Year 5 & 6 Home Learning Activities and Resources

Addendum to curriculum provision as from June 2nd 2020
To access and provide a ‘structured’ school day you will need to go to your child’s class page on our website

Class 4

Home Learning Activities for Children in Year 5 and 6

Morning to everyone in Y5/6

It's officially the Summer Term part 2 - Week 11 - 2020

Addendum to curriculum provision as from Tuesday 2nd June 2020
To access and provide a ‘structured’ school day you will need to go to your child’s class page on our website

Class 4

July 2020

For our cross curricular topic this half term we are linking up with Y3/4 .
Our theme will be: The whole world in our hands. We will be visiting the 7 continents in 7 weeks.

Week commencing 6th July 2020

This week we are flying over to the country of Australia which continent is it in? Find out...

To read: Facts about Australia
Australian Landmarks
Australian Natural Landmarks

To do: Make a fact file about Australia
Indigenous drawings
Design a boomerang

To sing: 10 Australian songs

To watch: Aboriginal art and meaning
To watch: Find out about Aboriginal Artwork
To do: Aboriginal dot painting - watch and make

To read: Aboriginal people and Ochre

To watch: Find out about Aboriginal Artwork

To do: Story telling symbols

To read: What is 'The dreaming'

Games to play

Another animated history of Australia - click here

Start documentary below at 2 minutes

Week commencing 29th June 2020

This week we are flying over to the country of India which continent is it in? Find out...

BBC bitesize video introduction
Living in different regions of India
PowerPoint on India
Facts on India and video: essence of India
Song of India

Activities:
Recording facts on India sheet - Geography research use links above
Atlas challenge cards - Geography skills
Plan routes to India - map sheet - Geography map skills

Research Indian art - lots of beautiful examples - can you have a go yourself?
lotus flower artwork - using sand - art and design
lotus template
Taj Mahal art project - youtube video to follow
Taj template
How to draw it

Mandala Mindfulness - colouring

PE - Bhangra dance steps tutorial!

Indian music - what are there instruments like? How does it sound?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zg4hb82/revision/1

Hindi is the main language spoken in India and the fourth most spoken language in the world. Have a go...

Week 9
Continent Asia and Europe - Country of focus - Russia
Click any of the links below to be taken to something interesting to read or an activity to complete...

Read - Fact file about Russia
Activity - Where in the world is Russia?
Activity - Can you create a snapshot of Russia?

Draw a Russian building
Click here to follow a step by step guide

Art with Kandinsky
Read - Who was Wassily Kandinsky?
Look - at his artwork
Activity - Painting circles
Activity - Colour like Kandinsky
or make your own painting in the style of Kandinsky

Music from Stravinsky

Investigate the 'Firebird' suite by Igor Stravinsky on the BBC 10 pieces website

Activities and lessons can be found on this page.

Click here - Russia in history - The cold war - Y6 lesson from the Oak Academy

Week 8
Continent Asia and country of focus - Japan
(click for an introduction)
This is the country where the Olympics would have taken place.

Please check (Click here) on the Inspire plus web link for activities from Tuesday onwards to take part in the mini Olympics.

Japan facts ppt (or pdf version)

Challenge 1 - find out more about the Olympics - make your own presentation

Challenge 2 - Japanese worksheet - Japanese writing

Challenge 3 - Counting to 10 in Japanese

Challenge 4 - Origami - look at this link to make a dolphin (then explore - what can you make?)

Challenge 5 - Can you make a Minecraft Japanese house?

Week 7 - South Africa

Activity 4

Find out what the main tourist attractions are for a holiday in South Africa. Make up your own tour map, leaflet or make an itinerary for a trip to south Africa (See Purplemash).
See https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions/south-africa-saf.htm - for some ideas. Think of what it is that you can see or do there that is special and draw it / write about it in full sentences (or both).

https://travelforkids.com/Funtodo/South_Africa/south_africa.htm
South Africa 360 tour -https://www.discoverafrica.com/southafrica360/menu
Live safaris from reserves in South Africa https://wildearth.tv/safarilive/

Activity 3

Watch African choir performance - observe the clothing: colour and pattern
Find out more about the Ndebele tribe and their design inspired homes, clothing and jewellery.
Create your own design for a home, piece of jewellery or outfit inspired by the Ndebele tribe.

Activity 2

National Anthems - what are they? When are they used? Why do countries have flags? How are they different?

Take a look at the lyrics of the National Anthem for South Africa.
(You can get an English translation if you scroll below the lyrics).

Watch the Anthem being sung at a special event.

What are the words trying to say to the people of that country? Why is it important?
Compare it to the Mozambique anthem.
Do you know the words to the British National anthem?

Look at and compare the flags for some of the countries that are near South Africa. What is the same and what is different?

Activity 1

New continent of Africa and country....South Africa: add a new page to your tour book.
PPT with audio or if easier PDF

video - African penguins waddling tour through the aquarium!

or Oceanday for schools - take a look at the website and activities

Activity ideas - Ireland

Activity 5 - See below

Investigation - what can you find out about traditional Irish clothing?

Activity 4 - See below

PE
Gaelic football
In Ireland Gaelic football is most commonly called ‘Gaelic’ or just ‘football’ or ‘gah’ (after the GAA, the Gaelic Athletic Association) and occasionally ‘Caid’ particularly in the south-west of the country.

It’s a game of 15 men against 15 on a grass pitch, a good 20 metres longer and about 10 metres wider than a soccer pitch. The funny thing about Irish football is that it is as much if not more about using your hands as your feet. The ball is kicked, caught, hand-passed and punched. While players can’t run with the ball in their hands more than three steps, they can move the ball up the field by ‘soloing’, basically the skill of running and repeatedly kicking the ball into the hands and dropping to the feet again.

If you can find a space - why not work on this skill of kicking the ball up into your hands ('soloing')- standing still and then if possible whilst walking and then running!

Why not find out about / watch some of the gaelic games and their rules.

Could you make up your own brand new game rules? What shape and size would the ball and possibly bat be? How do you pass the ball? How do you score? How many on a team? What would you call your game?

Choose a GoNoodle session to get you active - Youtube channel

Activity 3 - click the links below
Celtic symbols explained and their meaning
Draw Celtic Knots
Tie a Celtic Knot

Activity 2: Music - listening and appreciation - comparison of versions and picking out instruments.
Michael Finnegan - take a listen and compare
Song with lyrics to join in and compare to previous version
Listen to some Irish music
Identify the instruments.
Harps are one of the symbols of Ireland - could you make your own? Try with card, boxes / tins or even a coat hanger...

The world in our hands...visit 1 (ppt)
(pdf click here)
Can you create a tour poster or leaflet that would let people know about the special things they could enjoy by visiting this country. Be sure to write some fully sentences with persuasive words such as: unique, incredible, amazing, extraordinary, delicious...

New recommended books to link ... see below!
Listen to chapter 1 and 2 of the Boy who biked the world - book 1 - on the road to Africa

Click here to go to lesson schedules for this week

or

Scroll down the page to see a selection of activities to choose from.

Arty / JK Rowling Competition
You can have a go at illustrating her new story and send off your competition entry - it might end up in the book!
Read chapters 1 to 10
Ickabog competiton
Ickabog themes
illustration instructions and guidelines
white paper, less than A4 and keep flat and dry until the end of July just in case they are winners! Send a photo digitally of your artwork. See theme suggestions.

Clips for work on Wonder - RJ Palacio

Lesson Plan

I am wonder

You all have usernames and passwords for these programmes.
(If you don't have your username and password contact school on class4@harby.leics.sch.uk)

Purplemash are suggesting which activities to do each week for Y5/6 - look on the right hand side of the screen once you've logged in...

Remember to check out our class page for daily updates
or
try the daily activities suggested by the BBC Bitesize team - click on the images below Y5 left - Y6 right

Remember to stay in touch each week - send an email to Mrs Ford

class4@harby.leics.sch.uk

You could try out 'The Oak National Academy' online classroom materials - where you can choose from three lessons a day for each day of the week.

Year 5 weekly content

Y5 Maths and English Mastery resources

Week 5-8
Y5
English activities
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Maths activities
Y5
Week 5- 9
Answers

Year 6 weekly content

Y6 Maths and English Mastery resources

Week 5-8
Y6
English activities
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Maths activities
Y6
Week 5-9
Answers

Year 5 and Year 6
Additional Home Learning Activities
Summer Term

Could you create a 'social distancing' headgear?

Another option for an English Lesson

Stay up to date with CBBC Newsround

Science

Year 6 Reading Activities

Have a look at these newspapers.
Stay up to date...

Free copy 1
Free copy 2
Free copy 3
Free copy 4

Year 5/6 Writing Activities

Pobble365 has a different image each day.

Alongside the image, if you follow the arrow, it gives you ideas for writing. These might be sentences or longer pieces of writing.

Try to do at last one pieces of writing each week and share it with a sibling or your parents.

Explore Authorfy - you will need an adult to register and login and once you do there are some lovely resources, video clips and activities to explore.

History

Would you like to find out about the Ancient Maya Civilisation?
Have a look through this presentation. I'll add some activity suggestions soon.

Jobs in Maya civilisation.

Can you write a job advert for someone looking for a new worker?
Which jobs did you like the sound of?
Perhaps you could write a report about the different roles people had in their society.

Maya innovations and inventions

Make a presentation all about the Maya Civilisation - which innovations and inventions were the most interesting?

Michael Morpurgo - Storytime at the Barn

Maths

7-11 Maths Link on NRich - a variety of tasks

Do fractions freak you out?
Click here to be totally taught about fractions from start to finish - teacher videos and tasks to do

Link to 'The Week Junior' - FREE for 4 weeks.

Read an extract of a book each day - write a quick review about what you think about each one.

Check out David Walliam's page each day to listen to his story

What did the Maya eat?

Design a meal fit for Royalty with an illustrated menu.

Fashion in Maya civilisation.

Watch this clip and then design and make your own headdress using real or mock natural items or found things. Make a simple cardboard band to attach things to - remember to take a photograph and send them to our class email address.

Maya houses and buildings

Can you make a 3D house out of recycled materials?

Other ideas from the BBC

Research a range of Maya modes of dress and compare/contrast these with fashion in Britain in the same era.
Plan, create and execute a Maya fashion show with commentary.
Compile a class glossary of Maya terms. Create a crossword with definitions.
Prepare museum displays of these outfits, with captions.
Compare and contrast British society in parallel times.
Explore the influence on our own history and society of the Maya.
Create a Maya headdress.
Design and print Maya fabric using traditional illustrations.

PSHE
Make sure you are working with your parents for these links.

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