ROOM 5's blog: May 2014

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Hockey Skills!!! :)

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Some great Water Cycle art!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cross Country Information

NCA Cross Country will be run on Thursday 12th June from 10:35am till lunchtime. First, Second and Third places will be invited to enter the Inter-schools Cross Country to be held on Wednesday June 18, postponement day Friday 20 June. Hope you can make it to see your child run for Bibles! (Ask your child if you haven't seen the sponsor sheet :)

We made some water cycle models to put in the sun and observe. Some of us have also made rain gauges to try at home - need some rain tomorrow!

Monday, May 12, 2014

The Kempthornes came to tell us about their mission to the Philippines at assembly on Monday. We said goodbye to Izzy for a year or maybe longer :( but it's a great work they'll be doing there!

Term 1 2017

Reading

STRATEGY - Making Connections

Text to self - When we make a link between the text and our own prior knowledge and experience.

Summarising

Using information webs and other graphic organisers to present the main ideas and facts we have read about. Later we use this to make google slides to share with others.

Writing

Descriptions of a moment in time

We will learn the correct tense and how to use our five senses to write descriptions about our special places and moments in time e.g. watching dogs on a beach. Mondays we will have fun with narrative stories.

To proofread our work we will use PIGS - check Punctuation (capital letters, full stops...), Interesting words (adjectives, technical words, precise verbs, similes), Grammar (present tense), Spelling (find errors and underline, look some up).

Maths

Addition and subtraction - looking at two main strategies: using ones and tens, and using tidy numbers. Number knowledge: adding to 100 e.g. 75 + .... = 100, and calculating how many 10s and 100s are in a number (plus many other knowledge goals). We will be beginning to memorise x2, x10 and x5 tables. We will study geometry - rotations, turns, reflections, slides.