Corona Virus Closure - Week 13 (06.07.20)

Week 13 - Home Learning – Sycamore Class Blog

Hi Sycamore Class!

I hope you are all keeping well and have had a good week.

Last week’s ‘Star of the Week’ certificate was awarded to Amy L. for all of the fantastic writing you have been doing during Home Learning. Well done, Amy!

This week for Home Learning, there is work for this week as well as for the following week to take you up to school closing on Wednesday 15th July. This means this will be the last blog of this school year. As this week’s blog covers a week and a half of learning, you have English, Maths, Science and Humanities work to complete. I will be asking you to submit your spooky descriptive writing. Remember, if you need help with ANY of your Home Learning tasks or have ANY queries, just send me an email using your school360 email account. I do enjoy hearing from you and I am always here to help! My email address is: jacqueline.oconnell1@school360.co.uk (don’t forget the ‘1’!).

As always, I have explained below each of your tasks for this week and then the resources you need are either in your work packs or attached at the bottom of the page.

Have a great last week and a half of school and a wonderful summer break – let’s hope the weather picks up again and make sure you rest and recharge your batteries ready for September.

Take care,

Mrs O’Connell

Work to submit this week:

This week, I would like you to submit your English written work by Tuesday 14th July.  I will then provide each of you with some personal feedback. Please send your work to me where possible, using your School360 email address.

English (06.07.20 - 15.07.20): - These tasks are for all children who have not returned to school.

Reading Activities:

To complete the reading activities, you will need your Home Learning booklet as you will be reading Chapters 16 and 20 of Goodnight Mister Tom and then completing activities based on what you read. At the bottom of the blog, there are four reading PowerPoints that will take you through step-by-step what you need to do. The writing task will be based on Chapter 20, so it will help you to complete all of the reading first.

Writing Activities:

You are going to write a descriptive piece about a spooky setting of your choice. At the bottom of the blog, there are two PowerPoints that again take you through what you need to do.

Please submit your spooky writing to Mrs O’Connell by Tuesday 14th July.

Year 5s who have access to Reading Plus, please remember that you should be completing 5 activities on it per week.

Year 5 Spelling Tasks:

Year 5 have been set up with an online spelling programme, where your spellings are broken up into syllables and there are lots of games for you to practise before you complete your test online. You have each been given a username and password (in your new packs). You can practise by playing the games as many times as you want. Remember, you MUST take the test before Monday 13th July.

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Maths (06.07.20 - 15.07.20) - These tasks are for the children in Sycamore that are working from home.

This week we are moving on in our journey through measurement to investigate imperial measurements. You may have noticed that measurements are sometimes written in miles (imperial) and sometimes kilometres (metric). In the UK we tend to use metric measurements but not always. In these lessons you will be able to convert the imperial and metric measurements for length, mass and volume. There are no sheets in your pack for these lessons so please have paper and a pencil handy. 

Lesson 1- Please complete your next Big Maths sheet

Lesson 2- Complete your last 2 arithmetic sheets. 

Lesson 3-  Next 2 pages from your Schofield and Sims. Try not to leave any gaps, if you get stuck please drop me an email with the question so I can give you some support. 

Lesson 4- Imperial measurements of length. We have all heard of inches and cm. In this lesson you will learn how to convert from one to another. Please make sure you have pencil and paper handy as the questions are built into the PowerPoint. 

Lesson 5- Pound, ounces and grams. Have you noticed that some items in recipes and on labels have different measurements. In this lesson you are going to learn how to convert pounds, ounces and grams.  Please make sure you have pencil and paper handy as the questions are built into the PowerPoint. 

Lesson 6-  Pints and litres. Have you noticed that some times capacity is written in either pints or litres. In this lesson you will learn how to convert. Very handy for recipes! As before make sure you have your pencil and paper handy.

Lesson 7-30 TTRS Garage session.

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Humanities – This task is for all children who have not returned to school.

There is a reading comprehension task considering Victory in Europe, discussing how WW2 came to an end in Europe. You can either print the sheets off to complete or read them on the computer and write your answers up on paper.

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Science – This task is for all children who have not returned to school.

At the bottom of the blog, there is a PowerPoint presentation looking at how the body transports water and nutrients, you simply need to read through the information.

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