Year 5 Blog Friday 18th November

Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

We have had a great week. It was amazing to see the Year 5 children step up to the responsibility of being the oldest children in school whilst Year 6 were on their trip to Robin Wood. Some of the Year 5 children were buddies to help the infants and everybody set a great example to the younger children.

It was great to see everybody in spots on Friday to raise money for Children in Need. 

In geography this week we learnt about land use and natural resources in the UK. We spoke about which of these natural resources are in danger of running out and which we have plenty of like wind to use in wind turbines. We also started to prepare for the World Cup by making flags of the different countries taking part. We will learn more about each country throughout the World Cup. 

In French, we completed our learning on telling the time. The children have done so well with this. It has been a pleasure to watch their confidence grow over the last few weeks. Please keep practising at home to retain this skill - there are lots of games on time, but also other topics here: https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics

We have been very active this week. First of all we had Freddy Fit on Tuesday afternoon, he was so impressed with our sporting skills and also our behaviour and manners. You can see us being active here. Then on Wednesday we went swimming in our shorts and tshirt. We learnt how to save ourselves if we were ever in danger in water. On Thursday we had PE. We did a dodgeball tournament, it was great!

In maths we have been using the formal written method (column method) to subtract numbers with up to five digits and numbers with two decimal places. Everybody has done a fantastic job. We then used this method to solve problems, everybody was extremely resilient and motivated and some children even spent their lunch times determined to solve a problem. You can see us problem solving here. 

Next week in maths we will be looking at statistics, including bar charts and line graphs, and also looking at angles in shapes. We will continue to practise counting and our times tables. 

We have been reading Room 13 in English. The main character Fliss finds herself alone in the hotel, she is the only one awake. We have been writing our own stories about Fliss in the hotel on her own at night time. We have been focussing on writing in paragraphs, including speech, and describing in lots of detail to create an image in the reader's mind. We have also been sorting words into their different word classes including noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, pronoun, conjunction, article and preposition. It is important that we know what each of these words means and that we can form sentences using these different types of words. You can see us learning about word classes here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read at home every night for 20 minutes. Look out for ways characters and settings are described. Try to find some good words and sentences to include in your own writing. 

Spellings

Your spellings this week have the prefix co- and re-. Some of the spellings have a hyphen separating the prefix and the root word. 

The prefix co- means together, jointly, in partner with or mutually. 

The prefix re- means again, back or repetition. 

Here are your spellings:

co-operate          co-own          co-ordinate          re-enter          re-emerge          coexist          reinvent          retell 

    retell          reignite          re-educate          re-examine          re-enter          reactive          rearrange          reapply 

Counting 

Count out loud in:

100s from 12,397 to 13,397                   12,397     12,497     12,597     ...

1,000s from 608,912 to 618,912            608,912     609,912     610,912     ...

10,000s from 751,832 to 851,832           751,832     761,832     771,832     ...

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog Challenges:

Maths Challenge

Multiplication Practice

Spelling Challenge 

Research

Next week we are going to write magazine articles all about a famous person. Please choose a famous person you are interested in and find out about them. You might research things like:

What are they famous for?

When and where were they born?

Where did they study?

What was their childhood like?

What are their hobbies?

Who is in their family?

Have an amazing weekend and well done for such a fantastic week!