Year 5 Blog Friday 28th April

Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 9:41am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a brilliant week back after the Easter holidays. Everybody has worked so hard and has shown that they are ready for the Summer Term. 

In English we have been reading a poem called The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We are working towards writing our own version of the poem. Before writing our own poem we needed to find out:

What is a highwayman?

Who is Dick Turpin?

What do some of the words mean in the poem?

We have been finding the answers to all of these questions in order to help us understand the poem. 

You can see us in action here. 

We did some extra writing on Wednesday afternoon with a sports journalist. He taught us all about what it means to be a sports journalist and we had a go at writing our own match reports on the England v England women's Euro finals. Gareth, who is a sports journalist, was extremely impressed and said that the children in year 5 are very talented. 

In maths we have been mutlitplying and dividing by 100 and 1,000 and then using these skills to convert measures. 

1kg = 1,000g

1km = 1,000m

1L = 1,000ml

1m = 100cm

In geography we have continued with our learning about North America.

We learnt about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. We spoke about what has caused this amount of plastic to be in this place, and what we can do to help. 

One of the main things we can do is reduce, resuse and recycle. 

In French, we learnt how to pronounce the 'qu' sound, then we began to learn the vocabulary of sport. We learnt how to use an online dictionary to look up unknown words and talked about the pros and cons of a book v online dictionary. Well done, as always, Y5.On Wednesday afternoon we 

In science we looked at the potatoes that we planted and observed how they have changed. We couldn't believe how many leaves had grown out of the soil. We have now covered the leaves with more soil and compost as we want the plant to focus on the potatoes and not the leaves. 

Thank you to everybody who looked after the potatoes so well over the Easter holidays. 

We have also taken some cuttings of different plants including thyme, basil, rosemary, coriander, parsley and chives. We have planted these cuttings in some soil and are going to see if they are able to grow roots and turn into new plants. 

If you would like to see what exciting learning we will be doing this term, you can have a look on our class page on the school wesbite here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Well done to so many of you who kept up with your reading over the Easter holidays! 

Please read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Retell what you have read in your own words. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. 

You need to know how to spell each word and also what it means. Try writing out sentences with the spellings in. 

you're          your          there          their          they're         there's          theirs          where          were          we're         

vegetable          temperature          secretary          recognise          pronunciation       

Counting

Count out loud in 1.1s:

From 5.7 to 15.6

5.7        6.8          7.9          9          ...

From 3.6 to 13.5

3.6          4.7          5.8          6.9          ...

From 21.3 to 31.2

21.3          22.4          23.5          24.6          ...

Times Tables

You will be given your new tables target next week, please practise every day. 

Sumdog

Maths Competition

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a nice long weekend :)