Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 16.01.23
Date: 12th Jan 2023 @ 5:15pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
Another super week in Skylarks Class. The children have loved learning about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and reading our new class text ‘Arthur and the golden rope’.
Next week (W.B. 16.01.23)
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to read our new book ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ by Joe Todd-Stanton. We will be learning how to integrate dialogue into a story to advance the action and how to use adverbial phrases to link paragraphs.
In our shared reading lessons, we will begin to read ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’ by Neil Gaiman. We will be focussing on drawing inferences such as characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives. We will use our ‘thinking out loud’ and ‘visualising’ techniques to help us infer information stated and implied.
In maths we will be focussing on adding and subtracting fractions. We will also continue to consolidate our understanding of the four operations through daily 4 a day activities.
In our topic lesson, we will be using our geography skills to locate the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms and were they travelled from.
In science we will begin our new topic about Living Things and their Habitats. We will be learning about conservation and inspirational people such as David Attenborough who dedicate their life to keeping animals and their habitats safe.
In RE we will begin our new topic on ‘Humanism’, focussing on the 5 key humanist themes/beliefs.
Our PE day for the Spring Term will be a Wednesday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on this day. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue.
Homework
In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.
If your child is finding the homework tricky, please do let Mr Beswick or myself know so that we can offer them support in school.
The children should complete page 33 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 20th January 2023. This homework is looking at ordering fractions.
Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 20th January will be the next 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory word list:
Determined, develop, dictionary, disastrous, embarrass, environment, equipment, especially, exaggerate, excellent
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x