Year 5 Update Week 6
Monday 23rd and Thursday 26th September – Year 5 ISA Assessments
Thursday 26th September – Parent Teacher Consultations
Friday 27th September – 5W Class Assembly
Monday 30th September – School closed (CPD)
Tuesday 1st October – National Day (School closed)
Wednesday 2nd October – Parent Teacher Consultations
Friday 4th October – Half Term Break – School finishes at 3pm
Uniforms – Just a few reminders…purple socks on uniform days, white socks on PE days, please try and have the children wear summer uniforms rather than winter (it’s still incredibly hot!) and obviously wear PE kit on their designated days and can you please make sure they have their own school hat for playtimes and PE activities.
Stationery – Can you please check in with them to see what bits and pieces they still need to purchase? Many children don’t have a whiteboard eraser, this is very important. A piece of felt, an unused kitchen sponge or even an old (clean) sock will suffice. Please also make sure your child has earphones as they will use them frequently in school.
Healthy snack and water – Please make sure that your child has a healthy snack for break time and a water bottle.
Hygiene – Due to the high-temperatures many children arrive back after break and lunch play sweating, this can make lessons very messy and the children uncomfortable. Bringing in a small towel will help them to wipe away the sweat and therefore allow learning to continue without much fuss.
Year 5 have had another productive week and have been working hard as we begin to explore our second unit of inquiry.
The children have enjoyed additional music lessons with Mr Gibson this week where they have worked on a rotation of Music & UOI. We used the African drums to create rhythms of 4 beats and incorporated these into a small group medley.
In UOI we have been exploring different images that depict ‘Migration’ and discussing what we see, think and wonder. We noticed some similarities in the pictures and came up with some very interesting questions too. We have started a mini inquiry into Migration vocabulary which will continue into next week as we deepen our understanding of the different types of migration and the reasons why people move from one place to another.
We have been enjoying different team games in Circle Time and PE where we have put our coordination skills to the test. As part of our fitness unit we have also explored some different dance routines and moved our bodies to different styles of music.
Central Idea
Migration has an impact on people and society.
Lines of Inquiry
- The reasons why people migrate (causation)
- The challenges and opportunities of migration (change)
- The impact of migration on individuals and society (perspective)
We will begin to explore the different types of migration through investigation of different case studies as well as continuing to broaden our vocabulary knowledge.
Central Idea
Strategies for whole number computation can apply to fractional and decimal computation.
An inquiry into…
- efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction of decimal fractions
- efficient written strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction decimal fractions
Central Idea
Manipulation of shape and space takes place for a particular purpose.
- creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
- transforming shapes
- locating points on a grid
We are continuing to make sense of what we read by applying our self monitoring strategies. We are trying to do this when reading in the classroom from book stacks or class libraries, selecting books from the learning centre as well as researching online.
We have listened to and watched a variety of author interviews and tried to note down the important tips they shared with us about the process of writing and what helps them be the best writer they can be. We will try to use these tips and apply them to our own writing next week, focussing on adding details to engage the reader.
5H: Aiden Lai
5W: Nicole Cheng
5Y: Marcus Su
House Points
5Y: complete your ‘working with someone new’ page in your mindful journal
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Spelling – each week the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
- Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon. The children will be choosing levelled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night. Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
- Mandarin Home Learning– All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
Thought of the week
