10 Mar What’s happening in Year 5 – Week 3
In writing, Year 5 wrote a recount based on our key text: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. We included five senses description to engage the reader, empty words to build tension, and our grammar focus was the use fronted adverbials. Below are some extracts from students’ writing.
As the sky became dark, we raced down the desolate country lanes. Through the murky mist, Mum drove on. As the rain cascaded down the windscreen, shots of lightning lit up the sky like shooting stars. Behind the car, a screeching noise told me it was still following us – Rhyiannah
Unexpectedly, a figure appeared and Mum swerved to avoid it. There was a deafening explosion. Before I knew what had happened, Mum and I were thrown forward in our seats. I felt weightless; my ears were ringing with the sound of metal on metal and the flames around me singed my skin. Slowly, I came to the realisation that I was not dead. I had survived – Tyler
Cautiously, I glanced around me. I came to my senses and realised the car had not really exploded. We had been struck by lightning. The roof had cracked open like an eggshell. The rain started pouring in through the cracks, sent by the menacing clouds. It beat against my skin, stinging like pin pricks. Just then, through the shattered windscreen, I saw the figure again – Daniel
Lumbering towards us, the sight of the figure made my skin crawl. As it slowly put one foot in front of the other, it was making strange, grunting noises. His great, meaty hands were swinging at his sides. It had dark, blood-red eyes; its two pointy horns that could have belonged to a bull. I began to tremble uncontrollably, as sweat dripped from my forehead. Is this how my life will end? – Maggie
Year 5 were separating mixtures using a variety of apparatus in their science lesson, including magnets, sieves, funnels and filter paper. We compared our observations with our predictions from the previous lesson.