Year 5 Friday Blog - 20.09.24

Date: 18th Sep 2024 @ 8:43am

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 5 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more.

Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. Spelling frame can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below.

***Meet the teacher ***

Wednsday 25th September 2024 9.00am - 9.20am

If you are unable to attend, please note that information from the meeting will be added to the class page next week

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Question prompts are provided within reading records asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame.

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 19th September and our times tables quiz will be on Friday 20th September.

words to learn

words that contain ir and ire

Bird

Third

First

Thirsty

Fire

Retire

Inspire

Expire

Admire

Enquire

Times tables - Please use the Times Tables Rock Stars website to practise the times tables. We will be revising all times tables in year 5 and further developing related division facts. Times tables test will take place each Friday.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes, every night, on each of the websites.

Our learning this week in Year 5

The children have all continued to be enthusiastic in their learning this week.

We have continued with our PE units and the children have been building on skills covered last week. As we had lovely weather on Tuesday we managed to take oour lesson outside. In cricket we have been working on bowling underarm effectively and progressed to working on the skills needed bowl overarm through targets.

Overarem bowling.jpg

English

This week, the children have continued to find out more about the characters in our focus novel The lion the witch and the wardrobe. We have continued to read on and have met the White Witch who the chidren thought sounded very mean and strict. The chidren have compared the characters of Lucy and Mr Tumnus and analysed excerpts of the text discussing why the author's choice of language is significant.

Maths

This week, we have completed the place value unit by describing and extending number sequences where step sizes were in decimals. We have made a start on the addition and subtraction unit which builds on place value by working on mental partitioning. The children have made a great start to this learning.

sequences and mental partitioning.jpg

Science

In our Science session this week, the children have undertaken an investigation to find the most suitable material for a new lunchbag lining. They used their secondary source research from last week to find to help them explain their findings .

History

In history this week, we have looked at the importance and influence of the Greek Gods on the life of the Ancient Greek civilisation. The children researched a variety of gods and goddesses to create profiles about them.