Half Term Spellings

21/10/10
Here are your spellings for the half term holiday, don't forget to keep practising your times tables aswell. Happy Holiday!

1. disagree
2. dislike
3. disobey
4. disappear
5. disbelieve
6. disconnect
7. dishonest
8. distrust
9. disused
10. disaster
11. discover
12. disease
13. disgrace
14. disgusting
15. disk
16. dissolve
17. distance
18. disturb
19. distract
20. dislocate

Persuasive Writing Homework

This week we have been looking at the legend of Merlin. We have also been learning about writing persuasively. Your homework for the weekend is to carry out the exercise that you can find on the following link "Click here". Don't forget to click "forward" to move onto the second part (salutations means greetings). If you have a printer you can print the homework out after the second activity. If not just leave a comment on the post as you did last time to tell me how you found it. Please think of extremely good reasons that would persuade Mr. Phillips not to go ahead with the housing development - you could use some of the techniques that we have been looking at this week; you could use

• Rhetorical questions,
• Facts and statistics (that you could make up E.g. 80% of the parks have been demolished in the ;last 10 years)
• Exaggeration
• Emotive (emotional) language E.g. The children in the area would be overjoyed.....
• Groups of three (when you use three adjectives (describing words) together to make them stand out E.g. Lonely, bored and ignored,

Pease remember to click forward after you complete the first page.

Spellings for Week ending 15/10/10

1. monkeys
2. ladies
3. berry
4. valley
5. valleys
6. rubies
7. daisies
8. parties
9. posies
10. puppies
11. keys
12. suddenly
13. sometimes
14. often
15. during
16. tries
17. however
18.Camelot
19.berries
20.posy

Merlin - This weeks' legend

Acting out characters - Drama

We have been describing legendary characters this week. To compliment last weeks homework we have been trying out "freeze framing" drama techniques, to become more familiar with our legendary characters.

We then did a place mat activity where everyone gave suggestions about our characters, we then chose the ideas that we liked the best. Well done Year 5 you have worked really hard.

Researching Our National Parks

This week we have been researching our three National Praks, the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire Natioal Park. We researched aspects such as rain fall, relief, activities that can be undertaken there and location. As well as developing our ICT skills we learnt a great deal about the similarities and differences between the national parks.

Merlin - A Legend from a time past

Spellings

Monday October 4th. Here are our new spellings words for this week.
The first 9 words all have vowel endings and the rest of the words are taken from our english work on legends.

1. armadillo
2. corgi
3. cuckoo
4. dingo
5. emu
6. kangaroo
7. kiwi
8. puma
9. tarantula

10. Merlin
11. Arthur
12. centuries
13. fighting
14. peace
15. although
16. attacked
17. round
18. sword
19. knights
20. decided