Welcome back everyone!
We are loving this new Spring-like weather, albeit still a little chilly!
This month, in Literacy, we have been focusing on punctuation, direct speech, confusing words and auxiliary verbs, in Grammar.
In Writing, our focus has been on story writing, using a narrative voice, to carefully and coherently communicate our imaginative ideas to tell a story. We also progressed to develop characters, using the 5 points of characterisation – physical appearance, inner thoughts, actions, reactions & speech – delving deeper than what may appear on the surface. This was fairly tricky at first but we worked extremely hard & have described some brilliant characters! This week, we will be tasked with writing another story, inspired by an unexplained image, which we will bring to life by incorporating another character description. This morning, as our grammar task, we took some more time to use a thesaurus effectively to locate synonyms to describe a character we had sketched, from head to toe!
In Maths, the Cones have made brilliant progress in their learning of data-handling, interpreting and drawing a range of charts and graphs, as well as collecting their own data to display. The Pyramids learnt about a range of shapes and their properties, as well as number patterns, and also touched upon pie charts recently. The Triangular Prisms have shown perseverance when focusing on a tricky new topic – mixed and improper fractions.
This week, we will be making our pitches to persuade our audience that our products are unbeatable! We are going to use persuasive language, visually engaging aids, as well as our presentation skills to communicate this. We have a classroom sensory experience, a safety detection watch, a pet home, amongst other innovative ideas on offer!
Last week, we had an impromptu debate in class focused on – ‘Which is more important: the heart or the brain?’ This was a tricky one as we presented convincing and valid points on both sides. It also linked in nicely with our Science learning about the vital organs. We then viewed the dissection of an animal heart, to see the arteries and vessels. This also led to a discussion about heart attacks, cardiovascular issues, how to keep our hearts healthy, and we even learnt how to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre, as well as CPR!
This week, as we have now finished our reading of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, we are going to watch the film together as a class; this will give us an opportunity to draw comparisons with the book. We have also been working on our Book Reviews, which we will share at the end of this week!
Finally, we are really looking forward to sharing our Expedition PowerPoint presentation with you this week! Keep an eye on Google Classroom for this!
Can you believe that is Term 2 almost over? We can’t believe it is the Easter holidays already. We hope everyone enjoys a wonderful, restful & well-deserved break when it comes!
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