5C are growing so much and taking huge leaps on their learning journey in French!
Last half term they enjoyed learning the french words for different foods, and could even explain how to make a pancake in french! They also learnt phrases such as ‘I am hungry’, ‘I like…’ , ‘I don’t like…’ and ‘I am thirsty…’!
This half term they have moved onto learning about the seasons and the months of the year. Here are some photos of them working in groups to sort which months are in which season- all in french!
As part of our Volkswagen project, year 5 are going to write a letter to Volkswagen to persuade them to rebrand the 1960’s Beetle. To prepare us for writing this letter, 5c have started their talk for writing sequence with the imitate phase.
We talked the text using our story map and actions. We practised in small groups and then performed to the rest of the class. We set each other next steps so we could grow in our learning.
Then we magpied the key vocabulary in the persuasive letter, we chose words we would like to use in our own letters. Some of the words we picked were: furthermore, persuade, recommend and therefore. We played Taboo in pairs. Taboo is a game when one person has a word (one of the magpied ones) in their head and they have to define and explain the word without saying it, the other person has to guess what the word is!
Finally, we looked at the features of the letter and discussed what made it a persuasive letter. We identified facts, opinions, rhetorical questions, connectives and persuasive language.
Our next step is to box up the letter so that we understand the structure before moving on to the innovate stage!
It has been an amazing week in year 5, the children have been buzzing about Volkswagen week.
Yesterday, we worked in groups to research and create a timeline for the Volkswagen Beetle. We then presented our timelines to Andrew, who is a Manager at Volkswagen! He even told us some more information about the Beetle which we didn’t know already. Here are some pictures of us sharing our learning with him:
Today, we learnt that the Volkswagen Beetle was the most popular in the 1960’s! To investigate why it was so popular we compared it to the Ford Cortina, which was another family car produced in the 60’s. We soon realised how different and quirky the Beetle was and also how cheap it was compared to the other cars at the time. Finally, we looked at some Beetle adverts from the 60’s to explore how Volkswagen persuaded people to buy the Beetle, some of the adverts were quite funny!
Year 5 have had a fantastic week with some amazing learning taking place, I think it is safe to say that everyone (including the teachers) have grown in their learning this week. We hope you all have a lovely half term, but please don’t forget to do your homework! If you have lost or misplaced your homework sheets please look at the year 5 homework page on the website which will give you the details!
For this half term we have set a few activities for you to complete which will help you with the Volkswagen project when you return after half term!
Your spellings for half term are:
guarantee
harass
hindrance
identity
immediate
individual
interfere
interrupt
Your 3 activities are:
- Draw and label your first design for your new original Beetle. (Don’t stick it in your book and do not use felt tip as it will be stuck in your Project books)
- Ask friends and family your questions and fill in your questionnaire.
- Read the persuasive letter and write down a list of the features and magpie the persuasive language.
All the documents you need are provided in the link below. Your homework is due in on Wednesday 5th November. Your spelling test will be on Friday 7th October. We hope you have a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday 4th November!
Persuasive Letter:
Market Research Questionnaire:
5c are currently working hard, continuing their fantastic ignite learning. They are researching the Volkswagen Beetle and creating a time line showing how and why it has been produced and how it has adapted to become the Beetle we know today.
Did you know… The Beetle was originally called the KDF Wagen! It only started being called the Beetle by volkswagen because everyone else had started using the name because of the shape of it!
It’s fantastic to see the children so engaged and motivated by this project- they are definitely working in learning zones 4 and 5!
WOW
What an exciting start to our Volkswagen project. Yesterday we had the privilege of becoming part of the Volkswagen group as the company set each year group a project question to answer!
In year 5 our project is:
How can we rebrand the Volkswagen Beetle to make it popular in 2014?
To ignite our project we have had several exciting activities going on. First of all, the playground became a car park when Volkswagen kindly bought along some of their cars and vans for us to look at! This included an electric Golf, Audi’s, VW Scirocco, campervans and most excitingly a 1970’s VW Beetle! We enjoyed climbing over the cars, playing the stereos really loud and beeping the horns! The most popular car was definitely the campervan which even had a bed in it!
Today the excitement continued as Year 5 were visited by an experienced member of the Volkswagen team. We looked at the history of Volkswagen and the history of the Beetle, we asked our expert lots of interesting questions to grow our learning and understanding of the Beetle, how and why it began being produced and why it was such a popular car. The knowledge and expertise we have gathered today will be extremely useful as we plan our re-branding of the beetle.
And finally, we also got the opportunity to explore breakdown vehicles as we were visited by the AA and VW roadside assistance! We spoke to the engineers about the calls they respond to and how they fix some of the cars.
We will now be working hard on our project so we are ready to share our findings and ideas with Volkswagen in November. We look forward to sharing our projects with you too!
For the end of our talk for writing sequence, based on the book The Snow Leopard, 5c have been writing their own short stories.
Their success criteria included:
- Setting- frozen, cold
- Characters- a spirit animal and a child
- Dilemma- something or someone must enter the village
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Alliteration
- Connective
- Variety of sentence openers
Everyone made excellent starts on their writing. They magpied some of the vocabulary from the Snow Leopard to use in their own writing.
We would like to share some of the amazing writing with you:
Anya:
Billy:
Emily:
Part of becoming an individual in year 5 involves taking responsibility for our own learning journey and supporting others in theirs. For the past couple of weeks we have started to peer and self assess our work in Maths, Literacy and Project. We have made clear success criteria’s about how we should mark our own or each other’s work.
Today was the first day we used our literacy and maths peer and self assessment booklets. They take us step by step through the marking process to ensure we help each other to grow our learning.
We set each other next steps, in a green box, which we take from the lesson success criteria. We also make sure to write a positive comment in a gold box!
Peer and self assessing not only gives us more responsibility and control over our own learning it also encourages us to discuss our learning and to create an open dialogue. We trust each other and understand that we can learn from each other as much as we can from a teacher. Peer assessment helps us to grow our relationships as well as our learning and ensure we all stay connected.
A massive thank you to you all for attending 5c’s curriculum tea on Wednesday 8th October. It was great to see you all and connect with you all again. I hope you found the presentation informative. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Don’t forget to look at the curriculum tea booklet which is on the website under year 5 curriculum.
The children worked hard to prepare the food you enjoyed at the tea. Here are some pictures of them during the process…
We hope you all enjoyed the tea!
