Year 5 Blog Friday 30th June

Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 9:47am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a very exciting week this week, especially because we have read some of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone :)

In English we have read parts of the first Harry Potter novel. We then created our own magical character which we described, we used JK Rowling's description of Dumbledore as inspiration. We also found out our own witch or wizard names here: Harry Potter name generator

We had an amazing poetry day on Monday when the very funny poet Ian Bland visited us. We loved some of his poems like the Dinnerlady Dance. We wrote our own poems with Ian called If I were a ... We really enjoyed hearing poems, writing our own, and performing them. It was a great day! 

In maths we have been calcuating the area and perimeter of shapes and have been converting between measures. 

1cm = 10mm

1l = 1,000ml

1m = 100cm 

In geography we started our new topic on China. We located China on a map and found out about its location including bordering countries and oceans. Throughout the topic we will be learning about the impact humans have had on China and the impact China has on other countries. Try to look out for products at home that were made in China. 

In French, we practised giving our opinion of different ice cream flavours and asked others their opinion. We played a game to reinforce the vocabulary.  The children were able to write a sentence from memory using a conjuction - fantastique! Then we learnt how to ask for an ice cream in a shop and held a conversation in role with a partner. 

Home Practice

Geography

Make a list of any products you find at home or in the shops that were made in China. 

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes to an adult. Talk about what you have read. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They all have the suffix -ful. 

cheerful          delightful          faithful          beautiful          graceful          harmful          painful          thoughtful         

doubtful          forgetful          respectful            meaningful          disgraceful          colourful          stressful          

Counting

Count out loud in:

6s from 0 to 72 and back again.           0, 6, 12, ...

7s from 0 to 84 and back again.            0, 7, 14, ...

12s from 0 to 144 and back again.            0, 12, 24, ...

Times Tables

Please practise your own individual target or the 12x tables. 

Sumdog

Amazing effort from some of you in the competition this week. Well done! 

Spelling Challenge

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Challenge 

Don't forget to practise the songs for Oliver. The words are attached to this blog. 

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