As I remember rightly, you were all SO great at writing setting descriptions so your next task is to, using the image below, write your own setting description about the Arctic. I would like you to use words from the vocabulary box, include the 5 senses, prepositions, and expanded noun phrases.
Word bank: cotton crunch shadows horizon empty tranquil soundless lonely icicle crisp raw
Good morning year 5, I hope you are all doing well and staying safe. Missing you all very much and can't wait to see your lovely, smiling faces again.
This key skill is something we have been doing all year, so I really don't want you to have forgotten. Once you have completed the task, can you then divide instead of multiply instead?
Good morning Year 5, hope you have all had a lovely week so far. Can I just take a moment to shout out Tyon who has been sharing all of his work with me in the comments section of the posts. It makes me so proud that you are willing to share and participate - keep it up. I know lots more of you are on the blogs every day too which I love.
So, I don't know how many of you will have heard of this game before, it is more of a puzzle and requires resilience and patient. - two very important maths skills. The aim of the game is to fill in each square with a number between 1 and 9.
You must fill each row with the numbers 1-9. each column with the numbers 1-9 and each box with the numbers 1-9.
In this text below there are loadssssss of mistakes. How many can you find?
every day i woke up and sit in bed with a cup of tea and put on my favorite radio show -BBC 1 Extra. Once i start to feeled hungry i go into the kitchen and make some porridge with peanut butter and cinnamon. most days i heads to hackney downs for a walk while listening to a podcast and picking up anY ingredients i need for the day to cook with. i usually grab a coffee while I'm there as you know i cant function without on. when I'm back at home i usually do some exercise and before I know it, its time for lunch. i spend the afternoon, reading books cleaning my flat talked to friends, and doing some life admin. Wow the day has really gone fast. time to start on dinner, which is usually a something spicy and healthy! Yawn, time for bed soon. I reading sum more and do a nightly meditation before bed to help me mind switch off. goodnight.
Have you ever wondered why some animals live in a certain place and other animals live in others? Why are there no camels in the Himalayas and penguins in the Sahara? Well, animals have adapted to their surroundings in order to survive. They have specific features that make them able to live in certain temperatures and landscapes.
Watch this video about polar bears listing its features and tell me why they have these features in order to survive.
Good morning year 5. So great to speak to some of you yesterday! I even was lucky enough to see some of you which was an absolute joy. Missing you all very very much.
If you found 2 digits by 2 digits easy then now try with 3 digits. Watch the video first for a tutorial and then try answering the questions below.
I can't stress enough how important knowing how to multiply is which is why it is CRUCIAL you do this activity. W e are starting off the week with 2 digits by 2 digits to warm up but later on in the week, I will be doing 3 and 4 digits.
First, watch this video. Pause where you need to and follow along on a piece of paper.
Next, try these questions. I will post the answers tomorrow.
Good morning Year 5, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Let's get back to it!
The Arctic couldn't be any further from Hackney in so many ways, so it's quite hard to imagine how life exists there. Understanding different cultures and ways of life is crucial to becoming better humans ourselves and furthermore helps us understand our own cultures greater.
This is a clip from a documentary called 'Arctic' is hosted by one of my favorite humans in the world - Bruce Parry. In this episode, he spends some time with the indigenous people of the Arctic called Nenets. Watch the video and then answer the questions below.
What do you think their main supply of food is?
How do you think they cook their food?
Can you think of 5 differences between life in Hackney Vs life in the Arctic?
The Aurora Borealis Lights are, without doubt, one of the most spectacular views on earth. Also knows as the Northern Lights, which can be seen in the Arctic circle, appear when tiny particles stream out from the Sun and hit Earth’s atmosphere.
The particles give some of their energy to atoms and molecules of gases in the upper atmosphere. But the atoms and molecules cannot hold the energy. They quickly give it off as another kind of energy—the colors of light that we call the aurora.
These lights occur most often around the North Pole and South Pole because the incoming particles have an electric charge. As the particles arrive, Earth’s magnetic field guides them toward the poles.
Click here to watch a video showing them at their best.
What do the lights remind you of?
What colors can you see?
Challenge question: Do you think they would still exist if the Arctic melted?
So the Arctic Circle is one of the two polar ice caps. The Arctic is in the northern hemisphere, and the Antarctic is in the south. This is a map of the Arctic circle from a birds-eye-view. Which countries can you identify are part of the Arctic circle? So within the blue circle. There are 8 in total.
I'm sure we are all dreaming about all the places we would love to go if we weren't in lockdown right now... calculate which will be your first. I got the Rio cinema, what did you get?
Instructions
1. Choose a number between 1 and 9
2. Multiply it by 3
3. Add 3
4. Multiply it again by 3
5. Add the two digits number that you get together
6. The number you get will be where you will be going first
We haven't done this in ages so I thought it would be good to check what we already know. Have a try at this interactive factor and multiples game and let me know how you get on!
Good morning Year 5, hope you are all having a lovely week so far. I was thinking of how much of a pleasure it was to speak to so many of you on Monday and I look forward to checking in with you again soon.
So now you should have all watched Frozen Planet and answered the questions from the previous post. Now that we have a bit of knowledge about the Arctic we can start to understand why it is so crucial to the survival of our planet.
First, let's recap on what climate change is and touch on how the Arctic is being affected.
So what does climate change mean?
The climate of our planet is increasing, this means that the polar ice caps are melting.
The polar ice caps help to regulate (control) the earth's temperature.
If the ie caps melt, sea levels will rise.
Using the knowledge you already have from our core text Floodlands, can you name 2 effects of sea levels rising and post them in the comments section for us to discuss.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting a bit bored of Joe Wicks and think that now that summer is fast approaching, we need to be spicing up our home workouts. I really hope you enjoy this work out as much as I did with my flatmate this morning. Try and get your parents involved and see who can complete it to the end without stopping!
So I just wanted to show you how to do this as I know some of you might have forgotten as we did it so long ago. After you have watched the videos, have a go at answering the questions below. Hopefully, this is helpful! Also, please excuse the shabby whiteboard set up - I will try to get better at this!
So today would have been the first day of our new topic - The Arctic!
The Arctic plays such an important part in the survival of our world, which is why it's crucial we learn about it! To get us started, I would like you to watch this episode of Frozen Planet which you should all know is narrated by (my hero) David Attenborough. I will then, for tomorrow's activity, be posting some questions for you to answer as well as a quiz! So make sure you are taking notes!
We have only touched slightly on this so far this year which is why this may be a bit of a challenge for you. But follow my instructions carefully and you will be successful!
So perimeter is ADDING all sides and the area is MULTIPLYING the length and the width of a shape. As your activity for today, I'd like to you measure the perimeter and area of a room in your house. It can be any room and you can use a tape measure ( ask parents) or it will take much longer but a ruler can also be used.
- find the start of a wall ( corner)
- put your ruler or tape measure alongside it on the floor
- mark with your finger where the ruler ends and add it again adding the lengths each time
-once you've completed one wall, markdown its length
- repeat this with each wall
- stop when you get back to the start
Challenge: Can you now find the perimeter and area of your whole house?
Good morning Year 5, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready for some more learning. I will be posting 3 activities a day for you to try so no excuses about being bored! The first one is this word wheel activity which I thought was quite fun and challenging. It gives you 5 minutes to find as many words as you can using the letters in the word wheel. For example, in the one below there are 61 words ... can you find them?
Even during Easter, these dedicated reading legends are committed to improving their reading skills. I LOVE it. Big up to ... Rokas, Bryan, Angela, Ela, Sarah, Sienna, Britney, Rose and Tyon
When I was little, my grandparents taught me and my siblings loads of different card games. We would sit around the kitchen table on a rainy day, drink tea and demolish entire packs of digestive biscuits. One of my favorite games that they taught me was a game called Elevens which is actually a single-player card game. If you have a full deck of cards then watch my professional tutorial ( taped my phone to the bottom of a chair) and have a go yourself. The rules are really easy and you can consolidate your number facts while you play. ( Also - don't watch the dry hands)
Continuous line drawings provide an excellent way to develop hand eye coordination. Continuous line drawings are made by keeping the pen or pencil in contact with the paper, and by matching speed of looking with speed of drawing. It's a bit tricky, but we challenge you to have a go. You can draw any small object at home....
Try using a handwriting pen, rather than a pencil. The handwriting pen has less friction against the paper and so the pen can “scoot” easily across the paper as the eye observes.
Choose small objects as subject matter and have them close at hand so the children can easily observe detail. Keys, cutlery, tools, feathers, and coins all make excellent subject matter.
Choose how long you will be drawing for.... perhaps 5 mins....use the timer to help!
Try to make a drawing without taking your pen off the paper for the duration of the exercise. You even try doing a blind drawing and don't look at your paper until you are finished.
Send your finished pictures to debeauvoirprimary@gmail.com.
Michael Rosen is a fantastic poet and author who has written classics such as ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ and ‘Chocolate Cake’. St. Matthias and De Beauvoir schools are coming together to work on a collaborative project inspired by his poem, ‘These are the Hands’. Michael wrote this fantastic poem to celebrate the 60th birthday of the NHS, and we thought it was a great opportunity to celebrate our amazing health service and the man himself.
These are the Hands
These are the hands
That touch us first
Feel your head
Find the pulse
And make your bed.
These are the hands
That tap your back
Test the skin
Hold your arm
Wheel the bin
Change the bulb
Fix the drip
Pour the jug
Replace your hip.
These are the hands
That fill the bath
Mop the floor
Flick the switch
Soothe the sore
Burn the swabs
Give us a jab
Throw out sharps
Design the lab.
And these are the hands
That stop the leaks
Empty the pan
Wipe the pipes
Carry the can
Clamp the veins
Make the cast
Log the dose
And touch us last.
Watch the video of the poem here.
Animation project
We will be creating an exciting animation based on the poem. If you would like to contribute, we need:
Drawings of the different jobs the NHS do, as described in the poem. Line drawings in pencil or pen (+ optional coloured pencil) please! Remember to include the all important hands!
Photos of NHS friends/family/colleagues who would be happy to have their pictures included—ideally holding their hands up and wearing their uniforms in hospitals!
Please send your drawings photos to Miss Rader at debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com.
Good morning Year 5, hope you are having a wonderful week so far! I was nominated to run 5 kilometers last night ( how many meters is that..? ) for charity. So you run 5, nominate 5 friends and then donate £5 to the heroes of the NHS.
Earlier this year, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Kate Malone's pottery company, who were generous to provide us with clay from their studio ( round the corner from us), so that we could create Roman vases. After studying the styles and patterns of Roman art in our sketchbooks we then spent a whole afternoon making our own. The vases were then sent back to the studio to be dried in their kiln (oven) at temperatures of up to 1000 degrees. They were then glazed and sent back to us and these are the final products which the children took home just before we closed.
Maakye Year 5, That's 'good morning' in Ghanain pronounced Maa-chi (Sarah please correct me if this is wrong!) Another day, another inspirational person that I wanted to share with you! When I was your age I couldn't wait to grow up so that I could start actually doing things. But what I didn't realise is that I could DO things while I was young. Look at this amazing human Jahkil for instance, I know that if he can do it, so can you. Click on the link to watch the full video.
Jahkil Jackson, 9, of Chicago, founded “Project I Am” to help the homeless in his hometown. Within the last year, he’s compiled and distributed more than 3,000 “Blessings Bags” filled with toiletry items, a towel, socks, and light snacks. He has organized donation drop-off sites and bag-stuffing parties where community members, family, and his fourth-grade friends help him create the bags. He has also established partnerships with homeless shelters and other relief agencies, where he distributes each of his bags and spends time in conversation with the recipients. A frequent public speaker, Jahkil challenges children to find their passion and use it to make a difference. “When I speak to other kids at schools and community centers, I always say, ‘Don’t wait until you are an adult to be great,’ Jahkil told Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. “‘You can be great now!'”
I thought it would be fun to play a little game of guessing 'Who am I?'
To play the game, you need to send in baby photos of yourself for me to upload and for everyone else to see. Once I have enough photos, I will add them to this post for others to guess who you are.
Maybe we can start with an easy one....? (the eyebrows on the left might give it away)
We have our first baby photo in.... can anyone guess who this cheeky tot is?
Please send baby photos to debeauvoirprimaryschool@gmail.com.
I hope you all had a very lovely weekend staying safe, indoors and washing hands as often as possible!
I'm going to be in school this week which I'm very much looking forward to but I will be thinking of you and missing you all very much.
I wanted to share with you this very inspiring story about another determined Pakistani female whose story I couldn't resist showing you. Can you think about 3 similarities she shares with Malala?
Toorpakai is a Pakistani squash player. She has a truly remarkable story. As she rose to a high up position in her sport, she caught the attention of the Taliban. She received threats from the Taliban. So for her protection, she remained trapped in her home practicing squash in her bedroom for four years. During that time, she wrote every famous squash player she could think of; finally, Jonathon Power responded and she joined him to train in Canada.
