This week the children in Team DB have been celebrating the Chinese New Year by wearing something red to school. During the day itself, Team DB explored the story of the Chinese New Year and how each year came to have an animal named after it. Everyone enjoyed discovering what animal it was the year that they were born and, using their maths skills, were even trying to work out what animal their parents/carers were born under! The children retold the story using a story board, and some children even researched the Chinese New Year as part of their home learning. This year, is the year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar, and the children were asked to finish the picture using perceptual drawing. In Team DB, we have some amazing, budding artists!
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Computers
This half term, we have been using 2Code (Purple Mash) to write a code in order to move various objects across the screen. This has close links with maths, and has been beneficial for the children to draw on their mathematical knowledge and skills, in order to write a code and for this to be effective. The children have been able to write a code using programming language and algorithms to create a set of rules. The children have enjoyed experiencing the software Purple Mash and this has been evident in the amount of children continuing their learning at home. NSPCC Maths Day: This week the children have participated in the Maths NSPCC Day, whereby the children had a lot of fun searching the playground looking for clues, turning themselves into Maths detectives. The children had to solve each clue, using the four operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This continued back in the classroom with the children answering various questions using reasoning skills. During this half term, we have continued our learning in Science about Sound. This week, the children have participated in a science investigation about Pitch. The children made their own pan pipes and discovered that the longer the panpipe then the lower the pitch and the shorter the panpipe the higher the pitch!
Literacy
Wow! What an amazing time the children have had creating their own World War 1 poem. The children have included elements of SPAMO (Similes, Personification, Aliiteration, Metaphors and Onomatopoeia) to help create their poem, as well as including emotive langauge to help create an emotional response from the reader. Maths: We have been continuing with developing our multiplication skills and knowledge through using manipulatives to help further our understanding. We have been multiplying whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000, recognising the relationship between the digits. The children have also used place value cards to help recognise the movement of the digits on a place value chart when multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000. Maths
In maths this week, Team DB have started to develop their skills and understanding about multiplication. This will be one of the main topic focus in maths for this half term. This week, we have been looking at multiples and the lowest and highest common multiples in a particular times table. The children have also been multiplying two-digit and three-digit by one-digit. This has enabled them to practise their multiplication skills, alongisde playing Hit the Button and Monster Multiplication. It has been amazing to see the children's excitement at seeing their monster grow the more they develop their multiplication skills. Literacy: As part of our topic this half term, Team DB have been reading various poems about World War 1. The children have been really fascinated and enthusiastic to learn about this part of British history and have asked lots of questions including researching at home. This week we have looked at the similarities and differences between various war poems and the children have turned into poet detectives! We have looked at the emotive language that can be used by poets and how we can implement this into our writing, to create a reaction from the reader. Our unltimate girl will be to write our own World War 1 poem. Team DB have been continuing to work very hard this half term. In Science, we have started our new Sound topic and the children have been learning all about how Sound travels through the air and to our ears. The children have been investigating how sounds are vibrations and that they pass through air as soundwaves. Team DB have also developed their skills and understanding about the ear and how the sound reaches our brains! The children were excited to learn about the three smallest bones in out ears and could not believe how tiny they actually were!
Literacy In our writing, Team DB have been developing their skills in diary writing. The children gathered information about the different roles that children would have had when working in the mine at their age, during Victorian times and had to decide whether to became a Trapper or Hurrier in their learning. Some of the children found it hard to decide which job they wanted to do the most! To enable the children to do this, we have been looking in detail at the features of a diary, as well as learning how to use emotive language, writing in the past tense and using the first person. We also continued our learning about using adverbials of time ensuring that our writing was fluid from one paragraph to the next. Maths Team DB have been continuing their learning about Area and have been applying their skills into word problems, solving mysteries along the way. The children have been continuing to develop their measuring skills using millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. We have also been investigating using appropriate measures used to calculate the area of small and large spaces. The children have expanded their knowledge about square numbers and how we use squares to calculate area, no matter how big or small the space. Wow, Team DB have been very busy since coming back to school after the half term holiday, with everyone enjoying a well-earned rest!
Literacy In Literacy, the children have been very interested in learning all about the Lundhill Mining Disaster that happened here in Wombwell over 160 years ago. They were even more excited when some children realised that they lived on the old mining site or that they knew somone who did! The purpose of their writing was to complete a newspaper report about the mining disaster developing their skills in using past tense verbs, speech marks and writing in the third person. The children enjoyed pretending to be a journalist and presenting their writing using a newspaper format. The children were able to chose the correct third person pronouns in their writing, acting like a true journalistic writer. This aspect of Team DB's learning linked well when looking at the similarities and differences between our Geography focus, Whitby and Wombwell. Maths As part of our maths learning this half term, Team DB have been focussing on the topic 'Measures'. We have looked carefully in detail at area and perimeter and the different units of measurements that we could use when measuring various objects. The children have developed their skills by finding the area and perimeter initially by counting squares, moving onto using millimetres, centimetres, metres and even kilometres! The children have then been able to use these skills when answering word problem questions. Geography In the second part of the Autumn term, we have been continuing with our learning about the similarities and differences between Wombwell and Whitby. This week the children have been looking in detail at the land use of the two areas and how these may have changed over time. The children have also included what they have learnt about the history of mining in the local area when discussing how the land has been used in Wombwell over the last two centuries. We have also watched a virtual tour of the village as well as the coastal town, Whitby. Team DB thoroughly enjoyed this, and were very enthusiastic about the different features found in their own local area and applied this to their learning. .Team DB went for a walk through Wombwell to identify physical and natural features. We identified features in the landscape and focused on buildings and land use. We identified housing, buildings used for recreation, businesses and local public services. We also identified key features on a a map and added our own findings
Maths
In Maths we have been working very hard with our Times Table Races and the children's scores have improved tremendously, with all children aiming to beat their best time on a daily basis. In our Place Value unit, we have continued with our learning about reading and writing numbers using the correct place value columns, ordering and comparing numbers using 6 digit figures, as well as rounding numbers up to 1,000,000! Phew, we have been very busy. Literacy Our reading this half term has linked well with our writing as our main focus is Ghost Stories. We are currently working on 'Scare at Shadow Fair', a Twinkl Original, focussing on vocabulary and retrieval skills. The vocabulary from the text has helped us with our own writing and we have been able to implement this into helping us write our own Spooky story. We have also been learning about expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials as well as subordinate clauses and conjunctions so that we can implement these into our own writing. Maths
We have been very busy in our Maths learning and are well underway with out timestable races. The children are practising every day and we are so proud of their achievements. It has been great to see the pride in their own learning, especially when they are beating their own time and achieving success. As part of our Maths learning we have been expanding our skills and our knowledge about Number Place Value as well the value of each digit. The children have been using manipulatives to show this as well as ordering and comparing numbers. Literacy In writing our main focus has been looking at Expanded Noun Phrases using adjectives, prepositions and modifying nouns. We have been trying to use these in our own writing to create a paragraph to describe a setting, using a spooky picture as a hook. The children have tried very hard to use diffferent synonyms in their learning so as to keep the audience's interest. |
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