Beata's Artwork

Last week's art lesson was about sketching a scene from a window in your house:

Sketching Lesson

Here is Beata's very detailed sketch, in which she has used some excellent shading techniques:

Maths Challenge - Problem Solving Questions

Hi year 5,

Just a few problem solving questions for you this morning. I will put the answers up this afternoon. Remember:

1. Read the question carefully - more than once if necessary.
2. Select or highlight the important information.
3. Carefully consider any units needed in the answer e.g. £, kg, cm etc...
4. Display your calculation for harder questions.
5. Check through your working and answers.

English Challenge - Friday 26th June

Hello year 5,

In today's lesson you are going to write a set of instructions about HOW TO CAPTURE A DRAGON:

Here is the video lesson to explain more:

Writing Instructions

Here is the teacher's example of How to Capture a Dragon instructions to help give you some ideas:

And here are some of the writing skills you need to include:

Good luck with writing your dragon instructions. You could write on the computer or hand write the instructions:

If you would like me to check over your writing you could photograph it and email it to me at:

year4@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Mr Hissey.

Science Challenge - Forces (Final Lesson)

Good morning year 5,

Today we are going to finish our science learning with a mini-test to see what we have learnt and remember about forces. Here are my tips:

1. Read each question carefully.
2. Think carefully about any scientific vocabulary in the question - e.g. friction, gravity etc...
3. Try to make your answer to the questions carefully.

Beata's Sausage and Spaghetti Kebabs

Beata has been making some sausage and spaghetti kebabs using a recipe she found on a YouTube video.

English Challenge - Thursday 25th June (Features of Instructions)

Hello year 5,

I hope you are well and enjoyed reading the instructional text about Morrison Shelters yesterday. Today's lesson will focus on the key features of an instructional piece of writing.

Here is a link to the quizzes and video lesson:

Features of Instructions

All of the following pictures are on the video, but I like to put them on the blog so you don't have to keep pausing the video.

Here are the main features of a set of instructions:

Here is your activity. You should label the instructions with each key feature. I have done the first one for you as an example:

A = Fronted adverbial
B
C
D
etc....

Maths Challenge - Thursday 25th June

Hello year 5,

We will be looking at more decimals today. In this lesson you will be dividing them by 10, 100 and 1000. Remember, when we divide a decimal by 10, 100 or 1000 the digits will move to the right of the place value columns.

Here is the video lesson:
Year 5 - Week 9 - Lesson 4 - Divide decimals by 10 100 and 1000 from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.


And here are your questions about dividing decimals: