Week beginning 15th June 2009

Hi everyone and Welcome to the blog this week.


END OF YEAR PRODUCTION
We still have a lot of work to fit in as well as a year 5/6 end of year PRODUCTION. We really enjoyed the singing element of last year’s end of year performance and so this is the route we felt it would be good to go down this year. We felt we would like a slight twist though, so we have decided that we are going to showcase songs from the Musicals. We feel that this is a broad area so children have a rich choice of what they would like to dance, perform and sing to.


As always, we need to make sure that the year 6 take priority for the parts in the production, however we will need year 5’s as well. Remember year 5’s that your time will come next year! We are hoping that during this next week children will have a good idea of children’s roles within the production, and you can therefore start practicing at home, and thinking about costume ideas. We realise that some costumes will be more complicated to put together than others and so want to let parents know ASAP. We will not be giving out specific costume letters as we feel that it is much easier for you to look at the artist your child is impersonating and choose a look you feel is easiest to replicate. As soon as we know details of performance dates we will send them home.


Year 6, Wednesday 17th June- Transition day at St Gregory's.
Year 6 should have brought home a letter tonight outlining the details for next Wednesday. Children will need to be at St Gregory's for 8.30am and will need to be collected at 2.30pm.


Numeracy
Year 5The curriculum continues as usual and the children in both Mrs Morgan’s and Miss Wright’s group will be learning the following…


To subtract integers of up to 10,000 using formal and informal methods.
To subtract numbers to 2 decimal places.
As usual lots of games and interactive learning will take place to make these topic as fun as possible.By the end of the week children,

MUST use an informal method to subtract integers up to 10,000.

SHOULD use both formal and informal methods to subtract integers up to 10,000.

COULD begin to subtract numbers to 2 decimal places.



Try logging on to http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/ and following the Maths links for some excellent speed subtraction games to help you with these objectives.



Year 6
We will be embarking on some transition work to ease the year 6’s into the Mathematics required for the High School. Much of this knowledge is what we have already acquired, but just requires the children to think in a more sophisticated manner. The DFES provide a pack of material for children to further develop their understanding, and we will build on this in school. We will be consolidating lots of learning, but also favouring a more problem solving route where children are encouraged to think for themselves more, and see patterns in number and data. This sounds really hard going, but lots of fun will be had, and children will feel more confident about what will be expected of them in September.



Literacy
Last week saw us starting to read Kensuke's Kingdom, by Michael Morpurgo. We were intoduced to the main characters, setting and and the story began to unfold. This week we will be concentrating on the characters and producing in depth character webs to get to understand them better. We will also be focusing at the point where Michael meets Kensuke for the first time. We will be putting on our Red Thinking Hats and starting to write a journal entry.



Creative Topic / Science - Water Worlds
This week we will be:
* Researching living things in coral reefs classifying and identifying common life processes
* Using the internet, non fiction texts and encyclopedias to answer scientific questions about sharks.
Have a look at the following websites to help:

http://www.coralfilm.com/

http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Coral/home.html

http://www.coral.org/

http://www.reefbase.org/main.aspx

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/Coralreef.shtml

http://www.kidzone.ws/sharks/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/sharks/home/index.shtml

http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/types-of-sharks.html

http://new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/sharks/types.html

Have a great week.
Year 5/6 Team