Year 5 Blog Friday 12th January 2024

Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 2:33pm

Happy New Year.

Welcome to your Friday Blog. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Find the meaning of new words and try to use them in your own sentences. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. Please use your favourite strategy and Sumdog to practise every day. 

centre          bicycle          calendar          peculiar          woman          women          suppose          quarter          century          unfinished          undone          unable          unlikely

Counting

Count out loud in:

0.3s from 0.3 to 3.6 and back again          0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, ...

0.4s from 0.4 to 4.8 and back again          0.4, 0.8, 1,2. ...

0.6s from 0.6 to 7.2 and back again          0.6, 1.2, 1.8, ...

Times Tables

Please practise the 12x tables or your own individual target. 

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition - individual 

Reminders

Year 5 will have PE on a Friday for this Half Term. Children will need spare shoes and socks for cross country. 

Please start to collect materials for our art project this half term, we will be making a model set for the chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You might want to start collecting:

Fabric

Cardboard

Plastic

Chocolate and sweet wrappers

Cocktail sticks or lollipop sticks

Maths

We have been learning different methods to multiply and divide. 

Partition to multiply:

64 x 4 

60 x 4 = 240

4 x 4 = 16

64 x 4 = 256

Known facts:

1,200 ÷ 4 

12 ÷ 4 = 3

120 ÷ 4 = 30

1,200 ÷ 4 = 300

English

We started our new class novel Street Child by Berlie Doherty.

We have been carrying out research about the Victorian times to help us understand the novel. 

RE

We started our new topic all about our mission and life choices. We started by learning about inspirational people. We watched this video all about Thomas Barnardo and spoke about what made him inspirational. 

Thomas Barnardo

History

We continued with our learning about Anglo-Saxons. We learnt that Britain used to be split into seven kingdoms each with its own king and government. We located these kingdoms on a map.