Year Five Blog

I thought it might be useful for us to compile a list of websites that you can use at home (or in ICT lessons if you have finished your work). If you have any good ones let me know and I’ll add them on. Thanks Mrs Brady for starting us off!

http://www.primarygames.co.uk – a great site with loads of interactive maths games

 http://www.teachingtables.co.uk – a great site to help get your times tables up to speed 

http://www.primaryworksheets.co.uk/ - a great site to help with number bonds practice as well as lots of other maths things 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise - a good site with English, Maths and Science games 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise - lots of English and Maths fact sheets, worksheets and online quizzes!

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk - A favourite of Milly’s!

http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/  This is great for online activities.

www.tut-world.com  - Lots of free downloads!

www.sssoftware.com/freeworksheets - As it says, free worksheets!

Have fun exploring!!!

 Miss B

World Book Day 2007 is on Thursday 1st March.

During the day we will be participating in lots of fun activities related to books.

Make sure you bring your favourite book(s) in to school on Thursday to help you with some of the activities.

It will be a day full of fun and will hopefully encourage us all to read even more than we do already!!!!

ICT on Thursday:

When it is your group’s turn to go down to the suite, log on and go to:

• Shared drive (S)
• Year 5
• ICT Work
• World Book Day

You will find loads of links to really good websites all about books! You can read big books online or become an online writer! Have fun!

Just to let all you red and blue fans know that if our recent run of good form continues you could be hosting the Old Gold and Black of Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield or Goodison (or the Emirates Stadium Michael!, next season.)

We’re currently eighth in the Championship Table but 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th are all tied on 59 points so it’s very close as we battle it out for the play-off places!

Come on the Wolves!!!!

Well done to…

Emily Bateman!

 

(another previous winner of the award!)

As we didn’t have a trophy to give out today (ahem!), Emily got to take home Y5’s pet dog, whom she is going to name for us as she is the first recipient of this special addition to the Hero of the Week Goodies.

Let us know what you call him Emily and look after him!

Hi boys and girls,

 For those of you who are regular bloggers, you will have noticed that over the half term holiday that we had some messages posted on our blog from pupils (and the teacher) of a Y5 class in Leeds. They have been finding out about what we get up to in our class, so it would be nice for you to check out their blog and see what fun they have!

The school is Kippax County Primary School in Leeds and the teacher is Mr Perry.

If you click on the link below, it should take you straight to their site.

Have fun and leave some nice comments.

Miss Blackham

http://year-5.blogspot.com

PS Their teacher, Mr Perry, used to live in Maghull (many moons ago!) and used to go to St. John Bosco School! Mad, eh!

UPDATE

We have been contacted by Miss Hampson, the teacher of another Year 4/5 class from a school in Staffordshire. Check out their blog too on the link below:

http://www.andrewsweston.wordpress.com/

Let me know if you see any great ideas that you would like us to copy…I am sure the teachers won’t mind! 

Last week, Y5 worked in pairs to teach and learn a new skill.

All of the children did really well and found out how things they could do to make it easier to teach (and learn) new things!

We had some fun at the same time!

Some of the new skills were:

• counting to ten in French, Maltese, Italian or Greek!
• learning a musical instrument (piano, flute or violin) 
• learning a football trick
• learning a dance
• learning origami
• learning card/magic tricks
• learning how to draw specific things
• learning facts about things (cars/dinosaurs etc)
• how to break fall in jujitsu
• how to get into awkward positions!

Congrats to …

Anna Mooney (nominated by Connor)

and

Kyle Lewis (nominated by Jack G)

Well done to you both.

This week’s winner and for the third time in Y5 is …

Thomas Dickson!

Well done Tom.

Each week, in Y5, someone does a Book Recommendation to share good examples of reading material.

These take place on  a Friday afternoon and so far, these books have been recommended by the folling pupils:

AUTUMN TERM FIRST HALF 

‘How to handle your school’ by Roy Apps  - Emily McLean

‘Haunted Liverpool’ by Tom Slemen - Sean Reddock

‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl- Kyle Lewis

‘Little Mermaid’ - Emma Bullen

‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ - Thomas Dickson

Pants on Fire by Victoria Lloyd - Jack Graham

AUTUMN TERM SECOND HALF

‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl - George Walsh

‘Tongue Twisters’ by Paul Cookson - Chloe Coughlin

‘Ruby the Red Fairy’ by Daisy Mead- Anna Mooney

‘Famous Five on Treasure Island’ by Enid Blyton - Jack Cunnah

‘The Cat Mummy’ by Jacqueline Wilson - Molly Shields

‘Foul Facts, Nasty Nature and Awful Truth’ by Jamie Stokes - Beth Ryan

‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl - Sian Williams

SPRING TERM FIRST HALF

‘Magic Kittens’ by Sue Bentley - Abbey James

‘The Sleeping Sword’ - Sam Albanese

‘Great Greek Myths’ by Tony Milton - Penny Anastasiou

‘Red Pizzas for a Blue Count’ by G. Stilton - Megan Calleja

‘Meanwhile Adventures’ by Roddy Doyle - Melissa Perrin

‘The Boys Book of how to be the best at everything’ by Dominque Enwright - Matthew Albertina 

SPRING TERM SECOND HALF

‘Foal in the Fog’ By Lucy Daniels - Anneli Reed

‘Secret Seven’ By Enid Blyton - Sean Woods

‘Nelly the Monster Sitter’ by Kes Gray - Michael Johnson

‘Dr Who The Story Book’ by Mark Gatiss - Connor Boswarva

Well done to…

Chloe Coughlin and Megan Calleja.