Spellings: sadly, bravely, foolishly, completely, gently, proudly, nervously, wildly, happily, horribly, enough

TT Rockstars - 15 minutes three times a week.

Science - we have started our investigation into how different liquids affect our teeth.  We are using eggs in our experiment as they are made of a similar material to our teeth.

RE - we visited  St Mary's Church where Father David explained the incarnation to us and showed us various items around the church that explained the incarnation.

English - we are enjoying our book, but the main protagonist's friend has just been taken to jail, and we are keen to find out what happens to him next.

Maths - we had fun solving some multiplication problem-solving questions today.

Firstly, thank you to all of you for supporting us on our museum trip today, the children thoroughly enjoyed looking at the artefacts in the MAA and holding the skeletons in the Zoology museum. 

Over the half term, practise on Soundcheck on TT Rockstars will help children practise their speed and fluency.  The children have also been given a multiplication sheet (6 times table), a heat map that shows their progress on TT Rockstars and a spelling sheet. To ensure that they maintain their momentum in their learning please could all the completed sheets be brought back to school after half-term.  

Spellings: information, sensation, preparation, vibration, decoration, donation, duration, registration, population, determination, our.

Hope you all have a pleasant half-term.

Spellings -submarine, subject, subway, submerge, subtropical, subdivide, subheading, substandard, subtitle and submit.

We enjoyed learning co-ordinates outdoors by playing tick tac toe and connection four.  This helped us to learn co-ordinates in Geography.

In Maths, we are practising additions up to 4 digit numbers.

We explored our emotions in PSHE when we talked about what makes us angry and what makes us calm.

Have a nice weekend!

Spelling: illegal, illegible, immature, immortal, impatient, imperfect, irregular, irrelevant, irresponsible, impossible, there

We have been rounding in class, a useful skill when we want to make the numbers easier to remember.  We practised round to 10 by underlining the digit in the 10's column and then looking at its neighbour to find out if we let the 'leaf' fly up or stay the same.

In English, we have written conversations, with inverted commas, between Wangari and the ladies who come to her with their dilemmas.

We also enjoyed: our drama sketches of the conversation between Mama Miti and the ladies; learning the irregular and regular plurals - mice and sheep; in PE  for tag rugby where we played the 'foxes and chicken' game and in Geography where we coloured the rainforests and adding in the names of the oceans.

Spelling words: affect, effect, plain, plane, knot, not, peace, piece, weather, whether

Spelling test will occur on Mondays and spelling homework should also be handed in on Mondays.

TT Rockstar homework- practise for 15 minutes, three times a week.  (Sound Check is similar to the Y4 test occurring in June).

We have started our CLPE English book and starting to discover more details about our main character.

In Maths, we have become familiar with ten thousands.

We learnt that all living things have the following processes and these are summarised to MRS GREN.  Explain to your family what MRS GREN means.  

Have a good weekend