Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks WB 31.01.22
Date: 27th Jan 2022 @ 6:41pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Skylarks weekly blog ?
Another super week for Skylarks class! The children have worked exceptionally hard in their writing lessons this week and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading their recounts. We also had a super topic day where the children were immersed into life as an Anglo-Saxon. We can’t wait to learn more!
Next Week (W.B. 31.01.22)
In English, we will finish reading our book ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. We will use what we have read to summarise the key events and create a timeline to show these. We will also spend time investigating the features of the story, such as using varied openers, dialogue, paragraphs and creating superhuman characters with magic objects. This will then help us plan and write our own myth over the coming weeks.
In Shared Reading, we will continue to read our book ‘Odd and the Frost Giants’. Our focus next week will be on drawing inferences and making comparisons within the text. We will use our inference skills to decide how characters feel before comparing these feelings to those of different characters.
In maths, we will continue to work on finding the area of shapes, in particular compound shapes. We will also solve some tricky investigation style questions which will require the children to apply their knowledge of both area and perimeter. We will also consolidate our understanding of the four operations through daily 4-A-Day activities.
In RE we will continue with our humanism topic. This week we will be exploring the key ingredient for happiness according to the humanist viewpoint.
In science we will be thinking about our new science topic ‘Animals, including Humans’. We will begin to look at life cycles, comparing the differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds. We will also compare the life cycles of animals in our own local environment with other animals around the world, suggesting reasons for similarities and differences.
During our topic day we will continue to develop our understanding of the Anglo-Saxon era. We will use a range of sources, such as books, the internet and artefacts to help us build knowledge?and understanding of the?Anglo Saxon?era and the impact it had on the British way of life.
Our PE day for the Spring Term will be Friday so your child should come to school in their PE kit on this day. Please remember PE kits should either be school kits or plain black/blue.
Homework
In year 5 the children will be set a weekly maths homework that they should complete and mark at home using the answers in the back of the homework book.
If your child is finding the homework tricky, Mrs Hulse and I will ensure that supervision is provided on a Wednesday lunchtime for your child to ask any questions or receive some support to complete their homework.
The children should complete pages 50 and 51 of their maths book to be returned by Friday 4th February. This homework is looking at area which we have been learning how to calculate this week in school.
Please also encourage your child to read for 20 minutes each evening and practice their spellings/times tables. The following websites are both great for times tables practice:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Our spellings for the quiz on Friday 4th February will be words ending in the suffix –ent:
Confident, absent, different, patient, magnificent, efficient, decent, intelligent
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ?
Miss Beattie x