English – We read the Greek myth ‘Pandora’s Box’, which is linked to the characters in our class novel.  The class were introduced to a fancy looking box and discussed if they would be tempted to open it like the character in the story.  The also talked about what might be inside.  They then looked at features of an email and planned, drafted, edited and published their own email explaining an apology from Pandora.

Maths – We have been continuing with work on coordinates this week.  Year 4’s have been focusing on moving points on a grid and describing the movement (left/right, up/down).  Year 5’s have been focusing on translation (movement) on a grid and translation with coordinates.

Topic – Comparing government in Ancient Athens compared to government in modern Britain.  Many of the children were able to discuss what happens in today’s government which was interesting to hear.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 6th July.

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Homework – (for Year 4’s only) English: using apostrophes for missing letters and to show possession.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – Writing events of Chapter 16 from the perspective of either the character Millicent or Colin.  We discussed the key events in the chapter and made a plan of our first person narrative, making notes on the events/feelings of the characters and recording a range of cohesive devises to use in our work.  Then we wrote a first draft of our narrative and edited and improved our ideas.  The children all worked really hard to include all the features we discussed.

Maths – We have started a new unit: ‘Position and Direction’.  Year 4 children have been describing position and drawing on a grid using a set of coordinates.  Year 5 children have been looking at position of points/shapes in the first quadrant and reflection of points/shapes with coordinates.

Topic – We continued to compare schools in Ancient Greece and modern Britain. The children did further research to find out lots more interesting facts of their own to compare schools.

RE – We discussed the behavior of Adam and Eve and whether what they did was right or wrong.  They also talked about the part of the story where they ate the fruit is known as ‘the Fall’.  The children then used the events in the story to produce the front page for the ‘Eden Times’ newspaper to describe what happened.

Spellings – To be tested on THURSDAY 28TH JUNE due to Year 5’s going to Arthog on Friday.

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Homework – Maths work on coordinates / angles.

Well done Class 4, you’ve all worked hard this week!  It’s great to be back and lovely to see you all.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Thomas

Hello Class 4,

I hope you are all having a great half term so far.  Thank you for your lovely card and get well messages, they made my day when I read them all.  I’m trying to rest as much as I can and look forward to seeing you all after the holidays.

Mrs Thomas

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 8th June

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Homework – Greek half term homework

Half Term Homework

Our topic this term is all about ‘Ancient Greece’.  Your task is to research any aspect about the Greeks using books, internet, own knowledge etc.

Ideas for research:

• Food
• School
• Olympics
• …..

You can choose how you produce your findings – e.g. poster, leaflet, booklet.  Make it as interesting and informative as possible and include some illustrations too.

We look forward to seeing all you projects after the holidays!

English – Analysing features of a poem.  Then planning, drafting and editing rhyming poems based on one of the characters in our class novel study.  The children were asked to include features such as alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification.  They came up with some great ideas to describe the character of Patricia!

Maths – Year 4 have been identifying angles and comparing and ordering angles.  Year 5 have been measuring angles in degrees and measuring with a protractor.

Topic – Comparing the two main cities in Ancient Greece – Athens and Sparta.  The children did their own research to compare both places to find the differences and similarities.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 25th May

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Homework – In books.  Using commas in sentences.

We have had a lovely day doing lots of ‘Royal wedding’ based activities.  Photos to follow.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – We have been gathering and inferring information on a key character in the story and supporting ideas with evidence from the text.  We then planned and wrote a chapter from another character’s point of view.  The children were asked to think about using lots of detail to extend their writing- e.g. adventurous adjectives/verbs/adverbs, alliteration, similes etc.

Maths – Year 4 children have been looking at using rounding to estimate money and using the four operations to solve problems.  Year 5 children have been looking at decimal sequences and multiplying/dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

Topic – Understanding the religion of Ancient Greece and finding key information about the Greek Gods and Goddesses and what they were responsible for.  The children completed fact files using their own research.

R.E.- Looking at artwork based on the Pentecost and completing a piece of artwork based on their knowledge of the story.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 18th May

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Homework – in books.  Multiplying decimals or solving money problems.

Have a great weekend!

MrsThomas

English – Research into Stonehenge, then planning, drafting, editing a non-chronological report about Stonehenge.  At the end of the week the children published their writing in the form of leaflets. They spent some time on these and have produced some wonderful pieces of work, thinking carefully about layout and presentation.

Maths – Year 4 children have been using money to find totals, convert pounds and pence, ordering amounts of money and comparing amounts.  Year 5 children have been adding and subtracting decimals with a different amount of decimal places.

Topic – We looked at a range of Greek artefacts and buildings and discussed what they might have been used for.  Lots of great discussion in class about the children’s ideas and then we found out what they actually were.

Art – The children have made a great start making their Greek tragedy masks using papier mache – a very messy but fun afternoon!

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 11th May.

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Homework – Reading comprehension.

Have a lovely long weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – Presenting information about the zodiac council from the class novel study and researching what it would be like, who is on the council and everyone’s role on it.  Then looking at features of a letter and planning, drafting, editing and publishing a persuasive letter in response to a job vacancy on the council.

Maths – Year 5’s have been adding and subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places. Year 4’s have been rounding decimals and finding halves and quarters of numbers.

Topic – We have been looking at timelines in history and seeing where Ancient Greece lies.  Then we looked at and arranged events from Ancient Greek times in chronological order.

RE – Using a story bucket of objects linked to the story of the Pentecost and discussing how these are represented in the story.

Art – We have started to make our Greek masks.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 4th May

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Homework – Subtracting decimals or rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – We have started our new novel study for the term, ‘Who let the Gods out?’ by Maz Evans.  The children have been looking at signs of the zodiac and making models of their own constellation and writing a description about their own their own sign.  We have started reading the book and the children have enjoyed it so far.  They wrote a character description based on the main character, Elliot and were asked to include lots of interesting adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and similes/metaphors to add detail to their sentences.

Maths – We have started a new block on decimals.  Some children have been making a whole and writing decimals by understanding the value of each digit.  Other children have been adding decimals within 1 and subtracting decimals within 1 using the column method to work out their answers.

Topic – We have started our new topic on ‘Ancient Greece’ and discussed in groups/as a class about what they know about Greece.  They had lots of ideas and enjoyed talking about their own experiences of the country.

Art – We have started looking at Greek tragedy and comedy masks and have designed our own masks to start making next week.

RE  – Introducing the idea of the Kingdom of God and what happened on the day of the Pentecost.

Homework – Handed out today – Adverbs.  Due in Wednesday 25th April.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 27th April.

Spellings 20.4.18

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas