Reading

This week, as well as working on our home readers, we’ve been doing more on our class book study ‘Room on the Broom’.  On Thursday we were focusing on the main character – the witch.  Some groups were suggesting WOW words (adjectives) to describe different parts of the witch and some were learning all about similes.

“I liked learning about similes and making some for different parts of the witch.”  (Leon)

Examples of similes:

Her hair is black as a bat.  (Lexi)

Her nose is as bumpy as a hill.  (Layla)

Her nose is as long as an elephant’s trunk.  (Bayliss)

Her skirt is purple like a plum.  (Owen)

Her skin is yellow as the sun.  (Billie)

Her nose is as bendy as a banana.  (Jada)

Her hat is as pointy as a pin. (Adam)

Examples of WOW words:

Jaggy (Alexander)

Spotty (Kaseylee)

Scratchy (Corey)

Itchy (Riley)

Smooth (Lucas)

Warty (Shay)

 

Spelling

“I liked doing my spelling activities.  My group were looking at words with ‘oo’ in them.”  (Jada)

“I enjoyed doing spelling work too.”  (Bayliss)

 

Science

“I liked doing the torch experiment in Science.” (Kaseylee)

“We were learning big words – transparent (lets all the light through), translucent (lets some light through) and opaque (lets no light through).”  (Lewis)

 

Maths

“I enjoyed doing Sumdog on the computers.” (Calum)

“I really liked using the Beebots with Mrs Warden.  We were learning all about directions.” (Jordan)

Some groups have been using Rekenreks and sticks of cubes to help double numbers, showing how we can partition them (split them up) and use our knowledge of other doubles to help.  Have a look at us below:

Double 9 = double 5 + double 4

Other groups have been exploring the link between repeated addition and multiplication, using groups of 2 or groups of 4: