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22 January 2016

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 27 January.

I can show what I have learnt about length.

For the past few weeks in maths, we have been learning about length. We’ve measured in metres and in centimetres and then compared the length, height or width of different objects. We’ve solved problems involving length as well, using our calculating skills.

For the homework this week, the children should show their understanding of length. They could…

• measure some objects at home and compare their length
• measure the distances that they have walked or driven over the weekend
• write some problems involving length for people to solve
• look at how different people use measuring in their jobs or hobbies

…or anything else that gets them mathematically creative!

22 January 2016

Here are the spellings for this week:

Borrow a book, borrow a bike

With 100 days to this year’s Tour De Yorkshire, a local bike library has been set up locally at Moor Allerton Library.

Leeds City Council has introduced a new Yorkshire Bike Bank which will allow residents to borrow bikes as well as books from the library.

Some of our latest Creative homeworks

More fab homework to kick off our Big Topic. Lots of creative ideas made our weekly homework review very enjoyable and we learnt lots from, and about, each other.

Diagrams, messages, facts and pictures were just some of the things we saw around the classroom.

We really enjoyed this poem from Riya…

Many of use decided to go ‘techno’ this week so we also enjoyed listening to, reading and playing the many PowerPoint presentations, blogs and coding that came from the Y5 email.

Update on ‘Life’ in Y5

This week has seen the launch of our new Big Topic, ‘Life’.

It’s an exciting week for us as it comes with a great (very informative) class assembly and a trip to Leeds Museum on Friday morning. We started our topic with an incredible journey from the beginning of Earth, 4.6 billion years ago, to this very day.

As a class, we created a giant timeline in our classroom and then wrote some fantastic, detailed recounts on it.

We’ll be using our ‘Life’ knowledge in English over the next few weeks to write informative texts on various animals: old, new and some just plain old fictitious. Help at home by looking through animal information books, magazines and websites for some vocabulary the children could learn and use in their own writing.

In Maths, we’re focussing on fractions, percentages and decimals. We need to know the relationship between these three areas of Maths and be able to fully understand what they mean and how to use them. At home, help by drawing images of fractions and then identify the equivalent percentage and decimal.

Phonics mornings

This week, we’ll be holding our second of three phonics sessions.

The children are now beginning to learn long vowel phonemes and digraphs (two letters making one sound, like ‘sh’ and ‘th’) and to read and write sentences and longer words.

We expect all parents / carers to come along and see how much the children have learnt and find out ways you can support your child at home.

Maths learning in Reception

In our maths learning this week, we’ll learn about shape and pattern.

We’ll look at shape and pattern around us and in particular shape and pattern found in nature. We’ll look at snowflakes and ice and the patterns and shapes found in tree trunks, sticks and branches.

Number and calculating is built upon patterns; for example, recognising sequences of numbers or the shape of five on a dice with spots, without counting each dot.

As well as noticing shapes and patterns, children need to talk about them in order to develop the language needed to describe the shapes and patterns they see.

The following is a list of vocabulary the children will experience in Reception:

shape, flat, curved, straight, round, solid, corner, sort, cube, cuboid, cylinder, pyramid, sphere, cone, circle, triangle, square, rectangle, size, bigger, larger, smaller, pattern, repeating pattern, match.

A Science experiment

Here are some photos from when we tested different materials to see if they would be a good material to make an umbrella from. We found out that wood and plastic would keep us dry. However, we agreed that a wooden umbrella would be quite heavy to hold above your head! The class worked as scientists by making sure they treated each material the same by dropping 50 drops of water on them all. They recorded all their findings and analysed them afterwards. Mrs Maqbool and I were really impressed! Well done!

15 January 2016

This week’s spelling are all homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings e.g. new and knew. I’ve included some rough definitions as a guide. You might want to chat about other meanings with your child. For example, the word brake could be used as a noun (the brake of a car) and as a verb (I’m driving too fast so I’m going to brake).

Friday 15 January

The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 20 January.

Practise your number bonds to 20 or Practise your number bonds to 10

We have been recalling number bonds to 20 by using what we already know about number bonds to 10.

7 + 3 =10  so…
17+3=20 or…
7+13=20

Some children still need to memorise number bonds to 10 before moving onto this. Therefore some children have been set slightly different homework this week.