This week's highlight was our fabulous Roald Dahl day on Thursday.  The children all looked amazing in their costumes; we had Willy Wonkas, Fantastic Mr Foxes, Matildas, Georges, Violet Beauregards, a couple of Enormous Crocodiles, some Mike Teavees, a Roly Poly bird, a Trunchbull and many, many more!
Everyone had a great day visiting the Giant's Cave to make dream jars, Pelly's Room to try out some Revolting Recipes for Plushnuggets, Nishnobblers and Blue Bubblers and, in Wonka's World, we invented our own new sweets! 
Even the kitchen joined in creating some amazing desserts and decorating the dining room with a Roald Dahl theme.
A huge thank you to all the parents who came to help and entered into the spirit of things; we couldn't have done it without you!

    

  

  

Lime Maths – Adding to 100, subtracting 2-digit numbers.

The base 10 manipulatives really helped to work out what to add to a 2-digit number to make 100. We used our bonds to 10 to work out the ones we needed and had to take this into account when we were working out the tens.

We then moved on to subtracting.  We used the bean string and number lines to help us work out the difference.

Lime maths is set on mymaths this week.

Maple Maths - Bar graphs

We surveyed everyone in the class to find out what their favourite animals are and then used the data to draw bar graphs. We had  to remember to label the axes, choose an appropriate scale and to draw the bars accurately. 

Homework this week is to collect data about word length in our reading books and use it to create a bar graph.

English

It was a 'Big Write' week and the children were set the task of using a variety of different sentence openers to describe a sea monster. After lots of games and discussion about using '-ly' and '-ing' openers to make writing more interesting, the teachers were looking for these in the descriptions.

Here are some examples of our writing!

'Cautiously the sea monster waited in the murky waters.  Deep in the depths, the sea monster slowly and silently swam towards the divers'. Alice, Lime

'In the distance lurks a petrifying, terrifying, gruesome sea monster.' Bertie, Maple

'Silently I swam through the dark depths of the ocean...' Oliver S, Maple

'Menacingly, it swam hungrily across the reef with stupendous, razor-sharp teeth.' Christopher, Maple

French

Lime have been busy practising for their French themed sharing assembly. We have worked hard on our accents, conversation skills and have really enjoyed singing ‘Alouette’. Do you know what the song is about? Find out here: http://www.frenchlearner.com/songs/alouette/

RE

We continued our learning about Rangoli patterns this week and had great fun making some out of coloured salt on paper plates. Look out for them hanging in our classrooms when you come to visit next week for Parents' Evening!