This week in the classroom
19.9.25
In reading this week, we continued to work on our class book ‘The Promise’ digging deeper into the sentence structure and the illustrations. The children had a chance to retell the story as well as consider the use of colour, lines and perspective in the illustrations.
In English, we have been writing diary entries. After watching a clip from the film, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, we discussed how the Pevensie children would have felt during the air raid. We also discussed how each of the children reacted differently and what this tells us about their personalities. The children had a chance to choose which character they would like to write in role as and did brilliantly at expressing their feelings.
In maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 100 and 1000 thinking about what the previous/next multiple of 100/1000 is. We have also been discussing which digit we need to look at when deciding whether to round up or down. This is a tricky concept and the children have worked really hard.
In history, we learned about the seven kingdoms that made up Anglo-Saxon Britain. We discussed how they were organized and ruled, and how they interacted with each other. The children were surprised to discover that lots of the Anglo-Saxon names and symbols are still around today!
In French we looked at the sounds ‘n’ and ‘gn’. The children had to sort the French words according to the sound that they made.
In science, we changed the water and measured the root growth of our mint plants. We also looked at the life cycle of mammals.
A very busy week, well done Year 5/6!
14.9.25
Another great week in Year 5/6!
In English we have started writing diary entries set in WW2. The children worked so hard on this with Mrs Caldwell. She was blown away by their effort! We then looked at how we can use fronted adverbials in our writing, we looked at the impact of propaganda posters and we got a glance at the cover of our new book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In reading, we finished the book, The Promise. The children enjoyed the story and had lots of questions once it was finished, a whole page of questions in fact. The illustrations in this book have been fabulous and have also provoked some interesting discussions. A brilliant start to the school year!
In maths, we have looked at building and partitioning three and four digit numbers. The children have worked really hard at this using dienes and part part whole diagrams. I have been really impressed at the resilience shown and some of our Y5 children have really had a chance to shine.
In history, we continued our Anglo-Saxons unit by learning what happened to Britain after the Romans left. We learned about the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, discussing why they left their homeland and why they chose to come to Britain.
In French, we learned to talk about where we live. We learned how to ask the question, Where do you live? We then responded with ‘I live_____’. The children are becoming much more confident to login to complete their individual tasks and some children have even been retaking their quizzes at home to improve upon their score!
In science, we learned about the asexual reproduction of plants by taking some clippings of a mint plant. Over the next few weeks, we will be measuring the root growth of our clippings to see how successful they are. We have placed them in the most sunny part of our classroom, so fingers crossed in the next few weeks we should see them put down some roots!
Well done Year 5/6!