YEAR 5 (INDIGO)
Mr Bain (Covering for Mrs J Miller)Welcome to class 5M!
My name is Mrs Miller and I am the class teacher for 5M.
In class 5M, the children are hard working and enthusiastic. This is our class blog and we want everyone to see what we get up to while we`re learning so please keep visiting regularly for updates on what we have been getting up to in class, school news and recent letters.
Please leave a lovely comment on our blog so we know that you have visited and the children would love to hear what you think about their classroom learning and activities.
Thank you
Mrs Miller
Our Class Blog
Kandinsky Digital Paintings
The children had decisions to make in computing today. They needed to decide on the tools and colours they used.
Macaroni Apostrophes!
Today in engish, we have been practising using apostrophes for contracted forms, this time with the help of macaroni. I went food shopping yesterday and saw it on the shelf and its shape just reminded me of the apostrophes we've been learning about! What do you think?
Newsletter 20.11.2020
Please click on the link below to view our latest school newsletter which contains important December dates for your diary: Newsletter 20.11.20
How do we make a Stone Age roof waterproof?
We are designing a Stone Age home and decided that the roof was a very important part of the structure. We took three materials which would have been around in those days: ferns, moss and bark and devised a fair test. We poured 5ml, 10ml and 15ml of water on each and...
FoRGPS 20.11.20
Thank you to everyone who has already returned raffle tickets to school. We have had lots of fantastic prizes donated by our local community, pop on our Facebook page to have a look! To boost our prizes further, next week we would be very grateful of donations towards...
Apostrophe Surgery!
Today, in english, we have been learning how to use apostrophes for contracted forms. We used our apostrophe plasters to stick two words together to make the contracted form.
Investigating our shadows.
In today's science lesson, we have been investigating the hours of daylight in autumn and winter. We created a pictogram and we found out that December and January have the least amount of daylight. We finished our science lesson by investigating our shadows in the...
Comparing amounts (of tens and ones)
In today's maths lesson, we have continued to compare amounts of tens and ones using the greater than, less than and equal to signs. We were even making and comparing 3-digit numbers. Muhammad even managed to work out that 13 ones needs to become 1 ten and 3 ones in...
Investigating daylength in autumn
We did some investigating over the week. I set the challenge for the children that they needed to put their teddies to bed when the sun set. They took photos every night and recorded the time. The children then did some pattern spotting and noticed what was changing.
Partitioning into tens and ones
Apostrophes for Possession
We have been learning how to use apostrophes for possession in our english lesson today and we have made a super start!
We are all part of the anti-bullying puzzle
Today we all took part in creating an enormous puzzle of anti-bullying. Everyone designed a puzzle piece with a message of anti- bullying.