We are going to focus on writing a diary entry for two days. You will imagine you are Lyra and write the diary as if you were Lyra. This part of the story includes the Ice Bear – I think he is my favourite character!

Monday

Today, you will plan your diary entry. This will include some practice of sentence skills, gathering of vocabulary.

LO: to plan a diary

Remember to keep your build up work in a book or on paper as we would do in class.

Tuesday

Today, you will review use of dashes for parenthesis, will analyse a piece of model writing to support this outcome before writing a diary entry from the viewpoint of the main character, Lyra.

LO: to write a diary

I would love to see these diary entries. If you can, type it in word and send it to me by email or save it into the Blue Class Teams folder. Don’t worry if you can’t do that – a picture of handwritten work is fine too.

Mrs Bernasconi

Wednesday 20th January

Today you will be looking at lesson 14 of the Golden compass

To write a narrative scene – free write

In this lesson, you will practise writing a relative clause complex sentence. You will review all elements of planning for this scene before having the opportunity to free write the narrative scene using some of the vocabulary and skills you learnt earlier in the week.

Thursday 21st January

In this lesson, you will  be looking at a new scene in the Golden Compass. You will be exploring  vocabulary to support this new writing outcome. You  will review complex sentences with a non-finite clause and will then practise writing these for a new scene to support your writing.

lesson 16 Non-finite clauses

Friday 22nd January

In this lesson, you will focus on adverbials to support text cohesion and then write adverbials to support the flow of writing in the next writing outcome. Text cohesion is important – it means the text flows and each section is linked so it doesn’t seem ‘clunky’.

lesson 18 To develop text cohesion through adverbials

Arithmetic

I would like all of you to attempt the arithmetic sheet. In school we break it up into three parts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. If you get lots of answers correct, that is fantastic. However, we only learn from our mistakes. If they’re daft ones – correct them. If you’re not sure, ask an adult or ask Mrs Bernasconi or myself. The children who eventually achieve greater depth in their SATs usually achieve almost full marks in this paper. It means they don’t need to acquire such a high score in the reasoning and problem solving papers. Keep practising and you will get better!

Y5-Arithmetic-Full-Test-3

year 6 Arithmetic Paper 3

Wednesday 

Today we ae focussing on percentages as fractions and decimals. This is revision for year 6 and new for year 5,

All watch the video

percentages as fractions and decimals

All attempt worksheet. If you’re confident year 6 start on sheet 2.

Percentages as fractions and decimals 

answers  Percentages as fractions and decimals 

Most year 6, Evan, Rosie and Chloe  attempt the challenge sheet. These are the type of questions you would see in SATs.

percentages as fractions and decimals challenge sheet

answers percentages as fractions and decimals challenge sheet

Thursday

Today we are focussing on equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.

Year 5 there is not a white rose video for your work as we are working out of sequence so you can cover the same work as the year 6. Watch the first part of the year 6, who are covering the same objective , video  below

Equivalent fractions , decimals and percentages video

Y5 worksheet Equivalent FDP

Y5 answers Equivalent FDP

Year 6 

Watch all of  the video below as this is a year 6 video. Sorry not sure why that has come as direct video. Identical to one I posted for year 5 above!

Y6  Equivalent FDP worksheet

Y6  Answers Equivalent FDP

Friday

Year 5

You will continue to focus on equivalent fraction, percentage and decimals. There is no video today as you are reinforcing the work from yesterday,

If you feel you need more practice. Attempt the classroom secrets fluency sheet below. remember the first one is developing, the second is expected and the last is greater depth. Even if you are confident don’t start with greater depth .

Equivalent-FDP fluency

If you want to attempt some reasoning and problem solving – do the sheet below. Always start with expected level

-Reasoning and problem solving Equivalent-FDP

Year 6 

Today you are ordering fractions, decimals and percentages. watch the video below

order fractions, decimals and percentages

Y6 worksheet Order FDP

Y6 answers Order FDP

If you would like a challenge attempt the sheet below; it is the type of question you see in SATs

order fractions and decimals challenge year 6

order fractions, decimals and percentages challenge answers

I hope you are enjoying our topic so far and have completed your map work. You should have a good understanding by now of where the Mediterranean  sea is located and the countries and continents that surround it. Many  us think of the Mediterranean  as being purely European but Asian and African continents adjoin the Mediterranean sea.

In todays lesson we are answering the key question.

What is  a Mediterranean Climate like? 

Think  back to our work last term on biomes. What climatic Zone is the Mediterranean in? It is in the temperate climate zone ( as is the UK ) but the Mediterranean experiences a warm temperate climate.

Today you are going to explore temperatures and rainfall in  the Mediterranean.

Spain costa del sol climate graph

Climate graph Sicily

Turkey  climate graph

Chose one or two of the graphs and answer the questions on the sheet. In class it is easier for us all to chose a different graph and see a pattern.

Looking at your climate graph home learning

• Which months had over 60mm of rain?
• Which three months had the least rainfall?
• In what months was the temperature over 20 degrees Celsius?
• What was the hottest month and how hot was it?
• What three months was the coldest and what was the temperature of the coldest month?

Now try looking at another Mediterranean climate graph? Can we see any patterns?

Other parts of the world are said to experience a Mediterranean climate even though they are not in the Mediterranean.

• Look at the graph of California  (in the west of the USA) which experiences a Mediterranean climate. Is it a  similar pattern  to Europe? Note the temperature here is measured in Farenheit.  California climate graph. 
• Now look at the graph of Melbourne (in southern  Australia) which also experiences a Mediterranean climate. How is this different? Do you know why? Melbourne climate