Doncaster Stories

Hi all,

Doncaster Literacy Trust are organising some great competitions over the lockdown period.  I think this would be a great opportunity for your child to develop their creative writing skills and their love of reading.  

Here is a link to their facebook page - please take a look!

www.facebook.com/doncasterstories

This week the creative writing challenge is set at The Frenchgate Centre!  I could see some amazing creativity from this!  Please encourage your child to take part.  It is such a great opportunity for them.

Happy Writing!

Mrs Clark xx

ICT Challenge

As we all know, Miss Stavish loves ICT and particularly coding and programming. Without coders and programmers we wouldn't be able to have this blog or any other form of technology for that matter. Whilst Miss Stavish is unable to teach you she has found you a great, fun course of coding to develop your skills whilst you are not in school.

This course is free to sign up and track your progress which is brilliant. This course can be done over time whilst school is closed. You will have so much fun coding a dance party with current music, coding an angry birds game, learn functions with minecraft, create a maze game and so much more.

Simply click here: https://studio.code.org/s/express-2019

Can't wait to have some master coders when we get back to school.

Literacy Week 2

Literacy week 2: SPAG challenge

All challenges can be completed in the book you were given by copying and completing the images for each daily challenge. No printing is needed.

Day 1 Challenge: MAD libs

Complete the missing word types to create a hilarious short story. 

Day 2: There/They're/Their 

Complete the correct there/they're or their. Remember 

There is used: Let's go over there.

They're is used: They're going to win.

Their is used: We are going to their house.

Day 3: Apostrophes for contractions

Day 4: Was or were

Day 5: Past tense

Maths week 2

Maths Challenges week 2: Problem solving.

Each day has a video of how to solve a similar problem and then a problem for you to have a turn at yourself. The answers will be posted on next weeks Maths blog post.


Day 1:

Now it's your turn:

Ethan and his 5 friends buy some Lego.

They each pay £3.25

But they don't have enough so Ethan pays £2.60 more.

How much have they paid altogether? 

Day 2:

Now your turn:

Day 3:

Now your turn:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Maths Day 5 - Friday 27th March (Thousandths as Decimals)

Maths Day 5

Follow the link to your Maths Learning for today

LESSON 5: Thousandths as Decimals

Play the video and complete the worksheet. 

If you are unable to print the worksheet, write your answers on a piece of paper. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/Week 1

We miss you!

One week into this school closure and we can honestly say that we completely and totally miss you all. We know we are doing this for all the right reasons but that still doesn't stop us from missing you all. So this post is just to say stay safe and hopefully we will all be able to see each other sooner than we know. 

Maths Day 4 - Thursday 26th March (understanding thousandths)

Maths Day 4

Follow the link to your Maths Learning for today

LESSON 4: Understanding Thousandths

Play the video and complete the worksheet. 

If you are unable to print the worksheet, write your answers on a piece of paper. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/Week 1

Topic - Tudors

As we near the end of our topic we have put together some home learning ideas for you to choose from to finish off the topic.

Tudor House

Build your own model Tudor house complete with jettys and their signature white and wood beam design.

Compare Doctors

Compare the differences between Tudor doctors and Modern Doctors. This can be done through: drawing both and annotating around your drawings; Creating a powerpoint that compares the two; or writing a comparison between the two.

Tudor Banquet 

As we know the Tudors we very lavish and lived their lives by having large extravagant banquets. Your challenge is to research the food they ate and create a menu for a Tudor Banquet. Take your menu even further by using teabags to stain the paper to give it that aged feel. 

Crime and Punishment

Draw two detailed  pictures or write two  detailed descriptions to  compare crime and  punishment today and  during Tudor times.

Witch Craft

Write a courtroom  speech as someone who  has been accused of  witch craft.  Consider what the punishment was for being a witch in Tudor times, how you might have felt being accused of witch craft and what you may have said to convince them you weren't a witch. You could even record your courtroom scene.

Maths Day 3 - Wednesday 25th March (Decimals as Fractions 2)

Maths Day 3

Follow the link to your Maths Learning for today

LESSON 2: Decimals as Fractions (2)

Play the video and complete the worksheet. 

If you are unable to print the worksheet, write your answers on a piece of paper. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/Week 1

Maths Day 2 - Tuesday 24th March (Decimals as Fractions)

Maths Day 2

Follow the link to your Maths Learning for today

LESSON 2: Decimals as Fractions

Play the video and complete the worksheet. 

If you are unable to print the worksheet, write your answers on a piece of paper. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/Week 1

Science Experiments at Home

Doing experiments are half the fun of science so we have found a great website full of ideas for experiments at home. Click the links below to find some of the ones that we love

Make ice-cream in a plastic bag

Make own rock candy

Egg drop challenge

Eggshell geode crystals

Bend water with static electricity

Make your own bouncy ball

Literacy week 1

Literacy week 1: exploring books and stories

Day 1 challenge: write a blurb

Write blurb for your favourite book. Make sure that it is engaging and attracts people to read that book.

Day 2 challenge: Adverb hunt

Whilst reading a book write down all the adverbs you come across. Then can you find synonyms for 5 of those words and use them in a sentence.

Day 3 challenge: What is August feeling?

Read the passage above and write how you think the character of August is feeling. (If you want to continue reading, the passage is from the book 'Wonder' which was also made in to a film which some of you saw before Jono Lancaster came to visit.)

Day 4 challenge: Descriptive setting

Write a descriptive setting based on the picture above. Make sure to use lots of descriptive devices such as expanded noun phrases, similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. 

Day 5 challenge: Finish the story

Based on the picture above and the opening below write the rest of this story:

The house stood looking over an empty street as the wind blew through the leaf-less trees. It felt like.....

JOIN THE MATHS PARTY!

Tweet your Maths answers for the day and share your learning with children around the world!

Maths Day 1 - Monday 23rd March (Decimals up to 2dp)

Maths Day 1

Happy Monday Year 5!

Follow the link to your Maths Learning for today

LESSON 1: Decimals up to 2 decimal places

Play the video and complete the worksheet. 

If you are unable to print the worksheet, write your answers on a piece of paper. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/Week 1

Welcome to our blog!

Hello Year 5, 

Welcome to our blog, Miss Stavish and Mrs Rogers are looking forward to having you back in school but until then, to keep you busy, we will be uploading daily English and Maths tasks for you to complete. 

Along side your home learning packs, we will also create a new and exciting topic menu which will be available as of next week!