Year 5 Blog Friday 13th January

Date: 11th Jan 2023 @ 9:44am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

A huge well done to the children who completed their research about Lancashire and Preston in the past and about the Victorian times. Some really interesting facts and photographs! 

This week we have continued to read our class novel Street Child. We have used our research to write a non-chronological report about life in the Victorian times in London. A non-chronological report gives information to the reader about a certain topic and can be written in any order. We looked at examples of non-chronological reports to find out what we would need to include. We included:

• Title
• Interesting introduction
• Sub-headings and paragraphs 
• Facts and figures
• Pictures and diagrams

Everybody did a really fantastic job and will be sharing their non-chronologival report with somebody at home to teach them all about life in Victorian London. We also shared our reports with year 3 who said they were really interesting and informative. 

We finished our current history topic on Ancient Greece by learning all about the Ancient Olympics. We used primary sources of evidence to find clues about the Ancient Olympics in Greece and then made posters with our findings. We looked at images of clay pots which had paintings of the Ancient Olympics. We looked at these to find out who could compete, what sports they competed in and what clothes they wore.

You can see us being historians in our gallery here. 

We will start our history topic about the Victorians next week. The topic is called Local history in the Victorian times. 

We also finished our current science topic about forces. We carried our a pattern seeking investigation by making and investigating different levers. Our aim was to find out if a longer lever made the job easier or harder. We found out that the longer the lever, the easier the job. The shorter the lever, the harder the job.

You can see us investigating here.

On Friday we were introduced to our new science topic - Earth and space. We can't wait to learn more! 

In maths we have been learning about factors and square numbers. We used counters to find factor pairs and then identified square numbers by finding out which factors pairs created a square. 

Home Practice 

Remember

Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks in a carrier bag for PE next week. Bring them on Monday so your PE kit is in school all week. 

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Look out for new words and find their meaning.  

Times Tables

You have been given your tables target for your test next week. Practise every day. 

Counting

Count out loud in 1,000s from 76,101 to 86,101. 

76,101         77,101          78,101          ...

Count out loud in 30s from 0 to 360.

0          30          60          ...

Count out loud in 40s from 0 to 480.

0          40          80          ...

Spellings 

Here are your spellings this week. They all end with -able, -ible, -ably, -ibly. 

possible          possibly          incredible          incredibly          sensible          sensibly          reliable          reliably          respectable

          respectably          agreeable          agreeably          probable          probably          enjoyable 

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog challenges:

Times tables

Maths Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a super weekend.