Year 5 Blog Friday 19th April 2024

Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 12:52pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at different ways the author has started sentences. Which is your favourite? Write it down and bring it into school.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They are some of the spellings you need to know by the end of Year 5.

twelfth          rhyme          rhythm          explanation          pronunciation          convenience          criticise          interrupt          guarantee          committee          community          thorough

Practise every day using a range of strategies, for example:

Dot to dot

Look, cover, say, write, check

Trace, copy and replicate

Words without vowels

Pyramid words

Counting

Count out loud in:

20s from 0 to 400 and back again          0, 20, 40, …

25s from o to 500 and back again          0, 25, 50, …

9s from 0 to 108 and back again             0, 9, 18, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Remember, you can now compete and have lots of fun on Times Tables Rockstars.

Sumdog

Maths Competition – boys v girls

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Rockstars

Complete the session and take part in the different games. You are all doing so well so far! 

Below are some links for the website and for a video for parents and carers. 

Video for parents and carers about Times Tables Rockstars

Link for Times Tables Rockstars

It has been a great week back after the Easter holidays.

In English, we started our new class novel – Varjak Paw by S.F.Said. We are loving it! We have spent the week writing a non-chronological report all about Mesopotamian Blues which are the cats in the story. The purpose of our non-chronological reports is to teach the Year 4 children about the cats to help them understand the novel when they read it next year.

In maths we have been learning about factors and common factors.

The factors of 21 are 1, 21, 3, 7

The factors of 9 are 1, 9, 3

The common factors of 21 and 9 are 1 and 3.

In Art we started our new topic all about architecture. We are going to be looking at different architectural designs, making our own, and discussing if we think architects should fill the world with big and beautiful buildings or build more modest, eco friendly buildings.

We also started our new topic in PSHE. It is called: How can drugs common to everyday life affect health? We discussed drugs that are legal and illegal and spoke about different drugs which are used as medicines. 

Have a happy weekend! 

Well done for an amazing week this week!