Year 5 Blog Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 12:54pm

Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog

Home Practice

Reading

Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to find 3 new words to bring into school.

Spelling

Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means they sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell them and also what the different spellings mean.

isle          aisle         aloud          allowed          are          our          affect          effect          herd          heard          past          passed          led          lead          definite

Counting

Count out loud in:

10s from 217 to 417 and back again                 217, 227, 237, …

1000s from 99 to 10,099 and back again          99, 1099, 2099, …

0.001s from 2.199 to 2.229                                2.199, 2.2, 2.201, …

Times Tables

Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 7.  

Sumdog

The winner of last week’s maths competition was …

THE GIRLS

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Competition – Cats v Dogs  

Spelling Challenge

We have had a very exciting week this week. We are very lucky to have been joined by 4 Japanese students who are training to become teachers in Japan. Atsaya has spent the week with us in Year 5 and has been very impressed.

In English we started our new class novel – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. So far, we have been introduced to the main characters and are starting to learn about Narnia and The White Witch. In our writing we have been using action and dialogue to describe the professor from the story. We all agreed that he was an eccentric character so we have been discussing things that an eccentric character would say (dialogue) and do (action).

In maths we learnt about the place value of numbers up to 3 decimals places. We also used our knowledge of place value to order and compare numbers.

In RE, we considered different parts of the Eucharist and discussed their significance. We read the Eucharistic prayer and wrote our own prayer to God remembering Jesus and the sacrifices he made for us.

We had a fantastic World Book Day. It was wonderful to see all of the different book characters and discuss our favourite books. We even managed to take part in our dance lesson dressed as the characters!

Happy Weekend!