Year 5 Update Week 1

Start of Year Assessments – The children have worked really well this week through all the assessments that have been thrown at them!  Number Maths pre-assessments – these have helped us decide who needs support with their Place Value work and will get extra support from Mr Pheasant during our Number Maths sessions.

Mental Maths Tests – these have helped us to decide who will be getting a little extra support in mental maths from Ms Mak each week.

Spelling Testing – this is to find out which personal spelling words the children will start to learn for their home learning task each week.

Summer Recounts – we are assessing the children’s writing ability with this unaided writing task.

All the while the children have been getting used to the routine and procedures in each individual classroom.

Here are some photos from 5F from this week….

Summer Recount – we took out our summer souvenier packs to talk about our summer with our friends and then we got started on our writing!

Unscramble the Central Idea – we took some time this week to start to ‘tune-in’ to our new Unit of Inquiry.   We unscrambled the Central Idea and annotated our ideas.

The Dot – For our provocation for this UOI we read the book ‘The Dot’ by Peter H Reynolds and had lots of discussion about its message.  We then used it as inspiration to make our very own dot pictures.

PE : Dance – we worked so hard on our first PE unit of dance and Miss Claudia has been helping us to get our moves ready for our assembly.

Take a Line for A Walk –  We kicked off with our very first art project and took a line for a walk.  Our summer holiday was our inspiration for these striking compositions by 5F.

Place Value Games : Nice or Nasty – this week we had loads of fun playing a new number place value game called ‘Nice or Nasty’….maybe you could all play together at home!  Roll a die for your partner and try to make the highest/lowest number you can, it’s easy.  The Year 5 team truly believe that games are essential to help the children reinforce the skills taught in guided lessons and are fun to boot!  Ask your child how they went and who won!

Central Idea – Artists can use a process to express messages and ideas.

Number Maths – Place Value

• patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
• the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented

• creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
• transforming shapes
• locating points on a grid

Well done to this week’s lucky Golden Book Certificate achievers….

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THE FOLLOWING HOME LEARNING TASKS WILL BE STARTING GRADUALLY AT THE DISCRETION OF EACH YEAR 5 TEACHER….please check in with your own child

• Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
• Spelling – each Monday the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week.  Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc. 
• Reading – leveled home readers will be starting to come home soon.  The children will be choosing leveled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent.  The children need to record their reading in their Reding Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night.  Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday).  Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
• Mandarin Home Learning– All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

WELLNESS THOUGHT OF THE WEEK –