English and Literacy
This week in English we were working in pairs to complete a reading comprehension on a written passage. We had to use lots of different skills to do this, including finding evidence in the passage to back up our opinions, and using our ‘context clues’ to work out the meaning of tricky words.
We have also been working on developing our writing skills and were writing about the long weekend. We had to remember to include capital letters, punctuation and paragraphs. Some of us used ‘wow’ words to impress Miss Brown!
Ty – I enjoyed the reading exercise, it was really fun but tricky as well.
Lucy – Doing our writing regularly is helping me to improve!
Maths and Numeracy
In Maths this week we have been working on fractions word problems, which we found a bit tricky at first but we were beginning to understand be the end of the week. We can now simplify basic fractions and find a fraction of a quantity. We are still enjoying the game ‘Exterminate’ and ask to play it in every maths lesson!
On Thursday we did something exciting in maths! We had 5 different stations and 15 minutes at each station. There was an ICT station with a game which required us to use our division strategies, and a fractions card game to improve our speed and accuracy. There was also a ‘Mild, spicy, Hot’ station where we got to choose the difficulty of our fractions worksheet and give ourselves a challenge!
Rhia – I’ve really enjoyed division, I think the games are helping me with this.
Lennox – I’ve really enjoyed doing fractions, especially simplifying fractions!
LATC Topic
We have found our topic very interesting this week as we have been learning all about evolution and what animal characteristics help them best to survive! We have discussed the kinds of things that can lead to an animal’s extinction, such as other competition and changing climates. We have identified the features of animals that help them to survive, adapt and reproduce within a natural environment.
As part of this week’s topic, we really enjoyed creating our brand new species of animal! Firstly we designed our animal, thinking carefully about how it would look like and what colour it would be. We then labelled our new species, identifying the features we had given it that would help it to survive in its habitat.
We have also been monitoring the progress of our classroom experiments – we have been growing runner beans and recording our observations. We are always very excited to see how they are growing every morning! Our other experiment has been watching our tiny caterpillars get bigger and bigger. We are looking forward to them changing into chrysalis’ and eventually butterflies!
Abbie – I really enjoyed creating our species this week and combing different features of animals.
Lucie – I have learned about evolution and how animals can become extinct.
Have a great weekend everyone!
