

Today we had a great time learning all about chocolate and igniting our learning!
We learnt which climate the cocoa tree is best suited to and how farmers grow, prepare and send chocolate around the world. We then met a chocolatier who helped us design and create our own chocolate. We also got to try chocolate in different forms. We’ve learnt so much and had great fun! Yum!
First we designed our chocolate
Then we thought about a shape we liked and decorated it with different styles.
We got to smell and taste chocolate in its different forms from bean to bar.
Not everyone liked dark chocolate!
We love chocolate!
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer The r is doubled if the –fer is still stressed when the ending is added.
conferred
deferred
inferred
misinferred
mis referred
preferred
referred
retransferred
transferred
Spellings
Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.
Most prefixes are added to the beginning of root words. Inter inter– means ‘between’ or ‘among’.
interaction
intercede
interfere
interject
interlude
international
intervene
interact
interrupt
interdependence
Maths homework
We would like to assess your shape understanding as we have not focused on this area of the curriculum for a long time.
Your challenge is to draw and name as many 2D shapes as you can from memory.
Please do not google 2D shapes.
Success criteria
I can draw using a ruler.
I can record the name of the shape.
I can record the number of sides.
Literacy
In grammar we have been practicing adding dependant clauses to main clauses. Your task for this week is to demonstrate what you have learnt by adding dependant clauses to these sentences.
Remember a clause must contain a verb. It can go in the middle, end or beginning of a sentence. They usually begin with ly, ed, ing words or conjunctions (so, because, while etc). Just adding adjectives is not a dependant clause. Please don’t change the original sentence.
E.G
Balancing carefully, the cat walked across the wall.
Challenge:
Try each sentence but adding the clause in different places.
Year 5 have had a mesmerising week learning and turning their classrooms into the frozen planet. We have been really lucky to meet Lisa who has provided us with some insightful information all about our topic and have been enthralled by some clips from the David Attenborough series ‘Frozen Planet’. We have worked really well as a team and as individuals to design our areas for our classroom, making snowflakes, ice, animals and igloos!
I hope you have all had a great week and look forward to discovering more about frozen planet.
Maths
It is really important to try your best with learning your times tables. Please practice your 5 and 6 times tables using the table below.
Use arrays to help you if needed. For example 5 x 3 is 3 lots of 5
Times table focus x5 | |
Question | Answer |
6x | |
2x | |
10x | |
7x | |
1x | |
3x | |
12x | |
4x | |
8x | |
11x | |
5x | |
9x | |
Times table focus x6 |
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Question | Answer |
6x | |
2x | |
10x | |
7x | |
1x | |
3x | |
12x | |
4x | |
8x | |
11x | |
5x | |
9x |
Maths
Can you answer these questions linked to our multiplication work we have done this week, as we have continued to practise our multiplication skills.
Maths
Can you answer these questions linked to our multiplication work we have done this week, as we have continued to practise our long multiplication knowledge.
Literacy
Can you put these words into a sentence (one sentence per word).
Sally’s
she’s
cat’s
didn’t
car’s
Literacy
Children who have the activity sheet have this stuck in their homework books.