Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 24.01.22
Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 10:15pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
What a busy week we have had in Skylarks class! This week we have been super story tellers, magnificent mathematicians and amazing artists. My highlight of the week has most definitely been seeing the children’s superb art work inspired by Monet and Turner. Well done everyone!
Next Week (W.B. 24.01.22)
In English, we will further explore our new book ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. We will start by using our story maps created last week to help us write a recount of Arthur’s journey across the sea to Valhalla. We will also be looking at how we can use adverbials to introduce new ideas and connect sentences/paragraphs.
In Shared Reading, we will continue to read our book ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’ which the children are thoroughly enjoying. Our focus next week will be on making comparisons within the text. We will compare and contrast the viewpoints of different characters, as well as how characters change throughout the book.
In maths, we will be exploring how to calculate, compare and estimate the area of different shapes, included irregular shapes. We will look at the multiplication method as well as counting squares to help us. We will also consolidate our understanding of the four operations through daily 4-A-Day activities.
In RE we will continue with our humanism topic. Our focus will be on the humanist view on why humans are special. We will explore the theme of curiosity which is a key strand in humanism.
In science we will be thinking about our new science topic ‘Animals, including Humans’. We will start our topic by researching David Attenborough and the work that he has done.
During our topic day we will start by placing the Anglo Saxon and Viking era on a timeline so that we can compare this to other periods of time that we have studied, such as the Romans. We will also play a Saxon Settlement game to help us understand where they came from and to, before locating and labelling these places on a map.
In DT, we will use what we learnt during our tinkering day to design our own mechanical system that uses a level and a pulley. It must help us answer the question “How did people in the past move things?”
Our PE day for the Spring Term will be Friday 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, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.
The children should complete page 23 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 28th January. This homework is looking at mental multiplication and division.
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 28th January will be the next 10 words from the Y5/6 statutory word list:
existence, explanation, familiar, foreign, forty, frequently, government, guarantee, harass, hindrance
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x