Week Beginning 28th April 2008

Hello everyone, welcome to another action packed week in the world of Year 5/6.

Our Year 6 children only have 2 weeks left until their SATs, this week we are going to do a practice run of the tests in the hall. The children are used to the format of the papers but they have been mostly doing them in classrooms, in order to keep them as calm as possible on the actual week we need to get them used the way the SATs will be administered. We will complete some past papers in the hall at the beginning of the week. We would like to thank the other classes in school for doing their PE sessions outside during this time.

Here's what else will be happening this week:-

Literacy
We are looking at non- chronological reports. Last week we looked at the features and started to plan our 'Earth children at school' report. This week we will be concentrating on writing it up including all the features we have looked at last week. By the end of this week the children will have learned to:-

Select appropriate word order in sentences to create interest and to increase precision,
clarity and economy. Plan, compose, edit and refine short non-chronological reports … focusing on clarity, conciseness and impersonal style. Discuss, proofread and edit their own writing for clarity and correctness, e.g. by creating more complex sentences, using a range of connectives, simplifying clumsy constructions.

Literacy homework will be a bit different this as it will focus on talking. It is a proven fact the talking improves writing. The whole of Key Stage 2 will have talking homework this week. We would like your family to have a discussion and then make a note of it in their diaries to prove the homework has been completed.

Numeracy
This week Miss Wright's and Mrs Morgan's group will be learning to:-
Understand concepts of reflection.
Learn about the terms ‘reflective symmetry’ and ‘axis of symmetry’ and draw lines of symmetry in regular polygons.
Draw the reflection of shapes in a mirror line.

Here are some websites to get you started:-
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/rotation.swf
http://www.active-maths.co.uk/whiteboard/reflect_shapes.html
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/symmetry.swf use this website to give you some ideas to draw your own symmetrical pictures.
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/transform/rotation.html make a pattern and see it reflected.

Mr Barker's and Mrs Millington's group will be doing some past papers and going through them.

Science
This week we are starting our new topic of changing state. We will be doing a mind map and then discussing the differences between solids liquids and gases. We also will be looking at 2 concept cartoons called 'Balloon' and 'lemonade' Children will have to look at the cartoon and identify the misconceptions within the speech bubbles.

Try these websites:-
http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/index.html see what happens to objects when the are heated up and cooled down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission/solidsandliquids/annie02.shtml Pod's mission on hot and cold.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_state.shtml bbc science clips.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=changingstate complete the diagram.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/science/changing_matter/index.htm watch what happens to the particles when things change state.

Here I Am
This is the last week of Holidays and Holy Days and the children will review their learning and look at the Holy Spirit and Pentecost.

Have a great week.
Year 5/6 Team