Transition Day Diary!

Have a look here for what we are getting up to on our transition days into year 5!

Day 2 - Friday 16th July 2021

There are a lot of new jobs in our new class, so today we thought about the qualities required for each job and completed application forms. Mrs Shields will then read our forms, and tell us who has got each job in September! So exciting!

Day 1 - Thursday 15th July 2021

In our C4L lesson today, we thought about risky situations and ways to keep ourselves safe. We thought about ways we could get out of risky situations, like saying no to dares, asking an adult before doing anything we are unsure of and keeping ourselves safe online.

Vikings

In history we have been learning about the VIkings and their various invasions! This week we rehearsed and performed a poem that was written about the vikings and what they did. It also told of King Ethelred the Unready's plan to pay the vikings to go away with Dane-geld. We decided that this wasn't such a good idea as the Vikings soon learned that they could earn more money by coming back and getting paid to go away again! Here is us rehearsing our poems.

We are looking at electric circuits in science at the moment. Last week we thought about what materials are insulators and what are conductors. 

We learned that insulators do not let electricity pass through them, but conductors do! That is why plugs have plastic covers - plastic is an insulator and therefore protects you from the electric circuit inside! I wonder how many examples of insulators protecting circuits you have in your home?!

We have started to look at measurements in maths. It is important we understand both cm and m, so we have been practicing converting between units!

Week ending 16/04/2021

This week we have had a fab week back! We have started to think about Charlotte's Web in English and managed to hot seat some of the characters in our lesson on Thursday!

In science we have started to look at electricity and elecric circuits - there will be photos to follow in future weeks as we investigate this further!

In French we have learned to ask 'Who is it?' 'Qui est-ce?' and then respond with 'It is ...' 'C'est...'.

In maths we have been thinking about money and have had a fun week imagining going to cafe's and buying hot chocolate!!!

We are having a spelling quiz on Monday with the words:

build

busy

business

calendar

caught

centre

century

certain

circle

complete

consider

continue

Please make sure your child completes their Rockstars and Spelling Shed challenges this weekend!

Thanks for all your support.

Mrs Shields

Recent work!

 Since we have been back, we have been enjoying lots of wonderful experiences, as well as a LOT of learning!

We have managed to fit 3 different science investigations in so far! Below, you can see pictures of us disecting flowers, investigating how plants transport water, and also planting our own sunflowers! We will post pictures as they grow!

We have also been working on our spellings and times tables. Please do keep practising these at home too! Times table Rockstars and Spelling Shed have weekly challenges for the children to complete. We also love singing our Times table songs:

3 times table - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVyBQ5uTbo

4 times table - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ4ooLN7Bmo&t=25s

6 times table - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CGnFEp9k24&t=4s

8 times table - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdqAA9Ky2DY

9 times table - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-9-times-table/zr2gt39

As soon as I have found a good 7 and 12 times table song, I'll upload those here too!

Dolphins Class Page - update wb 22.02.21

Welcome back to what is going to be a very different, but exciting, half term!

We are going to be doing things a little differently again! Miss Rimes will be in the classroom with the children who are in school, and I will be running all our remote learning. This will be conducted via zoom, through Tapestry and here. You will be sent a letter about this separately.

There is a daily timetable for learning through zoom which I will post below. 

All lesson information and resources are available on Tapestry and here by 3pm the day before it is taught. 

If you have any questions or worries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me. I will help as best I can! This is all new for all of us, so you may have to forgive any teething problems! But if we all pull together, we'll get there!!!

Thanks for your continued support and stay safe.

Mrs Shields

9am - Maths - please find attached presentation, worksheet and challenges.

11am - English - please find attached presentation and worksheet.

1.30pm - PE - NOT ON ZOOM - please find time to brush up on your netball skills using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sGPHv-hkBVs  then have a mindful meditation to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Bk_qU7l-fcU 

French home learning

Here are some handy French pages to help the children at home. We are focusing on numbers to 20 this half term.

9 am - Maths - please find attached the power point I will be going through on the zoom. There is also the worksheet to print and a challenge if you would like. Don't forget to mark your worksheet using the Fast Track Pass.

11am - English - please find attached the power point I will be going through on the zoom and a worksheet to complete.

Afternoon work - there is no zoom or story time today. Please complete the music work attached, using your Charanga log in to remind you of the song.

Any questions, you know where I am!

Mrs Shields

9am session - maths - attached is the PDF presentation I will be going through on the zoom. There is also the worksheet to be printed. If you would like your child to complete the challenge, that would also be great! Don't forget to check your worksheet answers with the Fast Track Pass from yesterdays uploads.

11am session - English - attached is the PDF presentation I will be going through on the zoom. We are writing our work today, so this can be done on any paper, neatly. 

1.30 session - History - attached is the power point I will be going through on the zoom, and also the worksheet. You may refer back to the power point when completing the worksheet!

Should you have ANY questions at all, please email me on dolphins@eye.peterborough.sch.uk and I will help as best I can.

Mrs Shields

9am session - maths - attached is the PDF presentation I will be going through on the zoom. There is also the worksheet to be printed. If you would like your child to complete the challenge, that would also be great! I have also attached this weeks worksheet answers. This is answers for all the worksheet questions, for the WHOLE WEEK. This is call the fast track pass. The children are familiar with this and are used to using it.

11am session - English - attached is the PDF presentation I will be going through on the zoom. There is a worksheet to print too for the children to work on. 

1.30 session - R.E. - attached is the powerpoint presentation I will be going through on the zoom. This is a research lesson, so research notes can be on any paper, but they need to be kept safe for next week!

Should you have ANY questions at all, please email me on dolphins@eye.peterborough.sch.uk and I will help as best I can.

Mrs Shields

This week, our table of the week has been the 7 times table.

We have been chanting our 7s altogether. Try challenging your child at home to 7 times table questions!

***NOTICE FROM MRS SHIELDS***

I have had some parents over the last few days come to me concerned that their child is unable to go to the toilet in class. I just wanted to reassure you that this is not the case at all in Dolphins class. The children are given many opportunities to go to the toilet throughout the day and are encouraged to do so. Please be reassured that at no point will there be sanctions for this. Due to Covid restrictions, we are only allowed one child in the toilet at a time, so that might a moment when a child has to wait. If you have any worries regarding this, please do not hesitate to discuss this with me. Thank you for your support. Mrs Shields and Miss Johnson.

Welcome Dolphins!

Welcome back to a new and different year! We are very excited to have you all back and can't wait to get on with our learning for the year. We have spent a lot of time over the Summer working out the best way for us all to work together and for everybody to be comfortable, so please if you have any worries, come and speak to me and I will do my best to help.

I am your teacher this year, Mrs Shields, and Miss Johnson will be in the class with us.

Our school day begins at 9am and finishes at 3.20pm.

PE will be on Thursdays. On PE days, please make sure you come to school in your PE kit - we won't be getting changed! Our first PE session for the year will be Thursday 17th September 2020, so you don't need to worry about it until then!

This term we have some VERY exciting things planned:

English - we will start by looking at the story of The Wolves in the Walls, with a view to creating our own narratives.

Maths - we will begin by looking at place value and of course looking at our times tables!

History - our history topic will be Ancient Greeks.

Science - we will cover a lot in science this term, starting with life cycles, then moving onto teeth and then the digestive system.

RE - we will be thinking of the kind of world Jesus would want.

Plus we will be covering MANY other things!

Our home learning this half term will take the form of Times Table Rockstars challenges and Spelling Shed challenges - more details will follow.

Reading records are due in on Fridays and will then be handed out again on Mondays. Reading books and records will all be handed out next week.

If you have any questions about anything at all, please don't hesitate to grab me at the start of the school day and I will help as much as I can.

Best wishes and I look forward to meeting you all in due course!

Mrs Shields