In Numeracy we have started working on subtraction. We completed an assessment to see where we are all at so that Mrs Hillan knows where we need supported or challenged.
It was fun but a little bit tricky – Erin R
It was quite easy but some of the sums were quite hard – Alyssa
When there was a big number and a small number you had to count in between which took a bit of time – Derry
It was hard work! – Summer
In our assessment we could only use our whiteboards to help us – Chloe
It was tricky but we were allowed to use our whiteboards to work out sums – Ariah
For literacy this week we have continued working hard on our new spelling words and we have these home again to practise. We have our new homework out which requires us to pick two tasks from the grid to help us learn our spelling words. It is really important that we complete these each week.
In writing this week we have looked at Persuasive Writing again and created a one-sided argument. We used Fireworks as our theme this time. We assessed ourselves using our core target grids and our genre target grids for persuasive writing. We spoke about the pros and cons of fireworks to help us decide which side of the argument we wanted to write from. We will look at another persuasive piece next week. Here are some pieces from this week:
We continued our topic of The Egyptians this week. We finished creating our questions on what we would like to find out about the Egyptians, here are some of them:
Who was the King? – Maisy
Where do they sleep? – Jessica
How did they survive? – Ciaran
Where do they get soap? – Shay
What did the Egyptians do for fun? – Holly
Where did they get the sand from? – Lacey
How did they speak? – Joe
What food do they eat? – Gracie
How did they make pyramids? – Caelan
Where do they live? – Daniel
