Year 5 Blog Friday 10th January 2025

Date: 10th Jan 2025 @ 4:06pm

Welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of any words you don’t know or ask an adult.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week.

official   special  artificial  partial   confidential   essential   martial   crucial   torrential  racial 

prudential   beneficial  presidential  social   glacial   commercial   initial   partially

Counting

Count out loud in:

4s up to 108 and back again                                            0,4,8,12 …

40s from 800 to 1200 and back again                            800,840,880 …

9s from 81 to 180 and back again                                  81,90,99…

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.   

Sumdog

Maths practise based on fractions – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge

 We have had a great first week back in Year 5.

 In English, we wrote complex sentences using simile starters and subordinating clauses. We also started our new class novel called 'Street Child' and explored some of the characters within it.   

In Maths, we started our new topic about fractions and although we found this tricky, we tried our best with this. 

This week in RE, we discovered the meaning of The Beatitudes and explored how they link to the Ten Commandments. We discussed how both The Beatitudes and Commandments guide us on the right path through life.  

We also thoroughly enjoyed watching the brass quartet that came in to perform for us this week. We then got an opportunity to try out a wide range of brass and woodwind instruments as well as learn how to create a drum loop on the music technology bus that visited us.

In art, we started learning about set design in theatres and we explored some of the terms and materials used in set building.

Finally, we started our new topics about earth and space in science, and volcanoes and earthquakes in geography. We will continue them in the weeks to come.

A fantastic start to Spring term Year 5 – well done!