Thursday 4th March 2021

Good morning, Year 5.

I hope you are all having a lovely week so far.  Today is World Book Day!! You all know what my favourite book is...Kensuke's Kingdom.  What's your favourite? I can't wait to find out! Our online learning today has some activities for World Book Day.  I hope you enjoy them.  Below is a link for Excalibur's World Book Day page.  Here, you will find a video for book recommendations and some masked readers.  Can you guess who they are? x

http://www.excalibur.cheshire.sch.uk/page/world-book-day-2021/98550

EMA (15 minutes)

Today, you can choose from a range of activities.  You may complete as many as you wish.  

* Mindful colouring - Roald Dahl quotes

** World Book Day wordsearches

*** World Book Day Crossword.

Maths

Our maths activities today are linked to World Book Day.  You can work through the instructions provided for either activity yourself.  Therefore, our Teams sessions today are going to be a little bit different. I'm going to set up small group chat sessions so you can catch up with your friends.  Look out for your invites.  They will be between 9 am - 10:30 am.  

Mental Maths (20 minutes)

Today, we are continuing to work on our 7x tables.  Have a go at the following tasks:

• Open the Mental Maths document and complete the questions as quickly as you can!  (Answers on the second page.)
• Follow the link to Hit the Button.  You could choose Times Tables, x7 to simply practise your 7x tables or you could choose Division Facts - Hit the Answer or Hit the Question as a challenge.   

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

LO (40 minutes)

Today,  you can choose to complete any of the following activities.

* Lost in the Library - For this task, you are going to work through clues that will give you a code to open up the library door! (Answers attached in a separate document.)

* The Mystery of the Winning World Book Day Costume - The head teacher has lost the goldren ticket with the winner's name on it.  You will use the descriptions and clues to find out who has won.  (Scroll to the bottom of the document for the answers.)

English

Our theme for World Book Day this year is Inspirational People.  I have been inspired by many people and read books about people who have been an inspiration - too many to share.  However, there is one book that really stands out for me.  It's called Little Leaders - Bold Women in Black History. 

This book was bought for my daughter for her birthday with a message inside saying "Dream Big".  It contains 80 biographies of black woman who I had mostly never heard of but after reading about, know that I should have. I'm going to share the story of one of these women with you. Her name is Ruby Bridges and her story started when she was just 6 years old...

Task 1

Click on the PowerPoint to find out about Ruby's life and why she is such an inspiration to all.  At the end of the presentation, you will find several activities.  You can choose to complete as many or as few as you want.  Please do send any completed activities on to Seesaw.  It really would be great to see.  

Extra World Book Day Tasks 

• Words Out of Words - Look through the PowerPoint.  Can you see how many words have been made out of the letters from World Book Day?  Choose one of the author's names and see how many words you can come up with in 15 minutes.  
• Ruby Bridges - Strong and Courageous Quiz cards
• Ruby Bridges - Colour and Respond Sheets

Spellings (20 minutes)

Please find attached a handwriting sheet to practise your handwriting and words for this week.  

Don't forget to spend time revising our words of the week, below. 

WOTW: thorough, sufficient, signature, equip

Science

This week we are talking about Metamorphosis - this is a series of physical changes that some animals go through to become adults.

Please watch the powerpoint 'Metamorphosis'.  Then use what you have learnt from that, and the information on the Metamorphosis Clue cards, to complete the Amphibian and Insects worksheet. 

French

As part of World Book Day I would like you to watch a clip of a well-known story translated into French.

La Chenille Qui Fait Des Trous (de Eric Carle) - YouTube

Then you have a sheet to complete. Cut out the days, numbers and fruits to complete the table.

There is also a French Book Quiz, Match the English story titles to the French translations - how many can you do? Let me know on Seesaw

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