Year 5 – 27/09/24

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Another weekend is upon us, so here’s a summary of Year 5’s learning this week:

Maths – We’ve been comparing and ordering numbers up to 1,000,000, sharpening our skills in understanding large numbers.

English – After completing our first Big Writes (which were fantastic!), we’ve started a new unit based on the book Everest, which tells the incredible story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

RE – Our focus has been on what Scripture reveals about the nature of God, and then exploring monotheism through the story of Moses and the Burning Bush.

Geography – We delved into Hillary and Norgay’s Everest expedition, discussing how they discovered fossils of sea creatures at the summit, and what this tells us about the Earth’s geological history.

Science – In our practical investigation, we created parachutes of different sizes to answer the question: What effect does changing the surface area of a parachute have on the time it takes to fall?

Next Friday at 9:15 is our class assembly, so please join us if you can!

Here is this week’s home learning:

Maths Mathletics assignments:

·         Comparing & ordering numbers to 100,000

·         Comparing & ordering numbers to 1,000,000
Reading 5 tests on Readtheory or 20 minutes of reading per day
Spelling Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words ending in ‘-cial’

·         special

·         official

·         artificial

·         crucial

·         judicial

·         beneficial

·         facial

·         glacial

·         especially

·         multiracial
SPaG Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and take the quiz: Identify and sort nouns and adjectives

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

Miss Donatantonio