Geography - locating skills

Learning Objective: To describe locations using geographical terms, to find information from maps with symbols. To use scales and compass points correctly.

Today in year 5 we have been using our geographical skills to describe locations, find out distances between places and describe land use and the reasons for it.

We have been learning about scale in maths and calculating distances along the mountain walks using string. Tomorrow the pupils will write up their findings from their investigation on the blog.

Bringing Myths Alive!!!!!!

J5 and J6 had a literacy lesson with a difference this morning! After discussing myths and legends last week, we decided to set the children the challenge of designing their own fantastical beast.

We provided them with plenty of fancy dress items and boxes of props from our many school plays and Christmas concerts and they chose a group member to be a beast and dressed him/her up. (Mrs Marlow had the most fun turning Mr Llewellyn into a beast as a demonstration!)

After they had dressed the beast, the hard work started! The children had to work collaboratively and answer certain questions about their mythical creature.

1. What is the name of the beast?

2. What special powers does the beast have?

3. What adjectives best describe the beast?

4. Describe the beast's personality

5. What does the beast dislike? What is his/her weakness?

6. What is his aim in the myth?

The groups rotated and had to answer the same questions for other beasts.

Tomorrow, the groups will return to their original beast and work together to decide on the final choices for the beast.

Hopefully we will have some recordings for you tomorrow evening.

Mrs. Marlow and Mr Llewellyn

Geography - Mind Mapping Snowdonia

J5 and J6 watched an interesting Geography DVD on Snowdonia on Friday morning. They learnt about factors that change the landscape, the affect of tourism in Snowdonia and important safety requirements when climbing Mount Snowdon. The DVD, combined with Internet research on National Parks provided the children with plenty of facts about Snowdonia, a good starting point for this half term's topic. On Friday afternoon, J5 created a mindmap of Snowdonia and were encouraged to work together in groups to find as many facts as possible from this week's work. Great thinking skills demonstrated.

Mrs Marlow

ICT Research Skills

As part of our Park Life topic for this half term, the children have been researching the National Parks of Wales in our computer suite. They have been looking at a wide range of web sites and selecting key information/ facts about their National Park and transferring their findings into a Publisher/ Word Document. The final factfiles will be completed on Wednesday and will then be displayed in the classroom. Fantastic ICT skills in J5! Da iawn.

Mrs Marlow

Maths is Fun!

J5 and J6 have been working hard in maths this week on the topic of place value.

They have carried out challenges on the digits of their phone numbers and have been using their thinking skills to work out the answers to place value problems. They have also been practising saying 5 and 6 digit numbers aloud e.g. 706014 and 20011 and writing numbers down correctly. They have been learning about the value of digits in 5 and 6 digit numbers.

The children have played warm up activities using cards and dice to improve their addition and multiplication skills.

Mr Llewellyn and myself have been really impressed with the mental maths we've seen this week too.

In the photographs, we can see the children playing an addition card game.

More place value next week.

Mrs Marlow

Hi Year 5 this weeks on line homework relates to place value. Learning Objective: To recognise the value of digits as units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

Follow the link below to the website and try to find the dolphin each time - not the shark. See how long you can survive on the hardest activity numbers up to 999.

http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/sharkNumbers_v5.html

Now have a go at the activity below. Then click the hyperlink below the activity and have a go at the quiz.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/tests/thenumbersystem.shtml

Remember to leave a short comment about the work and your name (after choosing the anonymous profile), to show that you have completed the homework.
Good luck to you, have a nice weekend, see you Monday.

Half Term Overview - Autumn Term 2009

Year 5 Autumn Term 2009 Topic:Park Life: An Aspect of the Whole of Wales – National Parks (main focus-Snowdonia)

Dear Parent/Guardian,
We would like to welcome your son and daughter into Year 5. We are sure that he/she will have an enjoyable year ahead with us as we have lots of fun and interesting lessons planned.
Below, we have put together a grid highlighting the work that your son/daughter will be covering over the next six weeks. We hope that it provides all the information that you require. To keep informed on what your child is doing over the coming weeks please visit our class blog at: www.pontyclunpri5.blogspot.com
Mrs Marlow and Mr Llewellyn

Half Term Overview

Numeracy
Read and write whole numbers in figures and words
Comapre and ordering numbers
Know multiplication facts up to 10 x 10
The cncept of a reminder when dividing
Recognising parallel and perpendicular lines.
Classifying triangles, sides, angles line of symmetry
Deriving pairs of numbers that total 100
Finding differences on through the next multiples of 10, 100
Recognising relective symmetry and axis of symmetry
Names and properties of 3d shapes

Literacy

Oracy - Speaking and listening
Tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques.

Reading – Reading text with a Welsh dimension E.g. Myths set in Wales (Snowdonia). Experiencing and responding to a wide range of texts.

Writing – Traditional stories fables myths and legends.
Sentence level: Use of adjectives and comparative adjectives.

Poetic style, word play, rhyme metaphor and word choice.
Sentence level: Appling sentence features e.g. Powerful verbs, adverbs adjectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia.


Geography
Geographical enquiry investigating an aspect of eh geography of the whole of Wales. We will be looking at National Parks, locating them, discussing mountainous environments, landscapes of Snowdonia, weather, opinions, tourism, safety, developments and changes.

RE
Our world: The Countryside code: Focus on looking after the countryside.

Art
Investigating the art work Kyffin Williams (landscape art)

Music
It’s a round: Learning, performing and singing in rounds, adding accompaniments.
Welsh
Asking questions to each other conversations wit teachers and peers. Eg Oes _______ da ti? Mae _______ _______ da fi.
Investigating Wales and where places are? Ble Mae……?
Science

Life Cycles: Looking at the interdependence of organisms Eg. Food chain. Looking at plants and animals found in contrasting environments. Identifying life cycles, nutrition and place in the environment.

ICT
Spreadsheets: Enter numbers labels and formulas into a spreadsheet. Calculate totals.

PE
Competitive games/ activities.
Creative PESS dance.
J5 - Mrs Marlow inside PE Wednesday, outdoor Monday
J6- Mr. Llewellyn inside PE Thursday, outdoor Friday

PSHE
New beginnings: Children see themselves as valid individuals in the community.

Homework
Some homework will be set via our class blog www.pontyclunpri5.blogspot.com
Reading – We expect each pupil to be reading at home on a daily basis for at least 15 min. Please update your child’s reading diary weekly.
Literacy – literacy work will be sent home as and when the teacher feels that it is appropriate.
Numeracy – Numeracy work covering the topics above will be sent home as and when the teacher feels that it is appropriate.