Useful Websites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.co.uk/kids/
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/
index.html
http://www.tellyads.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
Can you...
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Persuade Gayton School to
recycle more?
Find out about other
stories from around the
world?
Write a set of instructions
for a new game you have
designed?
This term, Year 5 will be covering a range of
text types in Literacy: stories from other
cultures, persuasive texts, poetry and
instructions.
In Numeracy, the children will cover the four
operations again, decimals and money, patterns
in numbers, measuring in kilograms, pictograms
and Venn diagrams and real-life problems to
learn all of the above.
Our topic based lessons will be centred around
our Cool Planet topic and will be geography
based. We will be investigating the continents,
oceans, climates and natural disasters.
To help your child with their Literacy work this term you could:
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Discuss instructions that you use around the home: recipes, games, manuals.
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Encourage your child to use extended noun phrases (adding extra detail
to a noun). This will help with their writing—The agile and experienced
goal keeper, who played for Derby County, saved four shots in a hotly
contested match.
This term we will be reading extracts from the books below. Perhaps you
could find these books (or stories like them) in your local library and read
them together?
Stories from other Cultures:
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Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman
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Grandpa Chatterji books by Jamila Gavin
Instructions:
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Putting on a Party by Lori Bonner
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Children’s Cookbook by Rebecca Gilpin
Poets with Passion :
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For Sale by Benjamin Zephaniah
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The House that Jack Built by Judith Nicholls
Persuasive Texts:
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Superkids: 250 Incredible Ways for Kids to Save the Planet by Sasha
Norris.
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Clean Planet: Stopping Litter and Pollution: 1 (You can save the Planet)
byTristan Boyer Binns
To help your child with their Numeracy work this term you could:
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Practise times tables AND division facts for the 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10
times tables.
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Identify fractions (halves, quarters, etc) of things at home—e.g.
Sweets, chocolate, pizza! Try to find the equivalent percentage too.
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Change measurements using decimals—e.g. 1500g = 1.5kg.
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Read the time from digital and analogue clocks.
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Practise addition and subtraction of decimals e.g. money.
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Multiply and divide with HTU by U and HTU by TU.
This term’s topic is all geography based. We will
be investigating where we are in the world:
Littleover - Derby - England - United KingdomEurope—World. We will also be discovering the
differences in climate depending on a country’s
position above sea level and how far away from
the ocean it is. We will also examine a range of
maps to learn more about continents and oceans.
We will also be finding out about natural
disasters: typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes,
tornadoes and avalanches and what causes
them. Finally, we will be looking at the
countries that suffer from drought and what
we can do to make a difference to them.
Our first science topic will be
about Solids, Liquids and Gases
where we will look at the water
cycle and the
properties of each.
Our second science topic is
about sound and how it travels.
We will be carrying out
investigations about sound
waves and our Design and
Technology topic will be to make
a musical instrument (so start
saving all of those boxes and
yogurt pots)!