Last week was a success and children showed a fantastic attitude towards their learning, let’s have another great week!
This week we are learning:
Literacy
Our reading lesson is carrying on with the focus of ‘Prediction’ – using evidence from the text to infer and predict what we think might happen next, using this evidence to justify our opinion. ‘I think ….. might happen because in the text it says…’. Then, for the rest of the week, we will continue to apply and improve our persuasive writing techniques in our Charity event brochures, including: time adverbials, punctuating for the purpose of parenthesis (the use of extra information punctuated by brackets, commas or dashes).
Maths
We are continuing our learning surrounding fractions and decimals. We will be ordering and comparing decimals with up to three decimal places – using our prior knowledge of place value to reason with our comparisons. We will be learning to round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number, and the nearest one decimal place – applying our rhyme of ‘0-4 hit the floor, 5-9 touch the sky’ to help us round accurately. Next, we will solve fraction and decimals problems – connecting our knowledge of fractions to division (linking to our learning last week around improper and mixed number fractions). Finally, we will consolidate our learning in comparing and ordering fractions – using our knowledge of multiples and fractions to make links between different denominators in fractions.
History
We are continuing our topic of the Victorians. Last week, we learned about the Industrial Revolution and some of its inventions. This week, we are focusing on the expansion of the Railway network throughout Britain during the Victorian era, forming opinions about whether this expansion caused great change for Victorians.
Science
We will be defining the Earth’s tilt and axis in order to explain why we experience day and night. We will be learning about the Earth’s rotation over a 24-hour period and the Earth’s orbit around the sun over a 365 day period, linking this to our knowledge of seasons, too.
PSHE
We are beginning our learning surrounding friendships – in particular, learning about peer pressure and peer approval. We will be defining peer pressure, including positive peer pressure and negative peer pressure – comparing the differences and learning how we can recognise and address peer pressure.
Spanish
We are applying our words and phrases used in relation to food and drink. We are going to be having simple conversations, similar to what we would have when asking for food/drink in a shop.
D & T
We are going to be learning about different combining techniques, making our own dough and practising how to knead and roll the dough effectively.
How you can support your child’s learning at home:
- When your child is completing their reading homework, encourage your child to read to you and then ask them questions about how they think a character may be feeling and what they think the next action might be and WHY (using words and phrases from the text which give them clues)
- When asking your child about their day at school, encourage them to practice using time adverbials verbally: how something happened, when something happened, how often something happened. Also, you could encourage your child to persuade you to do something each day – maybe that’s why they should have a particular food at dinner time; why they should be allowed extra screen time or why you should take them to the park at the weekend!
- You could put a certain amount of coins in front of your child and ask them to say / write the number as a decimal – above 1 and smaller than 1. Perhaps if you’re putting sugar in your tea or you’re measuring something to go into a meal, you could ask your child to describe the amount you’re putting in (using fractions and decimals e.g. 1/4 or 0.25, 1 and 3/4 or 1.75).
- For history: if you get the bus, train or any public transport to/from school or when going somewhere in the week, ask your child to give their opinion about what life might be like without these things and why these things are/aren’t important.
- PSHE: Discuss peer pressure and peer approval with your child. As the children get older, peer pressure and the feeling of wanting to impress our friends may grow, discuss the potential positive and negative impacts of these with your child to aid their knowledge and understanding.
AND….TIMES TABLES ROCKSTARS!! Last week, Cormorant lost 😦 Not only for the competition will TTRS be benefitting them, but also in our learning at the moment, having secure knowledge of our times tables is extremely important for their success.
Let’s have a FANTASTIC week!! 🙂
Selsdon - Year 5 