P5 have been exceptionally hard working the past few weeks! Here is what we have been up to:
In literacy, the pupils have been working on their creativity when writing different types of poems. After exploring acrostic poems, the pupils looked at concrete poems and wrote about Autumn. They had to use a variety of adjectives to describe what happens in autumn and had to use their understanding of concrete poems to create leaf shapes. Here are some beautiful examples:
We also began our class novel this term which is Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon. During the novel study, we will be developing confidence in reading and improving skills in visualisation, metalinguistics, prior knowledge and comprehension. The pupils are enjoying their novel so far.
For spelling this week we have been focusing on the “ay” phoneme and some groups have investigated all the representations of “ay”. We completed some active spelling tasks to help learn our spelling words. We also have homework to help us build our confidence with our spelling words.
In maths, we have been continuing to develop our understanding of place value. We are now able to read, write, order and partition up to 7 digits! This week we focused on numbers before and after and rounding numbers to the nearest 10. The pupils enjoyed their active games to explore this concept.
In other areas, we have been enjoying learning about the circulatory system. Mr Allen set up the class like the heart and the pupils re-enact how the circulatory system worked. The blue balloons represented the de-oxygenated blood and red balloons represented the oxygenated blood. This was a really fun challenge!
We also coded some microbits to create a heartbeat which was really cool!
We have also started homework this week. Every Monday, our pupils will be given homework to complete for Friday. This will consist of a spelling task, a maths task and a “talk for writing” task. As this was our first week, only spelling was issued on Monday in their homework jotters. Thank you for your support in this matter.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Frew x
