Yogi says, Yogi do!
This half term’s PE is yoga and dance…
We begin with a breathing exercise.
Bear breath: Breath in for 5, hold for 3, breath out of 5, hold for 3.
Warm up with ‘Yogi Says’! (It’s the same as Simon Says.)
Yoga poses with a partner… it’s all about trust.
End with a guided meditation: Lay down, close your eyes and pretend you are outside. You hear a rustling in the bush. There is an animal. It’s there to help you, listen to you and give you advice. Share your worries.
Help at home by trying this yoga routine just like we did in school! How do you feel before? How do you feel after?
We are chemists!
In our next unit of science, we are chemists. Chemistry is the study of the properties of substances and the changes they go through.
In this week’s lesson, Year 5 answered the question ‘Which materials are electrical conductors and electrical insulators?’. Our enquiry type was identifying, classifying and grouping. To test this, the children created an open circuit. This allowed each material to be placed into it. If the material was an electrical conductor, the bulb would lit up as the electricity could pass through the material. If the material was an electrical insulator, the bulb would not lit up.
Next week, we are planning an experiment that looks at thermal insulators and conductors.
Help at home: Discuss this unit’s key vocabulary. Can you use these words in a sentence?
Reminder: stay and learn session
Phonics Phase 3 – 14.01.25 9-9:30am
Phonic Presentation
Thank you to all those that came to our phase 3 phonic presentation. For those of you who could not make it, here are the PowerPoint slides for you to look over.
As always, if there are any questions please ask.
I would be grateful if you could please complete the feedback form which is found in the QR code.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Lowry
Reading
We are using our class novel, Here We Are (Notes for Living on Planet Earth) by Oliver Jeffers to inspire our reading and writing over the next few weeks. This week, we have enjoyed reading and discussing the book and picking out the main themes and messages.
Each day, this week, we have looked at a new reading skill. We have been using our retrieval skills to read the text and find answers to questions from within the text.
Most children were also able to write their own retrieval question.
Another skill we have explored more this week, is being able to infer the meaning of new words or vocabulary in a text. We learnt how to read around the word to make sense of the unknown word.
We will link the book to our geography learning about our local area too.
Help at home
- read the book again and talking about the key messages
- talk about our local area – particularly what you like and dislike about it
- help your child learn their address
- read other books by Oliver Jeffers
There is a link to listen to it here. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Maths – Odds and evens!
This week in Maths, we have been looking at odd and even numbers. We know that even numbers are made of 2s and odd numbers have an odd one. We have been counting forwards and backwards in odd and even numbers. In our number fluency sessions we have been investigating how odd and even numbers can be made. We discovered that even numbers can be made from 2 odd parts or 2 even parts and that odd numbers can only be made by 1 odd part and 1 even part.
We used this learning in our main maths lesson to add and subtract 2 from even numbers. We know that when you add 2 to an even number the answer is the next even number. We also know when you subtract 2 from an even number the answer is the previous even number. We worked really hard using odd and even numbers!
Help at home by talking to your child about odd and even numbers. Can they tell you which numbers are which? Can you add and subtract 2 from even numbers?
Spring 1: Week1
The children have come back ready to learn and very happy to see their friends.
They were very excited to see the snow in the playground and it has fit in well with our learning this week about Antarctica. Our word of the week was iceberg and the children are now confident talking about what one is. We were thinking of other words with ice and came up with the word icicle. We went on a hunt around the school grounds to find icicles – the children were very excited when we found some.
Our poem of the week suits the weather we have had. It is called Put on your Mittens. The children have enjoyed sharing the poem and showing me their mittens.
On Thursday, we had a zoom with Farmer Verity. We Zoom Farmer Verity every few months to see changes around the farm and ask her questions.
The children came up with some great questions.
‘Are the animals cold?’
‘Do the animals hibernate?’
‘Do any of the animals like playing in the cold?’
We have been making sure that we are forming our letters correctly by practising our letter formation.
Help at home: by practising too.
We have moved onto our phase3 phonics and have been learning lots of new sounds.
Help at home: by practising the new sounds sent home on Friday.
Our maths next week is all about numeral recognition.
Help at home: by pointing out numerals in the environment.
Science: Zoom with a scientist!
This morning, Year 5 had a zoom with a scientist. They discussed all things space and satellites.
He showed us a picture of every satellite currently orbiting around the earth! There are now satellites which are only 5cm x 5cm x 5cm big.
We learnt that satellites help us in our everyday lives. For example, they are used to monitor the weather, guide us using GPS and give us more information about other planets.
The children were able to ask him some questions about space. They asked some brilliant ones:
- Is there only one international space centre?
- How do you breathe in space?
- Why is space dark?
- Why is space cold?
He also told us some very interesting facts:
- Space smells like metal.
- The light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach to Earth.
- Due to the size of Jupiter, when it orbits the sun, it actually makes the sun wobble.
Help at home: What fact did your child find the most interesting?
Reading: Retrieval
This week’s reading learning focussed on our new class novel: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie.
Year 5 read the first chapter of the book and used evidence from the text to draw and label what they thought the inside of the shop looked like.
Help at home: Summarise what has happened in the book so far. Who is the main character? What has happened to them? What does the shop look like?
Writing: volcanic eruption
Welcome back and happy new year!
In writing this half-term, we’ll be starting with a recount.
The purpose of a recount is to re-tell events and describe what has happened.
Our recounts will be about escaping a volcanic eruption! We’ve been exploring some recounts this week to identify what makes a good one and your children have come up with some success criteria:
- impressive vocabulary
- thoughts and feelings
- description
- past tense
- adverbs
- adjectives
- different sentence starters
Help at home: watch this interactive video and ask your children to describe what they can see and what the person might be thinking and feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7LUQS3X6E