Grammar Kahoots
This week, alongside introducing our new unit of suspenseful writing, we’ve been practising our grammar skills.
We created some Kahoots, an online quiz, to test each other. It was a lot of fun as well as being a great way to remember our learning.
We also found some awesome new game modes which made things even more interesting!
Help at home by asking your child which areas of grammar they feel most confident with and which they need help with.
Guided Reading Week 1
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 7th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 5/page 20.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 4/page 57.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 4/page 28.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 6/page 45.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 2/page 17.
Guided Reading Information
Year 5 have been given their guided reading books.
The class have been divided into groups and each group has been given a book to read at home. This will last for this half term.
During our Book Club sessions each Friday, each group will discuss what they have read so far and share their reading record activities related to their book. This will be a fantastic opportunity for the children to explore characters and storylines more than they might do normally!
Every Friday during Book Club, each group will be given a new page to read to for the next Friday. This information will be posted every week on our class news.
What to remember:
- Your child has a book that they need to read every week (up to a chosen point marked with a post-it note).
- The reading record activity needs to be completed using their new book.
- A comment from a grown up needs to be written in their reading record.
- Group reading books and reading records need to be brought in every Friday.
Help at home: listen to your child read their new book and ask questions about the book to help prepare them for class discussions.
I look forward to hearing the children’s discussions next week!
Spring 2: week 1
Math
This week we have been comparing weight using the language heavier and lighter. The children have enjoyed using the scales to compare a variety of objects.
English
This week our focus book has been The Train Ride. The children enjoyed discussing where they would like to go on a train ride and what they might see.
Living and Learning
This week’s statement has been about recognising emotions in both themselves and others. The children worked together to portray and identify different emotions.
We have been talking about the sunshine coming out more and the flowers growing this week – the start of spring.
Help at home: by discussing the seasonal changes that are taking place.
Reminder: next week is a busy week.
Tuesday 4th is our trip. Please send a packed lunch for your child.
Thursday 6th is World Book Day. We are NOT dressing up this year but would like to invite you into our class 9-9:30 to share a book with your child.
Science – What are soils made of?
In science, we have been learning about what soils are made of.
Soils are everywhere and they’re very useful. They are amazing in helping plants grow and provide homes to lots of little organisms.
We made careful observations when finding our own soil samples from different areas of the school.
We looked for the 3 main parts of soil:
1. small rocks
2. organic matter (dead and rotting plants and animals – humus)
3. water
We then compared our soils to sandy, chalk and loam soil and decided our soil was most like the loam soil.
Help at home by searching for the 3 main ingredients in soil you can find outside! What does the soil look like? Is it dark in colour?
North East Youth Summit 2025
Today, the Year 5 and 6 junior leaders visited the Leeds Civic Hall to attend the North East Youth Summit. It was a great day where the children had the opportunity to meet and hear from councillors, ask questions and give their say when thinking about things we would like to change and improve about our local area.
We suggested our ideas for activities that we would love to see in our locality. Here were our choices.
We were in a room with lots of other junior leaders from around our locality so it was great to meet them as well!
We discussed climate change in the official chambers where the MPs and Leeds’ Mayor meet to discuss their plans.
Maths: Division
In Maths this week, we have been looking at short division. We have been using the bus stop method to do this.
To start off we learnt how to divide with no exchanges.
We then moved on to learn how to divide 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number which contained exchanges.
The next step was 4-digit numbers with exchanges.
And the final one was 4-digit numbers divided by a 1-digit number, that not only had exchanges but also a remainder.
Help at home: Have a discussion with your child about the problem below.
Reminder: World Book Day
World book day will take place on 06.03.24 .
Skipping Festival 2025
Today, Year 4 took part in the 2025 Skipping Festival and won! This means we’re through to the finals in June and we can’t wait.
They did a brilliant job and worked so well as a team – all their practising definitely paid off! It was amazing to watch them all showcase their incredible skipping skills. They also showed great support for each other and the other teams. I was so impressed by their determination, teamwork and respect.
In between the skills, the children had the chance to skip, dance and sing along to the music which they loved. They even got the chance to learn some new skipping skills like the butterfly.
Both the individual skills and the group skips were fantastic. Your children won lots of awards – including seven gold medals! We were all so happy to win and be through to the finals in June.
Well done Year 4 for trying your best and representing Moortown so well – we’re so proud of you! Let’s do it all again in June!
PE: Rugby
This half term, our PE unit is rugby. We will be practising lots of different skills: catching, passing/throwing, evading a defender, tackling an attacker and kicking.
We learnt in our first lesson this week how to pass with accuracy. You need to see the target, pass and then point. The pointing helps to direct the ball towards the target more easily.
Help at home: What do you already know about rugby? Is there any specific words to help us with our learning?