Can we put on a good show and do Shakespeare proud?
Year 5 have started a very exciting Shakespeare project with Prestwich Arts College. In just eight weeks time, our talented year 5 pupils will be performing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. We are going to be working hard to ensure that we put on a good show and do Shakespeare proud!
Homework
Who was William Shakespeare?
Why are William Shakespeare’s plays so famous?
How many plays did he write?
What is A Midsummer Night’s Dream all about? Who are the characters?
Can you make a miniature theater out of a box?
Can you make some masks for us to use to role play in class?
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This afternoon, as part of our Life Cycles topic this half term, we visited the pond to look at frog spawn. We even spotted a frog! We will be back soon to check on the next stage of development. We are really excited to see tadpoles swimming around in our very pond!
This half term we will be working on our key skills in History and Music. Our big question for our History learning challenge is: How did the Vikings affect British society?
From our last history learning challenge we learned that the Vikings were pirates and began raiding England in 793 AD. We also learned that the Vikings were Pagan and so believed in many gods. We discussed what else we wanted to learn about the Vikings. Here are some of our questions:
When did the Vikings settle in England? By Suleman
Do Vikings still exist? By Iqra
What did they eat? By Iman
How did the Vikings protect themselves in battle? Did their helmets really have horns on them? By Danyal
How did they build their long ships? By Yanal
I am really looking forward to finding out the answers to these questions with you! Your homework is to research as much information as you can about how the Vikings affected British society.
We had a lot of fun locating the world’s main oceans and seas on a globe! We also worked with our partners to use atlases to locate the world’s major rivers.
What is the name of the world’s longest river?
How long is the Amazon river?
How long is the Mississippi River?
Where in the world is the River Ob?
Homework:
Choose a river to find out ten facts about. Possible questions could be:
As part of our topic, we have been learning about the water cycle. There are lots of technical vocabulary words for us to learn such as:
Condensation
Evaporation
Precipitation
To help us to learn and remember this new information, we have been learning a song. This week we are going to teach this song to the rest of the school!
Here is the link to the video and the lyrics for you to practise at home.
Somewhere, out there, the sun shining on a little puddle, that’s just part of something we call, The Water Cycle.
Water from the little puddle turns to gas, EVAPORATION
The gas forms into puffy clouds, CONDENSATION
The clouds get heavy and the rain pours down, PRECIPITATION
And more puddles on the ground
Oh the water cycle round and round vapour goes up and the rain comes down water in the sky, in the ocean, in the ground It’s all in a cycle going round and round.
Some clouds look like a horse’s tail, that’s cirrus (cirrus!)
Some clouds look like cauliflower, that’s cumulus (cumulus!)
Some clouds look like a blanket of grey, that’s stratus (stratus!)
There are high clouds, low clouds, and in between clouds fog on the ground is also rarely seen clouds Yeah Yeah Yeah
Oh the water cycle round and round vapour goes up and the rain comes down water in a river, in a glass, in a cloud, It’s all in a cycle going round and round.
When warm air meets cold air trouble brews that could mean a storm and that’s bad news, A hurricane can form when that happens near warm water Look out if that storm reaches land. Get out of the way, grab your sons and daughters. Crash! Bash! Boom! And Kabam Oh no! We forgot uncle… Dan
I’m ok, I’m alright, I was just hiding in the garbage can. He was hiding in the garbage can!
Oh the water cycle round and round vapour goes up and the rain comes down water in a person, in a well deep down it’s all in a cycle going round and round.
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