Week 3

This week we have been using our book The Iron Man to help us to develop our figurative language writing skills. To begin we went onto the yard and used the similes of "his head was as big as a bedroom and shaped like a dustbin" to sketch out the size of our bedrooms and then draw in the size of Iron Man's head. We discussed the sizes of his head, eyes, ears and mouth while we were outsize.

When we got back to class we wrote some similes and metaphors to describe his head and different parts of his head and tried to include some alliteration. 

After this we listed all of the other parts of Iron Man's body that we could write powerful descriptions about and some figurative language to describe the parts. Independently we all wrote our own figurative descriptions in our books then we shared them as a class and recorded them on the smart board.  

Week 2

This Week we have been continuing to develop our cycling skills with Mrs Williams. We had started before Christmas however, the weather wasn't very kind so we could not cycle some weeks so we are continuing this term. The children are becoming really confident and skilled at riding their bikes safely.

In Maths, we are continuing to develop our multiplication and division skills and are using inverse operations to check our answers and remembering to use tricks attached to some of the times tables to help us further.  

In English, we are continuing to read our new class book The Iron Man. The children have been finding out the definitions of unknown words using an online dictionary. We learned that this isn't always a straight forward task as works can have different meanings so we had to remember to think about the context in which they were used. In our Big Writing session, we wrote a character description, based upon a Roald Dahl book. Amongst other types of speech, we used adverbs, similes and metaphors to bring our writing to life.

We have enjoyed working in the Bush craft area, with Mrs McHatton and our class teacher, this week. Remembering how to keep ourselves safe, we practiced our cutting skills, with a partner, using a bow saw. 

Week 1 

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back! We hope you've all had a lovely Christmas.

We have had a super start to the week after coming back from the holidays. 

We have begun reading a new book in English called the Iron Man. We began by looking at the front cover and the blurb and asked questions and made observations about we could see. Then we read through some extracts from the book and again thought about what the book could be about and who the different characters were, where they came from and why they were there. It was a super hook to the book and we can't wait to find out more about the mysterious Iron Man!

In Maths we have started a new topic on multiplication and division. The children have made a great start showing super times tables knowledge. We have also been learning about different angles, in  shape lessons. We were asked to identify and compare acute, obtuse and right angles, and we used facts about each kind to help us.

In computing lessons, we started looking at a new scheme of work and discussed the different ways that we communicate and what the advantages and disadvantages were of the various types. The children were very good at working with partners, to discuss the pros and cons of lots of different forms of communication e.g. email, letter and text and recorded their work on an electronic mind map.