Get Talking Get Learning
WC: 01.11.10
English: We are going to be investigating the key features of a pantomime this week, so it would be really helpful if you reminded yourself of the key characters, events, words and phrases and settings that you might find in a pantomime. Also see if you can learn how to spell pantomime.

Numeracy: After half term we are going to looking at division: what it’s useful for, how knowing times tables help, what to woth remainders and how to divide using the chunking method. Click on the link to remind yourself of the method.

http://www.mad4maths.com/math_help_division/

Topic: Oh! no it isn’t!

Look for adverts, websites and information about pantomimes to find out: What’s on and where, price of tickets, the history of pantomime, typical costumes and scenery.

Bring all your research with you on Tuesday 2nd November.

Here are some of the musical instruments we have made in our Shake Rattle and Roll topic. We have started to paint and decorate our instruments, ready for our X factor parents’ assembly, which is next Thursday at 2:15 pm.

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5DK have also been using the netbooks to write stories in Literacy but their author is Michael Morpurgo.

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In science last week we were experimenting and conducting a fair test with sound.
Mr Barton told us to insulate our containers with different material to see if it affected the sound we could hear.
Here are some of the children working hard conducting their experiments.
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This week in literacy 5H have been using the netbooks to write stories in the style of Dick King Smith.

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Tomorrow in writer’s workshop you are going to invent a brand new character for a computer game.

At home talk about or draw what your character:
looks like
How it behaves
Has it got any special powers/ clothing or tools it uses.

Year 5 have been writing some fantastic SNOT sentences.

Would anybody like to share some that they have written at home?

What have you learnt about the 1950s?

We are now well into the first term of being in year 5. How are you finding it? What have you particularly enjoyed up until now and why?

Miss de Kanter

Next year in year 5 our topic is Shake Rattle and Roll.Over the holidays
watch the videos and have a go at the hand jive.
Instructions for the hand jive
Step 1
Remember that each movement in this dance is doubled. Each step learned will be done twice in rapid-fire succession.
Step 2
Begin the dance by slapping open palms on the tops of the thighs two times. As this dance is hardly demanding, it can be done while sitting down or standing up.
Step 3
Follow the first step by clapping your hands twice.
Step 4
Put your hands out with the palms facing down. Wave the right hand over the top of the left hand twice in a row. Switch hands and wave the left over the right twice in a row.
Step 5
Make a fist with each hand with the thumbs facing each other. Take the right fist and tap the top of the left fist twice in a row. Switch hands and tap the right fist with the left twice.
Step 6
Make a hitchhiking gesture with your right hand, jerking the thumb over the right shoulder twice in a row. Do the same thing with your left hand.
Step 7
Repeat until the song is over.

BE READY TO SHAKE ,RATTLE, AND ROLL.

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Have a great holiday stay safe and see you in September.