In our design and technology lessons, Class 5 have been making puppets. We made an owl puppet to link with our text in English. We used many skills such as designing, cutting, sewing and evaluating. Our completed puppets have been proudly displayed for all to enjoy!
This week Class 5 have begun reading their new English text, The Twits by Roald Dahl. We have enjoyed meeting the characters and exploring the vocabulary used to describe them. Today we read ‘Dirty Beards’ and discovered just how disgusting Mr Twit’s beard is! We used the text to find Read more…
This week in Class 5 we have been learning how to sew in preparation for making our puppets. For most of us this was a brand new skill and we found it quite difficult at first but with lots of perseverance- and a little help from each other, we found Read more…
This week we have been exploring the properties of 2D shapes. Today we had a go at making them using the geoboards. We had to think carefully about how many sides and how many vertices each shape had so we could make them correctly. We then moved on to using Read more…
Today Class 5 have been thinking about how we can stay safe on line. With the help of our fantastic digital leaders, we learnt lots of useful tips like never giving out our personal information and what we can do if we are unsure about anything we see when we Read more…
We have been continuing to work on the guess and check reasoning strategy in Class 5. For our latest problem we needed to work with our partners to find out how many cubes must be on each plate to make a given total. We all worked fantastically well with our Read more…
Today as part of our man on the moon learning journey, Class 5 have been thinking about how we can find out about the past. We looked at different historical sources from the time and discussed how they can help us to find out about this special event.
Our reasoning lesson this week was all about eggs in baskets. We had to read the clues carefully then we used our guess and improve strategy to try and solve the problem. We used practical resources, and our partners, to help us effectively solve the puzzle.
The children in Class 5 enjoyed sharing their learning during our first class assembly on Friday. We explained what we had learned so far about the race to space and created a large timeline of some key events. We are looking forward to finding out more about the special event Read more…
Today in Class 5 we began thinking about our new linked learning question- who was the first man on the moon? Working in pairs, we discussed anything we already know about this theme and shared it with the class. Then we generated some questions that we would like to find Read more…