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.