Explorers Art Project
This week, we’ve been linking our Explorers topic with our writing and art learning. (There’ll be more about our descriptive writing in a separate post.)
We’ve created our own version of ‘The Land of Neverbelieve‘ and have been busy creating/designing this fictional land. We started by imitating the style of the book to create the outline of our island and have been thinking about how to turn this shape into a magical, mystical island. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be completing our final, neat versions which we’ll combine with our writing learning.
Here’s a few pics of our learning so far…
An orca inspired island.
The original ‘Land of Neverbelieve’.
Ethan practises drawing the ‘head’ of the island.
Pia gets her ideas down on paper – this island involves a tribute to Pia’s hamsters.
A shark-shaped land of mystery.
An imaginative take on a ‘Land of Neverbelieve’.
A detailed sketch of the final piece.
Football Training
Football training continued this week with 20 children from Year 5 and 6 in attendance. We focussed on our ball control and shooting before playing some small sided games.
Please note: we’ll always be outside for training (even in the rain). Please make sure your child has suitable, warm (if necessary, waterproof) clothing.
Roundhegians RUFC Engagement Afternoon
During the first term, we were lucky enough to be visited by some rugby coaches who are affiliated with Roundhegians RUFC. We learnt lots about rugby union and it was great to see our skills improve each session.
As a celebration, Roundhegians organised an engagement afternoon on Monday. Some children from Year 4 and Year 5 went along to Roundhegians to play in a non-competitive, fun tournament. Well done to all those involved. The coaches were extremely impressed with your attitude and behaviour – you certainly represented Moortown Primary well!
If you’re interested in playing rugby union, please visit Roundhegians RUFC. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me before or after school.
Veggie burgers
Today, half of Year 6 made veggie burgers. Everyone found it extraordinarily fun as we have not cooked in ages! We all used cooking skills to make our bake: bridge and claw chopping methods, grating, frying, blending, moulding and – of course – washing up.
We tried out three different recipes. One was carrot-based, another was courgette-based and the final was mushroom-based. Not everyone expected they’d enjoy it but many loved it! For example, Noah didn’t expect to like it but absolutely adored it!!!
Take a look at us in action.
Adding detail
Our great writing continued today as we explored the effect of using adverbs in our writing. We finished the lesson by completing word studies in pairs on quite ambitious adverbs – but ones which it would be possible to use in the descriptive writing we’ll be doing later in the week.
Word studies are a great thing for you to do at home too, particularly with spelling words the children are finding difficult to learn or understand.
In our studies this week, we made sure we identified the definition of the word, drew an image of what it means and used it in a sentence. Then we could decide what our final quarter would be: word family, spelling practice, synonyms or antonyms.
Great writing
In our Writing lessons this week, we’re learning about all the different ways we can add detail to our writing, particularly to add lots of description.
We’ve explored how expanded noun phrases can be used: towering mountain with snow blanketing the top.
Then we moved on to look at using preposition phrases. Working in pairs and using a great image of the Land of Neverbelieve, we came up with preposition phrases we could use in a piece of writing we’ll be doing next week.
Pumpkins!
We’ve been practising our fine motor skills using pumpkins.
Early Maths Workshop
Don’t forget the Early Maths Workshop on Tuesday 07 November at 6pm.
See you there!
Reading with Reception
At Moortown, we do lots to create a love of reading: read a class novel, enjoy regular library sessions, have a weekly ‘love of reading’ free read session, read a range of interesting texts, take part in the ‘Extreme Reading’ competitions, etc.
In Year 5, we also enjoy reading with our Reception friends on a Friday. Reception and Y5 both look forward to this session. Year 5 do a great job of patiently reading to the younger children, asking questions to check their understanding while YR do a great job of reminding Y5 about phonics (and showing them how to stop after ‘3, 2, 1 Stop!’).
Here are a few pics from our most recent session…
Debate – Should eSports be in the Olympics?
During our reading session on Friday, we had a debate: Should eSports be in the Olympics?
We were given some information from FirstNews and had time to think about both sides of the argument. We thought about what a ‘good’ debater looks like and used sentence stems to shape the discussion.
We’ve been practising our debating skills quite a lot this year and have made huge improvements in our ability to use information to inform our viewpoint before putting forward a concise, logical argument.
Well done, Year 5!
