Willow

This week in Willow Class we will be: English: Next week we will be finishing our unit on how to train a dragon by planning and writing a second set

This week in Willow Class we will be: English: Next week we will be starting our new topic on How to Train your Dragon with the focus on instructions writing.

This week in Willow Class we will be: English: This is our final week on the Wreck of the Zanzibar. Willow class will be building up to writing a detailed

This week in Willow Class we will be: English: In English we will be continuing our work on The Wreck of the Zanzibar. This week Willow Class will be writing

Next week’s learning: English: dictionary skills, creative writing based on short animations. Maths: percentages as fractions and decimals, problem solving and recapping our learning from this term. This week’s learning:

Next week’s learning: English: Book reviews, reading comprehension. Maths: thousandths, thousandths as decimals. Rounding, ordering and comparing decimals. Science: Forces This week’s learning: In maths we learnt to multiply fractions

Next Week’s Learning: English: write a persuasive letter linked to our text -Journey to J’burg. Maths: fractions of amounts and fractions as operators. Decimals to 2 d.p. and decimals as

Next week’s learning: English: writing and editing a diary entry linked to our work on the book- Journey to Jo’burg. Maths: subtracting two mixed numbers and multiplying fractions by whole

Next Week’s learning: English: we will be finishing and then assessing our reports about volcanoes before moving onto our new text- Journey to Jo’burg. Maths: subtracting fractions, including mixed numbers.

Next week’s learning: English: we will be invetsigating and looking closely at the features of non-chronological reports.  We will the research and plan a report about volcanoes. Maths: we are

Next week’s learning: English: we will be finishing and editing our playscripts before rehearsing and then performing them to the rest of the class in small groups. Maths: compare and

Next week’s learning: English: We will look more closely at The Highwayman poem and look at features of playscripts before converting the narrative of the poem in a playscript. Maths:

Next week’s learning: English: we will be writing our own narrative poem using The Owl and the Pussy Cat as inspiration and then we will be learning about the poem

Next week’s learning: English: We will be finishing the opening chapter of our mystery/adventure story.  Then we are starting our poetry unit- looking at features of narrative poetry. Maths: Division

Next week’s learning: English: we will be continuing to write the 1st chapter of our mystery story, using drama and role play to explore characters’ motivations and feelings. Maths: multiplying

Next week’s learning- English: we will be using our book -The Nowhere Emporium-to write a prologue, concentrating on vocabulary and sentence structure. Maths: we will move onto multiplying 4 digit

Next week’s learning: English: we will be using drama and discussion to introduce our new book- ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and generate useful vocabulary. Maths: we will start our new ‘Multiplication

Next week’s learning: English:  We are going to plan, write and edit a balanced discussion on whether the Tsar from Firebird should open the place grounds to the public! Maths:

Next week’s learning: English:  We will continue to use the story of the Firebird to plan, write and edit a descriptive dialogue.  We will then be learning about discussion texts.

Next week’s learning: English:  We will be using the story of the firebird to write sensory descriptions before exploring characters and descriptive dialogue. Maths: we will be learning to measure

Next week’s learning: English: we will be writing and editing letters of complaint linked to our book- The Island.  We will also be recapping adverbs and adverbial phrases. Maths: we

Next week’s learning: English- we will be investigating formal and informal letters.  Then we wil be looking at the layout and language of formal letters before writing one of our

Next week’s learning: English: we will be investigating biographies using the book- Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World Maths: we will be strating our place value unit, looking at