Volcano Project - Science week 6th June

The first week back after the half term break is Science Week. In year 5 our Science project will be creating an erupting volcano (which as you know is affecting flights today). Children will work in small groups of 3 or 4 to create a model of a volcano. Children should research facts about volcanoes.

On Monday 6th June, children will need to bring into school the following resources :

Empty drinks plastic bottle
Old newspaper
6 cups flour
4 tablespoons baking soda

Challenge day

We had a fun maths challenging session - building greek temples focussing on measurement and angles. Well done to Year 5 for working well in teams and sharing their mathematical ideas. Great session.

(Remember there is no school tomorrow. Half term homework is Revision Revision Revision using the comprehension and Maths pack. Also remember to complete your Heracles story to a brilliant standard)





The 'Maths Rap' Challenge winning team

School trip to the British Museum

Quick reminder :

• Meet at South Woodford station at 9:15. Please be prompt as we will not wait for late comers.


• Bring packed lunch.


• Children must wear school uniform with school jumpers.


• We may have time to go to the shops, so you can bring small amount of pocket money.


• We return back to South Woodford station at 3:30

Homework - Due in on Tuesday 24th May

Creative Writing Project

Dear Diary ...

A brother and sister went on a day out with their family.
Tom really enjoyed the outing and wants to do it again, but Sara did not. Sara did not enjoy any part of the day out at all, apart from the lunch.
When they returned home, Tom and Sara each wrote about the day in their own diaries.

· Your task is to write 2 different short diary entries - Tom and Sara’s diary entries.
TARGET: Use interesting and adventurous VCOP (Highlight these)

Use your imagination to decide what Tom and Sara would each
write in their diaries. Think about…
where did they go?
what did they do/see?

why did Tom enjoy the outing?

why did Sara not enjoy the day out?
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Diary Features -1st Person writing, Past Tense, Chatty/informal style, Reported speech, Use of time connectives, Conclusion which includes some reflective writing

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SPELLING OF THE WEEK -

reproduction, life cycle, flower, stamen, style, stigma, sepal, ovary, pollen, petal

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SCIENCE - due in after the half-term break

Continue to keep a scientific record on your planted seed.

e.g measuring the height per day, etc

Creative writing project

· Write a poem titled ‘The Flowering Plant’
Your poem should include keys words from our Science lesson on the parts of a plant. Illustrate your poem with drawing/pictures of flowering plants.
Writing target: Use these punctuation in the poem . , ? ! - ( )
Highlight the punctuation in your poem.

Hand in your homework on Tuesday

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Science Project - Can I measure changes in plant growth?

Challenge - You will need to grow a flowering plant.
· Choose which flowering seed to grow. Plant the flower seed in a container
· Your aim is to grow the tallest and strongest flower shoot.
· You must keep a scientific record of what was done to it and how it was looked after ( keep a simple diary for recording observations)
· Think about how to record the measurements and growth of our plant
· You must bring in the plant and records on Monday 6th June.
· The tallest and strongest with a scientific record will win the challenge!
· Think about… what you could do to the plant to help it grow…. Where could you place it? What will you feed it? Think about these variables ... Amount of water, amount of plant food, amount of light, greenhouse or not? Outside or inside, type of soil

Homework - Ancient Greece

Over the next few weeks you will carry out a project on Ancient Greece. The whole project should build into a very pleasing piece of work.
Your presentation is very important but the content of your work is even more important.


Week 1 - What do you know about Greece?

Writing task: Write only two descriptive paragraphs explaining about Greece.
In the paragraph you should mention -
- the countries, seas that surround Greece.
- whether Greece is a big or small country compared with England
- the capital of Greece, the weather

WRITING TARGET - YOU MUST USE VARIOUS SENTENCE OPENERS.
UNDERLINE/HIGHLIGHT THE OPENERS

Art - Decorate your work with a map of Greece, making sure that the map is colourful.
On the map label 5 Greek cities including the surrounding seas.


HOMEWORK IS DUE IN EVERY TUESDAY

Greek Day

To kick off our topic on Ancient Greece, on Wednesday 4th May, Year 5 will hold a Greek day in school. Children will need to come to school dressed as an Ancient Greek.
Please research Ancient Greek clothing and go for the WOW factor with your costume.

Year 5 Easter Homework

********************************************************************************* Our Summer term topic is the 'Glorious Geeky Greeks'. Carry out a research on Ancient Greece then create an artwork of own choosing that represent an aspect of the Ancient Greeks. The artwork is for display in our classroom to help shape our class into a Greek Theatre. Artwork must be vibrant and colourful. Remember to go for the WOW factor. Reading - Choose and read a novel over the easter break. Prepare a review on the novel and prepare to share the review on the first week back to school. All homework must be ready and in school by Tuesday 26th April. Have a funtastic Easter holidays *********************************************************************************

Earth and Space day

On Friday, we bring our Earth and Space topic to an end. So don't forget to come to school dressed to impress in Earth and Space gear. You can dress as an alien being or astronaut or a planet and prepare for Earth attack!!!

Olympic Week

Olympic Week

Year 5 Homework - Thursday 17th March 2011

SCIENCE - Earth and Space


TASK: Design and create a board game on Earth and beyond. The aim of the game is to teach children of all ages about earth, sun, moon and beyond. The game must cover these - earth, sun, moon, shadows, planets, solar system, day and night, seasons.


You can work in small groups of no more than 4 to create the game.


The layout and design of the game is up to you but the game must have simple clear instructions at the back, of how to play it. (Counters and dice will be provided in school but any other playing equipment will have to be created by you)


This project must be completed and brought in on Monday 4th April

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SPELLINGS - ci, ce, cy
accident, cinema, decimal, decipline.
December, celebrity, celebrate, century.
bicycle, cylinder, mercy, fancy
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MATHS - SHAPE, SPACE, MEASURES

Use BBC KS2 Maths site, to practise your shape and space skills. Click on the link below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/shape_space/

Position of the sun

Sadri, William, Jada and Gurinder talk about the position of the sun.

Year 5 Homework - Friday 11th March

Literacy -
Design an persuasive advert for our Thriller show.
Research into how Theatres advertise musicals and plays.
What must an advert have to make it effective. Use this to help you create your own advert.
You decide on how to present the advert - poster, video, radio
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Maths - target numbers
can you make the target number : 918
use some or all of these numbers below
100, 3, 7, 6, 3, 4
you can multiply, divide, subtract, add

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Science - seasons
Why and how do we get the different seasons in the year?
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Spellings - 'ing'
like liking
ride riding
care caring
drop dropping
stop stopping
beg begging

Homework - 4th March 2011

Literacy - As part of World Book Day, We require you to become authors for the day. Your challenge is to write a short story of your choice. The genre is up to you to choose -fantasy, comedy, adventure, etc.
How you present the short story is completely up to you. You may want to record yourself telling the story or present it in a comic style. Be prepared to present the story to the rest of the class by next Tuesday.
You must show where you meet your targets in the story.

Maths - Next week is mental maths week so use the activities on Woodlands Junior website to improve your mental abilities. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/index.html

Science - Position os the Sun.
How does the position of the sun change through the day? Can you illustrate this? How is this different during winter and summer?

Spellings - spelling patterns - 'ful'
care careful
fear fearful
hand handful
beauty beautiful
plenty plentiful
fancy fanciful


IMPORTANT DATES -
The Year 5 Production will be shown to the school the week beginning 21st March.
The main show to parents will be held on the evening of Thursday 24th March at 6:30pm.
Letters with further information will be sent out shortly.

Ryan and Tobi's book reviews

Fantastic First Week

In Literacy we have been doing recounts over books we read in the half-term.

Also Year 5 have been practicing their play of THIRILER. It is coming on good and we can't wait to show it to you and we hope you love it.

To add to that, P.E has been great fun with the running around and getting into teams and playing against each other. We have learnt teamwork from our lesssons in P.E.

We have been doing Chrisianity in R.E. connecting to that we chose a song about ' Jesus' and have started designing CD covers for our chosen song, which has been great.

As well as all that we have had a great week back and can't wait till next week!!!

By Maria 5N

February Half-term Homework

READING PROJECT

Choose and complete reading a story book of your choice.

Prepare a review on the book. The review must answer the following questions;

What is the main point of the story?

Where is the story set? How do you know?

Who are the main characters? Describe them.

What makes the story successful/not successful? What evidence do you have to justify this opinion?

What is your overall opinion of the story - favourite part, exciting part, least exciting part. Explain all as fully as you can, giving reasons.

How you present this review is entirely up to you. It could be as a news report, information leaflet, video, poster etc.

Be prepared to share your review on Monday 28th February 2011

Maths Homework

Use Woodlands Junior website to practise your mental maths and word problem skills. Click on the link below.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/wordproblems/index.html

Global Warming - Year 5 project

Kameron and Gurinder show

Global Warming - Year 5 Project

Emilie and Jada advices on global warming

Global Warming - Year 5 Project

Eleanor and Maria present the news on Global Warming

Year 5 Visit The Science Museum

Click above to watch a clip of our fun day out

Rocket Scientist