Guided Reading Week 5
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Thursday 28th March:
Divine Freaks: end of book.
Street Child: end of book.
How To Train Your Dragon: end of book.
The Considine Curse: end of book.
Extra Time: end of book.
The London Mystery Eye: end of book.
All guided reading books should be brought back in before the end of term. If you would like to keep your book over the holidays to finish it off, please speak to an adult in Year 5.
Writing: A Promotional Piece
After completing some fantastic narratives that created tension and suspense, we have now started to look at creating a promotional piece of writing. The children will be trying to persuade people to buy their ‘Chatbot Game’ that they have been making in our computing topic.
The purpose of a promotional text is ‘to persuade/sell/promote a product’.
We started by looking at different promotional texts; the children highlighted and annotated them to find the R2s.
Help at home: Find the R2s in the text.
– present tense
– name of product
– slogan
– subheadings
– persuasive language
– figurative language (e.g. alliteration, hyperbole)
– rhetorical questions
– customer review (e.g. direct quotes)
– special offer
– repetition (e.g. rule of three)
Reading Records
This term, some fantastic pieces of homework have been brought in. Have a look at these amazing examples of reading records.
How creative can your next reading record be?
Help at home: Read daily with your child and sign their reading record each week.
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Guided Reading Week 4
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 22nd March:
Divine Freaks: up to chapter 17/page 162.
Street Child: end of book.
How To Train Your Dragon: end of book.
The Considine Curse: up to chapter 19/page 167.
Extra Time: up to chapter 34/page 159.
The London Mystery Eye: up to chapter 34/page 259.
Leeds Rhinos ticket offer
As part of our partnership, and as a thank you for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium at a special discounted schools rate.
Date – Friday 5th April 2024
Kick off – 8pm
Opposition – Warrington Wolves
Venue – Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR)
Tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will go off sale at 10am on Monday 25th March 2024.
We look forward to welcoming Leeds Rhinos for an assembly next week too.
Science: What are the different food groups?
For the last time, Year 5 were joined by our visitors from the University of Leeds. In this lesson the children looked at the different food groups. They also learnt:
- the benefits of different food groups
- the importance of a balanced diet
- why diet is so important for our bodies
The children took part in an experiment to see how too much salt can affect our body. Year 5 placed pieces of potato in water and salty water. They will be watching over the next couple of days to see the results.
We then ventured outside to play a food group game. An adult shouted a food out and the children had to run to which food group they think it was. They all did amazingly in this game.
Help at home: Name the 5 food groups and give examples of different foods that fit into them.
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 15th March:
Divine Freaks: up to chapter 13/page 133.
Street Child: up to chapter 22/page 163.
How To Train Your Dragon: up to chapter 11/page 141.
The Considine Curse: up to chapter 15/page 125.
Extra Time: up to chapter 26/page 117.
The London Mystery Eye: up to chapter 25/page 193.
World book day!
HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY!
We started the day off with an assembly to celebrate. Mr Wilks (Gangsta Granny) talked to us about how books can mean different things to people and how to spend the £1 book token. Some teachers then shared some of their favourite books.
After assembly, we then completed a book recommendation bingo. The children were able to share their favourite books with their friends.
We also had a peaceful and relaxing time, listening to music whilst we coloured in bookmarks.
Take a look at our fantastic costumes!
Help at home: Can you guess all the different characters we dressed up as? Bonus points for the authors who created the books!
Computing!
This half term, computing is our topic. We have had 2 unplugged lessons where we have discussed what a computer is and what a search engine is. This week, however, we have taken to the laptops!
Year 5 had some time to explore Scratch and remind themselves where everything was and how to use it. Then, the task was to create their sprite (cartoon character or object) to walk up a set of stairs. The children showed good teamwork as they worked in pairs.
Take a look at their brilliant code!
