This week we have been learning more about the Romans. We have been making mosaics and learning about the Roman army. We learned about the uniform and the life of a Roman soldier. We also learned about different marching drills that the soldiers did in battle.

In number we have been learning to add within 100. We have been using a counting on strategy and a number line to help us. We also have been remembering our partitioning skills to add numbers to 100. We used our numicon to find the tens and units in numbers and then used this to help us to add.

In maths we have been learning about time and have been making and reading hours and half hours on clocks. We are now learning to read quarter past and quarter to on an analogue clock.

In science we have continued our work on forces and have explored pushing and pulling as well as discussing gravity.

In language, we have been learning some ordering and summarising skills and we will continue this in class. The children have chosen a Scot’s poem to recite and I can’t wait to hear them say their poems. This week has been very exciting as we have been able to use our sound mats and clicker 6 in spelling and we have nearly finished work on our p3 common words.

We have been writing newspaper articles and the children should look at newspaper stories with adults at home to help them with this. We have been learning about alliteration- using the same sounds at the beginning of words, the features of newspapers such as headlines, facts and opinions and opening and closing paragraphs.

Looking forward to next week.

Mrs Bowman and p3T