Literacy

In literacy this week we have been continuing with our work on adventure stories. We have been using our ICT skills to create a poster all about our favourite adventure story. We included an outline of the story, key characters as well as giving reasons for why we like it. We have also watched the film Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers and discussed how films create excitement and tension and thought about how we can do this when we do our writing. This will be helping us with some writing we will be doing next week!

Maths

We have been continuing with practising our written methods for addition and subtraction.We have used the expanded and compact method for addition and using these to solve problems. For subtraction we have had Kermit the Frog helping us with our counting on – he has been helping us to remember where to jump to. Some children have also been using the expanded column method for subtraction and they have picked it up really well!

Topic

We have been learning about the countries that make up the UK and beihave been locating them, as well as Shrewsbury, on a map of the UK. We have also been studying maps of Europe and have been locating England and Spain. The children have also been creating their own maps of Spain, making sure they include some physical features.

Other 

Other highlights have included – creating a glossary of properties of materials to help us in Science, learning about some Jewish milestones in RE, balancing in different ways in both floor work and on the apparatus in PE, discussing bullying and what to do about it in PSHE and enjoying reading our class story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.