, halves, tenths and hundredths’

The Maya

I wonder if anyone recognised any of yesterday’s clues?

Our new topic is The Maya- a fascinating ancient civilisation.

I will link some useful websites below to help you begin to explore the wonderful world of these ancient people and have added a grid of activities that you can choose to complete.

Bitesize

Interesting facts

Video

Lots of resources

 

New Year 5 Topic

Hello  Year 5!

I hope you enjoyed a bit of relaxation over the Easter holidays and that you are ready to get back to work now!

It’s a new term which means a new topic.

Before I reveal everything (tomorrow) I thought I would leave you with a few clues just to get your brains working.

What could our new topic be?

What are the pictures showing?

How could these things be linked?

Is there anything that you already know?