Guided Reading Week 4
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 28th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 38/page 177.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 15/page 183.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 17/page 150.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 21/page 186.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 8/page 117.
Reading in the sun!
Today, we decided to take our reading outside to enjoy the sun! This was a great opportunity for the children to read a book they were enjoying and catch up on their guided reading pages.
Help at home: Make sure your child is reading everyday and is up to date with the guided reading book target pages.
Science: We are biologists!
In Science, we are currently biologists! Biologists study living things. In this unit, we are looking at life cycles. Life cycles are the series of changes in the life of an organism.
Take a look at our key vocabulary:
In our lesson, our enquiry type was ‘research using secondary sources’. The children used the iPads to find out about the life cycles of mammals and amphibians. Year 5 stayed safe online by looking for a padlock; checking the URL and the source is reliable; and typing ‘for kids’ at the end of their searches.
Did you know butterflies and frogs go through metamorphosis? This means that their young form looks nothing like their adult form.
We then discussed the similarities and differences between these life cycles. Can you spot any?
Help at home: Research the life cycles of birds, fish and reptiles.
Old Leos women’s and girls cricket opportunity
Local cricket club, Old Leos, have opportunities for womens and girls cricket. Please contact them for more information.
Bikeability
Year 5 have taken part in bikeability; they have all really enjoyed the sessions! The leaders of the session have praised the children for their brilliant behaviour, great listening skills and fantastic determination.
Help at home: Why not go out on a family bike ride this weekend and ask your children to explain how to stay safe whilst out?
Writing: Grammar
This week, in writing we have been looking at lots of different grammar units: subject, verbs and objects; active and passive voice; dashes, semi-colon and colons; and relative clauses.
Every main clause must have a subject and verb and sometimes it has an object. The subject is the ‘do’er or be’er’; they are the person or thing that is doing the action. The verb is the doing or being word and the object is the person or thing that is having the action done to them.
An active sentence always follows the rule of ‘subject, verb, (object). Whereas, a passive sentence always goes ‘object, verb, subject’.
Dashes, semi-colon and colons always go after a main clause (a sentence that makes sense by itself).
A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun.
They are introduced by a relative pronoun like ‘that’, ‘which’, ‘who’, ‘whose’, ‘where’ and ‘when’.
Help at home: Have a go at these exam style questions.
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 21st March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 28/page 133.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 11/page 137.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 12/page 106.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 16/page 144.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 6/page 85.
Guided Reading Week 2
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 14th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 18/page 80.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 8/page 112.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 8/page 73.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 11/page 96.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 4/page 45.
World Book Day!
Yesterday was World Book Day! World Book Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Our day was filled with lots of opportunities to read and talk about books.
We started the day with a whole school World Book day assembly. We thought about what books we like to read and where we like to read. Help at home: talk about the best environment to read in. Where is a good place to read? Is it better to read on your own or with someone? What time is a good time to read?
We had a busy morning. It was jam-packed with loads of reading and enjoying books. Year 5 did some paired reading with Year 2. The children were absolutely fantastic. The Year 2 and Year 5 children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their books from home and reading to each other.
Help at home: Read everyday with your child.
West Yorkshire cross country final
We were very proud of our five Key Stage 2 children who took part in the West Yorkshire Cross Country Final at Temple Newsam today in the glorious sunshine.
In tough, competitive conditions, with the best runners from across West Yorkshire, they all put in 100% effort in their races and were a great support for each other. The children should feel proud of competing at this level. We even had a top 10 finisher out of 146 runners and our Year 3 girls team came 6th place our of 21 schools. What an amazing team effort!
Thank you to parents who helped with transport and supported at the event.
