St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 Blog Friday 24th March 2023
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 7:35pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your blog.
We have had a great week this week.
In English we have been acting as journalists and writing newspaper reports about the return of spring to Narnia. We have focussed on using journalistic language and writing direct and indirect quotes.
Direct quotes use inverted commas (speech marks) and say exactly what the person said.
Mr Beaver, a resident of Narnia who witnessed Father Christmas’ arrival, told our reporter, “I saw him with my own eyes, he was on a sleigh and had presents!”
Indirect quotes do not include inverted commas and are a summary of what the person said.
Lucy, a human who came to Narnia from Spare Oom, reported that she has noticed that the weather is much warmer since her arrival here and that she has even seen flowers and blue sky.
In maths we have been learning rules of divisibility. We now know how to quickly identify if a number is divisible by 10, 100, 2, 50, 25, 3, or 9. We found it fascinating.
Divisible by means you can divide by that number with no remainders.
We have started our new topic in PSHE. It is all about communicating safely in person and online. We focussed our lesson on showing empathy and thinking about how other people feel. This topic is extremely important as many children communicate with their friends online and need to understand how to do so safely and responsibly.
It is important to be kind in person and online. We have added a little guide below for you to read.
In geography we continued with our learning about North America. We were surprised by all of the different climate zones within North America. We used atlases to think about what the climate would be like in different countries such as Jamaica compared to Greenland.
In French, we learnt some conjunctions that will help improve our French writing. Then we looked at the construction of sentences using these words. The children's ability to spot the nouns, verbs and adjectives in French, understand adjectival agreement and their pronunciation is impressive! Well done year 5. I look forward seeing to your finished pieces about space over the next two weeks!
On Friday afternoon we presented our research about space to the class. You can see us in action here.
We also planted some potatoes so we can observe them over time and learn about the life cycle. See us planting here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes.
Talk about what the characters are thinking and feeling.
Spelling
Please continue to practise the spellings from the blog last week, we will also do some more practice in class.
misjudge mismanage misconduct
discontinue dishonest disloyal disobey discourage
inconvenient incapable inaccurate inadequate inappropriate
Remember if you want an extra challenge, you can choose some of the spellings from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list.
Times Tables
Please continue to practise your tables every day ready for your tables test next week.
Count
Draw a straight line either vertically or horizontally. Use this as a number line to count:
From 15 through zero to negative 15 in 1s.
From 12 through zero to negative 12 in 2s.
From 10 through zero to negative 11 in 3s.
Counties of England
Have a go at naming and locating the counties of England.
Test people at home too :)
Sumdog
Well done to everybody who took part in the challenges and competitions. Amazing work.
Maths Competition - I have split you up into random teams named Red, Yellow, Green, Blue. There will be a treat for the winning team.
Times Table Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a wonderful weekend!
