Week Beginning 20th October 2008

Hi everyone, welcome to the last week of this half, where has the time gone?!

This week we will be holding our first parent's evenings of the year, this year they will take place on:-
Monday - 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Tuesday - 3.30pm - 5pm
Thursday - 3.30pm - 5pm

You should have received your appointment time on Friday. Appointments are 10 minutes long and we do try to stick to this time limit.

As this is the last week of the half term we will be assessing and reviewing a lot of the work we have done so far.

Literacy

This week in literacy we will be joining together what we have learned during our topic on journalistic writing and we have learned in our history topic of the Greeks.
We will be reading some Greek myths and we will then turn the story into a news paper report.
After spending Monday reading the myths, the children will then be allowed to choose their favourite one and write a newspaper article on the main event in the myth.
This writing will then be entered into the Primary Art Network book which travels around all the schools in the network so that all the other children and teachers can have a look at the work we have done.
The children are already quite familiar with a lot of the Greek Myths so Monday will be spent reading and reviewing the ones they know in order for the children to make their choice.

Have a look at these websites to refresh your memories on the Greek Myths:-

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/greek1.html
http://www.mythweb.com/
http://www.museumnetworkuk.org/myths/
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC2.htm


Numeracy

In numeracy this week all the groups will be assessed on what they have learned so far. The assessment will be done in the first part of the week so that we can revisit anything that we feel we need to in the rest of the week.
Please see previous blogspots for what we have done so far and websites to help.

Science

We reviewed our topic on reversible and irreversible change last week, this week we will be starting a new topic of micro organisms. The children have already had an insight into this topic from their homework last week.
This week the children should learn that there are very small organisms called micro-organisms which can be harmful and that scientific ideas about diseases are based on evidence.
Try these websites:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/micro_organisms.shtml
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/curriculum/Science.htm
http://www.mikecurtis.org.uk/ks2_micro_organisms.htm

Here I Am

This week in Here I Am we are on the relate section of the topic and we will be learning what is
required of a candidate for Confirmation.

Topic

This week in our Greek topic we will be using it to work on our newspaper reports and to do some artwork on Greek Myths to include in the Primary Art Network book.

There will be no homework this week as it is parent's evening and it is also the last week of the half term.

Thanks for visiting the blogspot.

Year 5/6 Team.