Year 5 Blog Friday 29th September 2023

Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:51pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog. 

It has been a brilliant week in Year 5. 

In English we have read some more of our novel Goth Girl. The main character Ada has joined a club called the Attic Club and made some new friends. She has also met lots of strange creatures. We have looked at some character descriptions from Goth Girl and also from Fantastic Beasts. We have used these as a model to write our own description of a strange character. 

One of the things we focussed on was using sentences with a relative clause. 

Relative clauses add extra information, we used relative clauses starting with the relative pronoun which. 

Here are some examples we came up with:

Its wide mouth, which is filled with razor sharp teeth, is usually grinning. 

Its most distinctive feature is the purple horn in the centre of its forehead which flashes when it senses danger. 

In maths we have continued practising rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and 10000. We have done lots of practice with number lines for this. We have also been finding 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 more or less than a number. We used place value counters and charts to help with this. 

We needed to know the value of each digit and that:

100,000 = ten 10,000s

You can see us rounding here. 

In art we used different pencils to make a strong drawing. We got some old maps and drew a picture on them. We used different pencils, marks, and shading to try to make our picture stand out. We were in competition with the maps. We won! They were amazing. 

In science we planned and carried out a fair test using paper aeroplanes. We spoke about what a fair test is and knew that we could only change one thing at a time. We then came up with a question we wanted to answer. Here are some of the questions we tested:

Which shape paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

Which material paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

Which type of throw makes the paper aeroplane go the furthest?

Which size paper aeroplane goes the furthest?

We had great fun testing out our paper aeroplanes outside and then recording our findings in a table, we were then able to answer our question. 

You can see us in action here. 

In RE we have been thinking about our qualities and talents, and talking about how we can use these to be a good role model. We came up with lots of ideas and Year 5 really are setting a great example to the younger children around school. 

In PE we came up with our own games to practise throwing and catching skills including shoulder pass, chest pass, bounce pass, ready position, and outwitting an opponent. Once we had practised our own game, we taught it to another group and gave feedback. It was amazing to see everybody work together as a team and use their patience and communication skills to teach another group. 

Home Practice

Art

Please bring in any of the following that you have at home to use in art next week:

Old maps

Old books

Old newspaper

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used, what punctuation do you notice?

Counting

Count out loud in:

1s from 701,999 to 702,020 and back again          701,999        702,000       702,001        ... 

1s from 324,999 to 325,020 and back again           324,999        325,000       325,001       ...

1s from 865,999 to 866,020 and back again           865,999        866,000        866,001       ...

Times Tables

Please practise your tables target every day.

Spelling

Here are your spelling this week, they all end in -able or -ible. 

horrible          terrible          possible          edible          reversible          invincible          adorable          forgivable          enjoyable          valuable          breakable          impossible          respectable  

Sumdog

Maths Competition - in teams

Times Tables Challenge

Spelling Challenge 

Have a weekend filled with smiles!