Year 5 Blog Friday 25th November

Date: 23rd Nov 2022 @ 9:39am

Happy Friday

Welcome to your Friday Blog 

We have had another fantastic week in Year 5. 

On Monday we planned our own Greek snack in DT. We decided which snack we wanted to make and then found out which ingredients and utensils we would need and the steps we would follow to make our Greek snack. As a class we decided to make our own pitta breads. Everybody then decided what they wanted to have with their pitta bread. We will make our Greek snack next week! Yum! Don't forget to bring any extra ingredients you want for your Greek snack on Monday. 

We started our new History topic this week. It is called Ancient Greece. We first spoke about what we already know about Anicent Greece. Then we looked at modern Greece - where it is located and what it is like. Finally we looked at Anicent Greece on a map. It looks different to modern Greece. We can't wait to find out more about Ancient Greece. 

We have been doing lots of map work this week to celebrate the start of the World Cup. Each day we have used a world map in an atlas to locate and talk about the countries that have played matches each day. We spoke about the continent, capital city, bordering countries, surrounding seas and oceans, size, distance from Qatar, etc. 

In French, we began to learn the vocabulary associated with breakfast in France. We also recapped the pronouns je, tu, il, elle, nous, ready to move on to our first verb conjugation next week!

In English we have been reading more of Room 13. We have used some ideas from the book and our own imagination to plan and write our very own story! Everybody really enjoyed using their own ideas and creativity. The focus was to split the writing into paragraphs and to try to include lots of description and some dialogue (speech). 

In maths we have been learning about statistics. We started by learning about discrete data and answering questions from tables and bar charts. Then we learnt about continuous data and aswered questions from tables and line graphs. Your Sumdog challenge this week will give you the opportunity to practise what you have learned. 

Home Practice 

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes every night. Try to answer these questions:

What has happened so far?

What are the characters feeling?

What will happen next?

Why has the author chosen these words? 

Spelling

You have all chosen your own spellings this week. Make sure you practise them every day. 

Counting

Count backwards:

In 10s from 757.33 to 657.33                     757.33     747.33     737.33     ...

In 0.1s from 19.35 to 18.35                        19.35      19.25         19.15      ...

In 10,000s from 631,246 to 531,246          631,246     621,246      611,246     ...

Times Tables

You have been given a new tables target. Please make sure you practise every day. You need to know your tables quickly and confidently. 

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog challenges. These are essential as they practise the skills you need in maths and English lessons. 

There are 3 challenges:

Maths

Times tables

Spelling - these will be some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5. 

DT

We will be making our Greek snacks on Monday. 

Please remember to bring in the ingredients and utensils you need.