We’ve had another lovely week in Year 5 and the children have really settled well into the new routines and are also becoming well established in their new roles and responsibilities - playground pals to KS1, anti-bullying ambassadors, peer mediators and eco-warriors…
In English they have explored a free verse poem and have identified the different poetic features used. The children have now also begun to develop their own ideas for their own poems.
In maths the children have been converting 12-hour clock to 24-hour clock times and have been looking at telling the time with Mrs Parker on a Tuesday. They have also been using the counting on method (frog method) to subtract three and four digit numbers.
On Thursday we celebrated European Day of Languages. Thank you for your efforts in dressing up in the colours of the Spanish flag for the day, the children all looked great. During the day we found out about Spain and identified some of its customs and traditions and learning new Spanish vocabulary. We also used our geography skills to locate Spain on a world map and within Europe and then using an eight point compass we looked at different places in Spain in relation to Madrid.
In the afternoon the children found out about the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and then recreated some of his pieces of work. This gave us the opportunity to reinforce our Spanish work on naming colours and parts of the face and the children were able to give their opinions on his work using their growing vocabulary.
Some photos of the day...
The award winners we celebrate this week:
Golden Award - Angelo won the award this week for being a great reading champion in Year 5. He has already read many books and taken many quizzes due to his regular reading both at home and the opportunities he has in class. Well done Angelo, keep it up!
Writing award - Well done Charlie for using descriptive language to bring to life the idea of a cracked window in preparation for writing poetry.
