Day: December 10, 2021

Literacy

We have continued to work on our stations during ELF. We were working on our spelling sound of the week, tricky words, sentence structure, comprehension and reading! (Yes, we are very busy!) The children have worked hard in their final week of ELF.

Topic

The boat test!!! We are happy to report that all boats were able to float for the 10-second challenge. The children identified some things that they would like to change so we might revisit this challenge next term.

   

We also created some very colourful Turtles in relation to our topic. The children are very proud of their work!

I hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂

What a lovely week we’ve had!  We had our digital learning day on Tuesday.  We learnt how to use digital technologies to upload documents in glow.

We have been learning to write story plots based on Christmas.  We proofread and edited sentences and for reading, we used the internet to research information for our class talk.

For numeracy and maths, we have been revising and consolidating the concepts we have learnt throughout the term.

We had a great time making Christmas decorations too.

Monday 6th

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at function machines. MM and SU continued their work on word problems. ShP was again pleased with the work he produced.

Literacy: summarising group reading books. MiD was especially pleased with the neatness of the presentation of his work. We finished reading “Macbeth” as a class.

PE: Continuing activities based on balancing, we focused this week on tightrope walking – only about six inches above the ground! AS showed her previous experience gained from doing bar work in gymnastics and MM also excelled.

Tuesday 7^th

Literacy: made notes on “Macbeth” and re-wrote these as a summary. SD, DW, KH, SP excelled in their summary, and especially AS, who has really trimmed the fat off her writing.

Maths: continuing our work on algebra this morning we looked at using symbols instead of numbers and the functions. SJR excelled, and did two sets of work. MM, SD and SU continued their work on word problems.

Wednesday 8^th

Out-door learning and Tuckshop with Mrs D

Maths: practicing instant recall of tables using BMBT, working on the application of tables to problems on Ed. City, with the children able to choose an activity appropriate to themselves. EY significantly improved her score in BMBT.

Literacy: continuing work on “Macbeth”.

Thursday 9^th

Maths: created beautiful posters demonstrating the wonderful maths we have been doing this year. SU, MM, AS and EY all excelled. In fact the whole class excelled in this activity.

Literacy: spelling assessment. Again the whole class were extremely pleased as the great emphasis we have put on spelling recently has paid off and everyone  has progressed really well. We also continued work on “Macbeth”. ShP was especially proud of the fact that he was able to incorporate his learning in this into the next activity:

Art: creating drawings of myths and legends from around the world. AD, SoP, JH, EC, AS and SB were especially proud of the work they did.

Friday 10^th

PE: football, star of the match was MxD.

Maths: algebra using letters instead of symbols and briefly looking at equivalence, which MxD showed a good understanding.

Literacy: looked at some of the best examples of persuasive writing, CB, SB, AD, DW and EY excelled in this.