Good morning
Well I can’t believe that we’re on week 6 of home learning. I continue to be amazed at how hard working and resilient you are all being and I applaud all your efforts during this very difficult time. I know that it is not easy for any of you and so I want to say thank you to all of you and your parents. I really do miss seeing you all and I continue to appreciate all the photos you are sending of yourselves and your work which is helping us all stay connected at this time. 😊
Thank you to those of you who have sent in your healthy selfies!💃🏃🏻⚽️ I’ve added these to the following animoto, alongside some photos/videos of the key worker children who were in school doing dance with Mrs Frost this week…
This week’s learning focus:
English:
Keep up with your daily reading. You should read for at least 20 minutes. Why not read aloud to someone using good expression.
Remember you can borrow ebooks and eAudio books from your local library. Go to https://blackpool.overdrive.com/library/youth for more information - there are some great titles that will be of interest to everyone. Oxford Owl also has ebooks you can read too.
Bedrock - Complete at least three times this week. It now allows you to do this everyday. Parents, if you have not yet got the login details from me to enable you to look at your child’s Bedrock activity and monitor their success, then please email me and I will send you the access code.
Pie Corbett Talk for Writing Pack (unit 2) Year 5 are to complete this new talk for writing pack over the next two weeks. It can be printed off if you can, or just use from the screen with a note book if not. Please send me a copy of your finished piece of writing when you’ve finished at the end of the two weeks (By 15.5.20).📝
Sumdog & Education City - Spelling and grammar tasks have been set on these sites.
Maths:
White Rose Maths - The videos for this weeks lessons can be found at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ We now subscribe to White Rose Maths so accompanying worksheets, from next week, will now need to be downloaded here and will no longer be available on the link. Download this week’s Worksheets & Answers here.
Sumdog & MyMaths - I have set tasks on these sites which reinforce the White Rose Resources and allow you to practise the skills.
TT Rockstars - Daily for 10 minutes.
RE:
RE Home Activities This has many RE activities that the children can do from home. If you haven’t already, please have a look at the links to the Year 5 and 6 activities!
Can I also remind you that Fr Jim has set up a Chidren’s page on the Church Website. He’s looking forward to all your questions.
https://www.olablackpool.org/children-s-page
Additional work/resources:
• Espresso Learning
• https://www.oddizzi.com This week’s new challenge from Oddizzi is Food and farming
If you’ve not already accessed these:
• #OnlineSafetyAtHome pack 3 from ThinkUKnow
• Lancashire Stay at Home Programme has some physical activities the children can do.
• ¡Aquí se habla Español ! If you want to continue learning Spanish, a lovely fun app called Duolingo (free version) is a great place to start. Why not try 10 minutes a day and see how much you can learn. Let me know how you get on!
A competition…
Blackpool Schools Games/Active Blackpool are looking for children to design a mascot for Team Blackpool that can be featured on next year’s School Games banners. I have attached the details to this link, Design a mascot competition, but just ignore the year groups and entry dates - it’s open to all children now. If you want to get involved, all you need to do is draw your mascot design on a sheet of paper and ask a parent to e-mail it over to dave.rohman@blackpool.gov.uk They want to see lots of colour on the mascot designs and most importantly a really creative name.
Have a lovely week Year 5. If you’ve not yet sent in your healthy selfie then please do ask your parents to email me one so we can share more next week.
Take care, miss you all!
Mrs McVey🙋🏻
