Another week complete. Can you believe we are already into October. Not long until its December and Christmas.

In English this week, we have been looking at different types of sentences: simple, compound and complex sentences.

What type of sentence do you think this is?

Today, I went to the shop and bought a bar of chocolate however, by the time I got home it had melted.

 

In Maths we have been learning different ways to add and subtract using mental strategies such as partitioning, mentally (writing the answer straight down and frog hopping (when counting up).

 

In our Topic work, we have started our topic on ‘This is me – Charity’.

We have learnt the terms:  ‘Philanthropists, Altruists and Humanitarians’. We created a database of famous philanthropists and researched why they are known Philanthropists.

Do you know what a Philanthropist is? 

 

We are looking forward to another busy week next week.

Have a good weekend

from Year 5.

It has been an exciting but a busy week in Year 5. We have settled into the new routines of being in Year 5 class and are looking forward to the year ahead.

In English, we have been learning about the legend of ‘Icarus’, where we have created our own story actions to retell the story as a class, we created our own story maps and then used the text to answer a reading comprehension.

“If only Icarus had listened to his dad, the ending of the story may have been very different.”

 

In Maths, we have learning about using estimating first before using column addition.

Can you work out what 6753 +4563= is first using estimating. 

 

Believe it or not, it is only September and we are already talking  and thinking about… CHRISTMAS!!! in school (sorry Mums and dads).

Keep your eyes pealed over the next few weeks for our annual Christmas cards,  which will be sent home for you to purchase.

Looking forward to another busy week ahead. Have a lovely weekend. Keep safe.

Year 5

 

ask, ast, ass	i_e, igh, y	all, al
ask	slide	fall
mask	bride	tall
flask	tide	small
cast	tile	stall
fast	while	also
last	smile	always
past	spike	already
vast	flight	almost
blast	right	although
disaster	bright	altogether
pass	fright	usual
class	my	capital
glass	why	sandal
grass	cycle	pedal
		signal
		hospital
		occasional
		special
		accidental

Hi All,

Here are the spellings for this week; the children already have their own copies in class.

Kind regards

Miss H Hughes

ee, ea, e-e	ea	Sp, spr
been	dead	Spin
Seed	head	Spot
Sheep	read	Spill
Sweet	bread	Spark
cheese	thread	Speak
bean	spread	Spike
steam	health	Spout
stream	wealth	Special
seat	feather	Specific
meat	leather	Spell
please	weather	Spray
these	ready	Sprout
complete	steady	Sprint
	healthy	Spring
	wealthy	especially

We have thoroughly enjoyed school this week especially filming our Christmas concert on Tuesday. (Don’t forget orders for your own copy of the DVD need to be in ASAP).

In class, we have focused mainly on our Science topic of ‘Burning’ and investigated factors which affect the rate in which candles burn and what happens when a jar is placed over a candle.

Do you know the 3 main elements of the fire triangle and what helps to accelerate burning?

 

This week, we were also very lucky to experience a virtual tour and held our own Q and A session with a Celt from Castell Henllys. This was very informative and developed our understanding further of what life as a Celtic was like.

We have also been practicing and refining our Celtic warrior dance ready to perform in our celebration day, which we are all looking forward too.

This week, we finished our Celtic blanket. Everyone had a turn at weaving the wool on the ‘loom’ and we are so impressed with the finished result.

In our Maths, we started to have a look at the rules when identifying multiples of certain numbers.

What do you think?  – Is 67 a multiple of 9?  

We will tell you the answer next week.

 

Also, it was an emotional week in English as we wrote our personification poems on ‘Poppies’. The images created by each poem were very vivid and fantastic. Da iawn Year 5.

In welsh, we have been continuing to write our diary of a Celt using familiar phrases and patterns, and today we started to develop our ideas further by using time connectives and prepositions. Super work!

 

Next week, we are looking forward to starting our science block as well as practicing our class song for our Christmas Recording, which takes place the following week.

Have you got your Christmas Jumper ready for it?

 

This week has been a busy week.

In Maths, we have been focusing on subtraction using different strategies such as: column subtraction and frog hopping.

In English, we presented our half term homework to the class about the Celts. Every one did a superb job and we learnt lots of new facts about the Celts from the presentations.

We started a new block of missions this week. As a class in our EPIC, we wanted to find out about how the Romans began to invade Celtic areas. Our activities included: map work, a reading comprehensive on Queen Boudicca,  a thinking activity by comparing similarities and differences of the Celts and Romans and Celtic weaving. We can’t wait to see our finished Celtic blanket.

 

 

Once again, we have had an enjoyable week in Year 5. Each week just gets better and better 🙂

Today, we started to choreograph our Celtic dance routine with our partner to display a Celtic war battle. This was a lot of fun and it was amazing to watch everyone participate well. We can’t wait to watch each others final pieces.

This week in our English, we have finally started to write our non-chronological report on Dragons using the text features we have looked at. We have learnt lots of amazing facts about dragons and are able to describe the differences of dragons in Eastern and Western Cultures.

In Maths, we have practiced telling the time and using the 12hour and 24 hour clock. For homework, we are going to reinforce telling the time by looking at a variety of timetables or TV guides.

Finally, last Monday, we had a special visitor via Teams from the Road Safety Team to inform us of how we can stay safe while riding our bikes.

Next week, is our final week before half term starts and it is another busy week. (Halloween costumes at the ready for our class disco on Thursday)

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It has been another busy week in Year 5.

We are fully immersing ourselves into our topic of the Celts. This week, we started our missions in the afternoon. Our focus on the next two weeks are: creating a roundhouse, designing our own Celtic village, researching different jobs of Celts and finally completing a ‘Hit or Miss’ task by deciding on if statements are true or false. We have enjoyed becoming more independent in our learning. The activity with Miss was challenging and involved a lot of mathematical thinking and problem solving when working out costs of a making a roundhouse.

In our maths, we have been working on quick easy ways to multiply by larger numbers using doubling and halving.

eg 123 x 8 =

We could do ‘123 x2=    x2=     x2=     ‘

 

In our English work, we enjoyed researching about different dragons ready to write our non chronological report next week.

We are looking forward to continuing with our missions next week too.

It has been lovely to come back to school and see our friends again. Some things have changed but we are quickly adapting to our new ‘Normal’.

We have started to learn about our new topic called ‘The Celts’. Did you know? Celts put war paint on their bodies before going into war to scare off their opponents. We can’t wait to find out more fun and interesting facts over the next few weeks. We have also started our dance unit of creating a ‘Celtic Haka’.

In our English work, we are studying Non-Chronological reports where we have focused this week on looking at past, present and future tense verbs as well as creating different types of sentences such as simple, compound and complex.

In our Maths work, we have been understanding the rules when multiplying or dividing whole and decimals numbers by 10, 100 and 1000. ( Not just adding a zero!)

We have also started to get into the Christmas spirit by creating our amazing Christmas cards. Please send these back ASAP to school with your order.

We are looking forward to starting our class based missions next week.