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Week 4, ending 2 February
Posted: Feb 2, 2024 by: Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Rumina
Special Mention: Luke
Well done to these children this week!
At last January is over!! Woop! What an inordinately long month it seemed to be!!
Another busy busy week in Oak Tree Class, but we really seem to be motoring through the Y5 curriculum and seeing some great progress!
Our music genre this week has been Disco – and even though YMCA probably received the largest response, the Bee Gees ‘Stayin’ Alive’ had lots of heads bopping to the beat!
We have finally completed our non-chronological reports and each child has produce a fantastic double page spread on the theme of Twinned Towns/Sister Cities. Miss Suggitt and I hope to display them as soon as possible.
Methods for long multiplication have been learned in maths – some of you may well recall the ‘grid method’? Lots of children have really seen the benefit of using this technique before moving onto the more traditional algorithm for long multiplication. Homework this week reflects this learning – please do support your child in these questions and encourage them to show all their working out.
We have continued learning the skills for Tag Rugby in PE and next week, there is hopefully going to be an intra-school Tag Rugby competition which is very exciting! [Pray for good weather!!]
An extra home learning task the children have been set is to try to memorise as many US state names as they can – and, if possible, their abbreviated form eg NY for New York, FL for Florida. This work complements our studies in geography, where we will soon be comparing Yorkshire with the Western USA. Many children are thoroughly enjoying this work, I am pleased to say.
I hope you all enjoy your weekends,
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos