Year 5 ideas pleeeeeeese?

Question

I have 3 days to 'do what i like' with a y5 class, who will be made up of those that wont be going on a trip. What fun things can we do that are still loosely based on the curriculum. I was briefed 'indulge your passions'

Answer 1

Do some drama because children never get a chance to do drama. You can base it around your PSHE or literacy topic. The pupils will enjoy expressing themselves without having to do writing. They could produce a play to show the returning pupils.

Answer 2

What a great opportunity! Start each day with some physical activity to get their brains livened up, something they don't normally do in school - try badminton or aerobics to their favourite music. REMEMBER health and safety and risk assessments.
Have a project for the pupils to work on that covers lots of curriculum areas. They might make a documentary about world war 2 . This could involve doing research; designing questions from the research to ask survivors from the war. They could then go out to film interviews, or ask the people to come into school. The children could make tea for the elderly people using a rationing cook book. They could then edit the film, interspersing it with poems, paintings, music, letters, maps of the battle areas etc.
A further development could be dance/drama based on one aspect of the war. Evacuation is always really popular with year 5s and they absolutely adore the film of Goodnight Mr Tom, so that would be a nice way to end the week. When the wanderers return to school, they can be shown the war video made by the pupils who did not go. The Head can present BAFTAs!
Have a great time. I envy you and the children.

Answer 3

My sisters just had a fun week as she didnt want to go on a school trip, they didnt really do that many curriculum activities, shes in year 6. They did some cooking which they all loved, they had some circus people come in for the day-a few activities like that. I think if you do some fun based curriculum wok but then have an hour or so doing practical work as making things or stuff like that they'll love it.

I hope it all goes well
-Gabbana xox

Answer 4

Yr 5s are so keen that you will have a ball.
Make it clear that the' fun' is conditional on them obeying basic ground rules first .
Lots of good suggestions have been made already - writing and performing their own plays always goes well.
Writing a comic version of a well known poem/song is great fun.
Composing their own quizzes and challenging each other's teams is excellent.
Pace the day's activities with some quiet times too ,have a grand finale on the last day ,enjoy yourself, that's the key.

Answer 5

What are your interests?

I teach art and music at a private high school, and I often throw in stuff that I am knowledgable about (Eastern philosophy, gender studies, pop culture). Let the kids learn about stuff that they wouldn't normally talk about in class. Maybe for a Language Arts, you could talk about song lyrics; for social studies, you could talk about the community/their families/movies. I emphasize A LOT of writing, as I feel that is something that is not stressed enough in schools. But don't say "Write an essay on _________". Allow them to write creative stories (maybe an encounter with a famous historical figure?) and illustrate. Maybe they could do a skit on their favourite book character. Perhaps you could do arts and crafts that tie in with the curriculum--if you are doing fractions in math, why not make pies or pizza out of paper to illustrate the ideas? Give them projects that make them *think* they are not learning. Just remember to have stuff for them to do.

Answer 6

cool u cn do arts n crafts
story time
sports like rounders
or u could take them to a musuem
or to the sage or baltic
or to st james park
jus fun stuff like that so they won't feel tht they r missing out
get them to write stories n poems that cn be hung on the wall n give them no hwk
hav a sports day wid different sports lik the girl's cn do skipping n the boys cn do football or the other way round. hope this ideas will help lol n hav fun!!
oh i nearly forgot u cn hav show n tell n get guests to come in n speak
hope u hav fun lol

Answer 7

How about a savenger hunt around the school? Hide little treasures, then give clues to the where-abouts. Let them work in pairs. Then, with the same partner, have relay races. Run w/ an egg in a spoon, potato sack races, running blindfolded, etc....

Then at the end of the day, have them write about their day.

Answer 8

Quizes usually go down well, as do arts n crafts or cooking. I work at an after school club and these things always go down well wiv the kids there

Answer 9

Ask the children what they would like to do - they can then take 'ownership' of the activities you select. Undoubtedly, they will be brimming over with great ideas and you will have 'brownie points' for letting them have an input.Enjoy!!

Answer 10

think of some fun game 4 them 2 play