We have taken part in number talks to find friendly numbers. This is a great way to make our calculations easier to work out in our head! The children really enjoyed sharing their different strategies with the class.

We enjoyed learning about different types of triangles. We made our own equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right – angled triangles. We can now recognise them and describe their properties. We also wrote a collection of relevant vocabulary; such as, hypotenuse.

We have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Rounding is important because it helps us to estimate and to make friendlier numbers during working out.

We are currently reading The Spiderwick Chronicles (The Field Guide) as our class novel. Everyone enjoyed making their predictions for what might happen to Jared in chapter 3.

Many of the class enjoyed playing Volleyball during P.E. This week we learned how to ‘dig’ and how to ‘volley’.

We enjoyed practicing word problems related to negative numbers. It was challenging and we followed our guide to solving problems;

· Read the question carefully

· Highlight the important information

· Decide the operation

· Choose your preferred strategy

· Solve the calculation

· Finally, write down the answer