Our maths in year 5 by Tullyanne, Rhys & Jay

In maths we are learning about capacity.

So, what is capacity? Capacity is how much a container can hold. 

 We have also been working on volume; this is Rhys working out the volume of a liquid.

These are the different challenges we have been working on this week.

And here are some examples of our work.

500 Word Challenge

Today we joined up with hundreds of schools across the country to watch a live stream from the BBC's 500 Word Challenge!

It was hosted by Alex Jones from The One Show and it featured the author Frank Cottrell Boyce. Mr. Boyce talked to us about how he finds inspiration for his stories and read us his own 500 Word Story. 

There was also a group of students from a Scottish school who told us how our stories will be judged and what makes a great story.

Finally, Mr. Boyce answered some questions from the audience and gave us his top 3 tips for writing.

Frank Cottrell Boyce's Big 3 Writing Tips:

1. Think Big!

2. Just start!

3. Rewrite your work!

It was great!

Welcome to our new Quadblogging partners!

Just a quick word from everyone in Year 5 to say hello to our new Quadblogging partners; St Thomas-of-Canterbury, Glenbervie School and Carterville Elementary!

I have put the links below for everyone to get acquainted... enjoy!

Thomas-of-Canterbury (Bolton, UK)

Glenbervie School (Whangarei, New Zealand)

Carterville Elementary (Missouri, USA)

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Mr. Lee

Maths in Year 5 by Josh, Callum & Morgan

This is what we have been doing this week in maths.

This is our Resource Base. There are five challenges and each one gets harder than the last. This helps us with our maths because we because we can choose where we are ready to start and we can mark our work ourselves.

Here are some of our challenges for this week.

And here are some examples of the challenges in our book.

Please leave comments on our blog if you liked our post!

Thank you,

Josh, Callum & Morgan

Space!

Our new topic in Year 5 is Space!

Over the holidays I asked the class to explore space; take a look at some of our amazing work below...

Morgan made this outstanding orrery with her grandad!

Jessica made this wonderful model of our solar system.

Tullyanne made a great model of space exploration.

Michaela brought in this fantastic interactive planetarium.

And here are some of our wonderful Learning Logs.

 

In art this week, we have been making observational artwork of the planets.  I chose some of our best work to make this display!

A great start to the term Year 5, well done! Have a great weekend!

Mr. Lee

Our Amazing Pirate Plays!

This week, we started our final literacy project for this term - Pirate Plays!

Take a look at our character's below... can you imagine what they might be like?

I can't wait to see the finished plays!
Mr. Lee

Maths Morning with Year 2

On Thursday of last week, we took part in an awesome Maths Morning with Year 2. We worked in two groups, one with Miss Morris in Year 2 and another with myself in Year 5. In Year 5 were using nets to make an incredible pyramid... take a look at the photos below to see how we got along!

 

How many individual pyramids do you think we made?

Take a look at Year 2's blog to see the exciting activities Miss Morris set out for us.

Mr. Lee