It was lovely to get the chance to meet some of our Year 5’s adults this week and briefly talk about what Year 5 will look like for the children. Let’s have a look at what we’ve been learning this week!

English

This week in English we have continued our work on writing non-chronological reports. After researching and writing about penguins and seals, the children chose an Antarctic creature of their own: squid or blue whales. They then conducted all the research they would need to write all about them without any help. We revisited relative clauses and learned how to correctly use a colon to help us clarify. For example:

Squid eat a variety of sea creatures: fish, shrimp and crustaceans.

Blue whales mainly eat one animal: krill.

To end our unit on non-chronological reports, Year 5 split into groups, elected each person to publish their best paragraph and created a complete, published non-chronological report on Antarctica’s Amazing Animals.

Maths

This week in Maths we have been practicing our addition. We began by learning that the next column from ten thousands is hundred thousands and then practiced using the column method to add together 6-digit numbers. We then challenged ourselves with some ‘missing digit’ problems. These can often seem simple at first glance but it is important to start at the right most column and see if any regrouping has taken place before you put any digits in. Have a look at the question below to see that, at first glance, 6 seems to be the missing digit, but we need to look at the thousands column first…

Next week, we will be practicing subtraction.

Thematic

This week in Thematic we looked at how humans first arrived in North America and then what occurred after Christopher Columbus discovered America and then moving into the first English colonists. While things seemed to begin on a positive note with the native Americans, Europeans colonists quickly began to take over, make false promises and push the native people off their land. After learning about the chain of events that followed Columbus we had a class debate where we argued ‘Was Christopher Columbus a good explorer?’. The phrasing of this question was important as Year 5 seemed to largely agree that he wasn’t a particularly good person but we had to debate if, in spite of his actions, he was still a good explorer or not.

Next week in Thematic we will be looking at the geography and topography of North America and how it compares to the UK.

 

Spellings

Mr Oxley and Miss Isaac’s spellings:

Possible     horrible    terrible     visible     incredible     sensible   responsible  

Red words:      amateur       ancient       apparent

Challenge words:      legible      accessible   

Mrs Mercer’s spellings:

Cake    rake    face    race    snake     hate    name  

Red words:    busy    sure

Challenge words:     whale      escape   

Love to learn:

In Art this week we learned about perspective an that, as things get further away, they appear smaller. For your love to learn this week, we’d like you to have a go at drawing it without Mr Oxley or Miss Isaac’s guidance. Below is the link to what we drew in class (it is much faster than your teacher) but feel free to draw something different to what we drew while using the techniques we learnt.

How to draw a landscape #art #landscape (youtube.com)

Perhaps you could draw a city where the buildings get smaller as they are further away, or maybe a football pitch which shows the people in the distance appear smaller. Have fun with it, we had a blast in class and the children were blown away by how brilliantly they did.

Dates to remember:

25th September – Chilton School’s 50th Birthday

26th September – Thrive coffee morning 9am-10.30am in the studio – a chance to meet our well-being team

9th October - 2.45pm Year 5 and 6 Harvest assembly (in school hall with families invited to watch)

17th October – Final day of term

 

We hope you have a lovely week!

Miss Isaac, Mr Oxley and Mrs Mercer