Year 5 Blog Friday 16th June 2023

Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 9:42am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

We have had a great week in 5, a very hot one! 

In English we identified features of an information text and then wrote our own about Mesopotamian Blue cats. We included:

Headings

Diagrams

Fact boxes

Technical vocabulary

In maths we continued with our learning about fractions. We used our understanding of these things to help us solve problems:

Improper fraction - the numerator is higher than the denominator, which means we can make one or more whole ones. 

Mixed fraction - a whole number and a fraction

In order to compare, order, add or subtract fractions, we need to make the denominator the same by finding equivalent fractions.

We started our new DT project this week. We are designing, making and evaluating a frame structure out of lollypop sticks. A frame structure is a structure made from thin components such as a tent frame. We are going to make our frame structures for the children in reception. We will read them the story of The Three Little Pigs and then ask them to test the strength of our frame structures by seeing if they can blow them down, like the wolf from the story. 

We also started our new RE topic all about freedom and responsibility. We spoke about which freedoms and responsibilities we have, and identified rules and laws which help us to have these. We recognised that our golden rules help us to have freedom and that it is our responsibility to keep them. We then looked at some scripture from the book of Exodus. We learnt about how after the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt by Moses, God gave them the Ten Commandments to help them to coexist and live happily. We will be looking at these in more depth throughout the topic. 

In French, we wrote sentences to describe a sport without naming it. Then we read our sentences to a partner who tried to guess which sport we were describing. Once again, Y5 did a great job of this and we will have another look at the sentences next week to make sure we have done their magnificent efforts justice!  We're just in time to start looking at the Tour de France which starts on the 1^st July. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about new vocabulary. 

Spelling

These are some of the words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list. They do not follow a pattern or rule so you will need to practise lots. 

restaurant          temperature          nuisance          neighbour          leisure          definite          desperate          amateur         

appreciate          bargain          competition          conscience          conscious          centre          peculiar 

Counting

Count in:

Ninths from 0 to one whole (nine ninths) and back again                             0, one ninth, two ninths, ...

Sixteenths from 0 to one whole (sixteen sixteenths) and back again           0, one sixteenth, two sixteenths, ...

Tenths from 0 to two whole ones (twenty tenths) and back again                0, one tenth, two tenths, ...

Times Tables

If you have your own target, please practise every day.

If you do not have your own target, please practise x12.

Sumdog

Well done to everybody who took part in the Sumdog competitions.

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition: Boys v Girls 

Have a happy sunny weekend!