English – At the start of the week the children were generating open and closed questions relating to sea creatures and ranking them in order of importance.  They then discussed and clarified the meaning of words by identifying which were unfamiliar, then researched and recorded their meaning and used them in a context.

In Read Write Inc the green group have been reading ‘In the sun’ and writing a postcard about what activities they like to do at the seaside.  It has already made us think of our summer holidays coming soon!  The yellow group have been reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and writing in the role of the character Seth in the story about what happened with the gingerbread man.  The blue and red group have been learning how the prefix ‘un’ changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives and using these in their own sentences.  They have also been recognising and writing different types of sentences – statements, questions, commands and exclamations.

Maths – This week the children have been working practically to describe movements and turns using the key vocabulary: up, down, forwards, backwards, left, right, quarter turn, half turn, three quarter turn, full turn, clockwise and anti-clockwise.  There has been a lot of information to take in and the children have really enjoyed giving / following instructions to move around the playground.  They ended the week by using their knowledge of movement and turns to describe and record their own directions on a map to locate different objects.

RE – In RE the children have been continuing their topic on ‘The Five Pillars of Islam’.  They have been learning about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and what happens during this important time of the year and why it is so important to Muslims.  They also linked their understanding to how they observe other religious times and important times in their own lives, e.g. giving gifts at Christmas.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 5th July. 28.06.19

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sun we have all been waiting for!

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran

English – The children have been drawing on background information to fill in the missing information about sea turtles.  They read through the information provided and sorted what they found out under the subheadings; What are they?  What habitat do they live in?  How do they sense things?  What do they eat?  How do they move?  How long do they live for?  Then they ensured that a piece of text made sense by recalling facts about sea turtles and selecting the correct word to complete factual sentences.

In Read Write Inc the red group have been reading the story ‘Our house’ and writing about their own bedroom and living room.  The blue group have been reading ‘A bad fright’ and writing about scaring people and the wicked witch in the story.  The rest of the class have been forming plurals by adding the s/es suffix to words and adding ‘es’ to nouns/verbs ending in ‘y’.

Maths – In maths this week the children have continued to look at measures.  They have been ordering length and heights using the standard units cm/m, measuring liquids in millilitres and litres and measuring temperature in degrees Celsius.  They read scales going up in intervals of 2,5 and 10.

Science – This week we have been identifying organisms as producers, consumers and decomposers.  The children used an interactive program to correctly identify each organism into these three groups.  They then independently researched these groups to find out some additional information.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 28th June.  21.6.19

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran