Year 5 Snow Day activities

Good morning year 5.

We hope you are all excited about the snow day and have plans to go outside and safely enjoy the snow!

We would love for you to build a snowman, snow pet or anything your imagination can dream up! Take a picture and email it to our year 5 email address (newdale.year5team@taw.org.uk) as we’d love to see them!

Remember to go for a walk in the snow and have hot chocolate (if you can) and make those Snow Day memories.

 

For indoor learning

 

Maths we ask for you to please spend some time on Times Tables Rock Stars, to increase your speed and recall. Complete a few sound checks and prepare for to new weekly times table challenge we shall start next week! All we be revealed on Wednesday :)

 

Friday’s are usually our arithmetic days so please complete these questions on paper – remember to show your workings and show off your skills to your adults (they will be shocked at the calculations you are able to complete).

  1. 4827 + 3164 =
  2. 7632 − 2487 =
  3. 4002 − 1784 =
  4. 6²=
  5. 864 ÷ 4 =
  6. 972 ÷ 3 =
  7. 523 x 5 =
  8. 476 x 13 =
  9. 0.32 x 1000 =
  10. 54.8 ÷ 1000 =

 

As a part of our Literacy we have been looking at persuasive writing techniques, posters and leaflets. Our task has been linked to advertising the shops in Diagon Alley (Harry Potter) and trying to persuade people to shop there.

Can you produce a poster or a leaflet advertising Diagon Alley or one of the shops there?

Shops:

Madam Malkin’s Robes         Gringotts Bank        Flourish and Blotts 

Ollivanders Wand Shop     Eeylops Owl Emporium     Apothecary 

Quality Quidditch Supplies 

 

Persuasive techniques:

Bold writing        bullet points        alliteration        similes

Pictures        emotive language    facts    opinions    statistics

Rhetorical questions    modal verbs        personal address

 

You could do this on the computer or on paper. Remember, we would love to see it, so email it in, if completed online or bring it to school with you next week.

 

Spellings 

As we were unable to hand out the homework for the spelling words, we will provide them here for you.

You could practise writing them over and over, pyramid writing, or create a colourful collage of all the words. We will still have our usual Friday spelling test on these next week.

Special Focus 1: Words that contain the letter -string ough

fought

ought

nought

bought

cough

trough

rough

tough

enough

Thorough

 

Please remember to stay safe and enjoy the snow in a sensible way.

We look forward to seeing you Monday, bright and early (6.45am) on Rock Road for our school trip 🙂

 

Stay safe,

The year 5 team

Walk-in vaccination clinics for 12-15 year olds

Walk in COVID-19 vaccine clinics for young people aged 12-15 years old are being held at Southwater 1 on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 November 2021. Parents are asked to accompany their child, to ensure that parental consent is sought.

Friday 5 November 2021, 1pm – 4.30pm
Saturday 6 November 2021, 1pm – 4.30pm

Spellings for the final week of term

This week, we will assess the children on the Jumping Orange words which they have had plenty of time to practise.

 

For homework, we would like each child to keep a moon diary which will take moments each day. Everyday, at the same chosen time, we would like the children to look up at the moon and draw it onto the sheet. If the weather is cloudy, then simply draw clouds! Hopefully they will begin to notice that the moon is ever changing. Week 7 jumping orange

 

Should your child wish to continue their investigation of the moon, they could produce a fact file or poster showing off their own research.

 

Here are a few good starting points for research:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zvw8q6f

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-54698308

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/space/solar-system/moon/

Explore the moon using Google Moon! – https://www.google.co.uk/moon/