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Wednesday 10th February 2021

10/2/2021

 
Good morning Year 5!  Welcome back to our home learning blog.
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Don't forget that the email address for your teachers is: year5@bgfjs.org
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Here is Charlotte to talk you through today's learning:

​Today's timetable:
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PE with Joe Wicks

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Lesson 1 - Maths
Starter: Practise your 7 times table and division facts.
Click here for the starter activity
Maths activity 1:
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When you have watched the video, please click on the blue button underneath it and answer the questions on the worksheet.
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Spr5.5.3 - Compare and order fractions less than 1 (first part of worksheet) from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

When you have watched the video, please click on the blue button and answer all the questions on the worksheet.
CLICK HERE for the activity
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Maths activity 2:
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Spend 15 minutes practising your maths skills on Mathletics.  Either complete activities that your teacher has set or go to the fractions section.
Mathletics website
Or click here to get the app for tablets
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Maths activity 3:
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Spend 15 minutes practising your times tables on Times Tables Rockstars.
TT Rockstars website
Or click here to get the app for tablets

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Break time:

Wash your hands for 20 seconds and fetch yourself a refreshing glass of water.
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RELAX for 15 minutes.
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Lesson 2: Literacy
Starter: Homophones
Click here for the starter activity
Literacy activity 1:
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Click here to go to today's lesson
Make sure you have a pen and paper ready for the tasks.
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Literacy activity 2:
Spend 30 minutes on Active Learn.
  1. Choose a book that your teacher has set you and read it carefully.
  2. Each time you see a little green bug, click on it and answer the questions.  You will earn points that you can redeem in your account.
Active Learn website
Click here for more reading websites.
Click here to check out the Blue Gate Fields Junior School poetry blog!

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Lunch:  Time to wash your hands for 20 seconds and eat a delicious, healthy lunch.
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Lesson 3: Science
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Firstly, fetch your experiment that you set up last week.  Today we are going to share what we have found out.
(If you missed last lesson, then you will need to do it today instead.  Click here for last week's lesson and scroll down to Science.)
Let's get started!
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Fill in the top two boxes of this sheet (you can draw your own):
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Now, have a look at your container.  What do you notice?
​Fill in the bottom two boxes of your sheet.
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Did you know that lots of the salt that we use in cooking comes from sea water?
Watch this TigTag video to find out more:
Enter Tig Tag
Type ‘sea salt’ into the search bar.
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Click on the video called Sea Salt.  It looks like this:
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Now, click here to complete a QUIZ!
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Lesson 4 - Music
Today, we are learning about variations, which are ways that we can change music.
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Think about these things as you watch how this pianist creates different variations of a very well known song.

Write down your thoughts and ideas while you are watching it.
Now listen to 'My Favourite Things' from the Sound of Music.
Now listen to this re-arrangement. The saxophone/clarinet player John Coltrane is probably the most well-known saxophonist in the world.  He plays jazz music which uses a lot of improvisation (making up a lot of variations!). There are lots of variations in the melody, the harmony (chords), the rhythm and of course the instruments used are totally different.
Now, listen to Blackbird by The Beatles.
Now, listen to this a jazz arrangement by a pianist for a jazz trio (piano, double bass & drum kit).  Listen to the melody variations and the rhythm variations.  There are also more variations in the dynamics (loud, quiet, etc) compared to the original. 
Finally, listen to 'Don't Matter' by Akon covered by Ariana Grande and lots of other people on Tik Tok.

This is a simple melody on its own without accompaniment, but the different singers have different tones in their voice.  Each one is unique (and remember Ariana Grande’s one is recorded in a music studio and the others are recorded on a phone which makes the sound quality different. Have a listen and see what you think of the different variations other singers (mostly from Indonesia on this video) do.

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Story time

Tomorrow at 1.30pm, we are going to join a special Youtube event with the author Michael Morpurgo.

This afternoon, listen to Michael Morpurgo read Chapters 5 & 6 of his book The Butterfly Lion.
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That's all for today, Year 5!  Well done for putting lots of effort into your learning.
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Best wishes,
Charlotte, Alice, Sophie, Nasima and Lauren

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