Year 5 - Swallow And Amazon & The BFG
Swallows and Amazons & The BFGs
As readers:
We will be reading ‘Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief’. As part of this we will be exploring vocabulary, discussing the meaning of characters’ actions and inferring meaning from events implied in the text. We will be making predictions based on what has already happened and what we know of the characters’ motivations as well as summarising what we have read.
Our whole class reading sessions will be linked to our English and history topic of Ancient Greece. We will be focussing on developing fluency, retrieving information, and making links to the main class story and our new knowledge of Ancient Greece as a historical influence as well as Ancient Greek myths as well as inference and vocabulary work.
Key vocabulary: myth, legend, history, culture, influence, impact, geography
As writers:
We will be exploring how to create atmosphere and tension when using description to re-write the ending of the story to answer the Big Question: “What would happen if the Olympians went to war?”. We will also be writing an explanation report to answer the Big Question “What effect does river pollution have on the environment?” and developing our use and understanding of cohesive devices such as conjunctions, adverbials of time, manner and frequency as well as parentheses for clarity and cohesion.
Key vocabulary: emotive language, narrative, description, informative, cohesion, clarity, parenthesis, adverbial, conjunction
As mathematicians:
We will be ordering, comparing and rounding decimal numbers, converting decimals, percentages, and fractions before moving on to measuring the area and perimeter of regular and irregular rectilinear shapes. Towards the end of the term, we will be looking at interpreting tables and finding missing information within a table.
Key vocabulary: fraction, decimal, percentage, area, perimeter, regular, irregular, rectilinear, interpret, table
As scientists:
We will be learning about climate change and what causes it as well as what effects climate change has on people at home and abroad. We will then continue looking at the properties of materials and whether heating/cooling is a reversible or irreversible change. We will be looking at what materials are needed for something to burn, what the properties of those materials are, and why those materials are used.
Key vocabulary: state of matter, reversible, irreversible, climate, heating, cooling, properties