Year 5 Blog Friday 26th January 2024

Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 1:03pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday blog. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for speech, see if the books follow the rules that we came up with in class. 

1. Opening speech marks before the spoken words.
2. Capital letter for the first spoken word. 
3. Punctuation after the spoken words. 
4. Closing speech marks after punctuation. 
5. Use a comma to separate the speech and the rest of the sentence. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. 

science          mischief          quiet          medieval          ancient          glacier          weigh          neither          height          restaurant          vegetable          cemetery          temperature 

Times Tables

Please practise cubed numbers or your own individual target. 

Counting

Count out loud in square numbers from 1 to 144 and back again. 

1, 4, 9, ...

144, 121, 100, ...

Sumdog

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Fractions Challenge

Reminders

Online Safety

Please try to find a cardboard box for art over the next couple of weeks. A shoe box would be perfect. 

Remember to bring in anything else you want for our model set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's chocolate room. 

Here are some ideas you came up with in class:

Plastic cup

Paper cup

Cellophane

Bottle caps

Fabric

Pom poms

Lollipop sticks

Maths

In maths we learnt how to find equivalent fractions. We also compared fractions by finding a common denominator. 

English

We revised the rules for speech and wrote our own conversations. 

We came up with some funny conversations between the teachers in the staff room. 

We also became sub-editors by reading sports reports and checking them carefully for spellling, punctuation and grammar mistakes. 

PE

We enjoyed learning some hockey skills and playing little matches to put our new skills into practice. Everybody played fairly and had a great time! 

Computing and Science

We made PowerPoint presentations all about Earth and Space. 

This week we recapped our skills and managed to:

Add new slides

Change the background

Insert wordart and textboxes

Change the font

Import, move, rotate and resize an image

We also learnt how to:

Add bullet points

Add outlines and fill colours to our text boxes

Have a very happy weekend! 

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