Oak Tree Class Blog
Oak Tree Class Blog
Week 8, ending 24 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Archie
Special Mention: Amelia
A special well done to all these pupils this week!
And we have made it!! The past eight weeks have been a long, but rewarding half term for us in Oak Tree Class – none moreso than this past week.
Fabulous poetry has been created – using rhyme, rhythm AND onomatopoeia; tricky aspects of maths have been smashed (negative numbers!) and an internal hockey tournament has been carried out, to celebrate the end of a very successful unit in PE. In the rain!
It is clear that many of you are practising times table facts with your children and this has been so helpful in our recent maths unit. Please continue to do so, as after half term, we shall be moving onto FRACTIONS – and a secure times table knowledge makes this a much easier unit for Y5 children.
The ukulele playing has improved dramatically this week – “Ode to Joy” sounded great and many children volunteered to play solos to the class!
Our morning music style has been Soul – James Brown was a definite fave with this class!!
I hope you have a fab half term holiday! See you on November 3rd. (And please find more cardboard tubes for our Marble Runs!!)
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 7, ending 17 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Layne
Special Mention: Hannah
A super well done to these pupils this week!
And the long term continues….! Just one week to go! But in the past week, we have been very busy in Oak Tree Class again.
SPaG and Reading have dominated our English lessons this week and the children have learned lots of new aspects of English: namely, possessive apostrophes and summarising – but we begin a very exciting unit on Onomatopoeia next week!
Maths has been all about solving word problems in addition and subtraction and ensuring all children have a sound method for these two operations. Homework shall also reflect this.
We had our final hockey lessons in PE and both Sam and I are really pleased to see how the children’s hockey skills have developed over the half term. We are looking forward to our inter-house tournament next week – keep your fingers crossed for kind weather!
Our most exciting learning over the past couple of weeks has been researching and presenting historical information about the jobs children did during the Victorian era. This week saw the finished products of all their labour and the children spent an interesting afternoon explaining their researched facts to their small groups.
Pretty soon we are looking at Marble Runs in DT, before we start to design and build one. If you have one kicking about that we could borrow, please do send in with your child!
It has been lovely to meet everybody at Parents’ Evenings this past week - I hope you have a splendid weekend!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Week 6, ending 10 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Izzy
Special Mention: Teddie
A super well done to these pupils this week!
It has been another splendid week for the children in Oak Tree Class.
In Ukuleles, we have moved onto chords, which was fun. We are now strumming along to Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’, which is fab progress.
Our new English unit is going to be linked to our Victorian topic, as we are looking at creating an onomatopoeic poem about working in a mill. Watch this space! And our topic lesson, based on Child Labour in the Victorian era, has spread across two weeks – hopefully the children will come away from these lessons having a good understanding about the life of a child in this era (and may also appreciate more that they didn’t live then!)
But, for me, the best part of this week has been the final publishing of our Victorian diary entries. Every pupil has made a neat presentation in pen and the standard of their presentation AND the content of the diaries has been stunning! Many children have been given permission to use handwriting pens, which has delighted them. As well as displaying these pieces, I shall be sending home copies so you can also praise them for their superb efforts, too. It is encouraging to see this standard of work at this point in the year. Well done everyone!
In Art this week, the children have been drawing in pencil, the structure of a bridge. Hopefully these little masterpieces will be displayed in time for parents’ evenings next week. (*Don’t forget to sign up, if you haven’t already done so.)
If you know your French numbers (un, deux, trois etc), do practise those with your child. We have been learning up to 31 this half term.
Have a good w/end….and we are STILL looking for cardboard tubes….!
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
Two reminders for this week:
The snack to be brought in for their morning break must be a healthy snack. Over the last couple of weeks there has been an increase in children bringing sweets, crisps, chocolate bars and biscuits in to eat at morning break. Pupils will be asked to put these back in their bag and take home. Thank you for your support with this.
Homework in Year 5 should really take no longer than 30-40 mins. And I really hope that the children are working through it in a mature manner. I don't want this to be a stressful situation for you as a famialy. Once your child has done maximum 40 minutes of work, please do let them stop and sign the sheet accordingly.
Week 5, ending 3 October
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Elijah
Special Mention: Evie
A special well done to these pupils this week!
This week, we have held our elections for Oak Tree’s class representative for the school council. I was so impressed that all of these children bravely put themselves forward: Erica, Luna and Louise. All had promising manifestoes, but ultimately, Ericawon! Congratulations, Erica– we look forward to your new role!
Ukulele lessons have been progressing very well in Year 5. The Harry Potter theme is now recognisable (!) and we also had a lot of fun picking our way through an AC/DC riff!
We have completed all work on Place Value in maths lessons this week, but certain aspects of it were very tricky, so we may have to re-visit this over the year. (Any help you can give your child in recognising the value of digits and rounding larger numbers to 10, 100 and 1000 would be very worthwhile at this point.)
We have begun to work our way through addition and subtraction too. Homework will be on consolidating the skills of rounding…
I hope you all have a fab weekend – please send in more long cardboard tubes for Design Technology this term.
Yours,
Mrs Adrienne Amos
PS Could you please remind your children that a break time snack needs to be a healthy part of their lunchbox! A piece of fruit is ideal. Thank you.
Week 4, ending 26 September
Mrs Amos (a.amos) on: Oak Tree Class Blog
Reader: Sophie R
Special Mention: Aarav
A really well done to these pupils this week!
Classical music has been the soundtrack for Oak Tree Class’s mornings. Vivaldi’s Season of Spring seemed to be the most well liked – the children said they recognised it from assemblies.
Not only has this been the week for our first school visit in Y5, it has also been fun to delve further into Victorian life in our English lessons (Victorian diary entry planning) and in our topic lesson (history). The children have been brilliant at imagining what life must have been like back then – their experiences on the trip will really help them to add details into their work next week. I shall try to put lots of Armley Mills photos on the class gallery – fingers crossed! The behaviour of our Year 5s was excellent on Thursday – I was very proud of them all.
Hockey lessons continue in PE for Oak Tree Class (Mondays and Thursdays) and just to let you know, our DT unit on Structures starts next week. We would really appreciate you looking out for any long cardboard tubes and sending them in asap.
I hope you have a lovely weekend – homework this week is spellings, maths and grammar.
Yours,
Adrienne Amos