English

We have been working on persuasive writing this week.  The children have been acting as Lucy from our class novel trying to persuade her siblings to enter the wardrobe with her.  We have practised using techniques such as exaggeration, superlatives and rhetorical questions.

Maths

We have continued our fraction work this week looking at comparing fractions using bar models and equivalents.

Geography

The children did some map work this week, locating the 10 most active volcanoes on  a world map.  When they joined them up they could see ‘The Ring of Fire.’

English

This week in English we have looked at diaries and written our own diary entry as Mr Tumnus from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Maths

We have begun work on fractions this week, focussing on matching equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions.

Geography

We have started to learn about volcanoes in Geography this week.  The children seem very excited about this new part of our topic, with some doing extra research at home to find out more.

Science

This week we have planned an investigation using shadows to prove that day and night is caused by the Earth spinning on it’s axis.  We will be carrying out the investigation next week.

Welcome back to another busy term!

The children have enjoyed starting our new novel and we have been focussing on the 4 main characters and exploring them through role play, discussion and character mapping.

In maths we have really focussed on multiplying and dividing  numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 in a variety of ways and using different maths equipment.

We have started our new science topic on ‘Earth and Space’ by exploring what we know already about this topic and by identifying some ideas that we are less sure about and need to explore this term.  The homework this week links to this and will give children an opportunity to research independently.

Class 4 chose to do a dodge ball tournament for their sponsored PE activity this week to raise funds for the NSPCC.  They had lots of fun playing and really tried their best.  Many thanks for the sponsor forms already brought in.  There is still time next week to return them.