Year Five: December 2023

Another busy month in Year Five!

A brief dip into descriptive writing...

...before filming, editing and screening our anti-bullying play scripts.

There were exciting ends to our space and forces topics in science with the research, building and testing of rockets and bridges.

We looked at the everyday life of the Anglo Saxons and constructed a Lego timeline of streets through time from the Stone Age to modern day:

Stone Age

Romans

Anglo Saxons and Vikings

Modern Day

Now adept at all things Google Drawings, we perfected our vector drawing skills.

Grace

Antonia

There was lots of music, both regular lessons and rehearsals for the Christmas carol concert, and the grand finale of indoor P.E. was the performance of space dances, the choreography of each group showing great progress and creativity.

What an amazing first term in Year Five!  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  See you in 2024!

Christmas is coming!

This has been a very exciting week in Year Five.  In maths, we used Number Link boards to help us apply our knowledge of the 1-12 times tables to harder times tables (like the 0.04 times table, or the 7000 time table).

On Wednesday, we had a great time hunting for our Pokémon non-chronological reports in the playground.  All our work can be read on our class blogs:

Level 5 Certificate

5AC:   http://cjs5ac.edublogs.org/
5EV:   http://5evwonderwall.home.blog/
5MH:  http://5mhmasterwriters.100wc.net/
5SF:    http://5sfcjs.edublogs.org/

Some people even managed to get to be a Level Five Pokémon trainer because they found every single one.

The Boat Race tutorial

We have been working hard to finish our Scratch games, taking some time to try out the Boat Race Tutorial on the Code Club website to help us with our coding.  We also explored what life would be like as a mountain climber by creating our own short play or mime about a famous expedition.

On Friday, it was Christmas Decoration Day!  It was really good fun talking and writing about Christmas adverts, solving maths puzzles about Santa's stocking and making a range of decorations for the classroom.  The best bit was getting to wear our Christmas jumpers and listen to Christmas songs while we worked.

Christmas Countdown Problem

Mr. Murphy set his class the following task:

With the numbers shown, what numbers from 365 days to go - 0 days to go can not be displayed?

The children worked in groups to try to solve the problem.

Mia, Joe, Freddie E, Milena, Grace and Jamie worked well together and think there are 43 days that can not be shown. What do you think? Did they get them all?

Cadbury's – Unwrap Joy

The 2013 Cadbury's Christmas advert featured a road where families woke up to find out that their street had been covered in wrapping paper. We've used this as a creative writing prompt.

          

Cora

Harley

Let us know in the comments box what you think of our writing.