http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive Year Five Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:10:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Friday a group of 20 very lucky Year Fives went with Madame Quinton and Mrs Hinkes to Chiltern Edge to see a production entirely in French by the group ‘Théâtre sans Frontières’ (theatre without borders) of two French tales. We had prepared them thoroughly in class but even so, ... http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/03/07/theatre-sans-frontieres/ Please note that there will be no year 5 swimming on Monday 8th March. This is because the year 6s will be going to do their swim for the Sports Relief Triathlon. If you have paid for your child's swimming for the whole of the term please let us know ... http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/03/06/no-year-5-swimming-on-monday-08-03-10/ Group One - words ending in 'tion' alteration, accommodation, conversation, respiration, separation, punctuation, Tenochtitlan, Lake Texcoco Group Two - words ending in 'tion' station, action, fraction, invitation, mention, direction, Aztec, Lake Texcoco Group Three - words ending in 'le' cackle, crackle, tickle, trickle, pickle, prickle Group Four - 'ull' words bull, full, pull, dull, gull http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/03/05/spellings-for-10-03-10/ This term the theme for the talks is performance poetry.  We are asking the children to learn a poem by heart (no notes may be used).  The poem should be a minimum of 8 lines.  There is no limit as to how long it can be!  As it is performance ... http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/03/01/year-5-performance-poetry-talks/ Wednesday 24th February was National Singing Day so, inspired by this, Madame Quinton recorded some songs in French with Year 5.  Ecoutez et amusez-vous! Click on the play button Click on the play button http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/02/25/year-five-sing-up/ As part of our new topic (Chocolate!) we will be looking at the Aztecs. We will be researching into different areas of Aztec life. Below are some websites we will be using in our ICT lessons, and you may also like to use at home. www.library.thinkquest.org/27981/alife.html www.atschool.eduweb.co.uk/nettsch/time/aztec.html www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/aztecs.html http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/02/25/aztec-websites/ The children will be looking at playscripts this week and linking their learning to the Victorians by writing their own Punch and Judy shows. In order for them to do this work we will be getting them to look at the following websites in the ICT room tomorrow morning. Videos of ... http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/02/08/punch-and-judy-shows/ To learn about what Victorian houses of the rich would have looked like http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/history/stepback.shtml To use your knowledge of rich and poor Victorian children to help you match artefacts to their owners http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/ http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/01/19/websites-for-miss-wintons-ict-lesson-today/ Discover the difference between the clothing of Victorian and Tudor people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_victorian_dress.shtml http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2010/01/12/dress-tudor-and-victorian-people/ [gallery] http://sonningcommonprimary.co.uk/yearfive/2009/12/08/xtreme-bungee-photos-miss-wintons-class/