Science Day

Weekly Review/ Preview

	This Week	Next Week
English	Writing Workshop: Continue to learn new writing strategies and focus on editing our own stories	Writing Workshop: Continue to learn new writing strategies and focus on editing and finishing off our own stories
Maths	Maths Revision and Assessment	Add two 2-digit numbers or a 2-digit number to a 3- or 4-digit number mentally; subtract 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers using counting up; derive factors of 2-digit numbers and use factors and doubling to solve multiplication mentally; solve integer scaling problems using mental strategies and spot a relationship between products; solve correspondence problems, using a systematic approach and calculate using mental multiplication strategies
UOI	Going Further: We will now begin to focus our inquiry in the adaptations and responses of plants and animals to their habitats	Making Conclusions: We will apply what we have learnt to draw up some conclusions about adaptation and explore the ways in which humans impact the survival of living things

Darwin's Finches Experiment

Science Week- Snail Experiment

To kick off Science Week, we did an experiment using our classroom pet snails! We found out if they prefer warm or cool environments. Please ask us about our findings! 

Weekly Review/ Preview

	This Week	Next Week
English	Writing workshop: Fantasy and Science Fiction. We learnt new writing strategies to help us reach our writing goals and then we started writing our own stories.	Writing Workshop: Continue to learn new writing strategies and focus on editing our own stories.
Maths	Multiply and divide numbers by 10 and 100 including decimals (tenths and hundredths); read and write decimals (to 1 and 2 places), understanding that these represent parts (tenths and hundredths) of numbers; mark 1- and 2- place decimals on a line; count in tenths (0.1s) and hundredths (0.01s); multiply numbers with up to 2 decimal places by 10 and 100, and divide numbers by 10 and 100; say the number one tenth and one hundredth more or less than a given number; round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number	Maths Revision and Assessment
UOI	Finding Out: We will find out what it means to adapt to your surroundings and explore the different ways in which living things have done this.	Going Further: We will now begin to focus our inquiry in the adaptations and responses of plants and animals to their habitats.

Natural Selection

This week we played a fun game to learn all about Natural Selection- survival of the fittest! 

Fun with Fractions!