2022-24 Year 5 Blog

 At the beginning of the lesson the children recapped why we have time zones; so that every country will have midday at 12pm.  Then, the children looked at two capital cities: Oslo in Norway and London in England. They then compared and contrasted the human and physical geography in the two aerial photos.  This allowed the children to use some great vocabulary such  as vegetation, population, transportations, settlements, industrial, rural, directional language, locations and climate. Finally, the children came to the conclusion that Oslo was not that different to London, except for the temperatures, population and economical activity. 

 We spent some time today revisiting the chorus from last week and spotting when that is being played.  We then focussed on the verses - linking to the idea of a sea storm we had a sea monster, a band of pirates and some calmness (the clam before the storm perhaps!). Children then had to illustrate these on their original storm picture. 

 Year 5 practised their vocabulary and  sang their song. They then looked at agreement between feminine nouns and adjectives. They practised saying a variety of sentences, translating them and were introduced to some new verbs.  They then wrote sentences by matching the start of a sentence with the appropriate ending, all based on the Degas beach scene.

 Year 5 practised their new vocabulary and song and revised colours. They then labelled and coloured in a  small picture of a beach scene. They then used the the colours they had chosen to guide them in the sentences they wrote to describe the beach scene using 'est'.

 Year 5 started their new topic all about a beach scene, based on a painting by Degas. The children learnt some new vocabulary and a new song. They then labelled a small version of the painting using their new vocabulary. Some children used a dictionary to add other words to describe their painting.

 Have you ever travelled to a different country and had to change the time on your phone or watch? If you have, that means you have entered a different timeline. There are 24 time zones as it takes  24 hours for the Earth to rotate once on its axis.Thus, we have a day. The lines of longitude (timezones) start at Greenwich (Prime Meridian)  which is why we have GMT. Any countries east of the Prime Meridian are in front of the UK. Any countries to the west, their time is behind the UK. Because of the time zones, every country has midday at 12pm.  During the lesson the children used an interactive time zone map to find the time differences. They then consolidated their leaning using live webcams to see the difference and similarities to the UK in different parts of the world.

 What a great start to World Book Day, as everybody took part in an African drumming workshop with Andy. The children learnt how the instruments are made using natural resources from Africa.  This is a Djemba. Andy brought other instruments such as: Bongo, Gingin, Gumbe and Boogadoo Each child was given the opportunity to play the different instruments and at the end they used the different beats on the instruments and composed a song. It sounded great! The children were also taught how to say hello and goodbye: Jambe, as well as thank you: JerryJeff.  Afterwards, they followed a Puffin online story makers show. The question posed to us was, ‘Are there rainbows in space?’ Yes is the answer. What do you think they will look like? Some children thought they would look the same. Others, thought they would be darker colours, faded.  Later, the children followed a draw-a-long, drawing brilliant brains: Albert Einstein and Greta Thunberg. Some interesting ones drawn. What ...