English- The children have been linking their English work with topic work this week. They wrote an information text based on how and why the fire started and why it spread so quickly. Their focus was to write sentences to describe the main events of the Great Fire of London, use subheadings/paragraphs to separate their ideas and use conjunctions to extend their sentences. They all wrote some fantastic pieces of information about the fire – well done!
In Read, write, Inc this week green group have been reading ‘Flip frog and the bug’ and yellow group have been reading ‘My best shirt’. Both groups have worked really hard with their sentence work to change them and add extra detail. The rest of the class have been working independently using the suffix ‘-ly’ to turn adjectives into adverbs. They have written lots of super sentences using these words and extending their ideas using interesting vocabulary and conjunctions.
Maths – The children have been doing lots more practical work with money and their skills have really come along, especially using their knowledge of counting in multiples of 5 and 10 to add coins/notes together more efficiently. They have been focusing on selecting money from an amount given to them, making the same amounts of money using pence (mainly using 5p, 10p and 20p coins) and comparing amounts in either pounds or pence.
Science – This week the children explored how some objects can be made from more than one material, e.g. a window can be made from glass or plastic. They looked at more examples together and sorted objects into a Venn diagram using plastic and wood as the headings. Some children also had a go at sorting their own materials and objects.
Spellings – To be tested on Friday 1st February.
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Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran