Term 1
Week 1
Year 5 have settled back in to school life brilliantly! We spent the first couple of days focussing on our classroom routines, creating artistic masterpieces to decorate the classroom, doing Maths using the Mayan number system and deciding what magical objects we would like to find. An excellent start to the school year!
Week 3
Year 5 have been working hard now that we are back into the swing of things! in Literacy we have studied poetry and written our own poems in a similar style alongside reading poems by Roald Dahl and Edward Lear. In Maths we have been learning about place value and in RE, we have been learning about the Creation stories. A personal highlight was attempting to play the ancient Mayan ball game of Pok-a-Tok; the children were amazed at how difficult it was to play a ball game without using their hands or feet!
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Week 4
This week we have started our class book, 'Rain Player', and have spent a long time discussing whether we would like to challenge the Mayan gods to a game of pok-a-tok. We also made Mayan glyphs and printed them so they look like ancient markings. In PE, the children practiced the different passes and put them into drills. Please remember your gum shields and shin pads every Tuesday so everyone can take part! Everyone in the class has showed off their superb rounding skills in Maths and because of their hard work, we had a class visitor. Thumper came to Year 5 for lots of cuddles!
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Week 5
In Maths, we started a new unit of addition and subtraction. We have been using concrete and pictorial resources before moving on to abstract methods to calculate the answers. We have finished our class book, Rain Player, and have continued to learn about Mayans. We have also played around with different sentence structures to add more information.
