28/11/14

This week we have seen some brilliant writing in our English lessons. We have been learning about creating mystery and suspense and have come up with some incredible descriptive phrases! We have also started to learn about parenthesis and ellipsis and how they can up help us to build tension. I am really looking forward to reading more next week! Keep it up!

In maths we have been learning about decimals and fractions. We have seen how we can convert fractions into decimals and how we can simplify fractions to their simplest form.

On Monday we continued our squash sessions, learning about the difference between front hand and back hand, we also learned about how to move when trying to make these shots.

On Wednesday we were very fortunate to have a visitor from the community who brought in lots of artifacts about her family and their involvement in both World Wars. Class 4 were fascinated by what they learned and made meticulous notes to use later in the term. They were a real asset to the school by showing fantastic behaviour and respect to Mrs. Beard throughout her talk. They also  asked fantastic questions, showing just how well they had been listening.

On Thursday we had an assembly in the church where again we were able to display our fantastic behaviour and the children have told me how much they enjoyed  visiting the church for an assembly.

Next week we will be looking at addition and subtraction in maths and thinking about how we can use mental methods to speed up our calculations. In English we will continue to work on our mystery and suspense writing. Building on our knowledge of parenthesis and the impact it can have on writing.

Next Friday we have our Christingle  service in the church and will be preparing for it on Thursday.

What Wonderful Writing!

Class 4, I just wanted to write and let you all know how impressed I was with all of your historical stories.
Excellent dialogue with correct inverted commas, great descriptions with adverbs and adjectives and some wonderful character studies. 
Thank you for entertaining me!

Squash, Debating, French and more

Please see our photos and videos below from recent lessons in Class 4.  We are enjoying our new squash lessons, French with Mme. Brown and debating in the outdoor classroom.  Well done to the team who persuaded Mrs. Brown and myself that the school day should be longer.  Year 5s don't forget the Sludge test next Thursday!

The Debating Room



Great argument Taaliya



The Sludge Test...to be continued

 

Week commencing- November 10th: Fractions, multiplication, writing dialogue and using IT in Science

 This week will be learning to how to add great dialogue in literacy to make our narrative writing more exciting to read and to learn more about characters.  Excellent stories need DAD:  Description (we looked at last week), Action (this week) and Dialogue (this week).  Don't forget those adjectives and adverbs we looked at last week and the rules for apostrophes; not for those plurals remember.
We will also be having our debate on Monday:  Should the school day be longer or shorter?  You have to be persuasive and follow the debating rules remember!!  Mrs. Brown and myself look forward to hearing your arguments- good luck!!

 Year 5 in Science we will be analysing our data using the computers and EXCEL.  Do our graphs show what we expected?  Did the time taken for the sugar to dissolve reduce as the temperature of the solvent increased?  Year 4 you will be looking further at soils and investigating effective filtration.

 On Monday we will be joining the whole school for our live assembly from the Tower of London to mark remembrance and the 100 year anniversary of World War 1.  Don't forget to wear your poppy with pride.  Mrs. Martin will be teaching you more about conflict in war times from the past and we will hopefully be displaying some of your Roman learning on the class timeline display.

In Maths we will continue to work on simplifying fractions and understanding how fractions work.  Later in the week we will be looking at how we can apply our mental maths and place value work in using the grid method of multiplication and short multiplication for Year 5s.



Remember to leave some comments about your learning on the blog!  Homework will be given out on Tuesday linked to our learning in the class.  How are the Bug Club books going?  Let me know through a comment on this post.  I will assign extra maths on abacus if you would like to do them but they are extra homework, you don't have to do them!