Literacy Work - w/b Monday 25th April 2022

For our literacy lessons after the Easter holidays, we will be basing our work on the opening chapter of ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. 

You can watch an animated version of part of the story here: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zd2d7ty

It would be useful if you could discuss and practise the following with your child:

· using the word of the week ‘thunderous’

· Talk about onomatopoeia (words that sound like their meaning) e.g. crash, pop, squelch, sizzle

· Think of positional language e.g. below, above,  beside, beyond

· Practise using simile for description e.g. as bright as the sun

 Thank you,                                                                  

Mrs Vaqueiro

Magnetic Marvels

This week in our science lesson we looked again at the 'magic' of magnets.  We learnt that magnets have a North and a South Pole, and that, while opposite poles attract, when you put two matching poles together, they will repel each other.  We had lots of fun experimenting with the magnets!

Fun with Fractions

This week, we began our exciting new Maths topic all about Fractions!

Having recapped some of the key mathematical language, and practised finding fractions of shape, we moved on to using counters and cubes to calculate fractions of different numbers.  

Once we had mastered the calculation of unit fractions, we explored non-unit fractions by counting multiples of unit fractions.

 

Pompeii - A City Frozen in Time

This week, we concluded our detailed study of Pompeii and the Bay of Naples by carrying out a carousel of different research activities linked to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD79.  Children used a variety of different resources - including the eyewitness reports of Pliny, different reference books, maps and paintings, and photographs of modern Pompeii to piece together a timeline of events beginning in August AD79, passing through the discovery of the buried city in the 1700s, to the more recent eruption of Vesuvius in the 1940s, and finally culminating in Pompeii's position today as a centre for archaeological research and tourism.

The children really enjoyed the opportunity to find out information for themselves about this fascinating Roman city that is forever 'frozen in time.'

Perimeter Puzzles

We recently concluded our work on measuring length by learning all about perimeter.  We practised measuring the perimeter of regular and irregular polygons.  The children then used Numicon to support them in measuring the perimeter of compound shapes. 

We also enjoyed puzzling over some open-ended reasoning and problem solving questions - for example, comparing the perimeters of different compound shapes made from the same two pieces of Numicon.  There was a surprising variety of different shapes and perimeters!