Week beginning 11.04.16

This weeks blog is written by Ella Lucia and Mia.

Literacy

We have been using our imagination to describe a peacock by writing metaphors. We turned these ideas into a repeating phrase poem. We looked at MP3s of peacocks pictures and real feathers for inspiration. Look out on next week's blog, when we combine our literacy and artwork and see some examples of our finished work. 

Spellings

Our current spelling focus is the suffix 'ure' and homophones. A homophone is a pair of words (or sometimes three or even four words) that sound the same but are spelt differently and different meanings. How many can you think of?

Geography

In topic, we have been learning about out new subject; the Rainforest. We were amazed to learn about the fish swimming around the trees when the Amazon river bursts its banks. We used atlases and globes to locate where in the world the rainforests are and also learnt about the weather at the equator. 

Maths

In maths, we have been revisiting place value. Marking numbers on empty number lines and adding and subtraction amounts of money using our knowledge of place value. 

Science 

We looked closely at some plants and named the main the part of a flowering plants and thought about what their function in the plant is. 

In other news...
A big well done to all the brave pupils that entered and help present the talent contest this week. Especially Bethanie from year 3 for winning first place, with her brother and sister rendition of Oliver.