This week's work at High View has been based on 'My Many Coloured Days' by Dr Seuss.
As the text is all about emotions, the children wrote two separate diary entries about Lock Down - one with the negatives and one with the positives. It was so lovely to hear how many wonderful things have come out of this tough time!
In PShCE, they thought about which colours represented which emotions for them.
In Art, the children learned about Picasso and how his painting style changed throughout his life. They applied their work on colours and emotions from PSHCE, and chose shades and shapes to represent them, then created self-portraits in the Cubist style. ​Can you recognise anybody?
In History, they looked at the vast number of important, historical events that have occurred in their short life times! The created timelines to illustrate this.
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This week's work has been based around 'Thud' by Nick Butterworth, and 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll. 'Jabberwocky' includes lots of nonsense words, but many of them are also portmanteau words (they are made from two real words put together, like 'chillax'). Y5 learnt that they didn't need to understand every word in order to understand a story / narrative poem.
Following instructions on YouTube, the children started the week by drawing and / or designing monsters that they would use to inform their writing later in the week. Don't forget to click on the pictures to see them in their full glory!
After experimenting with powerful word choices, fronted adverbials and similes, the children wrote truly terrifying descriptions of their monsters!
Instead of a speed read this week, the children recorded themselves performing 'Jabberwocky'!
As part of their science work on Life Cycles, they produced diagrams of flowers, labelling the different parts and their roles. Some even used real flowers!
This week's text for inspiration was The Dot by Peter H Reynolds. I think for many of us, this has been our favourite book so far. Below is a small selection of the tasks the children have completed.
Y5 completed lots of dotty artwork in many different ways with lots of different media!
In Science, the children could start to grow potatoes using a potato, or they could choose other kitchen scraps to grow food from. We cannot wait to see them as they grow more!
The little girl in this week's story creates an art exhibition completely based on dots. Y5 loved her work so much that they wrote reviews of her exhibition! They used their "magpieing" skills to steal ideas from an example text. We also used a colour thesaurus to help us describe her work. I was absolutely blown away by the standard of their writing! I wish there was space on here to share it all! Here is just a small (ok, quite large) selection for you.
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Year 5 BlogMiss Levitt, Mrs Mundy, Mrs Tadajewski, make up the Year 5 team. |