Home Learning 7.12.18
| Year 5 and 6 Home Learning- Friday 7thDecember. Due in Friday 14thDecember. |
| Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes
Spellings –please practice them and remember you can now use ‘Spellodrome’. Times Tables – Rock Stars |
You need to look for the celebration your group is working on.
| You are currently working on the celebration of Diwali on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Hindu celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make paper lanterns, create firework art, create flower garlands, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light Food Sugar disk sweets, samosas, home-made festive sweets such as Jalebis (please remember no nuts) Optional Extras Create a traditional costume to wear, create some jewellery, cut out footprints to place on the floor to welcome Lakshmi |
| You are currently working on the celebration of Christmas on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make a red and gold wreath, create cardboard Christmas tree, create decorations for the tree, finds some battery-powered fairy lights Food Mince Pie, Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, yule log Optional Extras Make a stocking, create small nativity scene, make some crackers |
| You are currently working on the celebration of Hanukah on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make a blue and white wreath, create a Star of David, create blue and white bunting, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light Food Potato Latke, doughnuts, sweet noodle kugel Optional Extras Find the instructions playing for dreidel, create a dreidel, make some gold coins |
The children in Ebony Class have started their swimming lessons at Dawlish Leisure Centre! The children have come with a lot of confidence and been able to show their previous swimming ability.
The children will be working on their techniques and challenging each other to push each other further.
Today the children in Mr Pattison’s group looked at front crawl – with an emphasis on arms and breathing, tumble turns and diving. We finished off with some very competitive front crawl relays.
Today has been a great day, where the children have had the chance to participate in raft building, caving, coastering, high ropes and orienteering. Although we had a little bit of rain, all children showed excellent resilience. They are all looking forward to their final full day of activities tomorrow.
In Mega Maths today the children looked at the Spirals from previous lessons. They had the opportunity to create larger versions. The children didn’t disappoint and used collaboration to create giant Caravelle, concentric circle spirals and Golden Spirals.
The children have been looking at the work of famous mathematicians and how their work influenced others. The classes looked at the Fibonacci sequence of 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 … They were amazed to find out how the sequence linked to nature and the real world.
We spent the lesson making Golden Spirals, which can be seen in seashells and within the human ear. These girls went one step further and couldn’t stop, producing a giant sized Golden Spiral.
BIG WRITE
Today the children came to the end of the persuasive writing topic, with their big write. The children worked extremely hard and used their learning to help produce some fantastic letters.
The pictures show the children using their resources to help with their writing.
The children started today’s lesson with a vocabulary warm up.
Using the vocabulary for this topic, the children played games like snap and pairs to further their understanding of the words required to make their persuasive letters successful.
Today the children used the model persuasive letter to create a plan. Using the success criteria from the elicit action task, the children were able to pick out the key information and then create a plan the writer could have used.
The children will use this plan to help with their Big Write next week!
Today the children had a go at converting between different measurements. The children used their prior learning and were able to make links between the units.
Have a look at all the units of measure the children identified!
Today the group were able to make sequences out of art straws. The children worked really hard and were able to move on to finding the nth term!
Using their knowledge of multiplication and last weeks algebra, they created simple formulae for each sequence.
Today the children experienced Algebra for the first time. The children showed great resilience and were able to help each other out to solve some questions.
Using letters instead of numbers, the children were then able to create their own questions for their peers!
In preparation for the Big Write tomorrow the children had a go at writing their first draft of their introductions and conclusions. The children tried really hard to include all the skills they have learnt over the past 2 weeks, like logical connectives.
Here are some examples of work produced!
Watch this video to give you information about food chains. Can you spot the technical terminology?
https://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/foodchains/
You can also have a go at making your own food chain, with make-a-map.
The children were asked to produce pieces of writing that include logical connectives. The children had to include reasons for and against zoos and had to include the high level vocabulary for this topic.
Below are some great examples of the work produced!
Today the children were asked to find the area, perimeter and volume of the classroom. To some people this would be seen as a daunting challenge, but the children collaborated brilliantly and were able to use metre rulers to find the measurements needed.
Today the children continued to make their new books. This time they are making a Japanese Book Bind that will contain a number of factual pages on their Top 10 Animals.
Here are a few pictures of the children using hand drills, and then threading the ribbon to create the binding of their book.
Today 12 children took part in the first Team 3 Spelling Bee. It was a close fought event and year 5 was won by Nathan , whilst 1st place was shared by Phoebe and Adam in year 6.
The children performed extremely well and should be very proud of themselves!
A special mention needs to go to the other competitors: Kiera, Henry, Finlay, Morgan and Luke from year 5. Also Ethan, Zakary, Shana and Isaac from year 6. Well Done!
During break and lunchtime, many of the younger children have been enjoying the books created by year 6.
Make sure you come and have look, the children would love you to see them!
The children’s completed books are now up on display in the Year 6 corridor.
Come and have a read and look at their fantastic illustrations, but remember to be careful and put them back when you have finished!
The children used Polydron to create the 3D shapes they looked at yesterday. Once they had madd the shape, they were able to identify the different nets that can be used to make it.
On Saturday, Kiera Marment competed in the British Tae Kwon Do Championships in Exeter. She did extremely well and came home with the Bronze Medal.
A huge well done, and a testament to the time and effort you put into the sport you enjoy.
Today the children looked at the properties of 3D shapes. They had to identify the name of the shape, number of faces, number of vertices, number of edges and the base shape.
The children also used the video below to help them find some of the facts.
Can you answer the following question?
How many vertices does a square based pyramid have?
This afternoon, Maple class visited year 6 to hear the brilliant children’s stories that they have created. The children have written and built their own book during literacy and SOLE and were extremely proud to show off their fantastic creations.
