In spelling, year 5 were given a homophone. Without talking, they had to search the room for the person with the matching homophone and make a matching pair. They then had to find the meaning of each word.
A Sensible Debate
Today year 5 had a fascinating discussion about xenotransplantation (transplanting a pig heart into a human). This is the subject in their class novel and they really got into debating the pros and cons of having such a transplant. Tomorrow, the children are going to interview each other on their opinions; with a view to writing a letter of protest to the hospital.
Investigating materials
Year 5 have been busy learning about materials and their properties. Last week, they were testing materials to see which was the best lining for a lunch box.
In groups, the children worked together to carry out a fair test of materials such as: sponge, cotton wool and bubble wrap. They tested each item for magnetism, transparency and permeability as well as flexibility and hardness. Ice cubes were placed into glass jars and each jar was wrapped in 1 particular material. They then timed each ice cube to see which material offered the best insulation. This week the children recorded their results and decided which insulator they would choose to use for their football floodlights.
Exploring Science
Year 5 have started their new topic this week – Materials & their Properties. They began by feeling various objects hidden under a cover, and used a range of words to describe what they could feel. They then had to match descriptions of words to words such as permeable and transparent. It was a lot of fun and the children learnt a great deal.
PSHE
Year 5 have been looking at ‘Peer pressure” and how detrimental it can be. They watched a video explanning the dangers and how important it is to be themselves. They studied various scenarios and had to give the characters advice on how to stand up for themselves
Video: Weather reporters using the green screen
Year 5 Kestrels presented their written weather reports using the green screen.
Mr Baddhan discussed with the children how weather reports are put together using a green screen.
The scripts were written with Mrs Calbreath in a previous English lesson.
Adding sound to create atmosphere
In the last couple of lessons in Computing, Year 5 Kestrels have been learning about a new program called Audacity – a sound editing tool. It allows children to edit their recordings and then add sound effects.
Mr Baddhan asked the children to record their ‘Descriptive Setting’ stories into Audacity and then add sound effects downloaded from another sound resources website called Sound Bible.
Here are some examples of Year 5’s atmosphere recordings.
I’m sure you agree, some of the recordings sound fantastic creating atmosphere and realism to their stories.
Keelie
Amelia J
Kaiden
Frankie L
Our finished Ping Pong games
Today Year 5 Kestrels finished programming their ‘Ping Pong’ games using Scratch.
In the last few lessons, the children have been using different programming blocks to create their games. They have used motion, operators, repeat and variable blocks.
At the end of the lesson, Kestrels tried each others games out giving feedback on each.
Here are a sample of a few completed games.
Amelia J
Moharnab C
Oliver
Introducing procedures and creating patterns
In Computing, Year 5 Kestrels continued to work on coding in Logo. Today, Mr Baddhan introduced the children to procedures – where we are teaching the computer to draw a shape.
The children were wowed at how the program could be taught how to create shapes.
Understanding procedures then allowed the children to create different patterns using the repeat function.
Mr Baddhan was really pleased with the children’s work and the patterns created.
‘Here We Are’ work
In Year 5 we have completed our ‘Here we are’ topic. We have read and studied the book by Oliver Jefferies and produced some incredible work.
The children wrote beautiful poems to go with their day and night pictures, and produced leaflets to inform people about coronavirus. They drafted letters to a special person in their life and came up with their own suggestions for why planet earth is such an incredible place.
Finally they drew pictures to represent themselves and detailed what their hopes are for the future are. We have really enjoyed the topic and here are some pictures of our amazing.
