Another hard-working week in 4E! Please see below for our learning and achievements:

 

On Thursday we celebrated 80 years since Victory in Europe. We held a class assembly and even enjoyed a VE day ration lunch!

 

Maths: This week we have consolidated our understanding of ordering and comparing numbers beyond 1000 by using concrete resources and answering fluency and problem-solving questions. We have also consolidated our understanding of counting backwards through zero, using number lines to help us. We continue to keep practising our times tables ready for our multiplication check in June!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English: We continued our playscript, The Plague of Eyam, through an experience day in which we learnt about plague symptoms and used thesauruses to up-level our adjectives to describe the symptoms. We then completed several sentence stacking lessons which focused on expanded noun phrases, feelings, repetition and questions.

 

Science: We continued our topic of the Water Cycle by focusing on condensation. We learnt that condensation is the opposite of evaporation and this is when a gas becomes a liquid.

Geography: We continued our learning of London and the South East by focusing on the importance of the River Thames. We learnt that the Romans chose London as it was deep enough for ships but inland that raiders could not attack. We then learnt that, throughout the industrial revolution, it became the world's largest port, but that during WW2, it was bombed and had to be built up again.

History: We continued our learning of the Stuarts by focusing on Charles I's decisions that led to the Civil War: taxing, not calling on Parliament and marrying a Catholic princess.

Swimming: 4 more moved up to the big pool and focused on our strokes, while in the smaller pool we became more confident by putting our faces underwater and practising our breathing.

Guided Reading: Retrieval questions based on Bonfire Night.

Handwriting: Ascenders and double f.

Spellings: ll ending.