Year 5

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Keep checking our class page to keep up to date on the exciting, active and diverse range of activities we take part in to help us excel at school. Scroll down to see our latest learning in class.

Spellings – to be tested on 11. 07. 18 and 12. 07. 18

Next week, the children will be tested on all the year 3/4 words and year 5/6 words from the national curriculum. This is a huge number of words, so we will complete the assessment over two days next week (Wednesday and Thursday). This is because we are out at the High School all day on Monday and Friday.

Below are two documents with these words on. Please pick ten words from these lists that your child is not confident with, and practise these a little each day.

Spellings – to be tested on 06. 07. 18

Controversy

Embarrass

Especially

Exaggerate

Hindrance

Language

Nuisance

Physical

Privilege

Programme

‘Stick it to the Man’ Performances – 26. 06. 2018

Spellings – 25. 06. 2018

Below are the spellings for this week. Year 5 will be tested on these next Friday (29. 06. 18)

Deflate

Deform

Decode

Decompose

Defuse

Recycle

Rebuild

Rewrite

Replace

Revisit

Spellings – 14. 06. 2018

Below are the spellings for this week. Year 5 will be tested on these next Thursday on 21. 06. 18 (as we will be in Hadleigh all day performing on the Friday). 

Definite

Desperate

Literate

Secretary

Stationary

Dictionary

Wednesday

Familiar

Original

Animal

Spellings – 08. 06. 2018

Below are the spellings for this week. Year 5 will be tested on these next Friday (15. 06. 18)

Amateur

Ancient

Bargain

Muscle

Queue

Recognise

Twelfth

Identity

Develop

Harass

Tag Rugby – 23. 05. 2018

Yesterday a large group of year 4, 5, 6 went to Colchester Rugby Club to take part in a tag rugby event. We took four teams, and played with grit and determination throughout all the matches. Thank you to Olly’s Mum, who has taken some incredible action shots throughout the day.

Homework – Friday 18^th May

Spellings

Sincere

Interfere

Sphere

Adhere

Severe

Persevere

Atmosphere

Mere

Hemisphere

Austere

Homework – Friday 11^th May

Spellings

Tomorrow

Yesterday

Immediately

Later

Earlier

Eventually

Recently

Previously

Finally

Lately

Homework – Friday 11^th May

Write ten sentences in your homework books using a mixture of colons and semicolons correctly. These can be on any topic you wish. Below are two posters that we have used in class to help us remember how to use them correctly.

Homework – Friday 4^th May

Spellings

These will be tested next Friday.

Plough

Bough

Drought

Brought

Bought

Wrought

Thought

Ought

Borough

Thorough

Homework - Friday 27th April 2018

Spellings

These will be tested next Friday.

Though

Although

Dough

Doughnut

Through

Cough

Trough

Rough

Tough

Enough

Times Table Rock Stars

To log in to your Times Table Rock Stars account, use the correct username and password below:

Username: EBWaterhouse

Password: eastbergholt5

Your username will be 'EB' with your last name afterwards (starting with a capital letter). Everybody has the same password.

World Book Day – 08. 03. 2018

Today the class have been taking part in a range of activities to celebrate World Book Day. They have been taking part in a word hunt, creating their own word hunts and have been sharing their favourite books with their reading buddies in year 3.

Modal Verb Raps – 28. 11. 2017

Last week during our S.P.A.G lesson, the class worked in small groups to create a rap to help them recall modal verbs. As the rest of the class listened, the children tried to correctly count how many modal verbs were in each rap song. How many modal verbs can you count? Videos of each performance are posted below. 

Books - 28. 11. 2017

During our guided reading sessions, we often read extracts from well-known books. Many of the children have expressed that they have enjoyed the extracts so much, they would like to continue reading these books at home. Below is the list of books that we have used in class:

• The Island at the End of Everything – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Cogheart – Peter Bunzl
• Moonlocket – Peter Bunzl
• Beetle Boy – M.G Leonard
• Roof Toppers – Katherine Rundell
• Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
• Letters from the Lighthouse – Emma Carroll
• The Bubble Boy – Stewart Foster
• The Goldfish Boy – Lisa Thompson
• Wonder – R.J Palcio

Read Theory

I have discovered a free resource online that helps children to improve their reading comprehension skills. Readtheory.org is a website that requires children to read short extracts covering a range of texts, then asks them questions on what they have read. The questions are multiple choice, and if a question is answered incorrectly, it will explain what the correct answer was and why. It will also make the next question easier, adapting to the needs of the child.

There is only one downfall to this website – it’s American! Which means some of the spellings are incorrect. Feel free to encourage your child to find these mistakes, and ask them to tell you the correct spelling we use in the U.K.

Click the link below to log on. Your username will be ‘EB’ followed by your last name. All children have the same password of eastbergholt5.

Example:

Username: EBWaterhouse

Password: eastbergholt5

Duxford Trip – 18. 10. 2017

Yesterday, Year 5 and 6 jumped on the coach and went on a day trip to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. The children were thoroughly engaged, relishing the opportunity to see an impressive range of transport used on air, sea and land during previous wars. We were fortunate enough to speak to John, who was able to retell memories from his past recalling when he was a young boy living the London during World War Two. He told the children stories from his evacuation to a Cambridgeshire village, as well as showing us his Mickey Mouse gas mask. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who gave up their time to support us, and to Mrs Baker for organising the trip. A great time was had by all. 

Music – 28. 09. 2017

Every Thursday morning, the children are taught by Mr Gerrie. These weekly music lessons focus on teaching the children how to play the glockenspiel. This is a fantastic opportunity for them to be taught by a music specialist, which will continue throughout all of year 5. Watch the video below to see us in one of our lessons.

English – 22. 09. 2017

Over the past two days we have been researching about the famous war leader Winston Churchill. To help us learn lots of facts, the class was split into two teams and challenged to remember as much information about him as possible! Every person from each team was given a fact card. Each team was given ten minutes, where every person had to teach their fact to all the people in the team, and vice versa. After this, the fact cards were taken away and we took part in a fact relay.

Science - 12. 09. 2017

This week in Science we have started our new topic, light. We have already learnt that light is an energy that travels in a straight line. After discussing this, we learnt how rays of light reflect from objects into our eyes to enable us to see. We have been given the task to plan a short, educational video to explain to younger children how light enables us to see. Finished videos will be posted to the class page once they are complete.