PE
During this half term, we have three students from Leeds Beckett University leading our PE sessions on Fridays. The children are focusing on multi-skills, teamwork and getting enjoyment from sport. Here are a few pictures of yesterday’s lesson.
Creative homework review
As always, we reviewed our homeworks as a class this week. The standard of homework is always high in Y5; I love it. Seeing how children respond to creative homeworks is one of my favourite things. It gives me lots of teaching ideas, too – thanks Y5!
This week, we were particularly impressed by these pieces:
Edward’s pot-washing time sheet.
Sam’s collage of maths in everyday life.
Pippa’s news report – love the jokes, Pippa!
Megan’s maths game.
Topic themed English learning
This week, in English, we’ve been learning about poetry. We started out by comparing and contrasting a wide range of poems (some well known, some less familiar) and then began to unpick the poets’ use of figurative language. As it was Remembrance Day on Friday, and our Class Novel topic is heavily linked to WW2, we learnt ‘In Flanders Field‘ off by heart – ask your child if they can recite it to you!
Then, on Friday, we split into groups to perform the poem. Every group captured the mood and were able to portray this through their performance. Each group incorporated actions into their performance and one group even had the subtle, faint whistle of a bird in the background.
Here are some action shots…
11 November 2016
In phonics next week, we’re learning about irregular past tense verbs. Usually when we change a verb to the past tense, we just need to add ‘ed’. Irregular verbs are annoyingly irregular and don’t follow the rule!
| fall fell |
| fly flew |
| find found |
| win won |
| sell sold |
| blow blew |
| see saw |
| eat ate |
| write wrote |
| bring brought |
Don’t stop at this list. Find some other irregular verbs. There are loads of them!
11 November 2016
The homework this week is practice makes perfect.
As we’re coming to the end of our Class Novel Big Topic about the Katie and… books, we’d like the children to write a letter or email to James Mayhew, the author of the stories.
You could tell him about the learning we’ve done in the topic; what you thought about his stories and which one was your favourite; you could suggest a plot for a new Katie book; you could ask him questions.
If you’d like to send an email, you can email it to y2@moortown.leeds.sch.uk.
11 November 2016
This week’s spelling activity focuses on the use of apostrophes for possession (Anna‘s brother) and for contraction/omission (I don‘t want to).
Each child has been given a sheet to help them practise using apostrophes correctly. Children should complete the activities by Thursday 17 November 2016.
11 November 2016
We have two pieces of homework this week, both due on Thursday 17 October 2016.
The first is Creative:
I can show why I love reading.
In Year 5, we always talk about having a ‘love of reading‘. This homework is a celebration of this. We’ve discussed some ideas as a class and here’s what we came up with. You could:
- interview members of your family about their passion for reading
- turn your favourite book into a short movie
- create a trailer for the film version of a book
- cook a recipe from your favourite recipe book
- write part of the prequel/sequel to your favourite book
- create a poster to advertise your favourite book
- create a fake interview with your favourite author
And, many more…
The second homework is Mathletics:
You have been assigned two activities:
- Multiply 2 digit numbers, regroup
- Long Multiplication
11 November 2016
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 17 November.
To be able to compare and contrast.
The children have brought home some poems we’ve looked at this week. One of the skills we’re working on is comparing and contrasting. Choose two poems. Compare and contrast them. (3 marks)
- 3 marks means mention 3 things
- Name the poem you are referring to
- If you mention a difference, discuss both poems (and make sure it’s a comparison and not just two random differences)
- Give some examples of what you mean eg. they’re both informal: ‘hiya’ is used in (a) and ‘wassup’ is use din (b)
- Don’t be too obvious (I know they’re both poems)
Then, choose any two texts (newspaper, story, magazine, comic, info book) and answer the same 3 marks question, comparing and contrasting them.
11 November 2016
This week, you have been assigned three Mathletics tasks.
Fractions
- Comparing fractions 2
- Ordering fractions 1
- Simplifying fractions
These are all skills we’ve learnt in class for the last two weeks so children should be able to complete them independently. Check, using the ?, what the activity is asking you to do. If you make any mistakes, always go back and look at that question again to see if you know where you went wrong or whether you need to check with an adult.
These tasks need to be completed by Thursday 17 November.
11 November 2016
This week’s spelling activity is all about homonyms.
Read the chapter from Ann M. Martin’s ‘How to look for a lost dog’ which is all about homonyms. Rose (the main character) loves homonyms which include homophones and homographs.
- Homophones are words which sound (hence, ‘phone’) the same but are spelt differently: their, there, they’re.
- Homographs are words that are spelt the same (hence, ‘graph’, as in autograph) but sound different: to bow, the bow and arrow.
Rose creates lists of homonyms because she really likes them. How many groups of homonyms can you (ewe) create and can you (yew) then use them correctly in (inn) sentences. I wonder whether you can write a sentence with the whole (hole) group of homonyms in it?
Challenge – Rose can only think of one group of four homonyms. Can you think what that is? (Check Rose’s rules for homonyms in the chapter.)
