Over the course of the last two weeks Team CB have been further investigating magnets as a force. The class have investigated different types of magnets and the varying degree of strength that they can have. Using a range of different magnets, the class saw how magnets were able to move an object from a distance and this was reflective of its strength. We have also been generating our own lines of enquiry linked to magnets. The class devised their own questions that they'd like to find the answer to and will spend the next session exploring this further and creating their own scientific enquiry.
In our Maths, we have been looking at the written method for multiplication after securing our knowledge of the 4 and 8 times tables. The class have thought carefully about the procedure involved and working to develop their rapid recall of their times tables facts. We have began to apply this learning to solving word problems, and missing digit problems. In our Literacy we have been writing up our own version of the Stone Age Boy. Our children have thought carefully about the elements that they have changed whilst still keeping the broad plot of the story. One of the changes made involved the animal they encounter in the cave. Did you know Stone Age animals include Glyptodons, Andrewsarchus and Woolly Rhinos. In History, we have explored the concept of timelines in depth. The class have now got a sound understanding of the terms BC and AD and what they mean. They are able to discuss the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age in chronological order as well as why each age started. This week we looked more closely at the Stone Age and were able to identify the three time periods within this; Palaeolithic, Mesolithic an Neolithic and their durations. In Music this week the class have been using their listening and appraising skills to explore our new song, The Dragon Song. The class demonstrated excellent understanding of the instruments within the piece and worked well to sing the chorus with a lead and second vocal.
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lFirstly, welcome back! After what has been a thoroughly well-earned break for our dedicated children in Team CB, we are so glad to have them back full rested and recharged! Over the last fortnight our children have certainly not forgotten what hard work and focus looks like. They have returned to start Spring Term in the right way!
With a new term comes new learning challenges. Our work over the last fortnight in Maths has centred heavily on multiplication. We have explored the concept of multiplication and what this actually means as well as how we can show this. The children have demonstrated fantastic understanding of arrays and the commutative law of multiplication as we have spent time focussing on multiplying and dividing by 3. We have explored closely the relationship between the times tables to support us in making accurate multiplication and division statements using our knowledge of inverse. In Literacy, we have been busy exploring a new text, Stone Age Boy. The class received this as a special delivery from someone named Alexander, who after much debate, we believe may be the little boy in the story. We used our prediction skills from reading to make informed predictions about what may happen at various points of the story as we read along. The class then spent time exploring the features of an adventure story before retelling the story orally using a picture story plan to support them. Later in our writing, we used the plan to make changes to the narrative so that we could write our own substitute story over the coming week. In Reading, Team CB have begun working on a new text for this half term, the Iron Man. We have explored the vocabulary of the text closely, using dual coding to support our understanding. We have also developed our fluency through regular practice of our echo read skills. In Science we have started to investigate Forces and Magnets. The class have shown fantastic understanding of what a force is and have used every day apparatus to model different forces that can be applied to an object. We have the worked to categorise these into pushes and pulls. Our focus for the Spring Term is History. Over the course of the term Team CB will be looking at the Stone Age to Iron Age as well as Roman invasions. The book we have been reading in Literacy has supported us in already knowing a few key aspects of Stone Age life. We hope to build on this understanding over the course of the coming term. As always, I could not be more proud of the fantastic attitude to learning that our children have! Keep it up Team CB! |
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