Week beginning 16/11/15

Our class blog this week is brought to you by Bethanie, Charlie and Mia.

Maths

In maths this week, we have been organising data. We created our own characters and used the characters from the game 'Guess Who' to suggest different ways to group the data. We also discussed who this information would be useful for.

We have also been displaying data on bar charts and pictograms. We also have been solving problems using the information shown. We enjoyed doing this and making a human pictogram.

Literacy

In literacy, we have been working hard on improving our descriptive writing. We have been creating metaphors and  similes and writing descriptive paragraphs about Michael  Morpurgo's Blodin the Beast. We have also been creating and describing our own mischievous monsters, drawing inspiration from Simon Murray's Icky Doo Dah books.  That lesson was our favourite!

We are starting a new unit in spelling this week and are beginning to focus on suffixes. This week we learnt the rules for changing the root word with the suffix 'ous'.

Science
  
In science we have been learning about the bones and muscles in our body. We have made some skeletons and learnt some of the scientific names for the main bones.

We even beat Miss Palmer in a Catchphrase quiz.

R.E.

In Re we have been learning about Christian baptism. We have been looking at two different types of baptism called  Infant baptism and Believers baptism.


P.E

We were very excited to use the big equipment in P.E to practise our jumps and learn how to use it safely. We will be combining this knowledge to adapt our routines with balances and rolls to different equipment.

In other news, well done to Courtney and Annabel for achieving their pen licences this week and those who have received their Read to Succeed t-shirts. Keep up the good work.

Many thanks to those who have already brought in a chocolate donation for the school fair. We will still be collecting donations all of next week.

We are looking forward to an action packed week next week full of visitors and workshops (professional drummers and athletes) and exciting learning opportunities such as planning our own creative writing adventure stories and a school wide week of inspirational maths.