Spellings:
Next rule will be 'sc'
With most 'sc' words you can hear the 'c' sound, as in school, scout and Scotland. However in some 'sc' words the 'c' is silent, as in science or scent.

Literacy

In literacy we have made a start at looking at instructions.  This will be our focus over the next couple of weeks with lots of cross-curricular links to art and the Ancient Egyptians. Don't forget your sandwich ingredients on Monday!

Homework:

Practise using prepositions. Please complete neatly in green homework books.

Maths

In Lime class we have been practising to read the time.  Why not test us on quarter past, quarter to and then 5 past etc.  Perhaps we need the challenge of reading the time to the nearest minute on an analogue clock - can we also convert the time to the digital time?

Homework

Lime class have been looking at time this week and for homework they have been set the challenge to convert seconds, minutes and hours.  Also have a think about how many days are in a year, how many months in a year.  What is a decade, or a century?

In Maple Class we have been using our times tables to multiply multiples of 10. We were able to construct lots of number sentences using the inverse and really built our confidence towards the end of the week. Ask us what other number sentences we can make from 

6x30 = 180.

Later in the week we used this knowledge and the base 10 apparatus to help us learn the grid method of multiplication for 2 and 3-digit numbers.  Ask us to show you how to solve these questions:

8 x 34

15 x 46

6 x 274

17 x 357

Homework

The next page in the Schofield and Simms book please. Plus, keep going with all that tables practise and don't forget the related division facts!

In Poplar Class we have been measuring and weighing. We then used the information we had gained to draw bar graphs.

Homework The next page in the Schofield and Simms book please. Plus, keep going with all that tables practise and don't forget the related division facts!

Topic
Maple Class learned about the amazing discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in November 1922. We imagined we were Howard Carter and wrote diary entries about it, thinking carefully about how excited and awestruck he and his team would have  been.

In Poplar we have been learning about the Mummification process. The children were fascinated  about the process and wondered how big the canopic jars would have been to put the different organs in. They then researched for themselves information about all the different Gods the Ancient Egyptians believed in.


Woodland learning

Each class has been collecting natural items to make mobiles to hang on the trees outside the classrooms. 


Art
All three classes had great fun making canopic jars using mod-roc. It was very messy! We covered plastic cups in mod-roc and allowed them to dry. Then we made the lids out of clay by gradually moulding them with our fingers. It was tricky to get the head shapes right! We are really looking forward to decorating them when they have dried!

This week's spellings:

After our exciting 'Take One Book' week the children have settled back into our usual routine.  Well done Maple Class for a wonderful sharing assembly.  We loved hearing about Giraffe's can't dance and all of the learning that you did based on the book.

The stormy weather has provided lots of excitement, and each class made Autumn Crowns in our Woodland Learning.  Maple and Poplar please bring your wellies in on a Tuesday, Lime class will need theirs on Thursdays.

Lime Class had a very special treat when Alice's mum came into class with two original Quentin Blake paintings.  The paintings belong to Alice's grandfather and had a very interesting story behind them.

In literacy this week LKS2 have been focusing on grammar.  We have looked at adverbs and conjunctions - can the children spot any of these in their reading? In Big Write this week we wrote the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with a focus on good vocabulary. 

In maths Lime class have been practising adding fractions.  You could try cutting up a cake, chocolate bar or pizza and ask what the fraction of one slice is?  How many slices would you need to add to make a whole?

We even went outside to do some fraction work with chalk and leaves.

ICT and Art
In ICT we have been researching Egyptian Gods, Isis was the most popular God in Lime Class.  We have tried drawing some of the Gods.  
"I found Osiris the hardest one to draw." 
"I found it difficult to get all of the detail in." 
"I spotted that some of the Gods have symbols in their hand."