Welcome back to the Summer Term! This is my favourite term of the year as there is lots of exciting opportunities and events to look forward to.
This week we have been busy starting lots of new topics in lots of different subjects. In English, we have began our new text 'Can we save the tiger?' which is a non -fiction text all about endangered animals around the world. The children have been very engaged by this book and have been fascinated learning about all the different animals. We have started to plan our own persuasive speeches on saving an endangered animal. Next week we will be spending time writing these and then performing them to the class. In Maths we have started our shape unit by focusing on angles. We have learnt how to measure angles and how to draw angles using a protractor. We have also learnt the names to classify different angles: acute , right angles, obtuse and reflex. In history we have begun our unit on the middle east by looking at one of the most ancient civilisations known - Mesopotamia. We looked at the inventions they invented and discussed which we thought was the most important. Most agreed that the wheel was the most important invention. On Wednesday with Mr Legg, the children started their new science topic on humans and animals over time looking at Charles Darwin and his discoveries. This will link well with our trip to Paignton Zoo in a few weeks! Today we had our first lesson on rounders. We spent time practicing the basic skills needed, batting and bowling and then ended the session with a class game. Next week we will build on these skills and also incorporate more rules into our class game. Spellings and maths homework due in on Monday. I hope you have a lovely weekend! Happy Easter!
I hope you had fun in the snow this morning and haven't got to wet in the rain this afternoon! We have had a lovely end of term busy getting up to lots of activities. On Monday we joined with year six to create Easter wreaths. The children worked really hard on these and by the end of the session they looked amazing! In the afternoon we finished our geography unit on biomes by looking at the savanna and how humans are negatively impacting biomes. We watched an incredibly powerful and moving video explaining the effects climate change is having our on planet. On Tuesday we finished publishing our newspaper articles about Anne Frank. The children were really engaged with this unit which was great to see! In the afternoon we finished our gymnastics unit too. We also had a go at re creating the move from one of our favourite just dance brain breaks 'waka waka'. See some pictures below! We had a great final day of term by writing and publishing Easter poems. We also had some free time choosing different Easter themed puzzles and maths games to have a go at. In the afternoon children made beautiful pop up Easter egg cards which looked great. See more pictures below! Lots of exciting things to look forward to in the summer term and fingers crossed the weather starts to improve. I hope you have a lovely Easter break! Happy Easter Miss Collins :) Happy Friday!
We have had a super busy week with our bike ability sessions! The instructors were very impressed with our children and their behaviour, which was great to hear. Meanwhile, in class some children were busy having a go at lots of different projects. They designed their own biomes (see pictures) and their own secret annexes. We have also continued with our English and maths lessons. In maths we have started a new unit all about area and perimeter. We have looked at how to find the perimeter of rectangles and the area of rectangles and compound shapes. We will finish this unit next week. In English we have been exploring the features of a newspaper article and begun writing our own newspaper reports about the discovery of Anne Frank and her family. We will aim to finish these and publish these by the end of next week. We have not covered much of the wider curriculum this week due to bike ability but we will be finishing our units off next week before the Easter Break! Have a lovely weekend :) Happy Friday! This term seems to be flying by!
We started the week by having a joint assembly with year 6 with the book trust. It was all about authors and their experiences becoming authors. They also gave lots of top tips to children who would one day love to become an author. We were even lucky enough to receive a book for each child from one of the authors from the virtual assembly. Today we our celebrating and fundraising for Red Nose Day by wearing something red for a donation and after school we are having a bake sale in the hall. Please come along for some delicious sweet treats! In English, we have started our new unit on Anne Frank. Children have been very engaged by this book and the topic. We have discovered this amazing online resource the secret annex and it provides you with a virtual tour of where Anne Frank lived and hid. Next week we will be having our bike ability sessions! It is going to be a very exciting opportunity for the children to learn how to ride a bike safely out on the roads. Look out on dojo for messages and updates . Have a lovely weekend! Happy Friday!
It has been another busy week with lots of learning taking place in Year 5! It was great to see lots of the children dressed up as their favourite book character. We had a hot dog, Harry Potter, Matilda and Alice in Wonderland! The children completed a world book day quiz testing their knowledge all about books, made some reading bookmarks and also completed an emoji book quiz. In our English lessons, we have been continuing to write, edit and publish our own fairy-tale sequels. the quality of the writing has been phenomenal, lots of budding authors in this class. Next week, we will start our new unit all about Anne Frank and her story. In maths we will have been learning about decimals and rounding them to nearest whole number and to the nearest one decimal place. We will finish this unit next week when we look at percentages! On Wednesday afternoon, the children created some great gymnastics sequences in partners practicing their balances and learning their own mini sequences to perform to the rest of the class. After our busy PE lesson, we came back and had a go at making our own parrot vector drawings on the computers. This proved to be quite a challenge! Next Friday will be Red Nose Day, look out for information on school dojo regarding this! TTRS is now back up and running again so children should be practicing their timetables at home please! Spellings and Maths homework due in on Monday please. Have a lovely weekend :) Happy Friday, what a wet week it has been! I hope you enjoy reading this week's blog.
This week in English we have begun to plan and write our own sequel to the 'The Sleeper and the Spindle'. We have been planning our own versions using different settings and characters from other famous fairy tales. Next week we will continue to write and edit our own sequel stories. In maths we have been continuing looking at decimals and learning equivalent fraction decimals. We have been looking at numbers with up to three decimal places. Children have been excellent at identifying and representing decimals in a place value chart. We were lucky enough to have three PE sessions this week, where in every lesson all children have been working really well. On Monday, we had a lesson with Mark Templeton from Real PE which focused on using our core strength, Tuesday we looked at balances and creating our own sequences in gymnastics. Today we had a lesson looking at skills used in netball and we even played some mini netball games practicing our skills of throwing and catching. In Geography this week we looked at the factors that affect a biome and how important they are for humans. We also researched and designed a picture to represent a biome of our choice. They look lovely out on display outside our classroom. I hope you manage to stay dry this weekend! It was lovely to see nearly all of you at parents meetings this week. Have a lovely weekend! The Year 5 Team Happy Friday! I hope enjoy reading this weeks blog.
We have had a very busy week with tests this week. The children have been busy sitting one reading paper and three maths papers. I have been very impressed with the children's attitudes towards the tests this week practicing lots of perseverance and resilience as it has been tricky. However everyone has tried their best with all four tests, which is all I can ask for. On Monday, we started our new geography unit on biomes and we spent time investigating all the different types of biomes across the world. Next week we will be researching about our chosen biomes and creating pictures to represent different biomes. On Tuesday, we started a new computing unit looking at creating vector drawings. Over the weekend you could ask your child what a vector drawing is! We used google drawings to create our own vector drawings, children worked well in pairs to create their own. We had lots of houses and even a sloth! We have begun our new maths unit on decimals and percentages this week and will be continuing to learn more about this next week! We have also continued with the 'Sleeper and the Spindle' and next week we hope to start to begin to plan and write our own sequel to this alternative fairy tale. I look forward to seeing most of you next week at parent's evenings on Monday and Wednesday. I hope you all have a lovely weekend and manage to stay dry! Don't forget spellings and maths homework on Monday. Happy half term! It is crazy to think that this half term marks being half way through this academic year already! It certainly has flown by.
This week in English, we have continued to look at our text ' The Sleeper and the Spindle'. We have been learning lots of new adjectives to describe the characters. Ask your child what hirsute means, I had to look that one up. We have also had a focus on practicing punctuating direct speech correctly, remembering the different rules with the punctuation. In maths we have began our unit on multiplying fractions and finding the fraction of an amount. The children have been working really well with this unit and are getting to the dive deeper questions in many lessons, which is excellent. We will continue with this after half term before moving onto decimals and percentages. In science the children worked hard to make electromagnets! Mrs Ware was very impressed! In history we have finished our unit on Medieval Monarchs by looking at Elizabeth I. We certainly have flown through many years in only 5 lessons. PE this week has focused on badminton practicing our skills and also playing in game scenarios which the children have really enjoyed. This afternoon, we have had our first nugget treat. The children ha worked well as a class to get all the nuggets for the jar. They chose to watch Sing 2 and enjoyed some sweet treats too. Look out for parents evening booking sheets after half term. Please can I remind children that will be having a spelling test on the first Monday back and the multiplication/division homework will also be due. Lots of exciting things to look forward to after half term including bike ability! Have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing you all on Monday 19th. I hope you enjoy this weeks blog.
We have had a very busy week in Hazel class. In English we have been busy publishing our biographies about Phillippe Petit. Look out for our writing display after half term. We have moved on to looking at a new text of 'The Spindle and the Sleeper' which is based on a mix of traditional fairy tales with a twist! After half term we will hopefully be writing our own fairy tales with a twist. We have been focusing on features of traditional fairy tales and looking at homophones within the text. In maths we have finished our multiplication and division unit focusing on using short multiplication and division methods. It would be great if children could continue practice these methods at home to further secure their knowledge and understanding. Next week we will be looking at multiplying and dividing fractions! In our wider curriculum we have been looking at Henry VIII and learning all about him and all his wives! The children really enjoyed learning about him and especially enjoyed the Horrible Histories song all about him! We have had a very enjoyable and fun art lesson this afternoon changing our portraits to create more funny and interesting ones! Please remind children of the home learning expectation in Year 5. Children need to be reading at home at least 5 times a week and reading records need to be in school every day. Children also need to be practicing their times tables and spellings daily at home too. Have a lovely weekend! Happy Friday, double blog this week due to no internet last week!
We have been busy writing our biographies all about Phillipe Petit who is an amazing tight rope walker who famously walked between the Twin Towers! We have learnt lots of facts and are now experts about Phillipe. We will be publishing and editing them next week. In maths we have been working very hard and have been persevering with some tricky methods and concepts. Our focus has been on column multiplication and using them within word problems. Next week we will be moving onto division so it is important the children are practicing their timetables at home! in science the children have been focusing on magnets and have been learning how to use compasses! In hitory we have contuined looking at different medieval monarchs with this weeks monarch being Edward I, next week we will focus on Hnery VIII. |
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