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As it is the beginning of a new school year, we have started our 'Three Week Tables Challenge' and we have already began to show progress in the short space of time that we have been back in class. In addition to this, we have began working on our knowledge of Place Value and have worked practically using the Base Ten Blocks. It's been fun using resources for our learning, not only to improve what we know but to also be able to explain our thinking. Literacy Our first unit of work has enabled us to start thinking about characterisation used in poetry. So far, we have read the first three verses of 'The Highwayman' and began discussing the language used in this poem and how it is different to language used today. We used images of 'The Highwayman' to explore our ideas about this character and understand the role of highwaymen in the past.
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Hello and welcome back Harmonious Heroes! Can you believe you're now in Year 5? I hope you've all had a fabulous summer and by the stories you have told it sounds like you have. Fingers crossed you're all ready to get cracking with some challenging but fun learning!
What a fab first day we have had. I am pleased to say that each and everyone has shown 100% effort and tried extremely hard in all our lessons today. What a brilliant start to the year - keep it up! A huge well done to all Team LG and Team MK for their fantastic performances last week and yesterday. You did incredibly well to remember all your lines, stage directions, songs and dances. I am one very proud teacher! Well done!
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This week we have focused on coordinates and reflection and linked this with our RE, Islam. The children have looked at various Islamic patterns and created reflections of these using coordinates. Some fantastic patterns have been created with some beautiful colours. Literacy We began writing our scientific report this week based on the Polar Bear. It has been amazing to see how the children have transferred their notes into some quality pieces of writing. So far we have written the introduction to our reports and two other sections (appearance and food). It's been fantastic to see technical language appearing in all paragraphs. We will be continuing with this next week. A huge well done to all Team LG for their hard work this week in Maths and Literacy. Throughout our lessons, we have worked with Mrs Longden and had a look at some previous Y6 SATs papers. We have been able to have a look at the types of questions that are on test papers and we have even had a go at answering them. This is all good practice and preparation for next year. Both Mrs Longden and myself have been AMAZED by your results and how clever you all are. Well done Team LG on producing some cracking results!!
I would like a to say how proud I am of each and everyone of you for your commitment to learning through what has been a very funny week. Even though I have been in and out of class, supporting with the Year 6 SATs, you have all remained engaged in your learning regardless of the changes to our timetable.
Maths As part of our lessons this week we have started to look at understanding angles as a measurement of turn. We began used a diagram to create a 'map', similar to a compass and used this to direct our partners to particular places around the classroom and around the hall. We had to give our partner instructions using degree turns as well as instructing them to turn clockwise or anti-clockwise. Literacy We have spent time publishing our pieces of descriptive writing, in preparation of them being sent to Mrs Lawson. Each of our 'I'm a Teacher Get Me Out of Here' team leaders has chosen one member of their team to present their work to Mrs Lawson. Next week we will find out who our winner is. In addition, we have continued to work on our reading comprehension skills, in particular finding evidence to support our answers. In addition to Maths and Literacy, topic, science, PE and all other areas of the curriculum, this week we began rehearsals for our end of year production - Park Street's Got Talent. Amongst the giggles, it has been lovely to see Team LG getting into character and already showing 100% commitment to the show. I would like to say a special thank you to those children who have been dedicated to rehearsing after school. Your passion for drama and performance does not go unnoticed.
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Continuing with the same objectives as last week, this week we revisited calculating both the perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes that have missing measurements. Moving on, we were given a question such as 'The area of a rectilinear shape is 48cm squared. What does the shape look like'. We had to use our knowledge of area to draw all the different ways the shape could look. Some of us even managed to have a look at compound shapes. Literacy Our next writing focus is descriptive writing and to build up to writing our own piece this week we have focused on analysing the features of descriptive language. This included: strong adjectives, use of SPAMO, use of senses, interesting verbs and a range of punctuation. We then began further research on our habitats to build up word banks and mind maps to support us with our writing. Maths
During the week we have focused on the difference between perimeter and area. We learnt that perimeter means the distance around the edge of a shape, whereas area means the amount of surface covered by a shape. We started off by working out the perimeter and area where all measurements are given before looking at shapes with missing measurements. This is something we will be continuing with next week. Literacy Following a lesson on improving and editing our letters, we spent time publishing our writing. Our letters will now be checked over by our team leaders before being sent to Mrs Lawson. Towards the end of the week we began to look at prefixes, particularly 'de', 'dis', 're', 'mis' and 'over'. We looked at the prefix meanings and how the use a prefix changes the meaning of the word. Maths
Throughout our maths lessons this week we recapped simplifying fractions before focusing on multiplying fractions. We recognised that when multiplying fractions, the 'x' symbol can also mean 'of'. Through visually representing our calculations we soon realised that when multiplying we need to covert our whole number into a fraction. We can then multiply the numerators together and multiply the denominators together. Once we have completed this step we can then simply our improper fraction to give a mixed number. Literacy At the beginning of the week we split into three teams: Team Longden, Team Baxter and Team Fidment. Each team was given a habitat to research: the Amazon Rainforest, the Arctic and the Sahara Desert (retrospectively). Following our research we began writing letters (using persuasive techniques) to convince Mrs Lawson to allow her staff to participate in 'I'm a Teacher Get Me Out of Here'. In our letters we had to include where our team captain would be sent and the benefits of the trip. We made strong links to the experiences that the staff would be having and how this would be an advantage for Park Street. Clever, don't you think? |
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