This week the children have come back into school full of energy and smiles which is good to see!
English
In English the children started off by writing a recount of what they have been getting up to in the half term holiday. It sounds like lots of sleepovers and meeting up with school friends took place which is nice to hear. With firework night happening this week the children moved onto writing poetry, thinking about the sights, sounds and excitement that they might expect to experience. A lot of work was spent looking at poetry and examining its contents such as similes, alliteration, rhyming words, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The children were then encouraged to use this information to write a draft poem, then revise, edit and improve it ready to use for their final piece. The finished poems were written up in the form of a shape or concrete poem.
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A Shape Poem is a type of poetry that describes an object and is shaped the same as the object the poem is describing.
The finished poems have been mounted and displayed on a line across the classroom if you want to read them.
A visit from the Fire Brigade, who gave an educational talk to the children, also helped to reinforce the importance of staying safe on bonfire night.
Maths
In maths the children have been learning about multiplication and division.
Multiplication
The children have moved onto the grid method of multiplication which partitions the numbers into hundreds, tens and units making them easier to multiply separately. The following link is an interactive activity which shows you how to use this method and is something the children could use at home too.
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Grid-Method-547
Division
Most children have been learning to divide numbers using a blank number line.
Some children have been using the ‘Bus Stop’ method for division as shown in this link
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/school_booster/busstopdivision.html
RE
In RE the children have been learning about the various parts of a Mosque in preparation for a visit to a Mosque next Tuesday. The children were given an extra challenge to build a 3D Mosque from paper using a template. It was quite a fiddly task and I was very impressed with the determination of the children to get it right and finish it. You can see this work in progress and the finished Mosques below.
Science
Our rocks topic is now drawing to a close but our final lesson was to explore the top layer of our planet which contains a lot of soil. The children were first asked to brainstorm in groups what they know or want to know about soil.
Division
Most children have been learning to divide numbers using a blank number line.
Some children have been using the ‘Bus Stop’ method for division as shown in this link
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/school_booster/busstopdivision.html
RE
In RE the children have been learning about the various parts of a Mosque in preparation for a visit to a Mosque next Tuesday. The children were given an extra challenge to build a 3D Mosque from paper using a template. It was quite a fiddly task and I was very impressed with the determination of the children to get it right and finish it. You can see this work in progress and the finished Mosques below.
Our rocks topic is now drawing to a close but our final lesson was to explore the top layer of our planet which contains a lot of soil. The children were first asked to brainstorm in groups what they know or want to know about soil.
This was followed by the children investigating a bowl of soil they collected from outside the classroom. You will be amazed what we found in just a few small samples! Mini centipedes, red ants, leaves, twigs, worms, rocks, water, grass and snail shells! (sorry, I was so engrossed in this part I forgot to take photographs!) The children then had to use this information to design their own ‘soil cocktail’ and draw and label what they might find in one! We had some really creative designs. Finally the children filled in a chart showing exactly what they found in their sample of soil.
Next week
The children will be having a focus week in English on punctuation and grammar focusing on writing extended sentences, direct speech and written tense.
In maths the children will be learning about 2D shapes, irregular and regular.
Pushes, pulls and forces will be investigated in Science.
PE will be netball and gymnastics.
Humanities starts on our new topic of Extreme Survival.
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