Year 5 Iveson Blog

To practise your multiplication facts try this game:  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button What is your record? 

Rock, Paper Scissors Use the following link to upload your holiday homework; https://www.dropbox.com/request/jlovyV7lJwcQ17lyDwuN Save the file as your name and include your name at the bottom of your homework. If you have any problems Miss Walker can help you with these on Tuesday. 

Another Maths wizard who found another solution to our challenge! Are there any more?

Our maths wizard of the week. She was the first in the class to find a solution even beating the teachers! Can you find any other solutions to our challenge?

Over the holidays, I would like you to have a go at retelling the story of Rock, Paper and Scissors. See if you can use some of the descriptive features that we have learning about this half term; prepositions , fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GymppwZ7lU4 CGI Animated Shorts HD: "BROKEN : Rock, Paper, Scissors" by - The Broken Team www.youtube.com Check out this touching CGI animated short....When Rock stumbles upon the magical Paper, it's love at first sight. But when the wrath of Scissors threatens the well ... I hope you all have a lovely holiday. Enjoy!  😊

Our spellings this week are:  illuminated  inventing  surprisingly  interestingly  whispered  quarreled  laughed  disappear  dishonest  disobey 

This week our spellings are:  vein  weigh  eight  neighbour  eighteen  obey  beige  veil  sleigh weight 

We encourage all Iveson pupils and families to learn to enjoy coding. It could be more simple than you imagine. Check out the following link to an amazing resource developed by some of the world’s leading tech innovators.   https://code.org/        

This week we are looking at adding the suffix 'ly' gently frantically dramatically simply humbly definitely  steadily  sneakily curiously cheekily

For your homework, research Stone Age settlements then write a setting description. You can choose which Stone Age period you would like to focus on (Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic). See whether you can include some of the language features that we have been learning about (fronted adverbials, prepositions or expanded noun phrases). If possible, use OneDrive to upload your learning. 

This week, we welcomed  Rebecca Gallantree (British Diver) who showed us some exercises to keep ourselves fit. She also told us all about her journey to become World Champion and even her dives with Tom Daley!

Today, is No Pen Day! We have put down our pens and got creative. Following on from our setting descriptions, we have created our own models of the dump featured in our class book (Stig of the Dump). Here are a few examples...