Year 5

Talk Task

In Computing we are learning about search engines. This week, we looked at a website about the North Pacific Tree Octopus (https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/). The children researched the animal but it wasn't until we asked them if there was anything 'iffy' about the site that they worked out that this is, in fact, fake news! Following on from this, we discussed how we cannot always trust everything we find online and that the internet is, unfortunately, full of fake new and inaccurate information.

As a class, we discussed how we can check whether information online is true. Some of the strategies we talked about included cross-checking information on trusted websites, looking at the URL to check if it ends in .co.uk, .org, .edu or .gov and checking for errors and sources.

Questions to discuss with your grown ups:
Why was the Tree Octopus site so convincing?
Why aren't social media platforms trustworthy when cross-checking informaton?
What websites can you trust?

Plastic bottles

In Science next week, we will be investigating filtration as part of our Mixtures and Solutions topic. For one of our investigations, we will need disposable 500ml plastic bottles. In order to conduct the investigation we will need at least one between two (so 15 bottles per class). If you have any spare at home, please can you bring them into school by next Tuesday 22nd September. Please could you ensure they are rinsed out before you bring them into school.

Maths

In Maths, we have been looking at different ways we can represent tenths and how addition and subtraction equations can be written using the partitioned decimal numbers. We learned that an equation is when one number, calculation or expression is equal to another (e.g. 3.6 = 3 + 0.6) and that an expression is when two amounts are separated by an operation (e.g. 3+0.6).

Have a look at the example I have given you of the part-whole model showing how the decimal number has been partitioned and written as different addition and subtraction equations.

Now come up with as many equations as you can for 3.7 and 6.9. Can you come up with some new examples of your own?

Arithmetic

Each day, we spend 20 minutes practising our arithmetic skills (using mental and written methods to answer addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions). As with times tables, the key to improving your arithmetic skills is practise, practise and more practise!

We recommend that the children regularly spend 20 minutes practising their arithmetic skills. The links below generate random questions that they can answer and mark online. It is important that they use written methods for more challenging calculations so they should have a pencil and paper handy.

Below are the links to three levels of arithmetic questions, mild (easier), medium and spicy (challenging). At this point in the year, we aim for the children to be able to answer the majority of the medium questions.

Mild: https://mathsbot.com/primary/year3Mini
Medium: https://mathsbot.com/primary/year4Mini
Spicy: https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5Mini

This week, we are setting children a list of 20 words from the years 1, 2, 3 and 4 statutory spelling list as a baseline so that we can better support the children with their spelling in the coming year. We will be testing the children on these next Wednesday. The spellings are:

These have been uploaded onto Spelling Shed for the children to practise. From next Friday, once we know what spellings the children need to work on, we will assign spellings on Spelling Shed each Friday. These will be introduced in class every Monday and then tested on the Friday morning of the same week.

Spelling Shed

Reading

Lots of the children have been assigned their fruit bookmark home readers to read in their spare time. These have been put onto Boom Reader so that you can keep track of what they have been assigned to read by us.

Please can you ensure you comment on Boom Reader once a week so that we know you are reading with your child and monitoring how frequently they are reading at home. We would also like to encourage the children to add any other texts they are reading at home onto Boom Reader and to log and comment on their own reading at least once a week.

If you need us to reprint your child's login details for Boom Reader, please let us know.

Please log on to the Letterjoin website to find 100s of great resources to help your child practise their handwriting!

Website: www.letterjoin.co.uk

Username: lj8296 Password: home

Home Learning Project

This term, we will be exploring sculpture and installation art. A sculpture is a three-dimensional form created using techniques such as carving, modelling, casting, or assembling materials like stone, wood, metal, or found objects to express ideas or emotions.

We would like you to get creative and have a go at making your own sculpture either using every day items from around the house, objects in nature or recycling. It is up to you how you present your sculpture: you can make a larger scale installation and take a photo or video to show to the class or you can make a smaller sculpture that you can bring into school. Your sculpture can be realistic or abstract. You will need to give your sculpture a name or title.

The point of this task is for you to think about what ideas or emotions you are trying to express and to enjoy the process.

We will be sharing your sculptures during the final week of term (week beginning 12th October).

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