Dear parents/carers,

During the week up to Easter  we will be completing  the following activities.:

Wynyard class Maths

Green group maths- bus stop division

Purple maths group- addin and subtracting fractions

Red maths group- Bar graphs, tally charts and pictograms.

Guisborough class Maths.

Finding fractions of amounts.

For both Year 5 classes

If you search Education City there will be some games and activities for your child to play and to watch.  TopMarks is also a free site that you can search on for games related to the objectives above.

In  Guided reading lessons we will be finishing the story of Goodnight Mr Tom and watching the movie.

In Geography, we will be analysing the results of our field work study where we tracked traffic in Owton Manor Lane, using the Oak Academy site    https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/local-fieldwork-6adb

In ICT we will be further exploring systems using the Year 5 Oak Academy Site.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/sharing-information-adc8

In PE we will be looking at the rules for Netball and practising some throwing and catching techniques.

In Science, we will be using Oak Academy to explore famous scientists

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/notable-scientists-44ba

Optional work for Easter holidays.

Begin to prepare for the term's maths work by practising multiplication tables (10's, 5's and 's) on Maths Shed, Times Tables Rock Stars, Flash times tables and Top Marks.

Wynyard class, you could try playing the doubling games on Top Marks Hit the Button.

Follow the links on this page for Maths Shed and Times Tables Rock Stars.

Top Marks is a free site

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Flash tables is a free site

https://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Flash_Tables/

You could also look at Spelling Shed and practise the spellings there.

We are delighted to be working with the children in Year 5 who are amazing!

Our Class Novel this term is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.

In English we will be writing a diary entry relating to this text and will also be writing a myth tale supported by weekly Grammar lessons.

In Maths we are learning about place value and then addition and subtraction as well as daily arithmetic.

Work for Self Isolating

If you are self isolating work will be send via class dojo the second day that you are not in school but until we have time to send it why don't you try some of these ideas?