This week in the classroom
18.4.24
The children have made an enthusiastic start to the summer term! We started our new reading text this week, A Story Like the Wind and the children are very curious about this text. Over the new week a lot of their questions will be answered as we find out more about our main character. In writing, we have started our unit on narrative recounts. As part of this we have looked at speech punctuation, subordinating conjunctions and figurative language in preparation for writing next week. In maths, we have added, subtracted, multiplied and divided fractions. The children have been very enthusiastic and confident with this – we have been very impressed! Knowledge of times tables has also improved, which is great to see, and it is enabling the children to answer questions quickly and accurately. In history, we started our new unit on the Ancient Maya. The children already have lots of questions which we will hopefully answer over the coming weeks. In computing, we started programming Micro:bits, which are mini computers. We will continue to experiment with these, programming them to do different things. In art, we started our new unit on architecture, by looking at and sketching houses. Well done Year 5/6!
28.3.24
We have had an extremely busy week in Y5/6! We have completed our reports on the Himalayas and we have also written instructions for our DT project (our chair-o-planes). The chair-o-planes are now completed and look fabulous. The children have done a fabulous job of cutting, gluing, measuring and decorating. We also baked bread as part of DT and the children were fabulous at this. The end results were amazing and the bread was delicious. The Y5/6 classroom certainly smelled its best! We finished our reading book, Survivors, and we will be doing writing based around this after the Easter holidays. The children have enjoyed going through all the gory stories of survival. Y5/6 have worked really hard this term and we look forward to seeing them after the holidays. Well done Y5/6!