Maths:  Set 2 will be looking at rounding a range of numbers (from decimals to large numbers).

English: We are starting our brand new topic using film units as stimuli for creative writing.  The boys will be inferring characters, feelings, thoughts and motives and in grammar we will be revising  punctuating direct speech.

We have had a very practical morning today mummifying oranges and making ice cream without a freezer!

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Hopefully everyone will have a relaxing Easter break and we will all return to school healthy and ready for some warmer weather!  We have set homework over the long break which is due in on the first day back.

• Spelling test: The boys have a personalised list from the spellings that they have corrected over the course of this term.  This is stuck in their planners.
• Maths homework:  All of the boys have been asked to complete the next 4 Schofield & Sims tests (1 per week).
• Comprehension: All of the boys have been asked to complete the next 4 Schofield & Sims comprehensions (1 per week).
• Egyptian mini project:Research and present a mini topic on one aspect of the Ancient Egyptian Civilisation that is of interest to you. You might light to find out about:
  • Tutankhamun
  • Why the Ancient Egyptian Civilisation came to an end
  • How pyramids and monuments were built
  • A Pharaoh
  • Beliefs/gods

  The possibilities are endless!

Here is a link to the Maths games I showed the boys in class today.  These games cover most aspects of maths!  They are iPad compatible.

http://www.transum.org/iPad/Maths.asp

Here is the link to the timed coordinates game:

http://www.teacherled.com/iresources/coordinates/showthecoordinate/

English:  We are exploring journalistic writing this week and the boys will be writing their own report based on an event in the book Krindlekrax.

Maths: My set will be looking at a few topics this week.  We are revisiting fractions, missing numbers in number sentences, decimals and general number skills.

Maths: We are revisiting fractions this week and starting off with a look at fractions of amounts.  Some of the fractions questions are a little more abstract this week and we will be investigating them as a class.  In mental maths yesterday the boys asked me to look at Roman Numerals.  The link below will help:

http://www.abcya.com/roman_numerals.htm

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Research what happens to our general waste.  This is any waste that does NOT get recycled.  Keep the research based in the UK.  Notes can be types or written.  This research will support our extended writing next week.

English:  We are using our class reader to look at non chronological reports this week.  The subject for our reports will be ‘crocodiles’ and the boys will be using their weekend homework to support this.  Our grammar focus for this week is apostrophes.

Maths:  We are having a revision week looking back at the previous topics covered so far.  We are beginning with written methods for the 4 operations then will move on to looking at inverse operations and then a quick recap of finding fractions of amounts.