English

We have studied what happens to Mr Tumnus in the story this week in preparation for writing police reports about his arrest next week.

Maths

We have continued our work on fractions by working on addition of fractions using bar models.

Science

We have studied the moon and it’s phases this week ready for our moon diary homework.

Class 4 enjoyed their afternoon today creating volcano art in the style of Margaret Godfrey using glue and tissue paper.

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.