Kingfisher Class Blog
This week we have been:
In maths, we have been multiplying by mixed numbers.
In science, we have been learning about human reproduction.
In science, we also dissected a flower.
We published our letter to the Two Faced Twins.
We practiced for sports day, in PE.
We learned how to stamp and address an envelope.
In geography, we learned about Worthing's changing coastline.
Next week we will:
Recap our knowledge of apostrophes.
Find fractions of an amount.
Sports Day!
Begin our mixed media landscapes.
Explore the country's wider influence on Worthing's past.
Compare Worthing to another town or city in the UK.
Learn about different incubation lengths for different animals.
Belonging - "I always volunteer to play in the canopy."
Resilience - "I edited my letter all by myself!"
Achievement - "I came second in sports day practice."
Make discoveries - "I learn the best way to insert the letter in the envelope."
Brave and ambitious - "I picked up a really difficult reading book but I'm going to give it my best."
Enjoy learning - "I have enjoyed the new playground equipment."
Respectful and responsible - "We played a respectful match of football, on our football day."
Looking at Worthing's changing coastline over the decades.
Today we dissected flowers in order to understand how they are fertilised.
Today we calculated mean, range and uncertainty.
This week we have been:
In maths, we have been multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
We have also looked at simplifying fractions.
We used the subjunctive form in our opening paragraphs.
For our stunning start, we began our Two-Faced Twins pictures.
In History we research Worthing's past.
In Geography, we researched Worthing's topography.
In art, we started painting landscapes, having been inspired by Vanessa Gardiner.
Next week we will:
Continue learning about formal tone and the subjunctive form.
Multiply whole numbers by improper fractions.
Exploring the reproductive parts of a flower.
Investigate outcome selection in computing.
In art, we will begin our multimedia projects on landscapes.
Belonging - "When my friend was sad, I helped them."
Resilience - "In PE, even though my foot really hurt, I still tried my best."
Achievement - "I understood the maths this week."
Make discoveries - "I discovered how to use forehand in PE."
Brave and ambitious - "I asked for help when I was stuck - now I understand it."
Enjoy learning - "I really enjoyed going to St. Andrews."
Respectful and responsible - "We have all been responsible with our flexible seating this week."
Inspired by Vanessa Gardiner, today we took our art lesson outside and explored multi media to create pictures of the landscape.
Using pictures from the past to understand Worthing's history.
Today, we had our first visit to St. Andrews for a bit of Science fun! the children seemed to really enjoy it - and only one beaker was broken!
Today we began exploring the art of The Two Faced Twins!
This week we have been:
Gladiators with the legacy leaders.
Published our Viking narrative on the computer.
In maths we have been learning about percentages.
We finished and reflected on our vector drawings.
We finished and reflected on our maps in art.
We began talking about our new topic.
We discussed our fiver challenge and showed off what we had done already.
Next week we will:
Begin our Sunny Worthing Topic.
Look at architecture and landscapes in art.
Begin to study the two Faced Twins.
Begin our persuasive writing journey.
In maths, we are moving onto fractions and conversions.
Our PE will be dodgeball and tennis.
Science with St. Andrews begins!
Belonging - "I helped a younger child go to class."
Resilience - "I kept on trying to finish my story because I know that even if I don't finish it, at least I've tried."
Achievement - "I finished a really long book that I've been working hard to read, and I got 9/10 on the quiz!"
Make discoveries - "I discovered that we have black male and brown female blackbirds in our school."
Brave and ambitious - "I tried adding fractions together to find percentages and even though it was hard, I didn't give up."
Enjoy learning - "I enjoyed making the final project for our vector drawings."
Respectful and responsible - "I helped with the reading raffle this morning."
Legacy Leader games
This week we have been:
We have continued with our Viking stories; learned about semi-colons.
In maths, we have been multiplying 3 numbers together and using brackets to expand these.
Some of us completed our maps in art this week - they look great!
We spent some time in year 6 this week.
Next week we will:
Continue to explore the meaning of factors, multiple, primes and compound numbers.
Finish drafting and editing our stories.
Finish and evaluate our vector drawings.
Reflect on our typography.
Belonging - "I let my younger sister join in with me and my friends at playtime."
Resilience - "In English, at first I had no ideas but then, I wrote a whole page!"
Achievement - "I accomplished my 3 times table!"
Make discoveries - "We discovered that you can make really long strings of multiplication equations."
Brave and ambitious - "I put a lot of detail in my art and discovered that if you work hard, you can achieve your goal."
Enjoy learning - "I enjoyed adding colour to my map background in art."
Respectful and responsible - "I listened to all the instructions my teacher gave me!"
In maths, we have been making multi-leveled arrays to explore multiplying 3 digits together.
We have been using our typography skills in art to create maps with beautifully designed signs.
VE day picnic!
Today we had a special PE lesson with Worthing College! It was great!
Today we began sketching our maps in Art. We will add labels and signs to it using our typography skills next lesson.
This week we have been:
Learning about the topography of Scandinavia.
Beginning to look at the volume of compound shapes.
Exploring narrative structure.
Created our own typeface.
Measured our heights and used a growth chart to predict our adult heights.
Had a visit from Worthing Museum.
Next week we will:
Continue to learn about volume and compound shapes.
Explore simple, compound and complex sentence structures.
Exploring what happens in each life stage.
Identifying key topographical features of Britain.
Belonging - "I held the door open for a teacher."
Resilience - "When something sad was happening at home, I was able to carry on at school."
Achievement - "In TT Rockstars practice, I got my first question right."
Make discoveries - "I discovered that Scandinavia has a varied topography."
Brave and ambitious - "I completed a challenging book and passed the quiz."
Enjoy learning - "I enjoyed making penguins in computing."
Respectful and responsible - "When the visitor came in, I listened to her interesting facts."
We have been exploring Scandinavia and Viking settlements.
The start of our cricket unit!
We had a special visit from Worthing Museum!
Drawing on text. Today we design our own typeface and then embellished a preprinted page from an old book.
This week we have been:
Exploring Viking Longships
Learned about Typography and Louise Fili.
Vector drawing in computing.
Explored key ingredients in story openers.
Looked at cubed numbers and learned how to calculate volume.
Began to look at the 7 life processes.
Viking assembly - on the same day as curriculum open day.
Next week we will:
Learn about Scandinavia and where Vikings come from.
Visit from the museum.
Create our own typeface.
Launch the fiver challenge.
Begin to explore life stages and growing up.
Continue to develop our multiplication skills and relook at arrays to help us with this.
Vector drawing - created with shapes and lines.
Today we had fun creating our own drawings of Viking Long Ships. https://youtu.be/DR9FGjcG2TM
This week we have been:
Finished and filmed our Epic Poems.
Viking invasion in our classroom.
Made Saxon soup.
Continued working on our Fiver Challenge for Enterprise week.
Finished our maths unit on calculating decimal fractions.
Finished our fitness and badminton PE units.
Next week we will:
Begin to learn about the Vikings.
Learn about Scandinavia and where they come from.
Begin our art unit with an artist study.
WOW START - visit from the museum.
Begin to learn about vector drawing in computing.
Begin our new writing journey - Viking narratives.
Begin to look at factors, multiples and prime numbers in maths.
Viking assembly - on the same day as curriculum open day.
Belonging - "I played with some new friends today. We played football."
Resilience - "I injured myself this week but continued to support my friends, even though I couldn't join in."
Achievement - "I finished and filmed my Viking Poem, finally."
Make discoveries - "I discovered that I quite enjoy volleyball."
Be brave and ambitious - "We had a meeting with Mrs Scott about our fiver challenge and she accepted our proposal."
Enjoy learning - "I enjoyed tasting the Saxon Soup."
Respectful and responsible - "I supported my friend move around school since she has been injured."
If you want to practice some Vikings Songs at home, here are the lyrics for the songs in our Viking Assembly.
Eating Saxon Soup out of the bowls we made for our Marvelous Middle - we had to line our bowls with modern plastic to preserve them!
Making our Anglo-Saxon soup: we needed to remember the types of cuts we have been practicing.
We have been invaded but by who? We had to complete our raid report sheets to uncover the mystery!
Today we practiced our poetry performances outside in the sunshine.
This week we have been:
Look at irreversible changes in science.
Continue learning the suffix -ance and -ant.
Begin drafting.
Write our own maths word problems.
AR Star quizzes.
Crime and Justice History drama
Next week we will:
End of unit spelling assessment
Continue editing.
Make our videos for THIS blog!
Last badminton session.
Make our Anglo-Saxon soup
Super Saxon Surprise
Belonging - "By letting everybody play with me."
Resilience - "I struggled with finding words for my writing but I didn't give up and am really proud of what I've created."
Achievement - "I did a whole two paragraphs in English."
Make discoveries -"I discovered that Vikings, when they had funerals for important Vikings, they buried the wife too!"
Be brave and ambitious - "I did my star quiz."
Enjoy learning - "I have really enjoyed making my epic poem."
Respectful and responsible - "When we were doing badminton, I helped tidy up."
Irreversible changes: release the gases.
This week we have been:
Missing number problems in maths.
Planning our Beowulf themed Epic Poems.
Began learning - ant words.
In history, we have learned about land use over time.
In computing we have started to learn about video production.
Next week we will:
Look at irreversible changes in science.
Continue leaning the suffix -ance and -ant.
Begin drafting.
Write our own maths word problems.
AR Star quizzes.
Belonging - "When we were doing the Fiver Challenge we were thinking of everyone, listening to each other's opinions and helping each other."
Resilience - "In the Fiver Challenge, I was trying to think of sentences but it was hard because I needed to phrase it formally. I kept on trying!"
Achievement - "I achieved doing all the different volleyball actions in PE."
Make discoveries - "I found out different techniques to hit the ball in PE."
Be brave and ambitious - "I played a new sport, in PE."
Enjoy learning - "I have enjoyed maths this week! All of it!"
Respectful and responsible - "I have been respectful to my teacher by listening to her and smiling."
Today we looked at the spread of Christianity from the Romans to the Anglo Saxons and Britons.
We had a special E4S visit from the local police yesterday and children learned more about how to stay safe online.
In English, we looked at cohesion across paragraphs - identifying foreshadow and retrospection.
This week we have been:
Solving word problem involving unit conversion.
Continued to learn the spelling rule -ei.
Read Beowulf and looking at Kennings.
Learn about parenthesis and relative clauses.
Learned about scripts and dramatised scenes from Beowulf.
Next week we will:
Look at irreversible changes in science.
Begin leaning the suffix -ance.
Learn about cohension within and across paragraphs.
Investigate missing number problems that involve multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
We are learning about Badminton.
Beowulf Drama
Beowulf Drama
Beowulf Drama
Beowulf Drama
Our favourite end to the week - reading buddies with year 2!
We made Anglo-Saxon inspired clay pots and engraved them with runes!
This week we have been:
Exploring and converting units of measure.
Recapping coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
Learning 2 new chopping techniques - claw and bridge.
Enjoying books on World Book Day.
Learning about food hygiene.
Learning about the invasion of the Scots from Ireland.
Next week we will:
Solve word problem involving unit conversion.
Continue to learn the spelling rule -ei.
Look at reversible changes in science.
Read Beowulf and looking at Kennings.
Learn about parenthesis and relative clauses.
World Book Day!
Today we practiced the bridge and claw grip for cutting in DT.
Is a mixture of oil and water reversible?
Today we made our own meter sticks and discussed decimeter, centimeter and millimeter.
This week we have been:
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000.
Saxon soup tasting.
Exploring video and motion pictures.
Reading Beowulf and looking at author's choices of vocabulary.
Next week we will:
Divide, by multiplying, by a fraction.
Learn the spelling rule -ei.
Look at reversible changes in science.
Learn about food hygiene.
Begin to understand about the invasion of the Scots from Ireland.
Today we made a human place value chart and physically moved up and down the scale to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
To begin our topic on the Anglo Saxons, we tasted some traditional Saxon soup ingredients. Some were tangy, some were slimy but most were earthy.
After half term we will:
- Explore old English and Norse poetry
- Begin looking at common fraction and decimal equivalents
- Try some Saxon herbs
- Begin to explore how videos are created
Sewing in DT to make our spy belts. The children have worked hard to research, design, plan and sew their very own spy belts.
Today we made Spy ID cards and explored fingerprints. These will be used to create a Year 5 display around the school.
Looking at ratios in a real life context and reminding ourselves about converting between units of measure.
Exploring properties of materials
Today we had junior first aid training where we learned about CPR, choking and the recovery position.
Exploring Spy Gadgets
Mixtures and solutions
Today we explored our solar system!!!
Our trip to the Planetarium - we weren't aloud to take pictures in the "Star Theatre"!
monotype printing - inspired by Kevork Mourad... "...best art lesson ever!"
What a gooey-tastic day: we made intergalactic, alien slime!
Bottle rockets - We cannot believe they actually worked!
Design and Technology - Make!
Astronaut pudding
Hinduism
Trimurti means three images. They are Shiva (whose middle eye sees the truth), Vishnu (who carries a lotus, a discus and a conch) and Brahma (who is not really worshipped anymore). The lotus that Vishnu carries symbolises truth however they also carry a mace - which symbolises splendour and power. Shiva is often depicted dancing. Brahma has 4 heads to see in all different directions. Vishnu's body and skin are blue like the sky and ocean.
Thanks for reading,
Year 5
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