What we are learning in Lilac Class for the week beginning 1.9.25

Welcome Back! I met all the children last term and am really looking forward to working with them this year.  Please keep your eyes open for my Letter to Parents.  This will give you an overview of what your child will be covering during Terms 1 and 2 and homework information.  This year PE for Year 5 will be on Mondays and Thursdays, so please ensure your child brings their PE kit in on those days.  The work we will be covering this week is the following:

For Maths in Lilac Class, we are reading Roman Numerals to 1,000.  We will be investigating the patterns we can see in the Roman number system and finding out what letters are used and what they represent.  We will then be moving onto working with numbers up to 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000.  Lilac Class are identifying the value of each digit and where it can be located on a place value chart and considering how the value would change if you added a 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000.

In English this week, we are reading, as a whole school, The Boy Who Loved Maps by Kari Allen and G. Brian Karas.  Our task is to think about our own perfect place and consider how it smells, looks and feels. We will be creating a piece of descriptive writing about what would be on our personal ‘heart map’ – what would be our favourite places, people, dreams.  We will be thinking about what is important to us and what our values are.

For our Whole Class Guided Reading this term our text is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis.  This week we are reading Chapter One and will be discussing and finding evidence in the text as to why Peter thinks the Professor will let them do what they like, the reasons behind Edmund being in a bad mood and why the children were annoyed it was raining.

In RE this week, we are initially answering our Big Question ‘What does it mean if God is loving and holy?  This is a formative assessment activity, and we will re-visit it at the end of this unit so the children and I can see how much they have learnt!  We will then explore the qualities a god should have if people are going to worship this god.  Lilac Class will also be finding out what a ‘divine being’ means. 

For our Time and Place topic entitled ‘The Ancient Mayan Civilisation’, the Lilac Class are writing a series of questions about what they would like to find out about the Mayans.  We will then be finding out where Mesoamerica is in the world and what countries today are part of this region.  Lilac Class will learn about how the Ancient Mayan ruins were discovered and what was happening in Mesoamerica in the early 16^th century.   

For Science in Lilac Class, we are describing the Sun, Earth and Moon as spherical bodies and learning about Flat Earth and Spherical Earth theories.  In Art, we are creating a frieze and designing maps to illustrate our writing about our whole school text, The Boy Who Loved Maps.