We hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend. It was great to see all of the science reports you sent us. We know that science is a favourite of many of you, so it was not a surprise to hear that a lot of you carried out more than one of the experiments. We also enjoyed reading the responses sent through the learning conversation form and have taken on board some of your suggestions and ideas for working from home. This week’s learning focus is mainly on ‘light’ and we hope you enjoy all the experiments in response to your requests. Please read below for information on all the other learning experiences we’ve planned. We really do look forward to hearing from you and seeing your tasks, thank you to all of you who have sent them in.
Every week we will upload a short video to explain a task or show you how to do something included in your learning grids. We are looking forward to sharing things with you this way. We hope you enjoy the videos and they help you with your home learning.
You can find the learning grid for this week below with information about the different tasks and extra resources to help you to complete the activities.
You will still find maths, spelling and grammar activities on Sumdog to do in addition to your grid.
We look forward to hearing from you this week.
From Miss Hall and Mrs Graham
Maths
Four Operations:
It is important to continue to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies on a regular basis. Little and often works well with this. We have included activities on Sumdog to help with this. You can also ask your child to complete questions verbally.
Time
This week’s time focus is on talking about how we use time to plan our daily lives and how to convert different units of time. To fully understand time and be able to confidently tell the time, children need to have an understanding of different time periods and how these can be recorded and measured, for example age, timetables, calendars and so on. They also need to be able to understand why this is important in real life contexts.
This week’s activity asks the children to think of a person or character and their daily lives. They are then asked to create a type of mind map to show how time is used and measured in that person’s daily life. They can choose a real person and focus on a particular job, they can choose a famous person or even a character from a book or film. The children should draw a picture of the person in the middle of a page. They should then think about the different time calculations that person might do in their day and the time devices they use. For example, a footballer might: – use an alarm clock to get up – check the clock in their car – use a stopwatch to time their laps of the pitch – use a website to check flight times – look at a timetable to see their training schedule. The children should then write their ideas around the picture and include pictures and details. As an extension, the children can complete this activity for themselves and/or create a timetable to use and refer to over the week.
Children also need to understand how long different units of time are and be able to convert these. This week the focus is on converting minutes and seconds.
The worksheets to support the learning grid are here:
Additional practise of converting a wider range of units of time e.g. hours, minutes, days, seconds, weeks, and months can be found with this worksheet:
To provide further practise of converting different units of time, you could ask your child questions like how many minutes are in a given time? How many seconds are in a given time? How many hours are in a given time? How many days are in a given time? How many weeks are in a given time?
Literacy
Spelling
This week’s spelling is a sound. The sound is called ‘hard g’. Hard g is g saying its name, e.g. giant. Compared with ‘soft g’ or g saying it’s sound such as good. There is a little starter activity this week. Instead of finding ‘hard g’ words in 1 or 2 mins we want you to find 15 words and time how long it took you. You should guess before you start. Do you think it’ll take you 2 mins? 1 min and 17seconds?
The main practise for learning your spelling words this week is capital and lower case letters. You should write your words out like this.
GIANT giant
GIRAFFE giraffe
Remember the reason for these activities is to learn your words and of course spelling increases your vocabulary. If you find any words challenging then it’s good practice to use LOOK, COVER, WRITE and CHECK. Do this until you have learned the word.
Reading
Reading for enjoyment is very important. Reading texts that children enjoy can help to develop their comprehension skills. Reading aloud helps to build fluency, expression and confidence. Reading is also an important tool for developing the writing skills of children. Reading enables children to build vocabulary and knowledge of the structure and techniques used in different writing genres.
The ability to read an unfamiliar text for specific information is also an important reading skill to develop. This week’s reading task is a short information text about light. The children should read the text twice, before reading the questions. They should then read the question and read the text again to find the answer. Children should try to write their answers in sentences where possible, remembering to use capital letters and full stops properly. Children should try not to use their own knowledge, but rather find the information in the text. The children can choose which reading text to answer questions on, as an extension, they can complete more than one.
Sources of Light – Reading Task
Writing
For writing this week we would like you to write a Haiku poem. P5A you have already had a go at this in class. P5B this is your first attempt. Either way we really want you to look through the PowerPoint to remind yourself and understand the Haiku poem, as it has specific ‘rules’. There is also a poster available which you can use to remind yourself of how to write a Haiku poem. This poster is also great to use a mat whilst writing! Finally, there is a Haiku poem planning sheet. We would like you to write a Haiku poem about light as part of our theme this week. But don’t limit yourself to just one, you may want to try out this style of writing with different topics! We are looking forward to reading your Haiku poems in the coming days and hope you enjoy writing them.
Art
This week (11-17th May) is national vegetable or vegetarian week. To celebrate this we would like you to have a go at painting a vegetable still life. Gather together some vegetables, or even just one vegetable. Display your vegetables and for increased challenge you could cut some in half? Also, you may like to add a few things to your still life, like a tablecloth, or other items such as a bowl or a kitchen utensil.
Next, gather together whatever art materials you have. If you only have a pencil then do a pencil study (P5B you have had plenty practise at shading and using the technique of shading!) If you have a palette of watercolours or acrylics, great! Now think about what style you like and maybe have a look online at the different techniques. Here are some examples to inspire you…
We are looking forward to seeing your vegetable art!
Science:
This week we will be learning about light. We are learning about sources of light and shadow. There are a variety of practical experiments as well as information worksheets to complete this week. There is also a Science Max video on light, which we recommend you watch. Choose at least one experiment (either from Science Max or the sheets below) to carry out and at least one worksheet to complete. You can do more than one if you want. We have also included a PDF to show you how to make different shadow puppets if you want to give that a go.
Science Max:
Worksheets:
Experiments:
Experiment – Which light source produces the best puppet shapes
Experiment – Can you see a light through a bent straw
Puppet show: