What we are learning in Lilac Class for the week beginning 5.10.26

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are moving onto our next unit, Addition and Subtraction. This week we are adding and subtracting four-digit numbers using column method and applying the inverse operation to solve calculations using bar models and part-whole models.   

In English this week, we are levelling up and improving our Space Poems inspired by the work of Pie Corbett. We are checking that we have examples of features of poetry writing such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and personification in our poems.

For our Whole Class Guided Reading our text is ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis and we are reading Chapter Six this week.  Lilac Class are going to be ‘word detectives’ working out what specific phrases mean in the text by looking carefully at the sentence they are in.  For example, ‘harbouring spies and fraternizing with humans.’ 

In RE this week, Lilac Class are drawing on the ideas we considered during our discussion with Father John of texts from the Bible about God.  We will be looking again at our key vocabulary and what extracts from these texts are about these particular words. 

For ICT, we are describing how search engines select results.  Lilac Class will be explaining why we need tools to find things online and recognising the role of web crawlers in creating an index.  As a hard copy, Lilac Class are completing an index of the classroom and creating an index of our school website.

For Science in Lilac Class, we are finding out about how day and night occur and why the Sun appears to move across the sky.  The questions we will be considering are: ‘Does the position of the Sun change over the course of the day?  How do we know this?’ What is happening to the Earth?  Is the Earth moving?’ In which direction does the Sunrise?' And 'In which direction does the Sun set?'  We will also be learning about sundials and conducting a sundial experiment in the classroom.

For Music, Lilac Class are composing ‘Spacescapes’ inspired by Gustav Holst’s The Planet’s Suite.  We will be working in groups and will record our ideas in the form of a graphic score.  Lilac Class will be using a range of dynamics that we heard when listening to ‘Venus’ and ‘Mars’. We will be performing our compositions to one another and as a class we will be discussing the structure and dynamics used. 

For our Spanish lesson this week, Lilac Class are being introduced to food names and will be learning to have a short conversation about what food they want.