Y5 blog 1.10.21

Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 8:16am

Thank you to everyone who attended our virtual Welcome to Year 5 meeting last night. For those that could not attend, the recording has been posted on the 5J / 5L Google Classroom chat.

This week has been another exciting week in Year 5. In maths we have been adding and subtracting large numbers mentally by using rounding and organising with great success. Yesterday we even had a pretend visit to McDonalds in Indonesea to work out the total costs of various saver meal orders (in Rupiah).

In English, we have been looking at how awful instructions lead to bad mistakes when making something. The instructions for Maya hot chocolate led to some terrible mistakes, including poor Mr Hardman and Mrs Harper tasing cold water with chocolate cubes in and half a jar of chilli powder. Luckily, by the time we had written clear and concise instructions, the drink was much nicer when we tried it - even though it still had chilli powder and cinnamon in it. 

We are continuing to learn our brass instrument and this week's music to practice is on the handout from last week, but the newest piece is with the homework on the website.