Blakeney’s Week Ahead Tuesday 2nd January

---

Welcome back Blakeney!

I hope you had a wonderful break with your family.

These are the remote learning notes for the week. As you read through, you will notice that the daily lessons follow the same timetable that we use at school. Therefore, everything below is your ‘class work’ which you will be doing at home. I say this as you might be confused about the homework grid; that grid is additional and can be done whenever you want to or if you have free time and fancy doing something on there. It is important for you to keep up with the school timetabled lessons by following the daily timetable of work as set out below. Please also read the additional notes here before starting your work for the week:

Power Maths notes: The practice book and text book pages can be obtained directly from me via email and cannot be published on the website for copyright reasons. Just write and ask for the relevant lessons and I will email them back.

Maths Stretch and Challenge: I have also provided challenge work for those children who would like to do a challenge after doing the Power Maths lesson.

Maths Work for Mrs Lacey’s group: For those children who normally work in the hall with Mrs Lacey, you won’t need to do the Power Maths lessons unless you want to. Work is provided for you below and this week, we are focusing on Multiplying by 5. You can use uncooked pasta to help you count or any other small items that you have lots of at home!

Times tables notes: Please remember that you can login to ‘Tackling Tables’ to practise your times tables. You should be able to find premade flash cards on that website. Please email me if you have forgotten your login details for the website.

Education City notes: If you go to classwork, there are three folders where you can take assessments in Maths, English and Reading. After doing the assessments, Education City will then provide you with revision work that is designed to meet your individual needs. That’s right, by doing the assessments, the activities provided will be tailor made just for you!

Printing notes: Problems with printing? You won’t need to print anything off if you don’t want to. You can do all the work by looking at it on the computer screen and taking notes in a notebook or on paper.

Feedback: Remember to send a copy of your work to me by the end of the week or daily. This can be done by sending a photograph or attaching a document to

Keep in touch and let me know if you have any problems. I look forward to seeing you back at school soon! Take care.

Tuesday

8.45 – 9.00 Tackling Tables

9 – 10 Power Maths (Unit 7 Lesson 1 – Multiplication and Division unit)

Challenge: For anyone who was working on 3 x 2 digits before the break, this is an extension that you can do. Don’t forget the zero when you drop down to multiply the digit in the tens column! Tuesday Maths extension

Support: For those of you who usually work with Mrs Lacey in the hall, this is your work for today. You can use pasta to help you count or any small item that you have lots of at home! Don’t look at the answers until you’ve finished! Click on this link for the worksheet: Tuesday support worksheet

We are starting Book B in our Power Maths books for the Spring Term. For additional online support with teacher guidance, check out the following Oak Academy lesson…

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/multiples-and-factors-6gr32d

Break – snack

10.15 – 11.15 – English

We are starting a unit looking at using the technique of time slip in our narratives. We need to think about how to describe our setting and characters really well; how to use suspense in our writing and also how we manage a time slip (a change in the time) being described. Lots to think about!

As usual we will begin by sharpening up our descriptive techniques by writing a short piece of text describing an image. Remember to write your initial ideas down, then go back and edit them. Have you chosen the very best vocabulary you can? Does your writing put an image into your reader’s head? Have your made your reader feel something? Here is a really useful video by Tom Palmer, a published author, who explains exactly how he does this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUScPnDwzPU

Try this when you do your short burst writing.

Here is the image I would like you to use today:

11.15 – 11.45 – Reading Comprehension

Year 5-6 Reading extract and questions – Trappers Hill  Set A questions

11.45 – 12.00 – Spelling Lesson Spring 1 Week 1 Using nouns with suffix –ity  

This is our word list for the week:

community             sensitivity

curiosity                    possibility

ability                         flexibility

captivity                   visibility

activity                      eternity

The powerpoint spelling lesson can be found on this link: t2-e-4601-year-5-term-2a-week-1-spelling-pack_ver_9

PowerPoint

Lunch

13:00-13:30 Lexia or Education City assessment (log in and go to classwork)

13:30-15:00 Topic 

Our Topic this term has a geography focus and the overarching question we will investigate is – Do we create the weather?

This is an enquiry which involves students working as geographers acquiring skills to answer questions about the causes and consequences of global warming. The Arctic and Antarctic are looked at in detail and the impact of climate change on Arctic, Antarctic and UK animals are examined.

Lesson 1 Key Question: Why are so many people in King’s Lynn and Britain trying to help the planet? In this lesson, chn learn about some of the things that people are doing to help the environment. There will also be a focus on key vocabulary.

Click on the following link to the powerpoint and follow the lesson on there: Topic Lesson Week 1

Further explanation about the greenhouse effect can be found on these links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwPFXzLH8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJJM_hCFj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTvqIijqvTg

Wednesday

 8.45 – 9.00 Tackling Tables

9 – 10 Power Maths (multiplication Unit 7 Lesson 2)

Challenge: For anyone who was working on 3 x 2 digits before the break, this is an extension that you can do. Don’t forget the zero when you drop down to multiply the digit in the tens column! This is a booklet – do one worksheet a day.

Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Answers-Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Support: For those of you who usually work with Mrs Lacey in the hall, this is your work for today. You can use pasta to help you count or any small item that you have lots of at home! Don’t look at the answers until you’ve finished! Click on this link for the worksheet: Wednesday support worksheet

For additional online support with teacher guidance, check out the following Oak Academy lesson…

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/factor-pairs-61k3cd

Break – snack

10.15 – 11.15 English

Today, we will continue to sharpen up our descriptive techniques by writing a short piece of text describing an image. Remember to write your initial ideas down, then go back and edit them. Have you chosen the very best vocabulary you can? Does your writing put an image into your reader’s head? Have your made your reader feel something? Here is a really useful video by Tom Palmer, a published author, who explains exactly how he does this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUScPnDwzPU

Try this when you do your short burst writing.

Here is the image I would like you to use today:

11.15 – 11.45 – Spelling and Handwriting Practice –using your spelling list for this week, practise writing the words in cursive script. Remember – in Year 5, you are expected to join your handwriting.

11.45 – 12.00 – Reading for pleasure

Read a book of your choice

Lunch

13:00-13:30 Lexia or Education City activity

13:30- 14:15 RE

In RE this term we are thinking about the question ‘what makes us human?’ Think of one word that you think answers that question. What animal do you think is the closest to a human being? How is this animal similar to a human and how is it different?

Christians believe that we are made in the image of God. What does this mean?

We have worth for who we are, NOT what we do, because God made us. We are unique.

How is that different from the way the world works: we are judged by how we perform, what we do.

SCENARIO: Coronavirus: ‘I know my life will not be saved in this pandemic’

Watch video about disabled lady.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52149219

What have you learned from this lesson?

14:15-15:00 Music

This term you will collaborate in groups to work towards a signed song performance of your own creation.  Before we begin, we will watch and evaluate a range of music performances done using sign. You will evaluate the music piece based on:

• What sort of story is it telling? What do you think it is about?
• How do the performers communicate the narrative – think about expression, body language, rhythm. 
• How does the music communicate mood – does it  express happiness, sadness, fear, excitement etc
• What do you think about the performance (like and dislike)? Is it effective?

Click on the links to begin thinking…

Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5WnWEz2Hg

Dance Monkey – Tones and I  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQd3kqx263I

Keala Settle – This is Me   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jNwvJ-vZU0

Thursday

8.45 – 9.00 Tackling Tables

9 – 10  Power Maths (Unit 7 Lesson 3)

Challenge: For anyone who was working on 3 x 2 digits before the break, this is an extension that you can do. Don’t forget the zero when you drop down to multiply the digit in the tens column! This is a booklet – do one worksheet a day.

Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Answers-Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Support: For those of you who usually work with Mrs Lacey in the hall, this is your work for today. You can use pasta to help you count or any small item that you have lots of at home! Don’t look at the answers until you’ve finished! Click on this link for the worksheet: Thursday support worksheet

For additional online support with teacher guidance, check out the following Oak Academy lesson…

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/prime-numbers-65j38e

Break – snack

10.15 – 11.15 – English

Now is the time to write your cold task. It  must use suspense, quality description and be a story where you tell the story from 2 different times (you may choose to go forward in time, or back in time).

11.15 – 11.30 – Spelling practice

Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check : Create four columns on a page. Write your spelling words down the first column. Then follow the  taught method.

11.30 – 12.00 – Reading Comprehension

Year 5-6 Reading extract and questions – The Alps  Set A questions

Lunch

13:00-13:30 Lexia or Education City activity

13:30- 15:00 Science

In this unit we are studying systems in the human body, including the circulatory system. Make your front page for topic (title of ‘Circulatory system). Brainstorm what you already know about the topic and think of some questions you would like answered.

Here is a very short video to give you some ideas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr48r2p

Friday

8.45 – 9.00 Tackling Tables

9 – 10 Power Maths (Unit 7 Lesson 4)

Challenge: For anyone who was working on 3 x 2 digits before the break, this is an extension that you can do. Don’t forget the zero when you drop down to multiply the digit in the tens column! This is a booklet – do one worksheet a day.

Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Answers-Year 6-Addition-Subtraction-Multiplication-and-Division

Support: For those of you who usually work with Mrs Lacey in the hall, this is your work for today. You can use pasta to help you count or any small item that you have lots of at home! Don’t look at the answers until you’ve finished! Click on this link for the worksheet: Friday support worksheet

For additional online support with teacher guidance, check out the following Oak Academy lesson…

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/factor-and-multiple-chains-6gvp6c

Break – snack

10.15 – 11.15 – English

Here is the model text and the text map we are going to be using in this unit.

Copy of Kidnapped text

Copy of Kidnapped text map

The text map only has the first 2 paragraphs mapped for you – can you do the rest?

11.15 – 11.45 Reading Comprehension work

Year 5-6 Reading extract and questions – The Alps  Set B questions

11.45 – 12.00  Spelling test – ask someone to test you on your word list

Lunch

13:00-13:30 Lexia or Education City activity

13:30- 15:00 Art

This half term we will be studying Op Art and how it has been used to inspire fashion designers. Find out about these artists:

Édouard Manet (1832-83) French Modernist painter

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Dutch Abstract artist

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor

Victor Vasarely (1906-97) Hungarian Op artist

Richard Serra (born 1938) American printer and sculptor .

How have they inspired fashion designers? Choose one of these artists to find out more about them. Think about how you will present your work on the artist you choose.

I really hope you have enjoyed your learning this week Blakeney! Well done for all your hard work and effort – I’m very proud of you and can’t wait to see you in person soon.

Take good care of yourself 🙂

Ms Black