Week Seven

Year Five Weekly Update

Monday 25th February - Friday 1st March

Review (This week)

English : This week in English, Year 5 reviewed their understanding of similes, metaphors and personification. In addition, they looked at abstract nouns and made planning notes for a recount of their half-term holidays.

Maths : This week, Year 5 began looking at decimals. They started this by identifying the place value of each number within a decimal and looked at what happened to the numbers when multiplying by powers of 10. They also compared decimals: arranging them in order from smallest to largest and placed them on number lines with different scales.

Science: This week in Science, Year 5 wrote the life cycle of a flowering plant using diagrams (please see pictures below).

Preview (Next week)

English : Next week, Year 5 will be writing a report about the Great Wall of China. They will also be using bullet points, subheadings and special Chinese vocabulary.

Maths : Next week in Maths, Year 5 will continue to focus on decimals: focusing mainly on rounding, multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 and using decimals within the 4 calculation methods.

Topic: Next week, Year 5 will begin their new topic 'Chinese Dynasties'. Their initial learning will be based on creating timelines of previous events within Chinese history and then they will focus on the first two dynasties, the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty.

Homework :

TTRockstars - 1 hour per week (times tables are very important so please practise!).
English - Grammar work based on similes and metaphors.
Maths - Ordering decimals activity.
Daily 30 minutes reading.

Notices: We would really appreciate if you could make sure that when your child reads at home, whether independently or to someone, that a parent or guardian signs the Reading Records.