English – We have been gathering and inferring information on a key character in the story and supporting ideas with evidence from the text.  We then planned and wrote a chapter from another character’s point of view.  The children were asked to think about using lots of detail to extend their writing- e.g. adventurous adjectives/verbs/adverbs, alliteration, similes etc.

Maths – Year 4 children have been looking at using rounding to estimate money and using the four operations to solve problems.  Year 5 children have been looking at decimal sequences and multiplying/dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

Topic – Understanding the religion of Ancient Greece and finding key information about the Greek Gods and Goddesses and what they were responsible for.  The children completed fact files using their own research.

R.E.- Looking at artwork based on the Pentecost and completing a piece of artwork based on their knowledge of the story.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 18th May

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Homework – in books.  Multiplying decimals or solving money problems.

Have a great weekend!

MrsThomas

English – Research into Stonehenge, then planning, drafting, editing a non-chronological report about Stonehenge.  At the end of the week the children published their writing in the form of leaflets. They spent some time on these and have produced some wonderful pieces of work, thinking carefully about layout and presentation.

Maths – Year 4 children have been using money to find totals, convert pounds and pence, ordering amounts of money and comparing amounts.  Year 5 children have been adding and subtracting decimals with a different amount of decimal places.

Topic – We looked at a range of Greek artefacts and buildings and discussed what they might have been used for.  Lots of great discussion in class about the children’s ideas and then we found out what they actually were.

Art – The children have made a great start making their Greek tragedy masks using papier mache – a very messy but fun afternoon!

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 11th May.

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Homework – Reading comprehension.

Have a lovely long weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – Presenting information about the zodiac council from the class novel study and researching what it would be like, who is on the council and everyone’s role on it.  Then looking at features of a letter and planning, drafting, editing and publishing a persuasive letter in response to a job vacancy on the council.

Maths – Year 5’s have been adding and subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places. Year 4’s have been rounding decimals and finding halves and quarters of numbers.

Topic – We have been looking at timelines in history and seeing where Ancient Greece lies.  Then we looked at and arranged events from Ancient Greek times in chronological order.

RE – Using a story bucket of objects linked to the story of the Pentecost and discussing how these are represented in the story.

Art – We have started to make our Greek masks.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 4th May

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Homework – Subtracting decimals or rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – We have started our new novel study for the term, ‘Who let the Gods out?’ by Maz Evans.  The children have been looking at signs of the zodiac and making models of their own constellation and writing a description about their own their own sign.  We have started reading the book and the children have enjoyed it so far.  They wrote a character description based on the main character, Elliot and were asked to include lots of interesting adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and similes/metaphors to add detail to their sentences.

Maths – We have started a new block on decimals.  Some children have been making a whole and writing decimals by understanding the value of each digit.  Other children have been adding decimals within 1 and subtracting decimals within 1 using the column method to work out their answers.

Topic – We have started our new topic on ‘Ancient Greece’ and discussed in groups/as a class about what they know about Greece.  They had lots of ideas and enjoyed talking about their own experiences of the country.

Art – We have started looking at Greek tragedy and comedy masks and have designed our own masks to start making next week.

RE  – Introducing the idea of the Kingdom of God and what happened on the day of the Pentecost.

Homework – Handed out today – Adverbs.  Due in Wednesday 25th April.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 27th April.

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I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas