Friday Blog

English and Maths
This week the children completed their chronological reports describing a mountain environment.  They used expanded noun phrases to beautifully describe the environment and tried hard to create cohesion in their texts by using adverbials, repetition and synonyms throughout.  They always choose great vocabulary and are very good creative writers; we now need to work on their punctuation and spelling by proof reading carefully so that their writing is clear for their reader.
We have begun a new unit in maths this week - Fractions.  We started by finding equivalent fractions.  We were reminded that equivalent means equal to or of the same value rather than exactly the same.  We used fraction bars to compare fractions but have also been using multiplication and division to find equivalent fractions.

Science and Computing
We are continuing to learn about sustainability and this week we compared the environmental impact of paper coffe cups compared to reusable plastic ones.  We concluded that the plastic reusable ones are better for the environment as long as they are reused 20 to 100 times.
The children used Tinkercad to make a 3d model of a pencil tidy.  They had to use the programmed to combine 3d shapes and create holes to make cylinders look like tubes.

RE and PSHE
We began finding out about how people from different religions believe in God  - we will continue with this next week and have a go at some role play in R.E. next week.  In PSHE we began thinking about peer pressure and will be sharing strategies for dealing with unwanted peer pressure next week.

The children have missed Miss Ruby this week but were still able to enjoy the lessons she planned with Miss Penny and Miss Keen at the helm.  They had their normal PE session with Coach Edwards, Geography with Miss Penny and learnt about Pablo Picasso in art with Miss Keen on Friday.

Ollie is our star of the week this week. Well deserved for his excellent writing and confident reasoning in maths this week.

Have a great weekend everyone - As December approaches, we will start feeling a bit Christmassy next week!