I know some of you have really been enjoying the on- line French. A little bit everyday really helps you develop your confidence.

Week 3 is called Qu’est-ce que c’est? and it’s all about naming and describing pets.

Have a go at a lesson a day

Qu’est-ce que c’est? What is it?

Our new topic this term is Ancient Egypt; I hope you ae going to enjoy it. We will be continuing to study this topic when you return to school so it’s a good idea to complete these lessons so you have an understanding of the work covered so far.

Our key question for the first lesson is:

Where is Ancient Egypt ?

Watch the video on Oak Academy to introduce you to Ancient Egypt and its rulers. In the video they refer to BCE ( before the common era) which is also known as BC (before Christ) which is before Jesus was born, so you can see how long ago the Egyptians ruled.

 Video Where is Ancient Egypt and who ruled it?

In order to complete this lesson, you will need to look at the two maps of Ancient Egypt below.

Map of ancient Egypt 1

Map of Ancient Egypt 2

Using the set of instructions, complete the blank map of Ancient Egypt. You may want to keep your blank map to put in your topic book when you return to school.

Ancient Egypt map instructions

Blank map

If you would like to know a little more about Ancient Egypt, watch the you-tube video below.

Ancient Egypt

Children who are coming into school we will be doing this lesson on Friday so please do not do before you come in!

I hope you are enjoying the short story by Anthony Horowitz. I couldn’t wait to get through the lessons to find out what happened! These lessons really examine the reading skills needed to analyse a text.

Wednesday

In today’s lesson we are going to focus on two of the lessons: lesson 3 and 4. In  lesson 3 we will read the next part of the story and make inferences to help us reflect upon how Kevin is feeling. Inference is often what children find hard in comprehension: reading between the lines to work out what is happening or what someone is feeling.

lesson 3 and 4

In the second lesson ( 4)  we will read the rest of interview and consider Kevin’s feelings, make predictions and consider the story arc in this short story.

There isn’t lots of writing so two lessons should be easy to manage.

Thursday

Today is our final lesson in this short unit. In this lesson we read part of the climax and consider how the scene and atmosphere changes as the story progresses. We reflect upon our previous predictions and the genre of this text.

lesson 5

I hope you enjoyed this short unit. If you are like me and want to know what happens at the end, don’t panic  as I  bought the book that contains the short story so will find somehow to read it to you.

Our English unit has a reading focus this week so I am not including any additional guided reading. I am running three live guided reading sessions. Rowling, I am afraid it’s your turn to miss out this week but you can do the Year 6 comprehension independently- I was really impressed by your depth of answers in our discussion last week. Children coming into school, I will be doing the guided reading with you on Wednesday, and the follow up will be on Thursday so don’t do it at home before you come in! It is really valuable discussing a text together so please join me if you can. Its also a good chance to catch up in a small group.

 Thursday 9:10am – 9:35am Walliams-

Hannah, Fabio, Laila, Will, Nina, Logan, Apryl, Molly, Oliver

Thursday 1:15pm – 1:40pm – Blyton

Amelia, Rosie, Evan, Poppy N, Pollyanna, Chloe, Maisie, Martha

Thursday 1:50pm – 2:15pm – Dahl

Poppy B, William M, Nina, Logan, Apryl, Molly, Oliver B

PLEASE DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE TEXT BEFORE YOUR LESSON OR HAVE IT AVAILABLE ON YOUR DEVICE TO READ.

Year 6 

Pig Heart Boy text

You don’t need the questions for the lesson but just for the follow up

Pig Heart Boy questions

pig heart boy answers

Year 5

The Iron Man text

You don’t need the questions for the lesson but just for the follow up

The Iron Man comprehension questions

iron man answers

If you have trouble joining the links, I will phone you on Teams

Links to guided reading sessions

Lots of you really enjoyed doing the French unit last week: C’est Moi! Many of you tried a short  daily lesson and realised how much it helped reinforce your vocabulary and grammar. Superb!

This week there is a 4 day unit  Ou habites-tu?  which means Where do you live? Why not try a daily lesson again? Join the link below

 Ou habites-tu?

I decided to enrol on Duolingo this weekend to improve my French.  I have been doing half an hour a day and I am really enjoying it.

Mrs Benson

For the last part of the week, we are taking a break from fractions, decimals and percentages. Instead, we are looking at a branch of maths called statistics. This involves the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. Lots of your parents will use tables and graphs in their jobs even though they’re not mathematicians.

This week we are not looking at graphs but focussing on types of tables- a way of organising and presenting data. This is strictly a year 5 objective but year 6 it is something you will continue to use at secondary school and there is always  a ‘table’  of some sort to analyse on the SATS paper.

Year 6 work this week is Diving into Mastery. If you want to build up your confidence by doing the year 5 sheet  first then that is fine.

Wednesday

Todays lesson is reading and interpreting tables. I want both year groups to watch the video

Read and interpret tables

Year 5

Y5- worksheet Read-and-interpret-tables-

Y5-Answers-Read-and-interpret-tables

Challenge reasoning questions for year 5 and 6-

Read and interpret tables reasoning

ANSWERS -Read and interpret tables reasoning

Year 6

Watch the year 5 video above. If you want to do the year 5 sheet, please do.

The majority  please attempt the Diving Deep into Mastery. The questions get harder so don’t worry if you find the last section too difficult.

 Read and Interpret Tables

Answers – Read and Interpret Tables

Thursday 

Today we will look at two way tables- it will make more sense when you see them! Mrs Bernasconi told me these still came up in A-Levels for her son so its worth trying to understand the simple ones now!

Year 5 and 6 

Watch the video on two-way tables.

Two way tables video

Year 5

Worksheet Two-way-tables-

Answers -Two-way-tables

Challenge for year 5 and year 6

Two way tables reasoning

Two way tables reasoning answers

Year 6

Watch the year 5 video

The Diving into Mastery questions get harder so don’t worry if sheet 3 is too difficult.

Year 6  – Two-Way Tables Diving into Mastery

Answers – Two-Way Tables

Friday

Today we are looking at timetables. You will come across these throughout your life particularly when you are using public transport. When there is a line or a blank it means the train or bus doesn’t stop there. In order to answer timetable questions you will need to know how to tell the time. If you still cant use an analogue and digital clock then Lockdown is the time to practise. When working out intervals of time count along on a number line. Remeber there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.

year 5 and 6  watch the video

Timetables video

Year 5 

Y5-worksheet Timetables-

Answer sheet-Timetables

Year 6

  Timetables

Answer – Timetables

Arithmetic 

Remember children at home are a week behind the arithmetic paper in school so if you were in school last week you will have seen this one. You can do it one session or spread it out like we do at school. It s NOT the ones we get right that matter but the ones we get wrong. Where did you go wrong? And how? can you correct it?

Year 5 

Y5-Arithmetic-Full-Test-5

Year 6

ArithmeticPaper5

Remember Mrs Bernasconi and I will get back to any children struggling with a specific question or concept in our ‘maths surgery’. This will not be within the maths lesson as we are teaching but we will get back to you as soon as we can.