What we are learning in P5 - Summer Term 1
Below you can find P5’s topics for the first half of the Summer term. There are some learning materials that we would be using in class and activities that can be done at home! There are also lots of familiar activities and songs from our key skills lessons.
Ask an adult to help you access the activities throughout this page and then have a go on your own!
Maths
In Maths we are learning all about time!
We are learning to:
- Name the days of the week
- Name the months of the year
- Sequence / order events correctly
- Read a clock to o’clock and half past
Warm up your brain with the familiar maths songs below!
Can you use your hands to count up to 10 and back down to 1?
Can you count along to the ‘Big Numbers’ song? How high can you count along? What’s the biggest number that you can remember afterwards?
P5 Counting Game
Use the videos below to practice naming the days of the week and the months of the year. Can you sing along to them?
Use the Makaton signs below to help you!
Now use the files below to see if you can name them all!
Challenge: Can you put the days and months in order? If you can, print them off and order them by cutting them out and rearranging them.
P5 - Days and Months
We have previously studied how to read clocks to the hour. Use the slides below to recap how to read clocks and try to identify the time on each clock.
Challenge: Can you find a clock or watch in your house? What time does it read? Can you draw a clock and set it to a certain time?
English
Our topic in English is “Where we live!”
Warm up singing along to the phonics song! Can you sign the letters and words?
Ask an adult for help using Google Maps and Google Earth to find your house! You can do this on a computer, tablet or mobile phone.
Challenge: Can you locate some nearby places, such as parks, shops and schools?
Use the slides below to look at examples of houses that we live in. What features do each of the houses have? What are the houses made from?
Compare common houses where we live to other houses from around the world. Use the labels to help you describe the different houses you see.
P5 - Houses
Challenge: Draw the house you live in and use the ‘word bank’ below to label and describe it!
Take a break from your learning and take part in the Letters Workout! Sing and dance along!
Have a go at these English games to extend your learning!
Science
It’s Science Time! Sing along!
Our Science topic for the Summer is animals!
Have a look through the slides below and see if you recognise some of the animals you see.
Learn about what mammals, birds and fish are and how we tell them apart.
Login to ChooseIt! Maker 3 from Help Kidz Learn and use the share code “FPCYKL” and see if you can find the mammals, birds and fish!
(Follow the links below)
P5 - Animals
Challenge: Open the worksheet below and see if you can find all of the fish, birds and mammals. Can you remember the Makaton sign for any of these animals?
Computing
In Computing, we are learning to gather information.
This involves using the internet to research a person, place or topic.
Ask an adult to help you use the safer search engines below to research Tor View School.
Challenge: Write down the address of Tor View so you can send a letter to school as part of our Creative topic!
Music
This Summer we are learning about Lancashire Music. Have a listen to the examples of local music below, including George Formby and “Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats & Dogs” which references Lowry’s paintings.
What instruments can you see and hear being played? What are the songs about?
Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats & Dogs
These songs celebrate the characteristics and history of our local community.
It is important to understand the history of our local area and music helps us to learn more about it.
Have a look at the video below of a modern Oasis song which celebrates the work of a local artist, Lowry, and demonstrates the character of our local community.
What can you see in the video? What instruments can you hear in the song? Do you like any of these songs?
PE
In KS2 PE we are learning how to dance like a superheroes!
This can either be dancing to superhero music however you want or wearing a superhero costume and dancing to any music.
Make sure you are moving in lots of different ways, taking big steps and little steps and moving fast and slow to the music.
Take lots of videos and photos and send them to p.bleasdale@theviewtrust.org
Have fun!
Mr. Bleasdale
Keep using these resources to stay fit and active at home!
Creative
This term we are learning all about where we live.
We are using maps to look at where we live as well as other places from around the world.
Watch the video below to learn about the continents of the world.
Use the slides below to explore information about where we live and others places of the world.
Can you find the sensory resources listed to experience what each country is like?
P5 - Maps
Maps are used to help us understand where we are and how to get to places.
Can you print the file below and make a treasure map for you or a family member to follow?
Can you hide some treasure in your garden and then use the map?
French
Sing along to the ‘Bonjour’ song below. Can you say “bonjour” and wave to somebody in your family or somebody outside?
Watch the video below and try to make the sounds for each letter of the French alphabet. Can you spot the first letter from your name and have a go at vocalising it? Can you remember the Makaton sign for your name?