Year 5 blog

Spellings

This week we have been looking at homophones (words which sound the same but mean different things).

The important thing is to make sure you create a memory hook for yourself to help make the correct spelling choice.

stationery

stationary

steal

steel

fete

fate

weary

wary

whose

who’s

Mental Maths

We have been converting fractions to decimals. Knowing division facts will help you to find a fraction of a number.  Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise this.  Can you beat your high score?  We’ll be sharing what you’ve done in class so make sure you log on!

Spellings

Citizenship

membership

ownership

partnership

dictatorship

championship

craftsmanship

fellowship

apprenticeship

sponsorship

Maths

We have been multiplying a fraction by a whole number.  Make sure you use your Times Tables Rockstars account so you know your multiples off by heart.

Spelling

happiness

hardness

madness

nastiness

silliness

tidiness

childishness

willingness

carelessness

foolishness

Mental Maths

We have developed our telling the time skills, converting from analogue to 12hr digital and 24hr digital.  We’ve now used this to read timetables and solve problems involving time durations.  For your homework, can you show how this skill can be used in all of your everyday life?  For example, if you catch a bus, can you work out which one to catch and how long you’ll be on it?  If you are watching TV, can you look at the schedule and work out what you can watch and how ling you will watch it for?

Spellings

community
curiosity
ability
captivity
activity
sensitivity
possibility
flexibility
visibility
eternity

Spelling test will be next Wednesday (10.1.18)

Maths

This week we are looking at time. Practice with those around you at home. How many different ways can you say the current time? How long until_____? How long since______?

Thanks for your ongoing support

Year 5 Team

Spellings

vegetable

vehicle

bruise

soldier

stomach

recommend

leisure

privilege

occur

neighbour

Mental Maths

We have looked at how to add and subtract fractions with different denominators.  We’ve used our understanding of multiples to do this.  Can you use your mental maths skills to quickly work out a common denominator for a pair of numbers?  e.g. 4 and 5, the lowest common multiple is 20.  Remember, the lowest common multiple isn’t always the product of both numbers.

Spellings

certainly

definitely

possibly

perhaps

probably

frequently

often

occasionally

rarely

always

Mental Maths

Some of you have continued to play on Times Tables Rockstars – well done!  Some of you haven’t logged in for a few weeks.  This week, we would like you to play at least 5 games on it – under ‘Studio’.  We shall be checking you’ve done this and if you don’t get the chance to do it at home then you will be able to complete the games at homework club next week.

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For our spelling test next week, we shall be looking for those children who can use British Sign Language to spell some of the words.  We are practising this in class but here are the letters if you want to practise at home too.

Welcome to Barvember!

We have worked on using bar models to solve problems and this week, we are challenging you to show someone else!  We’d love to see you teaching someone else about bar models and whether you can challenge them in their mathematical thinking!  Feel free to reply to this with a photo or message or tweet me @Waddallsaint to show your awesome work!  We’d love to see resilience and maybe even very confused faces!

Spellings

This week, the spellings are very easy but you need to know how to use them as modal verbs to suggest possibility.

can

could

may

might

must

shall

should

will

would

ought

Can you write a sentence which is grammatically accurate and makes sense for each?  Think about what the modal verb does to the meaning.

Keep an eye out for us on TV tonight and on BBC Lincolnshire Radio!  We have had such an amazing week working with so many different people as part of our ‘Waddington Remembered’ project and the memorial service at the IBCC.  We are so lucky to be able to take part in these services.  Thank you to everyone who made it all possible.

Spellings

wrestle

wrapper

island

aisle

debris

mortgage

Christmas

yacht

guarantee

guilty

Mental Maths

We have revised the 4 and 6 times tables.  We are focussing on division in class.  Can recite your multiplication facts and then find the inverse?  e.g. 4 x 7 = 28 so 28 ÷ 4 =7

This will be the focus of our mental maths test next week.