Week Beginning 17th November 2008

Hi everyone, hope you are having a good weekend.

On Thursday this week it is the Key Stage 2 disco, so get ready to boogie!!

The school council would like to make a plea for toys and books for their bring and buy stall at the Christmas Fair. Please make sure if you do send stuff into school that it is in good working order. Thank you.

This week's curriculum:-

Literacy

This week is our last week on quests. The children have really enjoyed this topic and some of their ideas are fantastic.
We will be working on drama this week. We will be doing some hot seating using the characters from the Lord of the Rings and the children will also be doing some drama on their own quests as well.
We will also finish writing our quests and recording them in different ways using the laptops.

Numeracy

The children did some fantastic work last week on averages using the mean, median, mode and range. They really got to grips with this topic and understood it really well.
This week Mrs Morgan's and Mr Barker's groups will be working on multiplying HTU by TU using standard written methods and multiplying U.th by U.

Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=Toolkit%20index2ahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/written/flash2.shtml multiply by larger numbers by partitioning. http://www.multiplication.com/interactive/quickflash/flash/index.html

Miss Wright's and Mr Slavin's group will be working on symmetry. They will be learning to understand the terms 'reflective symmetry' and 'axis of symmetry' , recognise reflective symmetry in regular polygons, recognise where a shape will after reflection in a mirror line parallel to one side.

Try these websites:-
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/revision_bites/shapes6.shtml
http://www.educationict.org.uk/bpt/symmetry.htm

Science

This week we will be looking at how micro-organisms effect food. We will also be having a look a what micro-organisms look like and them making our 3-d models of them.
If you have any scrap materials at home, for example egg boxes etc please send them into school to help with our model making.
Please see previous blogspots for websites on micro-organisms.

Here I Am.

This week we will be starting our new topic of birthdays. This week we will be recognising reasons for celebrating birthdays.

PE

The children enjoyed doing orienteering last week but got very muddy due to the weather. Please make sure that they have an outdoor PE kit in school at all times.

Music

This week we will be starting to learn some Carols for the Christmas Carol Concert which we are leading this year. It may feel a bit early to be singing Carols but we really haven't got that long left till Christmas so need to make a start.

Thanks for visiting the blogspot.

Year 5/6 Team