This week in the classroom

30th March

This week, the children have been busily writing their non-chronological reports on the ‘Skywhisker’, a fictional animal from the Amazon rainforest. They have used their imagination and creativity to write some excellent sections about the appearance and habitat of these curious creatures!

In reading, we have read further into our class book, ‘The Explorer’ and have focused on our understanding of the text. We have unpicked vocabulary that is new, answered inferential questions and we have retrieved facts.

In maths, we continued to practise finding percentages. We have looked at a number of different strategies for finding different percentages of numbers and we have also looked at questions in context. The children have become much more confident with this!

In geography, we looked at the life cycle of the Brazil nut tree, looking at how different creatures in the Amazon are vital to its survival. We discussed the impact of taking different parts of the life cycle out, realizing that everything plays its own unique role.

In computing we have started designing our final 3D design – a house. The children will be working with partners next week to complete this on Tinkercad and I am really excited to see the results!

We finished off the week with some running and circuit training. The children showed some excellent team work and sportsmanship during some very close relay races. Well done Year 5/6!

21st March

We have had a super week in Year 5/6!

In English, we have been learning about the features of information texts. We have also completed some sentence level work to practice using generalisers, connectives and relative clauses in our writing.

In reading, we have reached an important moment in the story, we have met the explorer. The children have loved this book, and have done an excellent job at unpicking new words and phrases as well as discussing the changes in the characters.

In maths, we have continued to work on fractions decimals and percentages. Year 6 have also done a lot of work on arithmetic in preparation for their SATs test.

In geography, we looked at the different food that can be grown in temperate and tropical regions. We used a world map to locate where each type of food was grown and then discussed patterns.

In computing, we continued with 3D design, by using placeholders in shapes to create a hollow effect. The children then duplicated these shapes to design their own desk tidy.

In science, we learned about night and day, as well as the seasons, and how they are linked to Earth’s orbit around the sun. Well done Year 5/6!