We have had another busy week that has involved character comparisons, algebra and capital city features. Read on to find out more…
In English, we used the descriptive ideas we had written last week about Kai breaking the golden seal to free the Monkey King to write narrative paragraphs. The children focused on including as much detail as possible by incorporating expanded noun phrases, relative clauses and fronted adverbials. We finished the story of the Monkey King and used our knowledge of Kai and Wen to compare the two characters throughout the story. We thought about their similarities and differences and how they change throughout the story.
Year 5 began their new unit focusing on Multiplication and Division this week. We began the week by looking at the grid method and then moved onto the formal method of multiplication to help us multiply a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number. We worked on making sure that our presentation of the formal method was perfect so that it was clear to all how we had worked out our answers.
Year 6 have carried on with their unit on Algebra. They have formed equations using visual representations to support their learning as well as thinking about how to find pairs of values using substitution.
In Topic, we have compared the capital city of China, Beijing, and the capital city of England. Features such as Buckingham Palace, the River Thames and Tower Bridge were mentioned for London. Can you share with a grown-up what physical features we discovered Beijing had?
French saw us building on our knowledge of the features of a house. We learnt about the descriptive words for features of a house and matched sentences to the appropriate pictures.
Following on from Mr Armishaw’s parent hub, you will have learnt that we will no longer be carrying out spelling tests. However, the children will still be learning the spelling patterns through superhero spellings. We will be practising these patterns in our English lessons with dictation.
Year 5:
Modal Verbs
appreciate, especially, frequently, guarantee, necessary, parliament, physical, rhyme, rhythm, yacht.
Year 6:
Words ending with shuhl, spelt cial
racial, beneficial, crucial, antisocial, facial, social, special, official, artificial, superficial.
Homework was handed out on Tuesday 20th January and will need to be handed in by Tuesday 27th January. As usual, if you have any issues with the homework please let me know.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Karamucki