Silver Birch Class Blog 2024/2025
Term 1 Week 4 23rd September 2024
This week was the start of our weekly home learning. If you have any difficulties or concerns, please let Mrs Cox know. The children have been asked to look at the work on the day it is set so that they can have time to get support if needed.
This week we have written our autobiographies after learning about the purpose, audience and skills needed. They are all very lively and interesting for such young people!
In maths we have completed our unit on place value and we are going to do a brief week of addition and subtraction before moving onto a longer unit of multiplication.
The weather has been very wet this week but we still managed plenty of play and our class hockey lesson. See if your child can remember what Indian dribbling is!
Spelling. We are not sending lists home each week but your child had a list of the year 5-6 statutory words in their bags. Please help them to cross off the ones they can already spell and learn 2-3 per week. We will look at these in class too.
Term 1 Week 3 19th September 2024
The weeks are flying by! I haven't quite mastered images on the blog but I do hope that you have seen images on Facebook or Instagram.
This week in maths we have been developing our knowledge of place value: comparing, ordering and writing large numbers up to 10,000,000 in numerals(numbers) and words and representing them on number lines of various values.
In literacy we have been learning how to alter our writing to create effects for the reader and we have been looking at how our writing style changes depending on the purpose for writing and who we are hoping will read it.
In science we learned the scientific explanations for day and night and we can demonstrate our knowledge with a diagram.
In computing we learnt about making our coding simple and therefore more efficient. We demonstrated our knowledge by simplifying codes in an existing catching game on Purple Mash: 2code. The class showed that they have a really good prior knowledge of the vocabulary used to discuss coding.
In PE we are doing Hockey and this week we continued to pass and receive while learning to dribble the ball with control.
In History and DT this week we focussed on the Windrush. We learnt about some of the differences between the UK and the Caribbean and why moving from the Caribbean to the UK might have felt really unusual for many people. In DT we looked at the Notting Hill carnival celebrations that were started by members of the Windrush generation. We explored carnival floats and began to create specifications for making a scaled model of a carnival float.
Finally, our highlight this week was a visit from Alfie Watts who won the BBC show, "Race across the World." with his friend. Alfie answered all of the really thoughtful questions that the children asked about Asia and travelling. We learnt that Alfie loved Japan but wasn't as at-home in Cambodia. We also learnt that there were pink dolphins!
Coming in week 4
23rd September: reading records come home to be signed 5 times per week.
25th September: Homework will be coming home and will be due the following Monday. If our new booklets have not arrived yet, this will be on paper.
Mrs Cox
