Our theme for this term is imaginary worlds.
LITERACY
Maple and Poplar Class have started thinking about Fantasy
stories. We have been identifying the main features such as magical creatures,
imaginary worlds, vivid description, ‘made-up’ words and using extracts to get
ideas. We used our imagination to draw a Hobbit hole while listening to the
description from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkein.
Lime class have been finishing off our playscripts based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. We have really enjoyed learning about Shakespeare and managed to perform our scenes in Brambles to each other.
MATHEMATICS
In Mrs Prowle’s group, we are starting to learn about
fractions. We have been using numicon to find fractions of quantities and are
beginning to discover that some fractions are equivalent.
In Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group we have been practising
reading the time. Please practise this
at home, particularly reading time to the nearest minute.
Mrs Roach's group have been practising subtraction.
SCIENCE
In Maple Class we started learning about different kinds of
rocks. We looked at lots of different rock samples and came up with vocabulary
to describe their properties before learning how to use a branching key to sort
and identify them.
Lime class have been looking at the digestive system. 
Topic
Our topic this half term is Earthquakes and Volcanoes. This
week we started by learning about the structure of the Earth. We were amazed by how thin the crust is and
that there is a magnetic core in the centre.
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ART
In art we are continuing our theme of imaginary worlds. Each class made some mud creatures in the woods.
