Year 5 Blog Friday 6th January 2023

Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 7:29pm

Happy New Year! 

Welcome to your first Friday Blog of 2023. 

It has been a great week back and so lovely to see each other again. 

Even though we have only been back at school for 3 days we have done so much exciting learning. 

We started our new class novel in English. It is called Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The novel is set in the Victorian times so we have spent this week learning about different aspects of Victorian life. This will help us as we continue to read the novel. So far we have found out about conditions for street children including the types of jobs they did to earn enough money for food, workhouses, illnesses and diseases and The Industrial Revolution. We have found it all so fascinating and can't wait to read more and find out more. 

To fit in with our novel we are going to start our new history topic in the coming weeks. We are going to be learning about the history of Lancashire and Preston during the Victorian times. See if you can find some facts or photographs of Preston or Lancashire in the past, it will be interesting to find out how these places have changed over the years. 

In maths we have been learning about multiples and factors. We have found it really interesting to look at the patterns and to identify how we can spot a multiple of a certain number. One of the most exciting things we found out is how to recognise a multiple of 3. 

Here are some examples. 

54 is a multiple of 3 because 5 + 4 = 9 and 9 is a multiple of 3. 

51 is a multiple of 3 because 5 + 1 = 6 and 6 is a multiple of 3. 

144 is a multiple of 3 because 1 + 4 + 4 = 9 and 9 is a multiple of 3. 

In PE we ran 6 laps of the infant and junior playgrounds! This was to prepare us for cross country running which we will be starting next week. Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks for cross country running next week. After our 6 laps we did some tag rugby and some gymnastics. Everybody worked so well in their teams and pairs. 

In French, we played a game of Trapdoor to practise speaking. This involves working with a partner who had chosen the items given by Pere Noel (Father Christmas) and the other person had to guess what was on their list. Then we returned to the topic of Meals and meal times that we started before Christmas. We read a text in French and answered questions in English to show our understanding. 

Home Practice 

Research

Find some facts and photographs of Preston and Lancashire in the past. Bring these to school so we can see how these places have changed over the years. 

Remember

Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks for PE next week. 

Reading

Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Focus on reading with expression - using different voices and taking note of punctuation. 

Times Tables

You have been given your tables target for your test next week. Practise every day. 

Counting

Count out loud in 25s from 0 to 250. 

0          25          50          ...

Count out loud in 50s from 0 to 500.

0          50          10          ...

Count out loud from 500 back to 0.

500          450          400          ...

Sumdog

Complete the Sumdog challenges:

Times tables

Maths Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Spellings

Here are your spellings this week. They don't follow a rule or pattern however they do all have at least one pair of double letters. Practise your spellings every day using different strategies that we use in class. 

               accommodate          accompany          according          aggressive          apparent             appreciate                                                                                                                                                                                                       attached           committee          communicate          community          embarrass   

                         exaggerate          harass       immediately          interrupt 

Have a super weekend.