We have a had a wonderfully busy term so far in Violet class settling into the routines and expectations of Year 5.
In maths this week we have been counting in 1000’s up to 10,000! We have been using this to develop an understanding of what 10,000 is in a real life context. Like if we had 10,000 people together, how much space we would really need? If you said a whole football stadium’s worth of space – you were correct!
And in English we have been reading a story called ‘The Lost Thing’ by Shaun Tan. It’s a story about The a boy who discovers a strange looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at the beach and he attempts to help it. We have written journal entries in character as the boy using conjunctions to start sentences. We have also written adverts working hard to correctly punctuate with questions, commands and statements. Today, to help us plan we have designed our own ‘Lost things’.
We are looking at different style portraits in art this term. We have really enjoyed looking at artwork by portrait artist Alice X. Zang, she paints lots of famous characters and our most recent sketches have been inspired by her portrait of Gwen Stacey from Spider-Man! We have been learning how to draw faces by sketching each feature separately and this week (inspired by Alice’s art) chose to sketch characters from Across the Spiderverse. Our favourites have been Gwen Stacey and Miles Morales. We also really liked sketching Spider-Punk.
In computing we have been looking at and learning how to use search engines. Did you know there are SO many different search engines? Google is the most common and we also learnt that some search engines record everything you search for! Including all the links you click on and they can use this information to guess your location. It was mind-blowing! We had a class debate about this as lots of us agreed that this was not a fair use for being able to search the internet.
