Literacy
In literacy we have been continuing our work on The Hobbit,
thinking about how the author describes characters and settings so that they
come ‘alive’. In particular we have been thinking about Smaug and developing
our descriptive language around him. Here are some of our ideas:
“He approached the town,
gliding swiftly on huge, silvery wings.”
“Ebony eyes glinting in
the milky moonlight.”
“Crimson
bejewelled scales shone in the moonlight.”
Mathematics
In Mrs Prowle’s group, we have been practising telling the
time on analogue and digital clocks, including using 24 hour time. We also
learned how to use a number line to accurately calculate time intervals.
In Mrs Roche’s group we have been finding fractions of
numbers. We have also started to look at equivalent fractions.
In Mrs Williams and Mrs
Gilder’s group we have been practising our number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. We also did a recap on some tips to help us with our multiplication tables.
Science
Maple Class have been testing different soils to identify
their properties and think about how to solve a problem from Farmer Bloom; his fields keep flooding and his crops are
being ruined.
In Poplar class we have been testing which rocks are
permeable, we have also carried out an experiment to find out which was the
hardest rock from our samples.
Topic
We have learned about the
structure of volcanoes. We watched video clips of different volcanic eruptions
and were surprised to see that there is not always a lava flow or, in fact,
lava exploding out of a crater. It was interesting to find out that volcanoes
grow and change all the time as they erupt.
Art
In art this week Maple and Poplar
class have continued to look at natural materials to create art in the woodland
area. On Friday afternoon we went outside to build shelters for imaginary
creatures and ourselves. We used lots of skills like teamwork and patience and had to overcome lots of problems with securing different parts of our dens. It was great fun!
Lime class used lots of skills in building dens. We had to use team-work, problem solving and even some knot tying skills.
Computing
We have been continuing to explore Logo. This week we refined
the algorithms to write our names and some of us started to develop a program
for drawing 2D shapes.
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