This week we are going to focus on some of the comprehension objectives  from the Year 5/6 programme of study. This unit of work from Oak Academy uses a story from a book of short stories: A  Career in Computer Games by Anthony Horrowitz, We will be covering all five lessons during the week.

Monday

LO: to engage with the text and main character  video link

In this lesson you will be introduced to the short story we will be studying in this unit and the author. We will read the first part of the story and reflect upon the main character’s behaviour, interests and relationships.

Tuesday

LO: to consider the author’s use of language and further understand the main character video link

In this lesson the you will read the next part of the story. We will consider the author’s use of language. We will then keep reading and reflect upon what we can infer about Kevin, the main character.

This is the last part of our Materials Unit of work – there are two lessons this week:

Lesson 1

How can we tell a chemical reaction has taken place?

In this lesson, we will learn about the difference between physical changes and chemical reactions. We will learn about the particles in both of these types of change and the signs to look out for in a chemical reaction. You will need a pencil, a ruler and a piece of paper for this lesson. If you have baking soda and vinegar then you will need that for an investigation too, but don’t worry you can still take part without these things. Click here for video

Lesson 2

In this lesson, we will learn about combustion reactions. We will learn what a fuel is and what happens when a fuel combusts. We will practise writing combustion equations and interpret the results from an experiment on combustion.

Click here for video

This video  Teachers TV: Science Tube: How Stuff Changes covers lots of everyday examples of materials changing which would be hard to see in the classroom. It’s quite lively and  children usually really enjoy it.

For those of you who have found this science topic really interesting there is also this STEM video you could watch.

Have any of you made crystals at home? It would be great to share the photos.

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.

We are coming to the end of our work on the Golden Compass. Over the next three days, we will be producing a piece of writing on the video clip portraying Lara and Mrs Coulter. We will be working on the first part of the scene and then the final piece. Please send me your work in ONE edited piece at the end of the week.

Wednesday 

Today you will write a compound sentence to use later in your writing. Using your notes from yesterday and last week, you will write the first part of the final scene. Remember to :

• Refer to characters in different ways
• Include speech and remember to convey character and advance the action
• Communicate drama through varied sentence structures.

To write the first part of the final scene lesson 28

Thursday ( lesson 29 of Oak Academy)

In today’s lesson, you will edit and improve a short paragraph before analysing and planning the final part of this narrative scene. This is a dramatic scene where the characters have a heated discussion which turns into a brief, physical altercation.

To plan the final part of the narrative scene lesson 29

Some of you may well want to combine this lesson with tomorrow’s as I feel we have been analysing this scene for a while!

Friday ( lesson 30 of Oak Academy)

This is our final lesson on The Golden Compass. You have covered a lot of the grammar and some punctuation needed for Year 5/6 so the skills you have learnt you will be able to apply to other narrative writing.

In today’s lesson, you will complete a sentence level warm-up, with a focus on three short sentences used for effect. You will analyse model writing for this scene before writing their own narrative for the final part of the final scene.

To write the final part of the scene

Please send me ( Mrs Benson) your finished piece incorporating Wednesday and Fridays work. I am looking forward to reading your work.

Why not watch The Golden Compass  film so you can see the whole story? The video is available to rent on Prime or some of you may have another movie channel. His Dark Materials– the series- is available for free on -player. The first series covers The Golden Compass ( or Northern Lights the book). It may be something you would like to watch with your parents or an older sibling. It is not really suitable for younger children.

Bonjour!

I have been struggling to find a way to follow and keep up with our curriculum in French. However, I have been watching the Oak Academy videos which look fabulous and are a way of practising the language. Some of the work is vocabulary we have covered but each lesson has some interesting new phonetic information. It is also useful to repeat things we have learnt to embed it in our brain.

May I suggest doing one lesson a day this week. It’s a great afternoon activity and involves little or no writing! Each lesson follows on from the last. This week’s lessons are C’est Moi – this is me. There are 5 short lessons. Don’t attempt more than one a day as you won’t embed the language.

C’est Moi

Children off to secondary school next year will all learn a  modern language – for many of you it will be French, However, even if it is another modern language, having some knowledge of one language already will make it easier.

Au- revoir!