Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 9.1.23
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 8:26am
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog! ?
Happy 2023! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. The children have had a super first week back!
Message about PE: Skylarks will do PE on a Wednesday during the Spring Term. They should come to school in their PE kit and trainers on this day.
Next week (W.B. 09.01.23)
In our English lessons next week, we will begin to read our new book ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ by Joe Todd-Stanton. We will develop our knowledge of Norse Mythology to help us understand the context of the story. We will recap expanded noun phrases and learn about relative clauses to help us write a free verse poem.
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 recapping equivalent fractions before moving on to learn how to convert between mixed numbers and improper 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 begin our new learning on the Anglo Saxons and Vikings. We will begin this topic by thinking about what we know already and completing a timeline activity to help us understanding this time period.
In science we will begin our new topic about Living Things and their Habitats. We will begin by sharing any knowledge we already have and thinking about what we would like to find out.
In RE we will begin our new topic on ‘Humanism’. In our first lesson we will generate our own questions that we would like to explore over the coming weeks.
In Art, we will be applying our knowledge of tint, tone and shade to create a piece of work inspired by Monet or Turner. We will also self and peer assess our work.
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 pages 21 and 22 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 13th January 2023. This homework is revising multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
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 13th January will continue to look at words containing silent letter ‘t’:
Nestle, wrestle, thistle, jostle, whistle, Christmas, listener, glistening
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x