News  On Friday LKS2 were very lucky to have Mr Jarratt visit to share his expertise on birdwatching and let us look through his professional birdwatching telescope.  The children really enjoyed it and are now looking forward to doing our bird count as part of the Big School Birdwatch for the RSPB next week.

Literacy   Lime class have continued their work on Calligrams and shape poems. We have also been experimenting with alliteration and similes. We used pictures of different animals to generate ideas.   Maple Class have continued their work on shape poetry this week, converting their similes and alliterative phrases into poems that follow patterns and rhythm. Here are some of our Lion poems that we completed in pairs.   Poplar Class too have continued their work on shape poetry and produced some excellent poems using similes and alliterative phrases.     Homework: This week the talk homework is about the weekend’s weather. As usual, please discuss the topic at home and make plenty of notes (bullet points / mind maps etc) in your green books. Remember you will be doing the main piece of writing at school on Monday so you shouldn’t do too much writing at home.

Mathematics   In Mrs Prowle’s group we have been practising multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 and learning about the decimal system. We applied this knowledge in the classroom by measuring lots of things and converting the measurements into different units (mm, cm, m and km). Next week we will be revising our tables to make sure our knowledge of the basic multiplication and division facts is secure before we move on to more complicated written methods of these operations.  Please make sure you keep practising your tables at home!     Homework: converting measurements using your knowledge of multiplication and division by multiples of 10.   In Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group we have been exploring repeated addition and looked for patterns. Looking at the patterns we could then predict what numbers we thought would in the continued sequence and which would not.  The place value discs are really helping us to visualise what happens when two of the digits change. (eg adding 20; 70, 90, 110). Try writing your own sequences.   In Mrs Roche’s group we have been looking at some word problems involving subtraction and then looked at multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 and 100. Homework: Test 9 in Schofield and Sims

SCIENCE In Maple Class we learned how we actually hear the sounds all around us. Having explored vibration over the last few weeks we found out how the sound waves are converted to something we can understand. Can you label this diagram of the ear and explain how it works?

HISTORY Maple and Poplar Class have been researching each of Henry VIII’s wives and preparing posters about them including a portrait and a variety of information.

FRENCH   Lime class decorated bookmarks with our names and the responses to the question Ca va? We also described clothing using different colours and practised our counting. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/pf2/games_all.shtml

ART   Lime, Poplar and Maple class studied the Tudor portrait. Can you remember the clues we found that tell us more about George? http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/portraits/tour1.html The children began their own portraits and thought carefully about what clues they would put in their picture.

Recommended Books

Each class in LKS2 has compiled a list of recommended books.  These books are recommended by the children. 

Why not see how many you have already read and whether any that you haven't you might like to read?

Perhaps you could share the book with an adult or a sibling?

We would love to read any book reviews you want to complete.

Lime Class’s Book Recommendations

 

The Battle of Britain

Mr Stink by David Walliams

Beast Quest by Adam Blade

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

The Football Academy Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

Zoe’s Rescue Zoo by Amelia Cobb

Narnia series by CS Lewis

Tom Gates by Liz Pichon

Mr Mageika by Humphrey Carpenter

The Mum Sitter by J Wilson

Harry Potter by J K Rowling

How to train your dragon by Cressida Cowell

Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon

Stories for Girls

Nanny McPhee by Christianna Brand

Billionaire Boy by David Walliams

 

Favourite authors:

Darcy Bussell

David Walliams

Daisy Meadows (Fairy books)

Roald Dahl

Recommended book list Maple class

 

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

The BFG by Roald Dahl

George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton

The famous by five by Enid Blyton

The Parent Agency by David Baddiel

Violet and the Pearl of the Orient by Harriet Whitehorn and Becca Moor

Diary of a wimpy kid: the long haul by Jeff Kinney

The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by CS Lewis

How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

Princess Disgrace: Second term at Tall Towers by Kuenza Lou

The little house on the prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Captain Underpants by Dav Pikey

Beast Quest by Adam Blade

Little Foxes by Michael Morpurgo

Minecraft combat handbook

Paddington by Michael Bond

Tom Gates by Liz Pichon

 

Favourite authors

Roald Dahl

Enid Blyton

JK Rowling

Michael Morpurgo

Recommended book list Poplar class

 

Tom Gates by Liz Pichon

Demon Dentist by David Walliams

The boy in a dress by David Walliams

Awful Auntie by David Walliams

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

Destiny and the wild horses by Stacy Gregg

Blaze and the dark rider by Stacy Gregg

Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney

Journey to the river sea by Eva Ibbotson

Dork diary by Rachel Renee Russell

Secret Agent Jack Storwalt

The Hero pup by Megan Rix

The Naughtiest girl in the school by Enid Blyton

Horrid Henry by Francesca Cross

King of the cloud forests by Michael Morpurgo

The Doughnut diaries by Anthony McGowan

World records 2015

Frozen

 

Favourite authors

David Walliams

Stacy Gregg

Michael Morpurgo

Jeff Kinney

News Good Learners: Our LKS2 good learners this week were Ellie (Maple), Lucia (Poplar) and Imogen (Lime). Well done to all of them for a fantastic start to the New Year.

Literacy We have continued our work on calligrams, focussing on shape, line and colour to represent words in relation to their meaning. We have used our work in French to write calligrams in French, including in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.   LKS2 have started to create alliterative phrases and similes from a photograph to form the basis of a shape poem next week. Here are some examples of what we came up with:  “majestic, magical, mammal” “silent, secret, stealthy lion” “…as wild and free as the wind roaming across the never ending African plains.” “…as power hungry as Henry VIII.”     Homework: Choose a poem and write it out using calligrams for some of the words.

Mathematics   In Mrs Prowle’s group This week we have been practising using standard methods of column addition and subtraction.  For a bit more challenge we had to fill in missing digits to make calculations correct. Some of us then tried to arrange 5 or 6 digits to make calculations of 3-digit numbers  with target totals.   In Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group This week we have been solving problems involving addition and subtraction. We have used place value discs to support our learning. We used columns to record the numbers, making sure that we put the digits in the right places.  Practise your skills using the websites below: http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/speedgrid/addition/urikares.html http://resources.oswego.org/games/SpeedGrid/Subtraction/urikasub1res.html   Mrs Roche's group have been looking at subtraction of three digit numbers from three digit numbers. We have used a number line and jumped up or down the line. Lots of practice is needed still in subtraction.

SCIENCE We continued learning about sound and used homemade ‘ear gongs’ made out of metal coat hangers and string to investigate whether sound travels better through a solid or a gas. Most of us were very surprised by what we discovered!      http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/educators/teaching_resources/activities/ear_gongs.aspx

HISTORY We were excited to begin our Tudor topic. We talked about when the Tudor era was and how the Tudor Rose was formed. Looking at a portrait of Henry VIII, we thought about questions we would like to find out about Henry VIII. We then researched Henry's wives using the laptops and put their portraits in chronological order. We labelled them with what happened to them. Can you child remember the song? Divorced, beheaded and died... Here's a website you may like to take a look at. http://ngkids.co.uk/did-you-know/Tudor_Facts#

FRENCH Mme Ough taught us some words for the weather. We also looked at some French calligrams. Did you know that calligrams originated from France?

Happy New Year!   We hope you all had a restful Christmas break. The children have come back into school refreshed and keen to learn. We have started the year by reflecting on the holidays and also thinking about New Year Resolutions and our hopes for 2015.

Literacy   We have been looking at shape poems and how the meaning of words inspire the shapes in calligram.     You could have a go and your own calligrams. Maybe you could use word art on the computer!   Useful Websites:   Homework: Talk Homework – This year, what was the best gift you gave to someone and why was it so special? How did it make them feel? What was the best gift you received and what made it special to you? How did it make you feel?

Mathematics   In Mrs Prowle’s group we have been practising adding and subtracting.   In Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group we have been revising our knowledge of place value. We have been generating three digit numbers (or larger) and marking their position on a number line. http://www.ictgames.com/LIFEGUARDS.html   In Mrs Roche’s Group we too have been revising place value and looking at what happens to a number if you add, subtract, multiply or divide by 10.

Topic   We are looking forward to beginning our topic on the The Tudors. Maybe you can visit the library and find some books relating to this topic.

Science All three classes began to look at our new topic on Sound during the week. We discussed the statement ‘Something has to move for a sound to be made.’ We played musical instruments and discussed how the sound was made.

Computing   We have begun our new topic entitled ‘Bringing Images to Life’. We have been comparing some before and after images and discussed what affect these changes have.   What changes can you see in these before and after images? What affect do these changes have?