Week beginning 18.04.16

This weeks blog is by Bethanie and Courtney

Maths

In maths this week we have been we have been working on our times table and division facts. We have been playing lots of games to practise doubling and halving and using 100 squares to play games that revise our times tables and divisions. We also have been looking at multiplication calculations and looking for tricks and patterns. We are also getting confident at multiplying double digit numbers by partitioning.

Literacy

This week we have started looking at information texts. We have discussing the layout and the purpose of each feature. We have been writing questions in our literacy books about our chosen rainforest animal. We have been researching different rainforest animals for our own class information book, using the iPads. We have also been using dictionaries to look up subject specific vocabulary. Miss Palmer gave us some tricky and interesting words to look up and we had a challenge to use them in our questions. 

Science

 In science this week we have been looking at plants and growing our own sunflowers. We thought about what it means to be alive and discussed all the things a plants needs to thrive. We have started to design our own experiments to investigate what happens if you take away any of these things. 

Art

We have been studying the artist Oenone Hammersley, a contempary artist who uses vivid colours to bring rainforest animals alive using water colours and other materials. We have been practising our sketching techniques and water colour skills in preparation for working in response to her art. 

In other news...

Well done to Finn this week for receiving his Read to Succeed certificate and Lewis who has gained enough reading stamps to be invited to the tea party. Keep up the good work 3P!

Remember to bring your trainers next week as we start our new healthy activity 'The Daily Mile'.