What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 3.6.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, wewill be investigating regular and irregular polygons and how they are different and this will be followed by us recognising the properties of 3-D shapes. Lilac Class will be exploring such questions as: What is the mathematical name for this 3-D shape?  How many faces/edges/vertices are there on this 3-D shape?  We will then move onto our next unit of learning ‘Position and Direction’.  Lilac Class will read and plot coordinates and solve problems with coordinates. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are starting to plan a dual narrative.  In Lilac class we will be reading our supplementary text ‘Ice Trap!  Shackleton’s Incredible Expedition’ by Meredith Hooper.  This text will serve as a stimulus for our dual narrative writing.  The part of the text we are focusing on is where Endurance is trapped in the ice and is sinking.  As a class we will discuss the question ‘What should Shackleton and his men do now that the ship is sinking?’  In groups, we will act out this situation and what the men did e.g. pulling life boats across the ice and carrying provisions from the sinking ship.  We will also be ‘Hot Seating’,  talking about this situation from the view point of the men and then from the perspective of Ernest Shackleton, their leader. 

For our Guided Reading text, Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill this week, we are reading pages 37-42. Lilac Class are thinking about the effect of the illustrations on the meaning of the text and why they tell us so much about what is happening in the story.

For RE in Lilac Class, we are finding out about the role of the Mosque in the Muslim community and why the Mosque is important. We will also be learning about the different features of the Mosque and what you would expect to find inside one. 

For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are learning about the different climate zones of India and finding out about biomes and vegetation belts.  We will learn what ‘highlands’, ‘humid’, sub-tropical’, ‘semi-arid’, ‘arid’ and ‘tropical wet’ mean.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are comparing different groups of animals and how they reproduce.  We will also be comparing how different animals within each animal group bring up their young.  For Design and the Arts, we are planning seascapes using a range of different materials to create a variety of effects and textures.  We will be listening to Arnold Bax’s Symphonic Poem ‘Tintagel’ for inspiration and examining the mixed media design ‘Colourful Fish Swirl’ by the artist Nikki B who lives in Tintagel in Cornwall.

We will also be growing beans and part of a geranium plant (artificial reproduction) in our classroom and observing what happens over the next few weeks!  In ICT, we are grouping objects to make them easier to work with by copying part of a drawing by duplicating several objects. 

Lilac Class will also be practising songs for the Tunbridge Wells Singing Festival that will take place at the Assembly Halls on Monday 10^th June.  I have also attached the lyrics for our individual item that Years 5 and 6 will be singing entitled ‘To the Sky’ by Carl Strommen.  Your child also has a hard copy of the lyrics to learn at home.  Please make sure that you have purchased tickets for this amazing event from the Assembly Halls website.