Year 5 Blog Friday 3rd March 2023

Date: 1st Mar 2023 @ 9:49am

Welcome to your Friday Blog and Happy Friday. 

We have had a really great week in Year 5. We have worked hard and have enjoyed a little bit of brighter weather. 

In maths we have been using different strategies to multiply. Everybody has done such a fantastic job, keep practising your times tables as this will help a lot! 

Here is one of the methods we use, we are always thinking about how to make the calculation easier for ourselves. 

In English we have finished our descriptions of the professor in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We wrote dialogue to show what the four children might say about him. We have also started to describe the White Witch. We are working on describing the witch from Edmund's point of view, he is amazed by her! 

In DT we have started our new topic. Our brief is to design and make a toy for the Year 1 children to enjoy during Golden Time one Friday afternoon. We started our topic by carrying out some research. We wrote a questionnaire to find out about Year 1 children's interests and then visited them to collect their answers. Here are some photos of us carrying out our research. 

In French, we continued our learning about Les planetes. We practised saying the names by playing noughts and crosses, then we used a data table about the planets in French to answer questions such as which planet has the largest diameter? We realised that there are lots of cognates (words that look like English words) that can help use understand unfamiliar texts. 

In RE we came up with some Lenten promises together. We decided we would like to help two charities. The charities we chose are The Foxton Centre in Preston, and Barnardo's. If you click on the links below, you can see different ways we can support these charities. 

www.thefoxtoncentre.co.uk

www.barnardos.org.uk

Some of the Lenten promises made in Year 5 include:

My Lenten promise is to donate 10p every day during Lent to Barnardo's. 

I am going to donate one tin of food each week during Lent to The Foxton Centre. 

My birthday is during Lent, so I am going to donate some of my birthday money to Barnardo's. 

St Oswald's Eco Team have been busy planning different things to help the environment. They decided that on Friday 10th March we are going to have a reduced electricity day in school. They would love it if you have a go at home too. 

Home Practice 

Reading

Read out loud to somebody at home every day for 20 minutes. Look out for good describing words. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week:

you're          they're          couldn't          don't          can't          doesn't          didn't          isn't          shouldn't          wouldn't          

won't          aren't           marvellous          mischievous          necessary 

Counting

Count out loud in 0.3 from 0 to 3.6 and back again. 

0.3          0.6          0.9          1.2

Count out loud in 0.3 from 0.1 to 3.7 and back again. 

0.1          0.4          0.7          1

Count out loud in 0.001 from 0.001 to 0.02 and back again. 

0.001          0.002          0.003

Times Tables

You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day. 

Also, please make sure you are confident with x 10, x 100, x 1000, ÷ 10, ÷ 100, ÷ 1000. 

Sumdog 

Amazing work on Sumdog this week - so many of you did such a great job in the competition! 

This week please complete:

Tables Challenge

Maths Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Have a happy weekend! :)