Week 4

We have had a successful week rehearsing for the Summer Show as well as normal lessons. You posed for your leavers photos this week, it doesn't seem long since you started Year 6!

This week in maths we are revising coordinates and 3D shape. Literacy for the next few weeks is studying the genre of mystery short stories and of course writing your own. Sports Day is Tuesday, the weather forecast is good at the moment, please remember a water bottle, sun tan lotion and sun hat. Science this week will be studying food chains and how we scientifically use the appropriate language and record them.

English

Your shape poems were lovely and will be in pride of place on our working wall this week. Well done everyone. This week you have a proofreading task to complete. When you have worked out the correct spelling, please record each correct spelling split phonetically, in a list in your homework book, as we do in class.

Maths

How many of your parents/adults understood the hieroglyphic method of multiplication? Well done in explaining it – there was plenty of neat work in your books. This week your maths is a mental maths challenge with decimals. Ask an adult to time you and write the time it took you to complete it at the bottom of the page.

You must know your lines now – this week we are putting all the parts of the show together. It is a lot of hard work – very well done everyone.

Class 5 blog Week 2

Week 2 of Class 5’s blog.

Well done everyone on writing your first blogs! A new experience for us all.

This week we will be studying the following:

Literacy - Poetry in various forms. Your rhyming poetry was terrific last week, most of you were stunned at how you created poetry that could definitely be published. We are moving on to shape poetry and beyond now.                        

Maths – We are studying Ancient Egyptian calculation methods that involved doubling this week, learning how doubling large numbers help us with multiplication.

Science – We will be studying food chains and classification keys.

Homework this week:

English

Well done on your blogs last week, I did enjoy reading your descriptions. This week I would like you to write a shape poem about a member of your family (human or pet). It needs to rhyme. Use a fresh piece of A4 paper and use colour where appropriate.

Maths

Your maths this week is to explain to an adult at home how the Ancient Egyptians would have calculated 5 x 24 in hieroglyphics. Do it in your A4 homework book.

If you have lines to learn, please try hard to learn them for Monday. Time is running out!

Week 3: Mummification, surface area and time, poetry and keeping our bodies healthy.

Welcome to our Class 5 blog!
This week we will be studying the following:
Literacy - Poetry in various forms. Last week the pupils impressed me with their list poetry for our working wall.
Maths - Calculating the surface area of the linen bandages required to mummify a Class 5 pupil. The class can't wait. They will have to record their findings, work out how to accurately collect the data and record it in a graph format.  This is a cross curricular activity as we have studied mummification in history/topic, as well as looking at vital organs within our science.
We are also revisiting time this week, 24hr clock and time zones around the world, including Egypt!
Science - How to keep our bodies healthy and specifically studying our vital organs, linked with mummification.

Homework will be a piece of literacy and maths each week, some of which may be accessed and completed online occasionally. We will be studying spellings as a part of our literacy focus in class, working phonetically as we did for our Sats preparation.

Your literacy/ICT homework this week is to write an explanation of the techniques used to build your shelters at Kingswood.  Can you remember how you started your shelters off? Where to build them and why you put certain items where and how? Complete this task in the comments box. Type only your Christian name under your comment and remember to click anonymous before you publish it.