St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 Blog Friday 31st March
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 6:43pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a wonderful week in Year 5.
We have done lots of exciting learning.
In French, the children used all their learning from the last few weeks to write a paragraph about the planets in French. They did an amazing job! I'm so proud of them and can't wait for you to see the end result. I'm sure you will be just as impressed with the standard of their writing!
In maths we have been identiying factors of numbers, learning about prime numbers, and multiplying a two-digit number by another two-digit number.
A factor is a number that divides another number leaving no remainder, or a number you can multiply by to give a number.
For example:
1, 2, 3 and 6 are factors of 6.
1 x 6 = 6 2 x 3 = 6
A prime number is a number with only two factors, one and itself.
For example:
2 is a prime number because its only factors are 1 and 2.
7 is a prime number because its only factors are 1 and 7.
9 is not a prime number because its factors are 1, 3 and 9.
In English we have been writing a battle scene between Peter and The White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Our focus was to set the scene for the battle where the reader worries for Peter. Next we will describe the battle from Peter's point of view. We have found this very exciting and everybody has done such a brilliant job so far.
On Thursday we had our very own St Oswald's World Book Day. It was great to see everybody in their costumes and talk about our favourite characters and books. We used World Book Day as inspiration for our art lesson where we created our own imaginary world behind wardrobe doors. It was great to see such creative ideas.
You can see us celebrating the wonderful world of reading here.
We continued with our PSHE topic all about communicating safely online. So many of the children are now messaging, video chatting, sending videos and chatting on games. It is so important to always be kind online and make sure parents know exactly what the children are doing whilst online.
In our PSHE lesson we thought about all of the different ways we can communicate online including:
SMS (text message)
Online messaging (e.g. What's App)
Social media (e.g. Instagram Facebook)
Gaming (e.g. Roblox)
Video calling (e.g. FaceTime)
We then spoke about things that can be shared online, who we communicate with, age restrictions and how to make sure we are being responsible.
The children were very open and enjoyed talking about their experiences online.
We have attached a new online safety guide 'What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Age-Inappropriate Content'. Please Read.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes.
Look out for words that are written in a different way for example IN CAPITAL LETTERS, in bold or in itallics. Talk about why they are written in this way.
Spelling
Here are your spellings which you will be tested on after Half Term so please practise next week.
bicycle centre decide describe exercise experience experiment extreme increase library medicine mention minute occasion occasionally
Counting
Count out loud in:
2s from 2 to negative 20.
2, 0, -2, -4, ...
3s from 1 to negative 17.
1, -2, -5, -8, ...
30s from 32 to 302.
32, 62, 92, 122, 152, ...
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day.
I'm sure you have noticed how often we use our times tables in maths - all the time!
Sumdog
Wow, what an amazing effort in the Sumdog compeition this week! Well done everybody.
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Competition
DT
Please bring in a cereal box next week to use in our DT lesson. We are going make a prototype (practise version) of our toy for Year 1.
Have an amazing weekend all you amazing children :)
