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English - Friday 17th July (Writing a Diary)

Hi year 5,

For your final lesson before the summer holidays you are going to write some extracts from a diary. Here are the quizzes and video to accompany the lesson:

Diary Writing

Here is an example of the beginning of a teacher diary to help you see how you might start a diary:

And here is your activity. You have a choice to either write a diary about yourself or a fictional character.

Good luck writing your diaries.

Maths - Thursday 16th July

Hi year 5,

Today's lesson will involve looking at timetables and trying to determine mathematical information from them. Here is your video lesson:


Year 5 - Week 12 - Lesson 4 - Timetables from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

Here are your timetable worksheets:

English - Thursday 16th July (SPAG)

Good morning year 5,

Your SPAG lesson today will be about writing formally and informally.

SPAG - Formal and Informal

The teacher on the video explains the meaning of formal and informal, but here are a couple of definitions to help you:

FORMAL - This type of writing using correct standard English. Full sentences are always used and slang is never used.
INFORMAL - This writing involves more of a chatty style. Contractions and the occasional slang word might be used.

Here are your SPAG questions involving formal and informal language:

Maths - Wednesday 15th July

Hi year 5,

Today we will be looking at converting between different units of time. It is really useful to know these facts:
60 minutes = 1 hour
24 hours = 1 day
365 days = 1 year (a leap year has 366 days)

Here is your video:
Year 5 - Week 12 - Lesson 3 - Converting units of time from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

English - Wednesday 15th July

Hi year 5,

Today we will look at the key features of a diary. Here is the lesson video and quiz:

Features Video

Here is a reminder of the key features of a diary:

And here is a diary example with some of the features highlighted by the teacher on the video.

Your turn. Can you figure at what the missing features are?

 For this paragraph can you figure out the features yourself?

Maths - Tuesday 14th July

Hi year 5,

Today's maths lesson will involve you looking at IMPERIAL units of measure. You may have heard of some of these which include:

Feet, yards and inches

Pints

Pound and ounces

Here is the video explaining the imperial measures:

Year 5 - Week 12 - Lesson 2 - Imperial units from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

And here are your worksheets:

English Challenge - Tuesday 14th July

Hi year 5,

Welcome to our second diaries lesson today. We are going to be looking at retrieval questions in today's lesson. Here are the videos:

Diaries - Retrieval

Here is a reminder of how to answer retrieval questions effectively:

Your text today is one of the most famous diaries of all time - The Diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was Jewish and had to flee Nazi Germany during World War II.

And here are your questions:

Art Challenge - Monday 13th July

Hi year 5,

For our final our challenge before the Summer holidays we are going to look at pop art. Pop art is an artistic style from the 1950s which combined images from (pop)ular culture with bright colours. Here are some examples of pop art:

Your challenge is to create either:
1. A picture or an internet meme or acronym like this:

Examples include LOL, OMG, BRB, CU L8R, ROFL (No rude ones though!)

2. Draw a pop art product. Like:

Good luck and remember to send your artwork to year5@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Maths - Monday 13th July

Hi year 5,

Today your maths will be about metric units. Here is your video lesson:


Year 5 - Week 12 - Lesson 1 - Metric units from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.


And here are the worksheets:

Spellings - Monday 13th July

Hi year 5,

Here are this week's spellings to practice. They focus on the 'ible' ending.

English Challenge - Monday 13th July

Hi Year 5,

Today we are going to start to look at diaries. Here is your video lesson:


Diary Lesson 1

Here is your