Week beginning 23rd 2020

Well done Year Five! We have made it through our first week of online learning. It will get easier. Do remember to join your small group meetings with Mr John on Mon/Wed/Fri and Ms Emmi on Tue/Thu. Calendar. When starting an activity, do remember to read the instructions carefully at least 3 times. It may explain how to set out your work. Do join the optional 11.00 meeting with me if you need any help. We are here to support you with your learning

Activities we did this week

                Science Melting ice

                  Pictures from Eric

     

Thank you Eric for sending in some pictures of your science learning. If anyone else would like to send in pictures we can publish some on our blog each week while we are closed.

                 

Something for fun and relaxation... you may wish to re-watch and finish our BBC Look and Read series Legend of the Lost Keys. I know you are all eager to find out how it ends.

                                  

                      All about the human life cycle

                     

                   Our World BBC

Reading on Get Epic I hope you are enjoying your books Do remember to leave a message in the class comment so i know you have read your book.

                              Spelling for next week

Do try to upscale your sentences just like we did during our Friday group meetings.

Maths standards next week will be 

• I can identify multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs of a number, and common factors of two numbers.

This week we focused on various types of word problems throughout the week. Each learner worked on daily word problems and created their own word problems to share with their friends via Flipgrid https://flipgrid.com/0f4d1f71 check these out if you have an account. 

Week beginning 16th March

This week has been a real learning curve for all of us with the start of online learning using Google Classroom. Please help your child check and complete their assignments. They must submit their work when it is completed. Many children have not completed all of their learning. Please encourage them to catch up over the weekend.

We are still learning about Myths and legends

Thinking about the big picture. Next week, the children will be learning about some major global issies using materials from the BBC in the UK such as overfishing, plastic waste and global warming. This is our starting point.

       

Reading On Get Epic	Book	Focus
Daewa Eliza Eric Ben Kavier Phee Pin	A river of Words the Story of William Carlos Jen Bryant	How words can give freedom and peace. Why did he become a doctor?
Amanda Tien Liew Athens Rainer Jun	Acrostic Poems Lisa M Bolt Simons	What is an acrostic poem/fun
Phet Kevin Oum EAL	Cat Poems	Fun…..do share and read with an adult

These books are available on Get Epic which is free during the daytime. Your children know how to log on.

           Spellings this week. 

                  in/ant word endings

star	2 star	3 star
plant	instant	abundant
meant	important	consultant
vacant	elegant	fragrant
infant	observant	relevant
giant	reluctant	assistant
obtain	fountain	penicillin
brain	complain	bloodstain
drain	mountain	tenderloin
plain	certain	uncertain
brain	explain	porcelain

Next week's focus will be:

• I can solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes. 
• I can solve addition and subtraction multi-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why. 

This week in maths, we focused on multiplication and division. As this is a revisited concept throughout the year, everyone had their own pace and work for them in stations. Although we went to online learning on Wednesday we have managed to keep this concept going for the week.

Next week, we will continue with online learning. Each day your child will receive a word problem and a maths problem that is based on their ability. I will also be sending out an email with the focus on next week project which is based on writing their own word problems using the above standards. Plus additional work will be given as an option for those who are looking for more to do as a bonus.

Week Beginning 9th March 2020

Online learning this week
Spelling homework will not be on the blog this week. It has been put on Google Classroom. This is the platform we will use for online learning. Your child should know how to access the word list and homework activity. Please check that you can access this learning from home. If there are any problems let us know on Monday and we will help out.

Our target this week ... I can access learning from home using Google Classroom.


Our EAL students shared their Magic Box poems with us on Friday

          

               


We have created an online collection of books about Myths and Legends

     

Myths are usually stories with a deep, symbolic meaning. Certain myths have survived for thousands of years and they are often used to explain how the world began or how a certain culture was started.

Legends are stories that can be part-truth. The stories usually involve hero fighting monsters and being helped by magical creatures. They often involve the beliefs of the culture they come from.


Mr. Rick came and showed us how to use the Google Classroom as an online learning platform

We have been talking about being a good friend and how we choose to act influences how others react to us

  

                 

   


We recorded our thoughts on a RUBRIC overview sheet.


Outside of our classroom, you can find a display of pencil drawings of some Myanmar lacquerware

Next weeks learning

• Continue work on Myths and Legends including King Midas and his Magic Touch/St Colmcille and the Loch Ness Monster/Theseus and the Minotaur
• What makes a good friend? Preferences, justifications and a summative RUBRIC
• Using a Venn diagram to sort scientific information
• Our Blue Planet/Core facts/Overfishing/Plastic Pollution in the sea/Greenhouse Gases Are they a real problem

Covid 19 virus
We have been regularly talking about this in class. I have tried to be very reassuring and we have very clear UDIS guidelines for helping our community stay safe. I have been impressed by the level of understanding shown by my class and how children have been following this in the press, on TV and social media. It is important that both at home and school, we give the children opportunities to share their concerns. Do give your children opportunities to share with you how they feel. 

Maths learning next week 

• I can divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context. 
• I can solve problems involving multiplication and division including using their knowledge of factors and multiples, squares and cubes
• I can multiply numbers up to 4 digits by a one- or two-digit number using a formal written method, including long multiplication for two-digit numbers

Maths this week consisted of 5 stations to review and expand place value skills. These stations consisted of powers of 10 countings, rounding numbers from 10 - 100 000, an overview of place value type questions, ordering numbers and reading and writing numbers up to 1,000,000. Learners had the ability to work at their level and pair themselves up with their groups if needed.

 

 

Week Beginning 2nd March 2020

           
Our focus this week centred around International Week.Year Five learned about the 10 ASEAN nations. This slide show will provide a summary of some of our learning.

               




ie and ei words are our spelling focus
          
    Spellings this week

1 star	2 star	3 star
seize	achieve	cashier
diesel	fierce	pierce
weigh	deceive	perceive
eight	retrieve	caffeine
eighteen	believe	protein
weight	hygiene	neighbour
field	neither	receipt
chief	ceiling	foreign
thief	receive	unbelievable
believe	Weird believe	seismic

   





Next week we will be learning about:

• Spelling how to recognise and spell words containing the patterns ie and ei
• Myths and legends. What is the difference and identifying preferences
• Story structure Beginning/Middle/End
• Setting/Problem Solution
• What rights do I have at school?
• What challenges do I face in my own life/assessing risk?
• Online Digital Literacy with Mr Rick
• Changing states of matter in Science

Next week in Maths we will be learning about Place Value

• Count forwards or backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1 000 000.
• Read, write, order and compare numbers to at least 1 000 000 and determine the value of each digit.
• Identify the value of each digit to three decimal places.
• Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000.

This week Y5 has had the ability to analyse their data they collected from their survey taken the week before. Learners made their graph according to their ability and type of question they asked. We spend the rest of the week reflecting on past learning that has been consolidated this term by updating their online portfolios and making real-world connections to their knowledge build this term. Check out our video below.