Year 5 Blog Friday 10th May 2024

Date: 9th May 2024 @ 12:59pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Practise using different voices.  

Read the Rain Player story attached to this blog. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

certain          cemetery          frequently          purpose          muscle          soldier          transferred          preferred          adorable          century          shoulder          tolerable          reliable          sensible          incredible

Try to use the strategy of splitting the words into memorable chunks.

For example,

Cemetery: cem-et-ery

Sensible: sens-ible

Counting

Count out loud in:

0.4s from 0.4 to 4.8 and back again.      0.4, 0.8, 1.2, ...

0.7s from 0.7 to 8.4 and back again.      0.7, 1.4, 2.1, ...

0.5s from 0.5 to 6.0 and back again.      0.5, 1.0, 1.5, ...

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.

Remember, you can now compete and have lots of fun on Times Tables Rockstars. Well done to Phoebe who was our rockstar last week.

Sumdog

Maths Competition – Dogs v Cats v Frogs

Spelling Challenge

It’s been a lovely week in Year 5 this week. We have only had four days in school, but have done lots of exciting learning.

In history, we started our new topic about Ancient Maya. We tried some of the food the Maya people used to eat including avocado, cocoa and corn. We thought about clues these foods gave us, such as the Maya people must have lived near rainforests and were gatherers. We also watched a video to introduce the topic.

Ancient Maya video

We followed our history lesson with an art lesson. We read a story called Rain Player - you can read the story in the file attached to this blog. This story was set during the Mayan times. It tells the story of a boy who challenged a God to a game of pok-a-tok (similar to football) and won! We then used the illustrations from the book to create our own piece of art. They are all amazing!

You can see our art work here. 

In RE we watched a video and read some scripture about the Ascension. We then retold it in our own words. We also attended Ascension Mass in church.

In maths we have been using our knowledge of multiplication and division to convert between measures.

1 kilogram = 1000 grams

1 kilometre = 1000 metres

1 litre = 1000 millilitres

Have a super sunny weekend!

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