Year 5 Blog Friday 6th October 2023

Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 7:19pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

It has been another fun week filled with lots of exciting learning. 

In English we have been looking at techniques used to persuade and have used these to write a persuasive letter from the character in Goth Girl called Maltravers. We have written a letter from Maltravers trying to persuade creatures to come to his party. Some of the things we included in our letters were:

Sentence starters to link each paragraph such as:

Firstly,

Secondly,

In addition to this, 

Another good reason for ...

Even more importantly,

Finally,

We have also tried to flatter the reader by telling them that they are very special, amazing, beautiful, etc. 

In maths we have been counting in 10s, 100s, 1000, 10000s, and 100000s. We have been using these skills to complete number sequences. 

In history we were looking at Britannia (England) at the end of the 4th century. During this time the Roman Empire was weakening. We learnt that groups like the Picts and Scots had taken over an area called Gaul, which was a region of Western Europe. This meant that Britannia was receiving less money from Rome and therefore the Roman soldiers were refusing to defend the land. In our next history lesson we will find out what happened next, did the Roman Empire fall? Who then ruled Britain? 

We started our new topic in RE called Life Choices. We started the topic by thinking about friendship and the commitment it takes to be a good friend. We spoke about considering the needs of our friends as well as our own needs. We then filled each other's page with what makes them a good friend. It was lovely to see everybody smile when reading the reasons people thought of them as a good friend. 

In computing we have been looking at different search engines and also learning about how to do specific searches so that we get the information that we want. We learnt that some search engines give us more ads than others and we also learnt that you need to include exactly what you want to search for e.g. Sale, Greater Manchester rather than just Sale. We have also done some vector drawing on the Ipads. A vector drawing is a drawing made up of lines and shapes. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you know about the different characters. 

Counting

Count out loud in:
10s from 123,785 to 123,885          123,785      123,795        123,805        ...

10s from 324,584 to 324,684           324,584      324,594       324,604        ...

10s from 711,296 to 711,396            711,296      711,306        711,316       ...

Times Tables

Please practise your tables target every day. 

Spellings

Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means that they look or sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell these words and also their meanings. This will be part of your spelling test on Tuesday. 

isle          aisle          aloud          allowed          affect          effect          herd          heard          past          passed          there          their          they're

Sumdog

Maths Competition in teams

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Have a happy and hopefully sunny weekend.