This week in Willow Class we will be:
English: This week we will be starting our new topic on Shackleton’s Journey. This is our new class text which will be two weeks of study. We will be formulated questions, justifying opinions and writing diaries.
Maths: In maths we will be finishing our fractions unit by look at the whole and fractions as operators. We will then be looking at decimals and percentages.
Science – Our new topic in science is properties of materials. Our next lesson will be on electrical conductivity.
In our class discussions this week we will be starting to focus on oracy skills with in our weekly, Life’s Big Questions. This week’s question is: Do other people take your opinions seriously.
Have a look below to see what we’ve been up to this week:
In art this term we are looking at Starry Night – ultimately we will creating a batik out of these. In this first lesson they sketched out the main outlines which will form the first lesson of our batiks.
In science this week we looked at magnetism and transparency. We used torches and magnetics to explore different materials we had in the classroom. Can you child tell you the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque?