Welcome to Year 5
Christmas Homework - Year Five
I hope that you all have a lovely break - and that you and your family's all stay safe into the New Year when we see eachother again. Keep up your reading - I imagine that many of your will receive some nice new books as gifts. You should also keep at the maths, not just in your books but everywhere you find it - maths really is everywhere when you start looking for it!
It would also be helpful if you could think of a nice, thoughtful reply to the message below. We have been contcted by an organisation who have taken our school gritter. Their message is shown below. There are lots of issues raised in the letter - from workers rights to climate change. Could you please write a reply to them - a nice formal letter, and send it to me at my email address. I think that it might be frosty next term so we will need our gritter back. Please help!
Have a good break.
Mr Ward.
From: Santa’s Little Helper <
Sent: Friday 18th December
To:
Subject: E.L.F.
Dear Big People of Ladbrooke School.
We are the Evergreen Liberation Front. For centuries our brothers and sisters have toiled without recompense or recognition in the workshops of the North. We have never asked for anything in return, yet you have continued to push us to our limits.
Despite the many very educational documentaries that you have access to via your Sony Christmas Movies 24 television channel, you seem to know much about us without ever really understanding us. All we require is a regular supply of candy and a plentiful amount of ice.
Now you have taken so much of our chocolate to fill your advent calendars that there is a shortage in the North Pole, and we note with alarm the new fashion for hanging our candy canes on your decorated trees. In addition, your factories and wheeled vehicles have polluted the atmosphere horrendously.
The result of your climate catastrophe is that the temperatures in our homelands has increased so much that the trees are withering and the ice is melting. We have no more places to skid and slide - our only true form of recreation.
We have in recent years had to venture further and further south to find suitable ice to play on. The flat patch at the rear of your building is one of our final refuges - in our language the area is known as ‘The Ground of Play’.
It was therefore with huge concern that we observed you taking delivery of a weapon of ice destruction in the past week.
We have taken your Gritting Machine. It will not be returned to you until our following demands are met:
- Gritting must cease on Fridays and on days that begin with an ‘S’.
- One dozen candy canes must be left for us on the Friendship Bench each Monday.
- Skidding must be included in your school curriculum.
- A new local ice monitor must be appointed to ensure the continued quality of ice.
Please do not mistake us for our sister organisation, the Everyone Loves Fun Syndicate. They are not as hard line as we are - if you do not follow our instructions, you will never see your gritter again.
Do not contact Santa or the North Pole PD. They know that three of you are on the naughty list and one of you had been placed on the Permanently Prohibited From Presents List. They will not help you.
We await your response; we know you are excellent letter writers.
Yours in anticipation,
The Evergreen Liberation Front.
This Article Has Been Approved By The Ladbrooke JMI School Elf and Safety Committee
Christmas is on the way. Santa has been working hard to get ready - but some of his more sneaky elves have escaped!
We have captured some of them and popped them into a beautifully crafted hand-made Christmas book.
The children of the Year 5 workshop have been very careful to add their own sprinkle of Christmas spirit into the creations and now we invite you to take a book home with you.
You will have to follow the instructions on the School Gateway to buy your special Christmas gift. They are only £2.50 each and are guaranteed to keep your name off this year's naughty list!
Christmas Elves Like Presents, Snowballs and Mischief!
Do not feed after midnight and never get them wet!
Keep locked in their book to avoid bright lights!
P.S. While they were with us, the Elves showed the children how to make stained glass window decorations. They say that Santa's own lodge has windows like these. Follow the link to see the Year Five Window Lights.
Rudolph's Favourite Decorations
We have had a fantastic day today. As we all settled down to the first night in our tents, we were thinking about al the fun we have had during our activity day. The excellent leaders at London Bushcraft took us through a series of exciting outdoor learning activities.
We began by smearing our faces with mud to camouflage ourselves and practised concealing ourselves in the depth of the South African jungle (otherwise known as Bounds Green). That was a great start and all the children threw themselves into the spirit of the day. Next we found ourselves having to survive being stranded after an aeroplane crash - we learned about the 3 essential rules of survival. Shelter, water and food. We went on to learn the secrets of making fire, even managing to cook our own hand made bread on an open flame.
The day couldn't have been any more hands on and all the children learned something new and something useful. The evening was time to relax with pizza and a surprise visit from the ice cream van (curtesy of Aflie's parents). The evening ended with a nice hot chocolate around the camp fire and time to make plans for tomorrow evening's talent show.
Thank you to everyone for all your help in making sure this event took place. We really appreciated all your offers of help. The smiling faces of the children makes it all worth while.
Thursday 26th November
Due to the essential maintenance at the school you should work from home today. Here is the work for you to have a go at today.
Please print the work out if you are able to, however if that is not possible then write your work on a sheet of paper. You should bring the work with you to school on Friday.
Maths
Instead of Six A Day, spend 15 minutes on Timestables Rockstars. I have Challenged you all in the Rock Slam area of the game - I hope you all beat me! If you have 10 games on the Studio game then on Friday we will be able to look together at the times tables progress you have made over the last two weeks and set some targets for the next two weeks.
Square Numbers
Watch this video from White Rose Maths to get yourself ready to learn about square numbers.
(You can follow this link below to find the slides about Square Numbers from the video.)
You might like to practice using some counters or other suitable resources you have at home to make your own arrays (an array is a way of sorting items into a specific shape or pattern, square number arrays are arranged in a square pattern).
You will need to open this Square Number Worksheet ready to answer some questions using what you learn. If you can, then print the sheet and work on it, if you cannot print, then write the work on a piece of paper ready to bring in on Friday.
Topic - Ancient Greeks
We have been busy creating our own Acient Greek Tragedy play - The Crown of Sporta. The characters in the play are based on real people or real gods of Ancient Greece. I would like you to research these characters by looking them up and reading about them. Write down some information about each of the characters ready to bring in on Friday. You can print the page and work on that or you can write on your own sheet of paper.
The second part of the task is to draw one of the characters and to say what they are doing in the picture - try to tell some information about the character in your drawing.
You can also remind yourself about the story of The Crown of Sporta by clicking on the link below.
Have a good day - this work should keep you busy but don't forget to enjoy your lunch.
Mr Ward.