10.5.21
This week's suggested timetable:
Remember to practise your timestables and spellings each day.
The Y3/4 and Y5/6 National Curriculum words can be found in the 'Reading and spelling key words' tab at the top of the Year 5/6B class page.
Maths
This week we would like you to look at the maths work from your year group. We are focussing on our arithmetic skills. Practise makes perfect!
Y5
Day 1: Rounding to the nearest 100 and 1000
Day 2: Addition and Subtraction
Day 3: Multiplication facts. Practise against the clock by playing Hit the Button
Day 4: Formal written methods of multiplication
Day 5: Roman numerals
Fluent in Five
Y6
Day 1: Rounding decimals to the nearest tenth and thousandths
Day 2: Addition and Subtraction
Day 3: Formal written methods of multiplication
Day 4: Formal written methods of multiplication
Day 5: Multiplication reasoning questions
Flashback 4
As usual, we have uploaded the answers for this week's activities so you can mark your own. Play the roll of the teacher! You can mark it before sending it to us. We will then have a look at how you have done, and feedback as soon as we are able. We can help with any misconceptions you may have.
Retrieval Practice: Geometry - Properties of Shapes POWERPOINT.
Reading
Day 1: First News newspaper.
Day 2: Bug Club: You have a range of levelled fiction, non-fiction and poetry books in your Bug Club library. Remember, wherever you see a bug there is a question waiting to be answered!
Day 3: ‘How to Escape Snallygaster Territory’ Reading Comprehension.
Day 4: Bug Club.
Day 5: ‘Chip Plan For Cats’ Reading Comprehension.
SPaG
Day 1: Click HERE to watch the video and then complete the ‘Word Challenge’.
Day 2: Click on ‘The Grammar Bit’ to revise how to write sentences that begin with a fronted adverbial.
Day 3: Click HERE to watch the video again, and then complete the ‘Whiteboard Challenges’
Day 4: Complete the uploaded ‘Nature Worksheet’.
Day 5: Time to practise your weekly spellings.
Y5 & Y6 Spellings - Homophones and Near Homophones.
Y6 Spellings - Statutory spelling and challenge words.
Writing
Use the uploaded plans (as we did with the Meerkats one last week) to write a short story in the style of Shaun Tan.
Day 1: Supermarket
Day 2: Statue
Day 3: Washing up
Day 4: Windmills
Day 5: Vets
Science
This week we are looking at the heart in more detail. We have uploaded two diagrams for you to label with the answers for you to look at too in case you get stuck. It is a challenge…
PSHCE
We are thinking about what embarrasses us and learning something about ourselves that we didn’t know before. Watch the uploaded POWERPOINT and then have a go at the uploaded TASKs - 1, 2 and 3.
Art
We are looking at whether graffiti can be considered art. We have looked in class at different artists like Banksy, and our own Sheffield artist Pete McKee. Have a go at designing your own name or positive word / message in the style of graffiti writing.
RE
After looking at the difference between justice and freedom, this week we will look at human rights and how this is related to justice and freedom. Read the POWERPOINT then complete the uploaded sorting activity.
French
This week in French, we will be describing what someone else looks like. Go through the POWERPOINT and complete the task on the last slide.
Music
Click HERE to access another Musical Moment from the Sheffield Music Hub. This episode is brought to you by their Brass Team and focuses on the musical element of ‘Pitch’.
Have a great week of learning Y5/6, and Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating.