Friday, 26 May 2017

Review and preview



Y5 Weekly Update: 29th May - 2nd June 2017


This Week  

Next Week

Literacy
Drama
This week our focus shifted on to being able to learn and deliver lines to an audience. We focused on projecting our voices and delivering the lines with confidence.
Drama and Poetry
Next week we will continue to focus on delivering our lines to the audience and our acting skills.We will also be thinking about how poetry can influence people in conjunction with our UOI work  
Maths
Written Addition & Subtraction and Factors
This week we focused on the written compact method of adding and subtracting 5 digit numbers. We also investigated patterns, revised factors carried out a factors investigation.
Fractions
Next week we will be working with fractions.
Adding and subtracting fractions with the  same or similar denominators and converting answers to a mixed number. We shall revise multiplying fractions by whole numbers.
Unit of Inquiry
How we express ourselves
This week we began to think about how we express ourselves. Along with preparing for our upcoming production, we will started to think of the different ways we express ourselves and what are the messages people take from the different means of expression.
How we express ourselves
Next week we will start sorting out and going further into how songs, words, images and pictures can be used to target certain audiences. The context for our inquiry will be
Band Aid and the LIve Aid concerts of the mid 1980’s.
Notices and Events
A letter will be coming home next week about our trip to the National Gallery 6/6/17
Reading comprehension and Math’s homework is set online each week and is ongoing.
Thank you, for ensuring that the children are keeping up to date with this. We also have our lines and songs to learn for the upcoming production.