Week beginning 27th April 2009

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 have a practice using the hall for the tests. 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 throughout the week.

A big thank you to all of the children who attended Booster sessions last week - Well done for remembering!

Also it is lovely to see the amount of books that children have read over the Easter holiday we love hearing all about how much you have enjoyed reading a particular book. We are starting a 'Book Swap Shop' so if any of you have books that are sitting in a cupboard gathering dust, bring them in and maybe you could swap them for another book you might like to read.

We all send our best wishes to Mrs Morgan as she has started her maternity leave we hope to have more news soon.
Here is what is happening this week:

Curriculum:

Numeracy:

Y6 - Mr Barker and Mr Tilling's group will be continuing their revision schedule. We will be looking in particular at practicing different methods of division and multiplication, especially long multiplication. Towards the end of the week children will be using a chosen method to solve multiplication and division multi step word problems. Try some of the following websites, there are also examples that you can practice on here:

http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/book7/bk7i6/bk7_6i2.htm

http://www.mathsonline.org/pages/longmult.html

http://www.numeracyworld.com/Multiplication%20Worksheets.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/tricks.html

http://www.sutton.lincs.sch.uk/pages/playground/zone/tablestests/penguin.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html

http://resources.oswego.org/games/Mathmagician/mathsdiv.html

http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/maths1.html

Y5- Numeracy

Mr Slavin and Miss Wright's class will be looking at Classifying events based on degrees of likelihood. By the end of the week we all should be able to recognise the distinction between 'impossible', ' unlikely', 'likely' and 'certain'. We will also be focusing on handling data in relation to the week's theme of probability. As we are relatively new to this area have a look at the following websites to get some practice before we start!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/handlingdata/probability/factsheet.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/activities/probability.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/fish.html

http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=1258

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/probability.htm

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/47794

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html

Literacy:

Y6 Mr Slavin and Miss Wright's revision groups will be completing Writing and Reading past test papers as a means of getting us familiar with how they will be administered on the day. As a means of revision this week it would be a good idea if all Year 6s looked in particular at the features of non-fiction texts, we have looked at these quite a lot and all children should already have revision notes within their revision books. These features are recipes for success for particular text types.

Y5- Mr Tilling's group will be looking at Evaluating myths and identifying key features to use as a model for writing. Children will be looking at a number of different myths and fantastic tales and seeing what the similarities and differences are. Children will then be using this as a basis for putting into action their own fantastic stories which we will be very excited to hear.

Look at the following websites for ideas and how myths are structured and written.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/index.htm

http://myths.e2bn.org/

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/how_to_write_a_legend

http://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/writingtips.htm


Science:

Year 5 will be carrying on with their new topic of 'Forces in Action' Children are becoming familiar with the different types of forces and how the are exerted upon different objects. What causes objects to move faster, slow down and stay still. We will all also be recapping on other scientific aspects throughout the week. We will be linking art to science on Wednesday. Working in our Co-Operative groups to create a collage based upon the Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant. To get a clear idea of this life cycle look at the following websites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/revision_bites/life_cycles1.shtml

http://www.blithfieldeducationcentre.co.uk/kp/environmentpages/flower_life_cycle.htm

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/patana/5t/science/lifecycles.swf

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants/index.htm

http://www.thekidsgarden.co.uk/

http://www.pollinator.com/kids/kids_index.htm

Have a great week.

Year 5/6 Team.