Happy Friday everyone!

Well done for completing another week of hard work and challenging topics. You're working extremely hard and were proud of you all for your continuous hard work. 

This week, we have been looking at how we can add action to our stories and how to bring them to life using similies and personification. For your homework this week, we would like you to look further at this and complete tasks based on using and creating similies and personification. There is a useful BBC Bitesize pages attached for support. Please complete the task as to which you usually would in class.

We would also like you to continue to practice your times tables by using TTRS to polish up your knowledge. Practising little and often over the holidays allows you to really embed your times tables knowledge, keep your memory of times tables solid, make you more confident when using your times tables in maths - and of course more confident for our maths challenge. Practising for 10-15 minutes a day would be our suggested time - beginning with Garage before moving onto a different TTRS game.

Please continue to read daily and record your reading in your reading journal. A minimum of 20 minutes daily would be our recommendation. Discussing the book with your family: likes, dislikes, any patterns and connections between this book and another text and any questions you have as a reader. If there are any words that are unfamiliar to you, please discuss them with your adults - or magpie them in a notebook for us to discuss in school.   

Many thanks,

The Year 5 team.