English – This week the children have been looking at features of persuasive texts. They started by looking at some examples of texts and found features such as rhetorical questions, adjectives and emotive language and discussed this with their English buddy. They used these features to then create a piece of persuasive writing of their own to persuade somebody to try their own amazing Easter egg!
In Read, write, inc the green group read the story ‘Puppets’ and discussed/wrote about different types of puppets. The yellow group read the story ‘Duckchick’ and discussed/wrote about how mama hen got a shock when one of her eggs hatched as a duck! The red and blue groups have been identifying progressive forms of verbs in the past and present tense. They looked at a range of sentences and identified the difference between the types of sentences. PRESENT PROGRESSIVE – A sentence that uses is/are and then a verb with the ‘ing’ suffix. For example, My friends are jumping. PAST PROGRESSIVE – A sentence that uses was/were and then a verb with the ‘ing’ suffix. For example, We were making friendship bracelets all afternoon.
Maths – The children have been focusing on fractions this week. They have been finding half of numbers, e.g. 1/2 of 12 and using equipment such as a part whole model and counters to help them divide numbers equally by 2. Then they were recognising and finding a quarter of shapes and numbers. They used further equipment such as smarties and cake to help them divide shapes/numbers by 3 equal parts.
Science – They started their new unit ‘Living things and their habitats’. The children were introduced to the common characteristics shared by all living things – MRS GREN (Movement, Respiration, Sense, Growth, Reproduce, Excrete, Nutrition). They all joined in well with discussion about each of these features and understanding what each one meant. We even did some actions to help us remember each one!
Spellings – To be tested on Friday 10th May. 03.05.19
Thank you everyone for your help with bringing in lots of plastics and pebbles….the children are going to have lots of fun with our upcoming art projects!
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Thomas and Miss Moran
