Drawing Line Graphs

 

Film Narrative: The Piano

During our film narrative module on The Piano, some absolutely stunning work was produced.  One example is included below. 

 

The lonely old man, whose life was no longer happy but a never-ending pit of sadness, is playing a tune on the piano to keep him accompanied in his word of nothingness.  He is remembering the happy times when he and his wife would play the beautiful, black grand piano together.

Suddenly, someone lowers the anchor, which makes him remember his wife is gone and will never come back.  His smile slowly fades away to be lost in his broken, stone heart.  The lone light bulb flickers but continues to give off light, which highlights the glossy, black grand piano.  His hands continue to play a sad, touching tune which he and his wife played.

While he is playing the piano, he remembers being a medic in the war.  As he thinks, a World War Two medic hat appears on his head!  He reflects on when his friend was shot in the heard while fighting in the war.

"Continue on life, my friend; forget me," says his friend, struggling to get enough air into his lungs to live.

The man sighs heavily, "How could I have agreed to your suicide mission?"  He remembers holding his friend's hand in his, but the grip slowly loosened, the blood stopped pouring out of his wound, his chest stopped moving and his head dropped.  The man cried and cried and mourned, his tears dripping onto his dead friend's cold body slowly, sadly.

Slowly, the ancient, fragile old man's memories of the war fade into him getting the best present he had received in his childhood!  He remembers shuffling impatiently on the uncomfortable, cold, hard, creaky floorboards.  His hands were outstretched, ready for the carefully-wrapped, large, blue box with a beautiful, yellow ribbon to be put into them.  When the gift is placed in front of his knees, he pushes the lid out of the way to reveal what surprise he had got.  A smile lights up his face as his eyes settle on the hobby horse that he would ride until he got too big for it.

Time passes, and the hobby horse is handed down to the old man's grandson and the grandson starts riding around the room on his grandad's hobby horse.  The grandson departs from riding his hobby horse to play the piano with his grandad just as the old man is finishing his beautiful melody line.  The grandson finishes off the tune by pressing a note on the piano as he knew the tune off by heart: his grandad taught him well.  They look at one another with a smile.

Sketching Vegetables

As part of our module exploring the art of Kate Malone, we have been completing some observational drawings of vegetables.

Diwali Talk

This week, 5EV have been studying Diwali. To help us with our R.E. lesson, a girl in the class made a presentation telling us how her family celebrates Diwali. She told us what food they eat (Biryani, Idli, Dosa, Samba, Gulab and Jamun) and what they wear.

She showed us all her beautiful dresses and trousers that she wore when she was little. They had golden sparkles and bright colours. She also told us what Diwali meant and is: it is a Festival of Light. It stands for light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance.

As well as helping us, she also managed to complete some Future Me pledges.

Mid-September Update

It's been a really busy couple of weeks!  We've been settling in and getting used to the new routines, and we've already been challenging ourselves with some fun activities.  Some of what we've been up to is included below.

English

Our first focus in English is Twelfth Night, which is a play by William Shakespeare.  We really liked finding out all about him as part of our summer home learning, so it has been good to read one of the plays.  It's a really funny story with lots of mix-ups and confusion.  It was especially fun acting out some of the scenes and learning about life in Shakespeare's time.

Maths

Maths this week has been great!  The best activity was trying to solve the Mad Hatter's Tea Party logic problem.  We had to work out the seating plan just from some tricky clues like, "The grinning one has to be kept in check and needs to sit next to the White Rabbit."  It was really hard and it took us a while, but we got there.

Art

We've created all kinds of beautiful art over the past couple of weeks.  The ruler art looked so tricky at first, but once we got the hang of it, it was really easy.  Everyone's looks different, but they all look fantastic.  We also started researching and drawing some bird art.  We're really proud of our sketches so far, and we can't wait to start painting with watercolours.

R.E.

As part of our 'sparky start' for R.E. this year, we got to try all kinds of foods linked to religious celebrations.  We're going to learn all about how different religions mark important events this year, and we found out that food is quite an important part of those celebrations in every religion.  Some people didn't like the dates very much, but most of it was really tasty.

First Day in Year Five

Today has been a really good first day in Year Five!  We learnt all about our new year group and the adults who will be working with us, and we also found out more about the children in our class.

During the afternoon, we worked hard together on some fun challenges (like the river challenge) and talked through some interesting THUNKS.  One of the best was, "If both hands fall off a clock and it can no longer show the time, is it still a clock?"  It let to lots of great discussion!

We're really looking forward to seeing what we will learn this year.

Five on Treasure Island - Jack S

The Year Five children were asked to draw what they imagine the shipwreck from Five on a Treasure Island to look like and write a descriptive paragraph. Below is Jack's work.

Alana's Texture Art

Our Week This Week

In Year Five this week, we have been learning about area in maths. It has gotten harder and more challenging every day. Instead of regular shapes, we have been calculating the area of composite shapes. On some of the shapes, Year Five had to calculate the missing sides of the shape first.

For English, we have been learning about poetry. We have been finding out about different poetic devices and at the end of the week we wrote a modelled poem on the four seasons.

In art, we have been preparing to create a galaxy themed piece of art. We have been inspired by Emma Lindstrom’s art work. Throughout the week, we have been learning how to draw a sphere and different art techniques. The sphere was in black and white and went from dark to light depending on where the sun was shining from.

In P.E, we have been learning about health and fitness. We had a little slip to see what we were testing throughout the learning scheme. We calculated how fast we were at running a certain distance, how far we can jump and other P.E skills.

In music, 5EV been learning about jazz music and playing instruments. In both 5AC and 5MH we have been practising a song called Make You Feel My Love by Adele.

                    By Lucas C, Ella F, Leia B and Sid McF

Spring Term Home Learning Information for Year Five

This term, the home learning expectations are as follows:

Each week, there will be  either a written or online (TTRs/MyMaths) task set. These will link to End of Key Stage Expectations for arithmetic or reasoning. (20 minutes)

Weekly, we will set a grammar and punctuation activity to consolidate our work in class. (20 minutes)

In school, we have a weekly focus on learning and practising  a spelling rule. A list of spellings to learn that follow the week's rule will be provided. (20 minutes) Class teachers will let their class know the day of the week spelling tests will take place.

Children should read on a daily basis. Renaissance Home Connect enables parents to see information about your child's progress within Accelerated Reader.

Home learning will be set on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Home learning will restart tomorrow (09/01/20). 

 

Anyone unable to access the internet at home can do so during a Friday or Monday lunchtime in school.

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