Day: February 18, 2022

Literacy

 

In reading this week, we have been developing our skim reading skills. We were given a passage about winter sports and then we had to answer questions about the text. We were highlighting the key words in the question and skimming through the passage until we read those words. We would then read around the key words to find and highlight the information to help us answer the question.

 

During our narrative writing this week, we created a roll and write Valentine Story. We had to roll a dice and the number would tell us who our characters were, where our setting was and what the problem was. Then we had to use our imagination to develop a storyline to entertain the reader. We were focusing on using adjectives and connecting words to add in extra details to our stories.

 

Maths

This week, we were looking at addition and subtraction word problems. We had to use our critical thinking skills to help us work out what the question was asking us to do. Some of us underlined the key details in the question and then wrote the equation we were asked to solve.

We have also been continuing to develop our skills when telling the time. We have been stopping throughout the day to read the time on the clock. We have also been converting analogue time to 12 hour digital time.

IDL

As a class, we have voted for sports to be our IDL topic. We have made a plan about things we would like to learn throughout this topic.

In RME, we were learning about the Christian Bible story of Noah’s Art. We watched a video of the story and then had a class discussion about this story. We also had to write a summary of this Bible story and include all the key details.

Monday:

Holiday!

Tuesday:

Ditto!

 

Wednesday:

Reading activity: new reading books out to all. Worked on summarising the previous book.

Maths: work on giving directions

Science: classification of living things. We learned that fish are cold blooded.

Thursday:

Maths: gone back to looking at the relationship between fractions, percentages and decimals. We will continue to work on this.

Language today was working on predicting the new reading books.

Mark worked with the class on a health activity on individuals perceived themselves and were perceived by others.

Science was again looking at classification of animals, and we will continue to look at some of the characteristics that help to classify.

Mrs D continued the work on the BP net zero challenge

 

Friday:

Maths: one small group continued their work on place value while the majority of the class worked on the addition of mixed whole number and fractions.

Spelling, as usual.

Music: listened to a piece of music and discussed what it sounded like. It was “The Storm” from Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes”. The class thought it reminded them of lots of very relevant things, such as Disney’s “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

PE: tennis activities, during which SU, SJR, SD and MM were able to lead the learning with one of the activities. Also refining the rules of our class game: “Ball Tig”

 

 

 

 

Maths

The children have continued to work on time with Mrs Lockhart. They are working hard to identify o’clock and half past on a clock.

IDL

We have started our new IDL Topic of ‘The Body’. We have a hospital set up in the classroom and the children have enjoyed fixing broken bones and waiting to see the doctor in the waiting room!

Health and Wellbeing

We have been looking at differences and similarities we have with different people in class. We understand that it is good to be different.