As part of our learning in Geography, Mighty Oaks have been using compasses to follow and give directions. The children completed orienteering activities using the cardinal and intercardinal points of the compass in our school grounds, and then learnt how to make their own compass by magnetising a needle. They then verified the accuracy of their homemade compasses and discussed the limitations of this basic design.
On Friday, the children in Little Acorns met their new Year 5 Reading Buddies. First, their buddies read them a story in the classroom and started to get to know them. Then they went outside onto the field to eat their picnic and play together.
The Year 5 children have been so caring, looking after the little children during lunchtime play on the field and also helping them to line up at the end of lunch.
Home learning files for Mighty Oaks children (year 5 and 6) can be found by clicking on the links below. Paper copies have been sent home with children today in their home learning folders.
Spellings can be practised on Spelling Shed, and timestables can be practised on TT Rockstars. Logins for both of these have been printed for children and are also written in their home learning diaries.
This set of home learning tasks will be for the next two weeks over half term, and spellings and timestables will be tested in the first week back after half term as usual.
Year 5 spellings set 7 – words ending in ant
Year 6 spellings set 7 – statutory word list
Spellings can be practised on Spelling Shed, and timestables can be practised on TT Rockstars. Logins for both of these have been printed for children and are also written in their home learning diaries.
This set of home learning tasks continues from the last week, and spellings and timestables will be tested next week as usual.
Home learning files for Mighty Oaks children (year 5 and 6) can be found by clicking on the links below. Paper copies have been sent home with children today in their home learning folders.
Spellings can be practised on Spelling Shed, and timestables can be practised on TT Rockstars. Logins for both of these have been printed for children and are also written in their home learning diaries.
This set of home learning tasks will be for the next two weeks, but spellings and timestables will be tested next week as usual.
Year 5 spellings set 5 – words ending in cial and tial
This week, some of the children found clay in the forest and decided to create some aboriginal art work.
This week in science, Mighty Oaks have been investigating the components and functions of blood. Following on from their learning about blood vessels and the heart, the children began looking at the components of blood and the various functions they carry out. We watched a short clip of a blood sample being spun in a centrifuge, and set about making our own samples.
We used safe household ingredients to create samples, with different elements representing the main components of human blood. We used cooking oil to represent the golden-yellow plasma, and coloured water to represent the red blood cells. We added small amounts of sprinkles that represented white blood cells and platelets to our mixture to understand the proportions of these different components.
We also thought carefully about the functions the different components of blood perform, and whether we thought these would be present in the blood of different living things.
Mr Stanley shared some information about his own blood! Mr Stanley is a blood donor, and has AB positive blood. AB+ blood is very rare, found in just 2% of the population. It’s important for the production of plasma, which is used in the treatment of burns and trauma. Mr Stanley shared a photo of his recent donation and where it ended up – Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
Home learning files for Mighty Oaks children (year 5 and 6) can be found by clicking on the links below. Paper copies have been sent home with children today in their home learning folders.
Spellings can be practised on Spelling Shed, and timestables can be practised on TT Rockstars. Logins for both of these have been printed for children and are also written in their home learning diaries.
Home learning should be brought back to school for Tuesday, when spellings and timestables will be tested in class.
Mighty Oaks Home learning WC 21-09-20
Year 5 spelling set 3 – Words ending in ‘-cial’ and ‘-tial’.