Year 5 Blog Friday 13th October 2023

Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 5:49pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.

We have had a brilliant week in Year 5.

In English we finished writing our letter as Maltravers from Goth Girl. Our aim was to persuade a character to come to our party. We then spent some time editing and thinking about how well we met our objective. Everybody did such a great job that we are going to go and read them to Year 6 next week. We also learnt what a pronoun is. A pronoun is word used to replace a noun, usually to avoid repetition e.g., he, she, it, they, yours, theirs. Next week we are going to be writing our own epilogue for Goth Girl. An epilogue tells the reader what the main characters are doing in the future e.g., one year later. See if any of your books at home have an epilogue. 

In maths we have been using different strategies to add and subtract mentally. When we see a question we ask ourselves:

Do I know the answer?

Can I work it out in my head?

Do I need a jotting?

Do I need to use a written method?

We practised using partitioning on a number line to add and subtract numbers up to thousands and numbers with decimal places. Here is an example of the partitioning strategy.

Another strategy we practised is called bridging. This is where you add or subtract to get to the next multiple of 10, 100 or 1,000 and then add or subtract the rest. Here is an example. 

In geography we did some atlas work where we were using the contents page and the index to find out various things about the UK. We looked at the countries which make up the UK, their capital cities, where they are in relation to each other, which countries they border, etc. 

In PSHE we celebrated World Mental Heath Day. We looked at the meaning of wellbeing. We defined it as: Looking after and feeling good in your body and mind. We then thought about ways we can look after our physical and mental wellbeing and the main things we came up with were:

Move - get moving every day

Sleep - get plenty of rest and sleep

Eat - eat a balanced diet and drink plenty of water

In PE we used all of the throwing and catching skills we have been practising to play some small games of netball. The focus was on passing the ball around and getting into space so that our opponent couldn't get it and to have the best chance at scoring. See us in action here. 

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. 

Have a look at your school book and any of your books at home, do any of them have an epilogue at the end? If you find any, bring them in to show the class.

Counting

Count out loud in 0.01 (hundredths):

From 7.67 to 7.87                  7.67      7.68      7.69      7.7      7.71      ...

From 120.09 to 120.29          120.09      120.1      120.11      120.12      120.13      ...

From 8.15 to 7.95                   8.15      8.14      8.13      8.12      8.11      ...

Times Tables

Please practise your own individual target. Some of you have been given the target to find one quarter on a number. Please relate this your 4 times tables.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They are plurals. You need to know the rules for changing singular words ending in a -y into plurals. 

party - parties

worry - worries

potato - potatoes

baby - babies

try - tries

city - cities

library - libraries

cemetery - cemeteries

community - communities

dictionary - dictionaries

Sumdog

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Lancashire Competition 

Have a happy weekend!