We have had another busy week in Foxes class filled with Yangtze River animals, the Great Wall of China and narrative writing. Read on to find out more…
We have completed our Narrative stories this week, with our inspiration being the Monkey King. We have seen some wonderful description, involving expanded noun phrases, relative clauses and fronted adverbials. The children have worked incredibly hard to edit and improve their writing and should be very proud of what they have written.
In Maths, Year 5 have completed their second unit on Multiplication and Division. We began our second unit of fractions learning about how to multiply a unit fraction and a non-unit fraction by an integer. They also multiplied a mixed number by an integer and found the fraction of a quantity.
Year 6 have finished their decimals unit of work this week which has involved multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10 and by integers. Using this knowledge, the children have solved a range of multi-step problems in context. We will move on to fractions, decimals and percentages next week.
Our Topic this week revolved around continuing to learn about the Yangtze River and what lives in and around it. The children researched the different animals that live in the Yangtze river and created fact files about them. We also began learning about the Great Wall of China, why it was built and why it is so important. Next week we will go on to designing and creating our own Great Wall of China, as well as seeing if it can withstand an invasion!
As usual the homework was handed out on Tuesday 3rd February and is due back on Tuesday 10th February. If you have any questions about this, please let me know.
The spellings that we have introduced this week are:
Year 5 (Statutory Words):
achieve, amateur, ancient, available, awkward, bruise, competition, conscious, convenience, criticise.
Year 6 (Statutory Words):
mischievous, nuisance, restaurant, sincerely, recognise, symbol, controversy, lightning, prejudice, queue.
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
Miss Hanslow