Year 5 performed and shared their enrichment learning this afternoon, along with the rest of upper Key Stage 2. They performed a shadow puppet show and guitars (Bruno Mars Uptown Funk). They really enjoyed sharing their learning with peers and teachers. They all did a fantastic job and have clearly engaged and progressed in their enrichment learning this term. Well Done Year 5!
This afternoon year 5 were very busy putting the final touches to their Hogwarts Style lessons ready to teach year 3 and 4 on thursday afternoon.
In wand skills we decorated our wands, finished translating our spell into Latin and created our wand movement!
This was one of the fantastic headlines created in year 5 today as we wrote newspaper reports about the Solar Eclipse.
We started the day researching and investigating the solar eclipse by writing a brief description of what happens and using diagrams to support our explanation. We also watched the eclipse live!
Miss Low set us the challenge of using the solar eclipse to inspire us to write! So for the rest of the day we planned and have started writing (very nearly finished!), our own newspaper reports about this rare phenomenon! At the end of the day we shared our work with each other.
We will share some finished results with you next week.
A big congratulations to 2 boys from 5c who have achieved their Open, Grow, Believe badges this week. You have both opened your heart to Brooklands Farm, have taken big steps on your learning journey and are believing in yourself and others!
Well done! (p.s we loved the silly faces for comic relief!)
Comic book strips and book reviews were the focus for Year 5’s last weekend as they completed their homework! 5C produced some amazing homework, which helped to prepare for World Book Day. Here is some of the fantastic work completed:
In order to prepare year 5 for planning their own Hogwarts style lessons today we investigated the different ways in which children learn. We also completed an experiment to find out which way we learn best as individuals.
We looked at auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning styles. We found out that the majority of children learn best by seeing the learning and being able to do it and explore it for themselves. We realised that there is no one way to learn, we are all individual and sometimes needed the learning presented in more than one way!
We will now apply our learning from today to our lesson plans, it will encourage use to think carefully about the activities we plan!
Year 5 homework this week is a writing activity. It involves looking at connectives and then writing a character description of Dobby from Harry Potter
The homework has been differeniated so choose a group of connectives which best suits your ability and write sentences using them connectives:
1) Connectives: and, because, so 2) Connectives: meanwhile, although, whereas
Homework due 4.3.15
Ready… Steady… Read!
Next week is World Book Week! To celebrate this, your homework is to read a chapter of your favourite book and either:
If you chose to write a comic book strip, you can either use the template provided or draw your own one.
Success Criteria for a comic book strip
If you would like to write a book review, this can be presented in your neatest handwriting in your homework book or typed up.
The information/questions you may want to include in your book review:
Success Criteria for a book review
Spellings
Group A:
brilliant
radiant
reluctant
observant
unobservant
pleasant
descendant
restaurant
Group B:
brilliant
radiant
constant
distant
elegant
fragrant
important
restaurant
Today year 5 became scientists as they used their many skills, including being observant, resilient, resourceful, organised and teamwork, to work out how to separate different mixtures and solutions. After a lot of trial and error, they applied their prior knowledge to use the process of sieving, evaporating and filtering to separate the materials.
A lot of learning took place today with all the children growing in their knowledge and understanding as well as their scientific inquiry skills! Well done year 5!
Homework due Wednesday 4th February 2015
As a school we would like to enter an exciting competition for World Book Day, a chance to win a visit from David Walliams! For your homework this week please can you write why our school should win a visit from David Walliams in 50 words or less. It can be handwritten or typed. The best reason will be sent as our school’s entry!
Please take a look at this link which has some more information about the competition and may give you some good ideas!
www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/helicoptertour
