The Kestrels in year 5, today in English, wrote their emails to Mrs Butterworth to explain why they couldn’t complete their homework!
Unfortunately Joey’s family car broke down on the way back from visiting a family member.
Somehow Mellissa’s pet fish spoilt her homework and she was unable to finish it.
Following one of our previous History lessons where we analysed a newspaper report, today, Kestrels started their own newspaper report about The Spanish Armada.
We wrote notes and started planning the report on a sheet, we thought of a name for our newspaper, what event of The Spanish Armada we wanted to report and a snappy headline for our report.
This morning, year 5 started mind mapping reasons for not doing their home work, these reasons are going to be written in an email form to Mrs Butterworth!
Kestrels had some brilliantly creative ideas; the homework was completed in secret agent pen and is therefore invisible, the home work was accidentally folded into a paper plane and flew away on a gentle breeze, somehow the pet fish escaped from its bowl landed on the home work and made it wet!
Under our reasons, we made a list of opposing conjunctions we could use when writing the email.
Today, Kestrels in year 5 finished their fact files about Queen Elizabeth I in History.
We then learnt about The Spanish Armada and ordered the events that happened.
The picture we inferred from earlier in the week was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to celebrate defeating The Spanish Armada. We then understood why she had her hand on the globe in the painting!
We finished the lesson by reading a newspaper report about Henry VIII marrying Anne Boleyn, this will help us when we start to write our report about The Spanish Armada.
Today half of year 2 came into year 5 today to have a shared ERIC (Enjoyed Reading In Class). Kestrels had chosen their favourite book in preparation to share with children from year 2. It was a great success, everyone enjoyed themselves.
Following our trip to Kenilworth Castle on Wednesday, today in History, year 5 Kestrels have been finding out facts and writing a guide about the castle.
We used the castle map that our guide, Clare, gave us and wrote our facts on post it notes, once edited, we wrote the facts on different coloured clouds to stick around the map.
We have been writing poems about different feelings in Year 5 Kestrels. We typed up our poems and changed the fonts, colour and size of the text to add interest. Today we started an illustration that compliments the emotion of our poem. Then we will cut up the words and lines from our poem and stick them in and around our illustration.
Last week Year 5 started reading and annotating different poems.
Today we read rhyming and non rhyming poems about different feelings and emotions. We chose an emotion and started to mind map ideas for our own poem.
Niah described anger like a volcano erupting. Elliott described happiness like bright sunshine. Sophia describes sadness as being apprehensive. Kenny described pride as wearing it for everyone to see. We all had brilliant ideas and contributions.
Here are some examples of Year 5’s atmosphere recordings. They added sound effects to their ‘Dramatic Paragraph’ stories.
The editing was done in Audacity. I’m sure you agree, some of the recordings sound fantastic creating atmosphere and realism to their stories.
Sophie
Mohammed
Melissa
Megan
Kennie
This week year 5 were visited by ‘Mr Wolf’ from their novel – Wolves in the Walls. They posed as newspaper reporters and questioned the furry friend on why he had caused so much trouble in Lucy’s house! Turns out, it wasn’t Mr Wolf causing all the trouble after all!
