Year 5EG: Blog items

Week 2 Aut 2 5HC

Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 5:08pm

Its the end of another busy week! We've had some really great highlights. I can see some members of our class maturing into such lovely individuals. It really is a pleasure to teach them. Thank you for continuing to support us as we make in roads with improvements in behaviour. Some children are still finding it tricky sometimes but I can see the effort they are putting in to keep things under control.

On Monday, we started the week with our purposeful play session when we focused on sharing. The children have one activity that they stick to for the session. They are rotated between sessions but they stay as one group. This helps them to build relationships with other children over a longer period of time and allows them to feel more secure by understanding what to expect. See below for some pictures of the session.

In reading, we have continued our learning about non-choronological reports on different inventions. We have learned about the wheel and identified key features of non-fiction texts.

In writing, we have learned about parenthesis, tier three vocabulary and some of the vocabulary they might encounter in non-fiction texts.

In maths, we have finished our unit on negative numbers. Today, we applied our understanding to bar and line graphs. It certainly wasn't easy but the level of perserverance was incredible! Ammanuel blew me away with his explanation of being above or below expectations and how this can be represented with positive and negaive numbers.

In golden time, we played some old-fashioned games including wink murder and duck, duck, goose. We had a great time, next time we will have to go outside for more space. I forget how much space a class of year 5 pupils needs!

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

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Autumn 2 Week 1

Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 4:04pm

  What a week! Its been a busy return to school and the holidays already feel like a long time ago but it means that we're nearly at Christmas!

 

In reading, we introduced our new text:  inventions that changed the world. We enjoyed reading about lightbulbs and telephones whilst identifying what features help readers navigate the information in non-fiction texts.

 

In writing, we have had a go at using parenthesis. Next week, we will be having a go at applying this to the context of our new genre - explanation texts. It wasn't easy but we had some funny sentences about a boy riding a bike:

The boy, who had a parrot on his shoulder, rode his bike to school.

The boy, who was 440 feet tall, rode his bike to school.

The boy, who shouted hello, rode his bike to school.

 

In maths, we have been learning about negative numbers and how they are laid out on a number line. I was so impressed with their attitude to their learning that they earned lots of golden time in their lessons this week!

 

We have finished sketching different Victorian inventions for the front of our CC books so next week we will be able to launch our new topic properly!

 

Please remember to take a look at the parent overviews on the class page so you can see what year 5 will be learning about this half term and support your child with it.

 

Have a great weekend and stay safe around any bonfires or fireworks! 

Quarry Bank Mill trip

Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 4:47pm

Apologies for the delay in getting these photos up. Its taken me a while to establish permission.

 

We had a great trip to Quarry Bank Mill in September. We went earlier than we would normally go but it has actually made a huge difference to the children's understanding of the Victorians. This has been so useful for their reading and writing around the factories and Oliver Twist.

They were able to experience the lives of an apprentice at the factory - where they slept, what they ate and where they learned. They also saw the process of how cotton was made on the huge (and noisy) looms and then finished the day with a dressing up session!

 

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Week 6 in 5HC

Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 4:41pm

Its nearly the half term holidays!

 

We have had such a busy week full of different activities - a Windrush workshop as part of black history week, a freestyle football session with Rebaz and our first art session of year 5. It was so lovely to see so many children getting stuck in and trying out new skills.

In writing, we have been planning our factory inspector reports. The class seem to really enjoy using their 'posh' voices in formal tone and they have worked hard to learn some higher level vocabulary such as observe instead of watch and gather instead of get.

In reading, we have been enjoying non-fiction texts about victorian factories to inform our writing. We even had one that was all about Quarry Bank Mill!

In maths, we have been applying our learning of tenths and hundredths to money. We just need to work on securing our understanding of change by counting forwards on a number line.

Golden time this week was creative week. The class chose some colouring sheets to complete or to make a card to take home. We had a great time but I'm sure they're looking foward to popcorn and film golden time next week!

Have a great weekend!

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Week 5 in 5HC

Date: 8th Oct 2023 @ 10:16pm

Another busy week finished off!

In English, we have started a new unit about formal reports. We looked at (a simplified version of) Ravensbury's last ofsted report to understand some of the formal language we come across in reports. We also enjoyed a little role play as if we were in a factory which was being inspected.

In maths, we have finished our units on place value. The children have really worked hard to cement their understanding of tenths and hundredths in decimals and the value of different digits in decimal numbers.

5HC seem to really enjoy their dance lessons this half term too - we are working hard on developing a dance to reflect movements you might find in a factory.

For golden time this week, we got out lots and lots of lego! The children were free to build whatever they wanted but if they were lacking inspiration, I set them four challenges - build an animal, build something that flies, build a container but in only one colour and build the tallest tower. There were some brilliant ideas, I've included some photos below.

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Week 4 in 5HC

Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 5:27pm

We've had such a busy week! It seems to have disappeared in the blink of an eye.

We have been thinking about how we can improve our writing (we've previously written some fantastic character descriptions based on good and bad charcters from Oliver Twist) and making sure we stick to the plan so that our writing makes sense and flows properly.

In maths, we have continued our place value work and thought about the link between hundredths as a fraction and as a decimal.

We have also started to learn about how paintings from the past make excellent first hand accounts, as long as we consider how reliable they are.

The class earned 25 minutes of golden time this week and it was a really lovely session. The class seem to enjoy playing with lego so I will aim to gather some larger sets together in preperation for next week.

 

Please remember to complete homework by Friday and read every night if you can! Some children stand the chance to complete their book marks on Friday and receive a prize from the prize box.

 

This half term is flying by!

Welcome back!

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 4:42pm

Welcome back to school! We have just finished our first full week of year 5. Its been a bit of a whirlwind but I'm excited for what's to come this year. We have completed our first session of purposeful play, we've started reading Oliver Twist and we have begun to think about how we could describe two of the characters effectively. In maths, we have also been reviewing some of our year 4 learning about tenths. 

There is a strong emphasis this year on behaviour management. We have spent a good amount of time on ensuring that routines are in place and that children understand the appropriate times for them to be talking to others. Reflective language and emotional regulation will also feature heavily in our time at school this year so we can develop skills in managing our emotions to enable us to continue learning effectively.

We are truely hitting the group running with our first trip on Monday. It was initially booked for later in September but unfortunately, the venue had to bring our visit forward. I've no doubt that it will benefit the class enormously and they will be able to use what they learn in their writing and CC work. 

The children have come back in with a fantastic attitude to their learning - long may it continue!

 

 

 

Wednesday 3rd June

Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:51am

Good morning Year 5!

Some rain this morning, finally! Did you know that May been the sunniest month on record with 266 hours of sunshine?! The previous record was in June 1957, with 265 hours of sun. I have enjoyed it, but am pleased for some cooler weather and rain now!

Anyway, back to our learning - Miss Brookes and I wanted to try a different way of giving you your learning each day, so you can now find everything on this Padlet link here:

https://padlet.com/y5homelearning/year5

(Make sure you scroll down each column and across the page to see all of the activities on there! Click on the picture to open the pdf/document/picture)

We hope it makes it a bit easier for you to find all your learning, as it will all be in that one place. You'll see a section for daily activities (which we'll change every day), a section for weekly tasks, your Reading Challenge, your Connected Curriculum activities, Wellbeing Challenges as well as a Quick Links section for those other useful websites you use to practise your skills. It's up to you when you do the other tasks besides the smaller daily activities - we'd recommend you do one or two of them each day.

We'll still put a blog post on here every day reminding you of the Padlet link, and continue to look out for our Friday Celebration post! 

Let us know what you think about this different way of seeing your learning - we want to make it as easy as possible for you to find what you're doing each day! 

Have a fantastic day Year 5!

Miss Brookes & Mrs Hodges =)

Wellbeing challenge check in

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:18am

Good morning!

How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.

Well done to you if you also did some exercise !

If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:

Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk 

Mrs Harriott

Tuesday 2nd June

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:51am

Good morning Year 5!

I think today is the last day of this incredibly warm weather we've been having - I never thought I'd say this, but I'm quite looking forward to some rain as the garden really needs it! So I hope whatever you get up to today, you manage to get some fresh air in the sunshine!

In case you missed it yesterday, remember that in addition to each daily blog post, you have a weekly Reading Challenge and a selection of Connected Curriculum activities. You can find them in the blog posts from yesterday with those names as the title.

Remember to email across your learning today so we can see what you've been doing!

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Mrs Hodges here!

Just a Sentence of the Day from me today, but before I post that, remember to check out the links I posted yesterday to help you research the arguments for and against bullfighting:

“The Matador” Film Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiTv7QrUh4

Bullfighting Information: 

CBBC has a whole section on bullfighting, where you can find out what happens in a bullfight, different people’s opinions for and against it happening and a reporter’s experience of a bullfight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/static/find_out/specials/newsround_extra/2004/bullfighting/html/default.stm

More information can be found on Kiddle:

https://kids.kiddle.co/Bullfighting

 

Right, onto the sentence! Remember to check back later to see my purple pen:

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=CdKZ3mC

How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link below to see my corrected sentence!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=IDwaRc0

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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!

I hope you all had a fabulous start to your week, and thank you to everyone who has sent in their learning so far. There's quite a bit from me today - maths, GVP and science!

Maths

Here is today's fluent in 5: 

 

Here are the answers, how did you do?

 

 

GVP

Here is today's GVP:

 

 

 

Here are the answers:

 

 

 

Science

As we have finished our Space unit, this half-terms science would usually go back to the autumn term, and continue with states of matter. As that is mostly experiments, we have changed things around slightly so that you can do an experiment at home with your grown ups and siblings instead (they may not be states of matter related!) Make sure you send your results in and take photos if you can.

Today's challenge is "does larger feet mean you can jump further?' I've attached a PDF to help you. You need to decide what each of the variables are (what you're going to change and what you will keep the same), there is a method page for you as well as a table of results.

Let us know what you find out on y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 πŸ›β˜€οΈπŸΎπŸŒ²πŸ•·

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:16am

Hello again,

Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE

I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.

Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?

 

Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog. 

PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult. 

STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!

From Mrs Ganner 

We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!

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Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 12:27pm

June 1st - #30DaysWild - Challenge 1

 

Hello everybody,

I hope you had an amazing half term and you’re as excited to be back completing home learning challenges as I am. This month our school is going to go WILD! Yes, that’s right, our mission is to do as many wild things as we can and have fun whilst learning outside. 

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE

Each day I will put up a wild challenge and you can take a photo of you and your family completing it so I can put it on this blog. 

Here is your challenge for today, see how many wild minibeasts you can find outside:

 

Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog. 

If you'd like to choose your own challenges download this app:

 

PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult. 

STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!

From Mrs Ganner 

 

Wellbeing challenge 1.6.20

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:57am

Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year!

As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!

For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we  start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.

So, here's your challenge for this week:

Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different  exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!

Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share  a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !

I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!

Mrs Harriott

Weekly Exercise Goals Chart (25 Sheets Per Pad) with Stickers ...

Weekly Reading Challenge!

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:09am

Good morning everyone!

So many of you have participated in our Reading Challenges over the past few weeks - so well done!

To wake up our brains this week, I want you to read a book a day (5 books) on Reading Plus. I will give you until Friday afternoon, when I will post the winners.

If you have forgotten your log in details, don't worry - just send me an email and I will let you know what they are.

y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Goodluck!

Miss Brookes 

Connected Curriculum Challenge!

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:42am

I am so excited for you to get started with these brilliant Connected Curriculum activities, which are all to do with our new topic of Spain, specifically looking at the question:

Why is Spain such a popular tourist destination?

Spain is a beautiful country with a fascinating history and culture. It's geography (for example the climate and landscape) all helps it be an incredibly popular destination too. 

There are eight different activites for you to choose from in the attached document - ranging from cooking to dancing, art to geography...and more! A couple of the activities need additional resources, and I have attached those to this blog too. Other activities have a YouTube link that will help you, so make sure to check that out too. 

Choose whichever activities you like, and however many you like - some might take several hours, others will be much quicker. 

Remember to show us your learning by emailing us at Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Have fun!!

 

Monday 1st June

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:31am

Welcome back Year 5!

Well, goodness me, I can't believe we're entering our next half term of virtual school! We hope you had a lovely half term and enjoyed the fabulous weather (it almost felt as if we could have been abroad didn't it?!). If you've got any half term photos to show what you've got up to, we'd love to see! 

Just to let you know, Miss Wendt will be helping Year 2 with their virtual school learning for the next little bit, so Miss Brookes and I will be posting all your Year 5 learning. So 5HW - don't worry that Miss Wendt isn't setting you activities in each daily blog post; she is absolutely fine and will keep a little eye on what you're doing! Miss Brookes will be giving you your daily Maths, and Miss Wendt has already organised more weekly Spanish activities, so the types of activities you get each day will be the same as the last half term! 

Look out for the two other separate blog posts from Miss Brookes and I this morning - one with your weekly Reading challenge, and the other with your new Connected Curriculum activity choices! Our new topic is focused on Spain, with the big question, "Why is Spain such a popular holiday destination?". I hope you love the activities I've put on, I had a lot of fun putting it together and would quite like to try a few myself! 

Finally, remember to email us across your learning, we LOVE hearing from you (and of course, if you've any questions or things we can help with, use the email to ask us!): Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

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Mrs Hodges here!

Right, quite a lot from me this morning to start this new half term!

For our new Connected Curriculum topic, we're going to be finding out a bit about Bullfighting. It used to be extremely popular in Spain, and still is in some parts. However, many people (both in Spain and around the world) think it is cruel and needs to be banned completely. I'd like you to research Bullfighting over the next couple of weeks, finding out some of the arguments for Bullfighting (which means people think it should be able to continue) and against Bullfighting (which means people think it should be stopped). Check out these links to help your research - I'll put them in each blog post over the next few days, I'm not expected you to look at these all in one go!

“The Matador” Film Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiTv7QrUh4

Bullfighting Information: 

CBBC has a whole section on bullfighting, where you can find out what happens in a bullfight, different people’s opinions for and against it happening and a reporter’s experience of a bullfight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/static/find_out/specials/newsround_extra/2004/bullfighting/html/default.stm

More information can be found on Kiddle:

https://kids.kiddle.co/Bullfighting

Right, onto our Sentence of the Day! Our sentences are going to be based on this topic too. Click the link below for the first one!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=MzzG0S8

Remember to check back later to see my purple pen!

Good afternoon!

How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link to see my corrected one!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=4uK5Gds

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Good Morning from Miss Brookes!

I hope you all had a lovely week off and managed to enjoy some sunshine. I know we have now finished our Space unit, but did any of you watch the launch over the weekend? Elon Musk designed a rocket, and then two astronauts used it to travel to the International Space Station. If you didn't manage to watch it, here is a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxBj8R7XKe4

I am going to be posting the maths and GVP questions this half-term! I'm looking forward to seeing what you can remember.

Maths

From next week, each week will focus on a topic (e.g. time or fractions etc.) However, this week - as our brains have had a week off - we're going to focus alternatively on the number of the day, and a fluent in 5.

Today's challenge is a number of the day. I don't expect you to answer all 10 questions (you can focus on 5, but if you want to do more it's up to you!) and I will post the answers at 1pm. Remember: when multiplying/dividing by 10/100/1000, use a place value chart - not the bus stop method.

 

 

 

I'm sorry the answers are a little bit late today! I forgot to set an alarm to remind me. I was just sat in the garden and I suddenly remembered and jumped up with an "oh no!" to my Mum.

Here are they are - how did you get on?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GVP

Here is today's GVP questions:

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the answers:

 

 

 

Enjoy your Monday. 

Half term wellbeing challenge

Date: 25th May 2020 @ 10:58am

Hello and happy half term!

I'm not going to be posting a daily challenge for you over half term but here is something you can do  if you like. It's a funny time right now and it's one we may want to look back on in the future to remind oursleves what we did, how we felt and how lucky we are when it's all over. So I've attached a time capsule template for you use so that you can record some of these things, either by writing or drawing it's up to you.

You can either print it out, do it on a computer or just draw our each page for yourself. Do as much or as little as you chooe and feel free to share anything you do on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Stay safe,

Mrs Glover

 

Celebrating 5HW!

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 3:44pm

Good afternoon everyone!

I can't quite believe this is the end of the half term. It's definitely a half term we will never forget! Both myself and Mrs Hodges have been so proud of all of you, you have worked so hard and completed many challenges every single day. 

Our Outstanding Learners:-

Daniel O

Ganesa

Maddison

Alissia

Have a look below to see what they have been up to!

 

Have a safe and healthy half term and Eid Mubarak to those families who are celebrating!

MIss Wendt & Mrs Hodges smiley

Reading Plus WINNERS (Week 8)

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 2:03pm

Here are this week's Reading Plus Winners:

Most Lessons Completed: Alissia again! With 7 books this time - well done, Alissa!

Most Words Read: Yoel with 7,932 words. Well done!

It was very close this week, so well done to everyone that took part.

This week's reading challenge was to read 6 books. The winners are:

Alissia

Denico

Ganesa

Jediah

Yoel

Well done to everyone that took part! I hope you have a fabulous, well deserved break this half term.

Enjoy the week off,

Miss Brookes 

 

Friday 22nd May

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:14am

Happy Friday Year 5!

Can you believe it, today is the last day before half term next week - that's been a very quick (though also somehow very long) 5 weeks since the Easter holidays! 

I don't know about you, but the wind kept waking me up last night, and then I started thinking about the tomato plants I've put outside but not properly planted yet, so I feel a bit tired this morning! I've just checked on them and they had all fallen over, but they seem to be ok! 

Anyway, that's my plant update - see below for the activities for today! Remember to think about what your act of kindness could be today!

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Mrs Hodges here!

Are you ready for the final Sentence of the Day of the week? Click the link below!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=7hBj1Q8

Good afternoon Year 5!

How did you get on today? Here's my corrected sentence!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=MKdKmA4

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Miss Wendt here!

I think the past 5 weeks have gone so quickly! I never expected them to, as I have been in my house the entire time, but I can honestly say they have. It feels quite strange to be 'breaking up' for half term holidays, I'll miss sending you all a message every day. Although I might slip a sneaky challenge blog, just in case anyone is feeling mathematical!

Fluent in five for today!

And here are the answers!

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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!

My post is a little bit late today, because my garage roof decided to collapse! The builder was supposed to take the rest of the roof down today...but I've just spent the past half an hour watching a man with a skip (as I was writing this post!) try and get it in the drive, only for a neighbour to refuse to move their car which is blocking our drive....I think it might be one of those days!

I saw this amazing photograph yesterday which I have to share with you. It's a rare, clear picture of the United Kingdom, from the International Space Station. Can you believe that this was taken from Space?

 

 

 

 

Anyway, onto today's GVP. I've been super impressed with all of the work you've been putting in this week. Don't forget to check back at 1pm for the answers, and keep an eye out for our celebration post later today.

 

 

Here are the answers:

 

Miss Brookes 

 

Wellbeing challenge 21.5.20

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 10:14am

Good morning, I hope you all found some way to enjoy the sunshine yesterday. I sent a lot of time in my garden and I have to admit even though I applied plenty of sun cream, I’m still a little pink! I hope you were all more careful than me.

We’re almost at the end of the week and today is the last kindness based challenge as I have something a little different for tomorrow.

I hope that you have been experiencing some acts of kindness this week as today my challenge is to write a kindness acrostic poem. This is where you use each letter of the word you choose to start a sentence or word.

I’ve attached a file that has a few different kindness words to use for your poem so you can choose one or choose more than one you like! As always if you can’t print then don’t worry, you can write it out on a piece of paper or even type it on a computer like I have.

I have chosen the word caring. Here is my poem.

Cooking for other people

Asking people how they are

Returning peoples phone calls and messages

Interest in what friends and family are up to

Niceness goes a long way!

Going the extra mile for those you love

As always please e-mail your poems to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

I'm very impressed with all the origami hearts you've all been making, some of you even made both hearts like I did! Here they are along with some other past challenges.

 

 

Thursday 21st May

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 8:59am

Good morning Year 5!

I hope you enjoyed the sunshine yesterday - a bit chillier today, but stil set to be fine I think! Livvi and Asaph planted their courgette plant out yesterday (which I'm pleased about, it was getting far too big to be in the house!), then I have 6 tomato plants that need planting outside, but haven't managed to buy any tomato bags to grow them in yet. I need a trip to a garden centre but haven't done it yet, it feels a bit strange to be going out in that way I think!

Anyway, back on to today - check this blog for today's learning, and remember to email us so we can celebrate it!

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Mrs Hodges here!

Just a Sentence of the Day from me today - click the link below and remember to check back later to see my corrected sentence!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=Pmqtkxs

Good afternoon!

How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link below to see my purple pen!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=eQIVVho

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Hi from Miss Wendt!

Good morning everyone! Hope you are all well and managed to get some sunshine yesterday. It was so warm wasn't it? It was actually warmer in Manchester than it was in Portugal where my Mum lives! She couldn't believe how nice our weather was!

Here is today's fluent in five - 

Here are the answers!

And here is a little something to help with our Spanish weather words! I have uploaded 5 key phrases for you to practice at home. 

  

 

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Good Morning Year 5! From Miss Brookes

I have to say, that even though I enjoy a bit of rain, I absolutely loved yesterday's weather. I was able to sit in the garden to get all of my work done (Mrs Hughes sets us home learning, a bit like how we set you home learning!) 

Today's act of kindness will be to help my Mum when cooking tea tonight (I asked her "what shall my act of kindness be today?" and she said "helping me with dinner for once" so...maybe I need to do that more often!)

Here's todays GVP. Don't hesitate to email if you get a little bit stuck on a question, I sent some of you a showme video yesterday explaining one of the questions, and I'm always happy to do that. 

 

 

 

Here are the answers! How did you get on?

 

 

 

Miss Brookes 

Wellbeing challenge 20.5.20

Date: 20th May 2020 @ 9:53am

Good morning,

Wow what a day! The weather forecast suggests it could get as hot as 26 degrees today! I can’t wait to get out there and enjoy it although I’ll definitely be putting on some sun cream!

Today’s activity is linked to kindness again and involves making a little present for either someone else or yourself. Today‘s challenge is to make an origami heart.

To start with you will need a square piece of paper and it will be easier to follow the instructions if it is decorated or coloured on one side.

Here is a YouTube video telling you how to make a square from an A4 piece of paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLrKrHgAI40

Then you have a choice of making 2 different hearts, one flat and one 3D. I made both and prefer the flat one and found it a bit easier but it’s up to you which you do.

Here is how to make the flat heart (my first picture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnV262Egucw

Here is how to make the 3D inflatable heart (my second picture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4oPm9bCWE (then at the end you have to blow it up using the little hole at the bottom)

I can’t wait to see your hearts! Remember to e-mail them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

I've really enjoyed reading about all your kind acts in your hearts from yesterday and I love how some of you are mentioning clap for carers in your kind acts for others! Here are the ones I've been sent:

Wednesday 20th May

Date: 20th May 2020 @ 8:51am

Good morning Year 5!

I've been looking forward to today all week because I knew the forecast is lovely warm sunshine for the whole day! I think Livvi, Asaph and I will just do a couple of homeschool activities this morning, then I'll get the paddling pool out for them! Then a friend of ours dropped round a lovely bag of treats for us yesterday so that we could have an afternoon tea today - isn't that so kind! What could you do that is kind today? 

Remember to email us at Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to show us your learning and what you're getting up to, we love hearing from you!

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Mrs Hodges here!

Two activities from me today, firstly the Sentence of the Day:

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=hsW4UVc

Then I'd like you to have a look at the file I've attached - "The Discovery". A start to a story has been given to you - I'd like you to continue that story! The questions in the "Question Time" box will get you thinking about what might happen next, and as you "Just Write" (remember those!), I'd like you to be thinking about showing not telling the reader how your characters are feeling and what is happening. So you need to think carefully about your vocabulary choices and mixing DAD to help you do this. 

We would love to be your reader for this piece of writing, so make sure you email us a photo!

Good afternoon Year 5!

Firstly, our afternoon tea was delicious, it felt like such a treat as I was writing a few reports! 

How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link below to see my corrected sentence!

https://www.showme.com/sh?h=B9PI0Dw

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Miss Wendt here!

Mrs Hodges, I think a paddling pool sounds like a wonderful idea! I'm going to finish writing 5HW's reports in the garden later; I do love being outside but I have to remember to take all my hayfever medication. Katy's act of kindness today was to put all my tablets and eye drops out on the kitchen table to remind me, alongside a pot of coffee! 

Fluent in five for today!

And here are the answers!

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Good Morning from Miss Brookes!

Oh Mrs Hodges, afternoon tea is one of my favourite things! There's a place in Chortlon that do a chocolate afternoon tea - instead of jam you get warm salted caramel to put on your scones. It's honestly one of my favourite tastes - it's so yummy!

My act of kindness today is to help my Dad with some DIY - he's adding a shelf to our greenhouse.

Here is today's GVP:

 

 

Here are the answers:

 

 

 

Don't forget to email me a picture of your sundial - I'm excited to see how they turned out!

y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Miss Brookes 

Wellbeing challenge 19.5.20

Date: 19th May 2020 @ 10:25am

Good morning,

I hope everyone is well and taking good care of their mental health this week. We are still looking at kindness today and how important kindness is to keep everyone happy and healthy. Today's challenge will hopefully help everyone to see that kindness is all around us and I bet there are things that others do for us (and that we do for others!) that we barely even think about.

Today we're going to draw a kindness heart.

First of all draw a large heart on a piece of paper. Then on the left hand side write all the things that people do for you that are kind, all in different colours. Then on the right hand side write all the kind things that you do for others in different colours. If you can't think of many then maybe have a think of things that you could do. The acts of kindness could be as simple as just smiling at someone or saying good morning.

Here is mine if you would like to steal some ideas!

If you would like to share your kindness hearts then as always please feel free to e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Past challenges

Thanks to Mrs Iqbal who sent me her kind acts for the week!

Well done to the children that are still sending in their mask designs as well as their kindsness acts (one here has even made his mum a cup of tea and some biscuits!)

 

‘We create, We explore,


We care, We soar’

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