Year 5 Friday blog 14.03.25

Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:11pm

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.

doubt  island   lamb   solemn  thistle  knight   badge  bomb  butcher  ghost  knee  answer  comb 

Christmas   honest  knife  sword    crumb 

Counting

Count out loud in:

7s up to 105 and back again                                               0,7, 14, 21 …

30s from 390 to 840 and back again                              390, 420, 450 …

       10s from 2110  backwards to 1790                                  2110, 2100, 2090 …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables.  There is a new task set up on TTRS for children to access.

Sumdog

Maths practise based on prime numbers and multiplication – individual challenge.

Spelling Challenge – practise sheets have been sent home and there is a practise test on Sumdog.

Sumdog have just launched a new fluency booster that is automatically available when your child signs into the app. This feature will direct you to skills that your child needs to improve on to boost their number fluency and will automatically update to meet their fluency needs.

We advise that your child spends at least 10 minutes a day on their booster feature as well as completing the maths focus and times tables challenges. 

 We have had a great learning week in Year 5.

 Year 5 have been creating reports about Russian Blue cats and discovering about the strange vanishings in our novel Varjak Paw. We also enjoyed a visit from the Japanese students who taught us how to write our names in Japanese!

In Maths we have been identifying prime numbers and also practising our grid method for multiplication, using 2 digit numbers x 3 digit numbers.

This week in RE, we have been acting out real life scenarios where we could choose to sin or follow one of God’s commandments.

 In history we are all working hard to create informative reports about Victorian life in Lancashire! We learned about the Industrial Revolution and how much life changed at this time.

PE was varied this week – a mixture of Freddy Fit, Tag Rugby and handball. Well done Year 5 for giving everything a go!

Finally, it was British science week so Year 5 spent time looking at lifecycles as well as trying to create static using our whiteboards. It was lots of fun!