Friday, 22 September 2017

Weekly Update

Please see below the weekly review and preview:


This Week  
Next Week
English
We started our new unit, ‘Stories from another culture’ by discussing two different stories set in Africa and South America. We will be identifying various points of view, building our retelling skills, as well as our developing out writing
We will continue exploring stories from different cultures with our focus on writing techniques and towards the end of the week; we will do some writing of our own.
Maths
Learn × and ÷ facts for the 6 and 9 times-table and identify patterns; multiply multiples of 10 by single-digit numbers; multiply 2-digit numbers by single-digit numbers (the grid method); find fractions of amounts
Tell and write the time to the minute on analogue and digital clocks; calculate time intervals; measure in metres, centimetres and millimetres; convert lengths between units; record using decimal notation
UOI
As an extension to our ‘Finding Out stage’, we made surveys to find out more about our topic.
Analyzing and presenting the data that we collected in our surveys, discussing conflict, as well as incorporating our Learner Profiles.
Notices and Events
*Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every Monday.

*Times table test on Wednesday will be the 4 times table. Please revise.

*Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Well-being Indicators


In UOI we used Y charts to explore what well-being looks like, sounds like and feels like...




Grid Method Multiplication