Where has the week gone?
Year 5 have been excellent learners this week, quickly settling back into the routine of our timetable.
We have spent time this week focusing on key comprehension questions, looking at a variety of texts from poetry to narrative. The children were extremely excited to start our new book Wonder by R.J Palacio. In class yesterday, they listened to the song Wonder by Natalie Merchant, that inspired the story. Click here to listen. We are looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds over the next few weeks. Each week we will focus on a writing genre that is linked to our reading to hone our technical writing skills embedding our grammar knowledge and use of specific punctuation.
We also have finished off all of our river learning and begun thinking about what it is we would like to learn about for our topic, ‘Our Local Area,’ this term. Lots of questions surrounding the castle and the battles that have taken place in Wallingford have emerged – in fact, the children suggested a field trip into Wallingford to explore the geography and the history of the area, so this Wednesday, if everything comes back confirmed, we should be visiting the Wallingford Museum and finding out some answers to their questions.
In maths we have been delving deeper into multiples, factors and prime numbers. If you would like to learn more or deepen your understanding of these key terms, play this game here or Pumpkin Multiples, or Prime Numbers. Next week we will consolidate our understanding of these terms as we further relate them to multiplication and division.
A group of pupils have been practicing for the Wallingford Dance Festival and have been getting ready for their performance on Tuesday evening.
Also this week, we got to visit the Explorer Dome and learn more about Forces. This is always a very exciting annual event which we look forward to every year….it never disappoints.
Looking forward to all the new things we will learn next week!
