Home Learning update

 Hello P5s
I hope you’ve enjoying your time at home and have still been managing to do some learning.  Please remember – this can take any form – it doesn’t have to mean sitting at desk with a pencil. Even helping around the house, and doing fun things with your family will be helping your learning too. However, here are a few more ideas to keep you going:
It would be great to hear from any of you or if you need to ask me any thing at all - so please either post here or send me an email - gw17williamsfiona@glow.sch.uk.  I'll be checking these every day so will respond as quickly as I can.
Thinking of you all and hope to see you soon.
Best wishes
Mrs Williams

Writing
Newspaper Article
In our last week of school we had started to revisit our learning on writing a newspaper article.   Try writing one at home – here are some ideas you could use for your article:

• Monster or mythical creature spotted in your home town
• Burglary at the local bakers shop . supermarket
• Langlee Primary School disappears during the night
• Or make up your own gripping article

 
Things to remember:

• Think of a name for your newspaper and a catchy headline
• Remember the first paragraph should tell you what, when, where and who.
• Next paragraphs go into more detail
• Write in third person and past tense
• Good punctuation – capital letters and full stops.
• Try and make it look like a newspaper – write in columns, include a picture.

 
Diary
We are living through an exceptional time in history right now.  In the last learning pack I asked you to keep a diary – have you done this?  If not,  why not start keeping one – even every few days – explain what is happening and why (e.g. we’re not allowed to go out because…) – this is something you may look back on in years to come.
 
Diary things to remember:

• Write it in the first person (I, me, we)

• Remember to include your thoughts and feelings.

Maths
Times tables
Keep practising those times tables – 2,3,5 and 10.  If you think you can answer any question out of order on these quickly (e.g. 6x 3 = )  , then move on to your other tables.  If not, keep practising. There are lots of websites to help you with times tables.   Try Top Marks,  Sum Dog or another fun site is BBC – Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb
 
Information Handling
At school we were doing well collecting data and drawing graphs or pictorgrams. 
Here are a few things that you could try at home.

1. Dice rolling data
For this you need a dice and a piece of paper and a pencil.
Roll a dice 50 times.  Make a tally chart of how many times you roll a 1,2,3,4,5 or 6
Is there any one number you roll more than another?  Present your data as a graph at the end to see which number you rolled the most/the least.

2. Try these other information handling sheets attached as pdfs at the bottom of this post.

3. Can you think of any other information you could gather while you’re at home?  See if you could ask family (in your household or phone others) to gather some research on a question of your choice.
 
Topic
Things I asked you to do last time:

• Create a fact file about farming in the UK.  Find out as much as you can about different types of farms.
• Try and find out about food’s journey.  Choose some foods and research how they get from the farm to our plate.  Some ideas—cheese, milk or bread.
• Write either a report or create a powerpoint or a poster on the food’s journey that you’ve chosen.
• Find out where different foods in your home come from—plot them on a map of the world/UK.

 
Keep going with these activities.  If you have finished them all then next you can try this:

• Choose a product which is farmed in another country  - this could be rice, tea, coffee, bananas etc.  Make a fact file finding as much as you can about how it’s produced.
• Compare farming in the UK and farming in the country you’ve chosen.  What are the differences ?  What are the similarities.
• A useful website: https://www.farmafrica.org/what-we-do-1/stories-from-our-work-2
• Draw a poster/write a report/create a powerpoint to display what you have learnt

Here are some fun Easter activities you could try too attached as a pdf at the bottom of the post.

Good luck and enjoy!

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