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Year 5 - May 11th 2020​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Please note this is a guide of what children will be doing in school, there is no requirement for all of these tasks to be completed each day! Timings are just a guide, do what suits you and your child each day.

Learning Timetable

Duration:

  

2 minutes

 Morning Greeting

30 minutes

PE with Joe!

Get active with Joe Wick’s 30-minute fitness videos. You can access today’s video here. This will be live streamed at 9:30am, or available to replay any time after that.

15 minutes

Daily Reading Skills: I know, I wonder I infer

Read your reading book then write down 1 fact you know, 1 fact you have inferred and 1 fact you are wondering about.

1 hour

English

This week we will be looking at character descriptions. In this lesson, we are going to learn how retrieve information using a character description.

This is a link for Oak National Academy, which is an online school that is run by teachers. Your task is to follow the learning journey this week, this includes watching the virtual lessons and completing the activities. You will need to press the 'next activity' button to advance the lesson.
Break

10 minutes

Daily Maths Skills

Fluent in Five – have a go at these five fluency questions

  1. 60 x 12 =
  2. 16,483 + 74,435 =
  3. 61 + 30 =
  4. 83,328 – 76,397 =
  5. 6,507 ÷ 10 =

1 hour

Maths

Converting units of time

In this lesson we are starting a new unit of work on converting measurements. In this lesson we will be looking at time. We will start with a revision of time facts. As the lesson develops, we will hone our skills of converting between seconds, minutes and hours and by the end of this lesson, you will be solving time-related problems on a blank numberline whilst also converting units of time.

This is a link for Oak National Academy, which is an online school that is run by teachers. Your task is to follow the learning journey this week, this includes watching the virtual lessons and completing the activities. You will need to press the 'next activity' button to advance the lesson.

20 minutes

Spelling

Ask an adult or sibling to test you on last week’s words. The words were:
yesterday, tomorrow, later, immediately, earlier, eventually, recently, previously, finally, lately

This week’s words are all adverbials of place.

The words are: nearby, everywhere, nowhere, inside, downstairs, outside, upstairs, underneath, behind, somewhere

Practice the words using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check technique.

Use a dictionary to look up the meaning of any words you are unsure of.
Lunch Break

20 minutes

TTRockstars

Practise your times tables on the website below:

TimesTableRockstars

1 hour

DT: Food

National Vegetarian Week runs from 11 - 17th May 2020 and is an annual event to educate people about the benefits of a meat-free diet.

Whether you are a meat eater or already vegetarian, challenge yourself to try a new vegetarian recipe this week. You can find out more about National Vegetarian Week and find some delicious recipes to try here. Ask an adult to help you cook one or more of the recipes during the week. I’d love to see what you make!

20 minutes

Watch Newsround

Discuss the main stories with a partner or family member

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