Please be mindful that as I am in school full-time from now on, I won’t be able to respond as regularly to children’s messages on Purple Mash. Please see this week’s optional tasks below.
| Reading | English | Maths | PE | Other | |
| M | This week, you’ll be working through this Talk for Writing booklet called Meet the Rhi-swano-zeb-tah. Remember, if you can’t print it off, you can read the tasks from the screen.
For your reading task, work up to page 8 (Get Exploring! and Interests, Questions and Favourites) |
Practise this week’s spellings on Spelling Shed: search Y5Sum2-1 (or swap the 5 for a 6 if you’re in Year 6).
For your writing task, work through pages 9-11 of your booklet (Let’s Explore the Words!). |
Purple Mash 2do: 10 daily maths questions. Mrs Buckland is setting these every Mon, Tues and Weds each week for all of KS2. It would be good for you to try them to keep your arithmetic skills up!
Today’s revision lesson is on perimeter (LbQ code to follow). Your alternative task is this worksheet – the answers are here. Here is a video that might help! |
Joe Wicks and/or #ThisisPE lesson 9 – fast feet. Try some of the activities! | Art: Draw with Rob – monster!
Music: Learn about composing music using sounds you can find around the house in this BBC lesson. You could use Chrome Music Lab to record your composition! (This video teaches you how to blow a grass trumpet if you wanted to use that sound!) |
| Tu | Work through p12-14 of your booklet (Let’s think about the text a little more). | Work through p15-18 of your booklet (Now for some grammar). | Today’s revision lesson is on area (LbQ code to follow). Your alternative task is this White Rose Maths worksheet – the answers are here. Here is a video that might help! | Joe Wicks and/or complete the activities from Day 5 on Real PE (Jasmine active).
Username: parent@westoxford-1.com |
DT: Use recycled and natural materials in this lesson to create a bird feeder for the garden.
Art: Think carefully about how you have felt during the last few weeks. Can you think of 5-10 words to describe your emotions? Write them in different fonts across a piece of paper, then draw your self-portrait (you could use this Rob Biddulph tutorial) to stick over the top. See the picture below for what it should look like! |
| W | Read your own book for 30 minutes | Work through p19-23 of your booklet (Write Away! and Your Turn!). | Today’s revision lesson is on the area of a triangle (LbQ code to follow). Your alternative task is this White Rose Maths worksheet – the answers are here. | Joe Wicks and/or #ThisisPE lesson 10 – flat target accuracy. Try some of the activities! | Art: Think of something that has made you happy during lockdown. Can you create the word out of things round your house? See the picture below for inspiration!
Science: How does a leaf breathe? See the picture below which explains the experiment! |
| Th | Read your own book for 30 minutes | Work through p24-25 of your booklet (What other rare, not yet discovered, creature could you write about? and Get Planning!). | Today’s revision lesson is on the area of a parallelogram (LbQ code to follow). Your alternative task is this White Rose Maths worksheet – the answers are here. | Joe Wicks and/or complete the activities from Day 6 on Real PE (Jasmine active).
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History: Learn a bit about the Anglo-Saxons with this BBC lesson. Year 5s – this is our first topic next year so this should give you a bit of a headstart! 😊
French: 20 minutes on Duolingo |
| F | Read your own book for 30 minutes | Work through p26 to the end of your booklet, where you’ll be writing up your information text! | Today’s revision lesson is on volume (LbQ code to follow). Your alternative task is this White Rose Maths worksheet – the answers are here. | Joe Wicks and/or #ThisisPE lesson 11 – catching. Try some of the activities! | Computing: 30 minutes on code.org
For fun: Learn how to make shadow puppets! |
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