Homework  20/10/14 

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays.

 

English

We are experiencing a game of squash in a real squash court on Monday. Please write a paragraph describing the experience. How different was it from the squash lessons so far at school? How have the techniques you have learned helped when in a real match situation? What happened? Finish your paragraph with your own match report. Remember to use all your VCOP skills and be proud of your presentation.

Maths

We have been studying common multiples and factors. Try out your times tables knowledge with the multiples and factors challenges in your homework book.

Iron Age Group are to try the TTT challenges using multiples, factors and prime numbers.

Please work on the 9x table this week. Keep practicing your 3x, 4x, 6x, 7x and 8x  tables and build up your knowledge. Remember to use your times tables tool box.

 We have a busy yet exciting week ahead of us, We are going to experience glass backed squash courts at Lexden Squash Club tomorrow which is a terrific way to start the week. We will be studying our experiment results on reversible change and evaluating our predictions. We are revising fractions in maths this week, double negatives in grammar as well as our weekly phonics and narrative Stig of the Dump. The class our proud of their Autumn poetry and paintings of leaves. We will be following this with a leaf investigation in science this week, learning words such as chlorophyll, photosynthesis and carbon dioxide. We look forward to sharing our work in the Harvest assembly on Thursday. 

Calculating the diameter of the main
circle of stones of Stonehenge.

Blending a sunset with watercolour
 for our Stonehenge Altar Stone.

 

The diameter of the main Stonehenge circle was from the
hedge to the boys!

Squash Skills are coming on!

Scary Romans invade!

Rising to the challenge of building an Iron Age Round House

Composing our rhythm communications

Will the amount of water correlate with the amount of salt to dissolve?

Welcome to our Class 5 blog in the third week of October already! We have been an extremely busy class and it has been hard to choose the photos to share with you all.

We are studying the properties of odd and even numbers this week in maths along with common multiples and common factors. Mr Wainwright’s maths group has been having fun with multiplying decimals amongst other revision areas. Parentheses and correct punctuation for sentence structure is our grammar focus in literacy along with harvest rhymes to go with our harvest art as well as the narrative Stig of the Dump.

We are investigating reversible change in science, linked to history (the discovery and use of metal in the Bronze Age onwards), polishing up our rhythms and written notation in music in order to communicate messages to Classes 3 and 4 through drum beat (history link) and launching how to use Bug Club which is exciting. Our Stonehenge paintings and 3D model are progressing well. We studied how to keep ourselves safe online last week as we our online with our lessons, as well as frequently being online at home. Coding in our ICT has been thoroughly enjoyed  and our long distance running skills are really improving – a talented class!

I was very proud of how Year 6 led the Harvest Service and of their behaviour and learning at Colchester Castle. Superb!

Homework  13/10/14

English

Please read Mythical Beasts and Fabulous Legends on Oxford Owl as the stories in the Bronze and Iron Age were local folk tales, myths and legends that were passed down the generations. When you have read it, please write a short review on your favourite myth or legend on the blog.

Maths

Neolithic Group – p46 of Rising Stars – Solving data handling problems.

Bronze Age Group – p46 of Rising Stars, Solving data handling problems.

Iron Age group – p46 of L5 Rising Stars Approximate Readings

Please work on the 8x table this week. Keep practicing your 3x, 4x, 6x and 7x tables and build up your knowledge. Remember to use your times tables tool box.

L6 – p118 of Collins Level 6 Thinking Things Through – applying your knowledge and common sense. 

   Homework  02/10/14 

   Due in next Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays from now on.

 

English

We will be making a scaled model of Stonehenge in class and studying who built, when and why it was constructed. Your homework is to write a paragraph about Stonehenge, using the 5 W’s as a guide. (Who, what, when, where and why). I will be especially pleased if you can tell me anything about the most recent discoveries that have been made. It has been in the papers and on the television over the last few weeks..

Maths

We have been working on data handling this week and have studied frequency tables, forms of data collection, Carroll and venn diagrams as well as bar and line charts. Your homework is the following:

Neolithic Group – Interpreting line graphs challenge a to e, the first five questions.

Bronze Age Group – p50 and p51 of L4 Rising Stars, Grouping Data.

Iron Age group – p54 of L5 Rising Stars

Please work on the 7x table this week. Keep practicing your 3x, 4 and 6x tables and build up your knowledge. Remember to use your times tables tool box.

Photos and news of this week will appear on here over the weekend. We have had an exciting week!