Year 5 Blog Friday 9th June 2023

Date: 7th Jun 2023 @ 9:44am

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a lovely week back after Half Term. 

We were finally able to make our cam toys in DT after some parts we needed arrived. Our design brief was to make a cam toy for the Year 1 children to enjoy in their Golden Time. We designed our cam toys based on the questions we asked the Year 1 children and made sure that we included their likes and interests. Everybody showed excellent resilience and did not give up until they had made a cam toy which had a moving part and which we think Year 1 would enjoy. After we had finished, we evaluated our cam toys thinking about what went well, what challenges we were faced with, how well we had met our design brief, and what we would change next time. We then took our cam toys to Year 1 and were thrilled to see that the children really enjoyed playing with them. 

We really enjoyed our Sport's Day on Thursday afternoon. It was wonderful to see everybody trying their best, pushing themselves and really encouraging each other. Well done Year 5! 

In maths we have been adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. We have had to convert one of the fractions in order to be able to add or subtract them, as we can only add or subtract fractions which have the same denominator. The denominator is the bottom number in a fraction that show the number of equal parts something is divided into. 

In English we have continued to read our class novel Varjak Paw. We didn't know much about the type of cat Varjak is, he is a Mesopotamian Blue. We decided to research Mesopotamian Blue cats and are in the process of writing an information text all about them so that our reader can find out about them. So far we have focussed on using brackets for parenthesis, we have done this by writing a definition of unfamiliar words inside brackets. The sentences still make sense without the brackets but the information inside adds extra information for the reader. 

Here are some examples:

The lifespan (how long they live) of a Mesopotamian Blue is 15 to 20 years. 

Masopotamian Blues can be aloof (unfriendly) towards strangers. 

They have plush (soft to touch) fur. 

In French, we recapped how to conjugate a regular ER verb using jouer - to play. Then we looked at an irregular verb - faire - to do. We then tried to choose the correct form of the verb to use in sentences about sport.  A heavy grammar lesson which will make more sense next time it comes up! Well tried, Y5!

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for examples of brackets being used for different reasons. 

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week:

ethic          enthusiastic          lyric          athletic          mechanic          critic          rhythmic          artistic          heroic         

electric          historic          mechanical          electrical          historical          ethical     

Counting

Count out loud in:

Tenths from 0 to 1 whole (ten tenths)         Zero, one tenth, two tenths, ...

Fifths from 0 to 1 whole (five fifths)             Zero, one fifth, two fifths, ...

Eighths from 0 to 1 whole (eight eighths)    Zero, one eighth, two eighths, ... 

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. Remember you can listen to songs on YouTube and play on Hit the Button. 

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Maths Competition in teams 

Have a super sunny weekend!