Year 5 Friday blog 31.01.25

Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 3:48pm

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.

observant   hesitant    tolerance    substance   reliant   vacancy   observance   hesitancy  

assistant  reliance  defiant  vacant  expectant  tolerant  assistance  defiance  sustenance  infancy

Counting

Count out loud in:

10s up to 220 and back again                                         0,10,20,30 …

25s from 0 to 350 and back again                                  0,25, 50 …

12s from 144 down to 0                                                  144,132, 120…

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day.   All children (who weren’t sure about accessing this app) have been shown how to log on to TTRS so they can use it at home.

Sumdog

Maths practise based on timetables and time – individual challenge.

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

 We have had another great learning week in Year 5.

 In English, we have been learning how to blend all types of parentheses (brackets, dashes and commas) into our writing in a natural way. This is quite tricky to do and we have all tried so hard.

In Maths, we have been revising how to tell the time on an analogue clock before moving on to telling the time using the 24 hour clock. Some of us have found this hard, so we have practised this at home too.

This week in RE, we have all been learning about The Transfiguration. We all wrote a super witness statement as Peter, the disciple. We also all enjoyed examining how this event has been depicted in art by many artists from all over the world. We enjoyed comparing three art works from Russian, Italian and African artists.

What a fantastic week we have had in art this week. We have been creating stages made from boxes based on the workhouse from our Victorian novel, Street Child. The creativity has been amazing!

In PSHE, we have been talking about bullying and cyberbullying. We really engaged with this and showed a lot of sound knowledge on the subject. We have also been journalling about how we have used our character strengths this week.   

 In Hiistory, we explored how we know what happened in the Viking era and we learned about some of the Anglo Saxon and Viking kings. Finally, we ended our week by adding some special features to our powerpoint presentations about Vikings, including adding a hyperlink. Well done Year 5!