Good morning Year 5! Welcome to all 5U and 5K pupils. Thank you for coming on to virtual school today. We would like you to log into virtual school every day to access the learning. It is crucial that we maintain a routine that is as close as possible to a normal school day during the next two weeks. New learning will be available each weekday. Don’t hesitate to ask if you need any support or just want to check-in. Remember to tweet your work @hillstoneps. Make sure you leave a comment every day so we know you’re here (each day’s comments section will be used to take a register). Most importantly, make sure to stay safe! Have a great day!
Fantastic news! You can now send your work to us for feedback by uploading it here. Additionally, if you have any questions that you’d prefer to ask your teacher privately, send them to year5@hillstone.org.uk
9:00-9:10
Let’s the start the day off with some early morning work! So, put your thinking hats on Year 5. Give it a go! – Make sure you have left a comment to let us know you’re here too!
Complete the spelling activities below.
9:10-10:00
Christmas is a wonderful time of year that is filled with joy. What are some of your favourite things about the celebration?
Unfortunately, not everyone is able to enjoy Christmas as we do. Christmas is often a sad time for the elderly. Why do you think this is the case?
Nearly half of the UK’s elderly feel that Christmas isn’t a special time for them anymore. They often don’t see or hear from anyone for days and days over the festive period because family members are too busy with preparations for Christmas or because they have forgotten about them. This year, many families will be staying away from elderly relatives to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
To do some thing about this, we had the idea to write special Christmas letters to the elderly. This will prove to them that they are still respected and valued and that the community hasn’t forgotten about them.
As we see on a daily basis, Newsround love to hear about what children are doing to help out in their communities. Why not kick start the project by sending a to Newsround to explain what we are going to do? This could inspire other children to help out the elderly in their communities too!
Take a look at the model of a persuasive letter. This letter was written for a very different purpose, but there are still lessons we can learn from it.
Read the letter bellow and then highlight or underline vocabulary and language features that may be useful when we come to write our own letters.
When you’ve finished, listen to my analysis videos and see if there’s anything you need to add or make note of.
Statistics
Flow/Cohesion
Variety of reasons
Tone
We’re not writing our letters today! We have some more work to do tomorrow to help us prepare.
10:10-11:00
11:00-11:10
Listen again as I read a short piece of text entitled ‘The Lord Mayor’s Coach’. Then answer the questions that follow.
Below are the pages so you can refer to them yourself when answering the questions.
Grab a piece of fruit for snack and watch Newsround with us!
11:10-12:00
Today we will look at how to work out the area of rectangles. Watch the instructional video below to help you get started.
Now that you have a good understanding of what to do, try the questions below.
Fantastic work so far. I would like you to have a go at the following questions next. Remember to tweet in your work as well.
Now try this question.
12:00-12:30
Read your AR book. When you are finished, you can take your quiz on Accelerated Reader. You can login here. Any problems, (for example, if you can’t remember your login details) just leave us a comment at the bottom of the page.
Click HERE to visit an online reading website. Select any story you would like to hear and click on ‘Youtube’ (so that you can view and listen to the story through Youtube). Don’t forget to let us know what stories you are reading/have read in the comments below!
13:30-13:40
Listen in again as I read the start of a new book called ‘Freckle Juice’ chp 1.
13:40 – 15:00
Topic Section
The Human Body
To explore the function of the kidneys
The kidneys are essentially washing machines for the blood. They process waste and toxins in the blood so it can be removed from the body in the form of urine.
The kidneys are a similar size to a computer mouse and they are located in the lower back. Put your hands where you think your kidneys are.
Kidneys need a great deal of blood (to supply oxygen and nutrients) in order to function. Blood flow to the kidneys is higher than it is to the heart, liver or brain!
The kidneys are capable of activating vitamin D.
Vitamin D is extremely important for several reasons:
Vitamin D helps our bones to absorb and store calcium. Why to you think this is important?
Additionally, vitamin D helps to support the immune system. Can you explain what the role of the immune system?
What happens if the kidneys stop working?
If your kidneys stop working, your body gradually fills with extra water and waste products. This makes you feel tired and weak because your body needs clean blood to function properly.
Additionally, feet and hands sometimes swell as a result of the excess water.
Your task
Your task this afternoon is to write a personal profile for a kidney that could be used on social media. You need to explain:
Where you are located and your size
What your job is
What would happen to the body if you decided to quit
You should also include a profile picture.
Remember to upload your work when it’s done!
15:00-15:30
Spend some time on TT Rock Stars.
Hey 👋
Hey there Loewen.
Hi I’ve just uploaded all Keira longs work
Good afternoon, I have completed 15 worksheets. and I will do the rest and bring them in on Wednesday.
I did the kidney work. Mum put it on the cloud.
Hi, Emmy has worked really hard on completing all lessons today. She particularly liked the maths and learning about the kidneys. I will upload the topic work now. She has moved onto a book from home called Mr Stink by David Walliams for her AR book , she hopefully will do the quiz before coming back on Wednesday.
Thank you!
Mom has put my kidney work on the cloud….. I loved learning about them. I have started watching operation ouch on TV which is great too..
Thanks.
Scarlett will not be back in school till Monday 7th December will there be work for her to carry on with at home.
There will be detailed work tomorrow (how it has been for the last two weeks) and then for as long as 5K are isolating as well.
After that there will be a skeleton frame work of activities as children will be back in school. If you look on the Virtual School on some of the previous weeks it will give you a clue. Saying that Scarlett could always go back and look at some of the previous weeks learning for consolidation as well.
Ok thank you for your help we will look over the work once her class is back at school. She will be on as normal tomorrow.
Scarlett has uploaded all of her work for today.
Thanks, that’s great!
I’ve had a look Scarlett and you seem to be confusing area with perimeter.
For perimeter you add length + width + length + width.
But for area you times length by width (only once though).
Ok I will go back onto the work and re do it.
When are we coming back to school
Wednesday 🙂
Hi Jude, 5U will be coming back to school on Wednesday. (Yeah)
Hi
My mum has uploaded my writing and some extra research we founds. I did the maths and even the challenge questions too!
Well done, Elliot.
Just uploaded some of Eli’s work for today. We will do some more later
Did my work 😁 maths I am still struggling on
I have done the maths and writing and i feel confident with area
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Super!
Belle has done the maths. She really enjoyed it and I have loaded to the cloud. For writing we have started looking for some statistics and how to set out the letter… She has done some ttrs and the reading with questions. Just stopped for lunch and then we are working on topic.
We analysed the letter together and then Jasmine was desperate to write a letter. I figured as she is normally reluctant to write I would let her have a go. Hope this is O.K. We can always add to it tomorrow, change it or edit it.
No problem!
No that’s great, if Jasmine was eager to write all the better.
She can always have another go tomorrow or mainly edit and improve what she did today.
That’s what I figured was best. You are all working so hard to put this altogether. It is really appreciated.
My mum put my work on the cloud.
Lovely, thank you.
Hi
Good morning Ibrahim.
Hello Ibrahim.
Hwo are you doing
I will upload maths in a bit. Just having lunch.
Look forward to seeing it Josh.
Hi mr.k sorry for not telling u i’m here when i came in
No worries! Good morning.
If you see work with no name and has blue writing with a picture in the middle it’s mine I forgot to write by Kaycee lea.
Many thanks 😀
Your welcome.
I’ve sent my work onto the cloud (the topic work)