Year 5 English Home Learning - 18/01/21 - 22/01/21

Hello to my amazing Year 5 Class.

I hope you are all okay. It is very quiet in the classroom without you, but seeing some of you on Zoom last week really cheered me up! I loved hearing all your stories about what you had been up to over the Christmas holidays and how hard you are all working at home with the tasks I have set you. Have you taken a look at our Year 5 Learning Gallery? You will see all of the fabulous work that you and all of your class mates have been doing.

This week there are three separate blogs: Year 5 English, Year 5 Maths and Year 5 Topic. The learning is broken down into individual days so that you are doing exactly the same work as the children who are with me in school.

I can’t wait to see this week’s work, so please remember that you must send me at least one piece of work you have completed. You can find my email address on our Year 5 Class Page so please ask an adult to help you do this.

Can I take this opportunity to say how proud I am of every single one of you. It has been a very strange time for us all this week but you have all coped amazingly with the changes, showing me how mature you all are. Year 5 are superstars! Keep working hard and I look forward to speaking to you all this week. Seeing your work always makes me smile.  

Just as a reminder, please find below Winshill’s remote learning expectations:

  • It is expected that our children will access 3 hours of remote learning every week day whilst learning at home.

  • New learning blogs will be uploaded every Friday.

  • Children should be submitting photos of their work to their teacher at least once a week and feedback will be given.

  • There will be regular contact between school and the children through phone calls and zoom so that the children will be able to talk about their learning and we will be able to provide feedback.

  • There will be a contact button direct to the teacher to answer any questions and to send pictures of your work (which can then be placed in our Learning Gallery).

English Activities

Monday 18th January

Spelling: silent letters

This week we are going to be looking at silent letters. Silent letters are letters that we are unable to hear within a word. For example in the word thumb, the b is a silent letter as we don’t hear it, in the word known, the k is a silent letter.

Can you think of anymore examples of words containing silent letters?

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extra A please. Here are the key words to support you with this activity.

Reading:

Big Question: Can I summarise a text?

Here is the powerpoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Below are 3 different videos to support you with todays learning. Video 1 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Summarising’) talks you through the powerpoint and explains today’s learning activities. Video 2 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Highlighting key information’) talks you through how to identify key information within a text. Video 3 (which is titled ‘Monday 18th January – Sorting key information’) supports you with sorting the key information identified within the text into the 5 different categories who; what; where; when; and why.

TV, only friend for millions of OAP’s text

This video is to support the English reading remote learning activities for Monday 18th January.

This is a video to support the children with activity 2 for their English remote learning on Monday 18th January.

This video is to support you with activity 3 from your English remote learning activities for Monday 18th January.


Tuesday 19th January

Spelling: silent letters

Today we are going to be thinking about syllables. Remember syllables are the sounds we can hear within a word. Remember we use a slash (/) to represent a new syllable. There are some examples of words split into their syllables below.

Cas/tle       re/sign     lis/ten    wreck/age

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete Extension A please. Here are the key words to support you with this activity.

Reading:

Big Question: Can I summarise a text?

Here is the powerpoint explaining today’s learning activities

Chapter 3 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief



Wednesday 20th January

Spelling: silent letters

Can you identify the silent letters in the words listed below?

Should        designed        surprised        known

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete questions 1 and 2 please.

Grammar:

Big Question: Can I identify different types of adverbs?

Please watch the video below to explain today’s learning activities. Here is the powerpoint if you would like to read through it again.

 

Adverbs activity


Thursday 21st January

Spelling: silent letters

Can you match the words to their images? Once you have done that, can you identify the silent letter in each word?

hedges climbing castles climbing

Here is the link to your spelling activity for today. I would like you to complete questions 3 and 4 please. Once you have completed activity 4, can you put the vocabulary into sentences?

Planning:

Big Question: Can I plan a setting description based on the planet Pandora?

Today you are going to be planning a setting description based on the planet Pandora.

Here is the powerpoint explaining today’s learning activities.

Sigourney Weaver narrates this first look at the world of Pandora, as portrayed in James Cameron's epic new motion picture, Avatar. Opens worldwide December 18.

Planning proforma

Images of planet Pandora

Statutory spellings mat

Adjectives mat

Fronted adverbials mat

When to start a new paragraph mat

Friday 22nd January

Spelling: tricky words

Can you put the following vocabulary into rainbow sentences?

Escaping       exciting        including        moving        raising        wrestling

Remember, a rainbow sentence is where each sentence is a different colour.

Example sentences:

The castle, which was where the Princess had been trapped for the majority of her life, was hidden behind the gargantuan trees.

Reluctantly, the man began climbing up the arduous mountain, unaware of the danger he was placing himself in.

Writing:

Big Question: Can I use a range of sentence starters when writing a setting description?

Today you are going to be writing your setting description based on the planet Pandora.

Here is the powerpoint explaining today’s learning activities

Example setting description Theasurus.com Dictionary.com Images of planet Pandora

Statutory spellings mat Fronted adverbials mat Adjectives mat When to start a new paragraph mat

Story Time - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

 
Year 5Jessie Twigger