Year Five - Term Four
The student should be able to:
Objective
Literacy
Speaking and Listening
- To listen carefully and respond appropriately to what others have said
- To talk clearly and confidently in different contexts
- To use a varied vocabulary when speaking by using standard English
Reading
- To read a range of texts fluently and accurately
- To use expression when reading by paying close attention to the punctuation in the text
- To use more than one strategy in reading unfamiliar words and establishing meaning
- To show clear understanding of what is read by referring to the text when explaining views
Writing
Word Level Work
- To spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words, e.g. company,portable, poisonous interest description, carpet, sector, freedom,extra, etc..
- To recognise the spelling and meaning of the prefixes: in-,im-, ir-, il-, pro-, sus-.
Sentence Level Work
- To understand how writing can be adapted for different audiences and purposes, e.g. by changing vocabulary and sentence structures.
- To use punctuation marks accurately in complex sentences.
- To use connectives to link clauses within sentences and to link sentences in longer texts.
Text Level Work
- To investigate a range of texts from different cultures, considering patterns of relationships, social customs, attitudes and beliefs
- To identify the point of view from which a story is told and how this affects the reader’s response.
- To read and evaluate letters, e.g. from newspapers, magazines, intended to inform, protest, complain, persuade, considering (i) how they are set out (ii) how language is used, e.g. to gain attention, respect, manipulate.
- From reading, to collect and investigate use of persuasive devices: e.g. words and phrases
- To write a commentary on an issue on paper or screen, (e.g.as a news editorial, leaflet), setting out and justifying a personal view; to use structures from reading to set out and link points,e.g. numbered lists, bullet points.
Mathematics
Securing number facts, understanding shapes
- To use a calculator to solve problems including decimals or fractions
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
- To solve one-step and two-step problems involving whole numbers and decimals and all four operations.
- To draw and measure lines to the nearest millimetre; measure and calculate the perimeter of polygons; use a formula for the area of a rectangle.
Securing number facts, calculating, identifying relationships
- To use sequences to scale numbers up or down; solve problems involving proportions of quantities
- To find fractions using division and percentages of numbers and quantities
Science
Changing Sound
- To generalize that sounds are produced when objects vibrate
- To identify the types of materials through which sounds travels
- To plan a test to find out which materials muffle sounds well
- To know that pitch is how ‘high’ or ‘low’ a sound is
- To suggest how to alter the pitch of an instrument
Earth, Sun and Moon
- To be able to describe the Sun, Earth and Moon and their relative sizes and shapes
- To be able to explain how the Earth moves
- To present times of sunrise and sunset on a graph and to recognise patterns
- To explain how the Earth takes a year to make one orbit of the sun
- To describe the different appearance of the moon over 28 days
History
Victorian Britain & Children
To identify Queen Victoria and place the Victorian period on a time line
To collect information from a range of sources and draw conclusions about the Victorian period
To identify aspects of life for Victorian Children
Design & Technology
Musical Instruments
- To investigate and evaluate a range of musical instruments in order to learn how they function
- To draw on ideas investigated to design and make a musical instrument based on a specific purpose
- To develop a clear plan and suggest alternative methods if the first attempt fails
Information Technology
Controlling Devices
- To control simple devices
- To use simple procedures to control more than one output.
Monitoring Environmental Conditions and Changes
- To attach a sensor to a device connected to a computer and take readings
- To set variables.
Art
Personal Project
- To make a proposal and initial design for a personal project
- To explore qualities of known materials and select appropriate ones to develop project
- To write a text explaining their work.
- To produce a final 3-D or 2-D piece based on their original idea
- To collect visual and other information to help development of ideas
- To investigate and combine visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and to match these qualities to the purpose of the work
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
Relationships/Growing up
- To think about how they have changed since they were babies – physically and mentally
- To understand the body changes that occur during puberty
- To know that there are also behaviour changes that occur during puberty and how these might affect our relationships with family and friends
Spanish
Advanced - Teatro
- Leerá e interpretará diversos tipos de textos literarios: cuentos, poemas y obras teatrales.
- Comparará textos narrativos, líricos y dramáticos teniendo en cuenta algunos de sus elementos constitutivos.
- Reconocerá el poema como una forma literaria con características definidas. Identificará en sus versos y estrofas la rima del poema.
- Redactará versos y guiones de teatro en talleres de producción y creación literaria.
- Producirá un texto oral, teniendo en cuenta la entonación, la articulación y la organización de las ideas que requiere la situación comunicativa. (Declamación o Guión teatral)
- Leerá la obra literaria asignada y buscará pistas, indicios en el título, la época e ilustraciones para predecir lo que lee. Relacionará esas primeras predicciones que hace con lo que leerá en la obra.
Second Language – Reading and Doing Presentations
- Identificar diferentes tipos de texto.
- Lectura y análisis de textos
- Buscar información para una exposición.
- Preparar una exposición.
- Presentar una exposición.
Cultura Colombiana I
Social Customs and Daily Life 3
- Explain the need for agreements within the different social classes for the best quality of life in all the country.
- Differentiate among various forms of cultural expressions according to the cultural regions.
- Examine strategies designed to strengthen the “common good”, which consider a range of options for Colombians citizen action.
Cultura Colombiana II
Plastic Arts 2
- Describe and analyze the role of photography as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
- Describe and analyze the role of architecture as it contributes to or helps the Colombian communities.
- Identify and describe the basic features of the plastic arts in Colombia, and identify leaders from various levels and regions.
- Give examples and explain how plastic artists attempt to achieve their cultural ideals at home and abroad.
Sociales
Relaciones Ético-Políticas
- Reconocer que todo juego posee unas reglas que se deben seguir.
- Propone normas al interior de su salón de clase para facilitar la convivencia.
- Identificar en la Constitución Nacional de Colombia normas que nos ayudan a vivir mejor.
Physical Education
Formas Jugadas Derivadas del Voleibol
- Permitir al estudiante experiencias colectivas sobre juegos derivados del voleibol.
- Favorecer en los niños el desarrollo habilidades básicas para pasar y golpear un balón con los brazos y dedos durante un juego derivado del voleibol.
- Facilitar y estimular en el niño de diálogo y la creatividad mediante la variación y modificación de juegos colectivos derivados del voleibol.
Music
Violin I – Preparing for the summer concert
- Learning the G major scale
- Learning the son “Go Tell Aunt Rhody”
- Learning the song “Happy birthday”
Violin II – Preparing for the summer concert
- Learning the song “Allegro”
- Learning the song “Perpetual Motion”
- Learning C Major scale
Choir – Preparing for the Summer Concert
- Rhythmic dictation
- Singing in two and three voices
Percussion – Preparing for the summer concert
- Rhythmic dictation
- Learning about the different kinds of instruments
Recorder – Preparing for the summer concert
- Rhythmic dictation
- Learning about the different kinds of instruments
Guitar – Learning the circle I,VI,II,V
- Preparing for the final exam
- ABRSM Music theory 4