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Hi Grade 5, Keiko found this great website, which is a secondary source of history. Have a look to find out more about specific time periods in history in the UK and the rest of the world. Time periods include Roman, Vikings, Tudors, Aztec, Ancient Egypt etc!
Click here for the website.
and here for the BBC site 'Walk Through Time'
Tonight you will have a chance to look at some artifacts that were found at Anglo-Saxon sites. After you have spent some time observing and interpreting these objects, take some time to read what historians and archaeologists have found by going through the same process.
Click here to learn more and to have a go at an educational game called: Digging it Up: Anglo-Saxons
Grade 5 students are taking an active role in planning our units of inquiry. This is excellent preparation for the PYP Exhibition, where students will be responsible for identifying the key concepts, transdisciplinary skills, profiles and attitudes that they will focus on during their inquiry.
Have a look at our video to see some of the planning in action!
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Today we had an author named Robin Price visit our school as part of Reading Week. Grade 5 students had the exciting opportunity to take place in a writing workshop with him.
Robin writes the exciting 'Spartapuss' series of books. He showed the students a variety of Roman artifacts to help inspire them to write. This was a fantastic link to our unit which looks at how artifacts can give us insight into the past. Watch our video to have a look at some of the exciting and creative story ideas that our students had. Please check back for some published stories in the near future!
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Historians and archeologists use a variety of resources to learn about and gain insight into the past. Have a look at this BBC video showing an archaeological dig at a Roman site in England.
What are some of the different sources that the archeologists uncovered which gave them insight into life in Roman Britain?
What artifacts were most exciting for them?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/learningzone/clips/showrecord?Id=3704
Have a look at this video to learn more about how historians were able to learn more about Roman life by exploring the ruins of a Roman Villa.
Learn more about primary and secondary resources.
What Are Historical Resources?
Follow the link below and learn more about the different types of resources as you explore through it. You will be quizzed as you go to find out just how good you really are as a historian! You do not need to write the story that goes with the last picture but take some time to analyse it like a true historian would to find out more.
Leave a comment here to show what you learned as a historical detective!
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/sources/sourcesexplain.htm
Use the websites below to improve your times tables speed and accuracy!
Now that you have become more familiar with recount writing, would you like to practice recount writing online? You can use this great website to plan your work, draft, refine and then publish using one of the many great publishing ideas. At the end you have the option to print out your text for others to read. Click on this link and write away!
http://www.writingfun.com/
Hi grade 5G, if you need to do some extra practice with long division, here is a page on the BBC School site which goes through one strategy to do this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/number/division/read3.shtml
There is also a quiz to try online to test your skills!
You will also have an opportunity to practice with the homework sheets you received today. Tomorrow you will apply these skills to the financial planning investigation that we will work on for the next couple days.
After inquiring into how our use of energy can affect the environment, Grade 5 students thought about how they could make realistic changes related to the use of energy in their homes. They were asked to carry out research and then present a well-structured argument to persuade their parents to implement an energy efficient action at home.
Parent Feedback:
After listening to your child's proposal, please could you leave a comment about how effective this was and whether you will be implementing the change that they have suggested in your home.
You may like to have a look at the rubrics that were created in class to see the expectations of the assessment.
Many thanks!
Grades 5W & 5G
Hi again,
some of you have asked for more challenging word problems involving decimals. I have found a few good ones that will involve strategies such as trial and error to solve. Let me know if you are able to solve this problem and how challenging it was.
It would also be great if you can explain in words how you solved it. Looking forward to seeing some comments here on the blog or hearing about your work in class!
There are lots of different routes from A to B in this diagram:
The idea is to work out the product (the result of multiplication) of the numbers on these different routes from A to B. Let's say that in a route you are not allowed to visit a point more than once. For example, we could have 3 x 0.5 but we couldn't have 3 x 2 x 5 x 4 x 1 x 0.1 because that route passes through A twice.
Which route or routes give the largest product?
Which route or routes give the smallest product?
Do you have any quick ways of working out the products each time?
Have a go at using this BBC quiz to review adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with decimals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/
numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/decimals/usingdecimals/quiz.shtml
Grade 5 students have been solving word problems involving numbers with decimals. They will create their own word problems and apply their understanding to real life situations as well. Would anyone like to share some examples of word problems that they have created or solved here?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/
numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/decimals/usingdecimals/quiz.shtml
We came up with some steps for solving word problems involving money in class today.
5G listed the following steps:
-read the problem carefully (more than once if necessary)
-circle or underline the most important information
-decide which operation to use
-solve the problem and check using the inverse operation
-write your answer as a sentence
The students then applied these strategies in class when investigating about financial planning!
In order to solve problems like this, we need to apply our understanding of adding and subtracting decimal numbers. Have a go at this game on the BBC schools website to practice your skills!
Hi Grade 5, 