What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 18.5.26

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be classifying angles and finding out how many degrees there are in a right angle and on a straight line.  We will be learning about acute, obtuse and acute angles.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our planning for a newspaper article about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.  We will be looking at a range of information texts, including actual newspaper articles written just after the Titanic sank.  Lilac Class will also be discussing the original film footage and extracts from documentaries about the tragedy that we have watched.  We will be learning about the features of a newspaper report – headline, Byline, Lead, Body, Picture and Caption and Tail.

For our Guided Reading text, Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill this week, we are reading pages 25-30. We are focusing on inference, answering such questions as ‘Why might spring bring better fortune?’, ‘Why do you think they took lots of scientific measurements?’ and ‘Why would it be important to keep morale high amongst the crew?’ We will also be exploring whether cliffhangers are generally found in non-fiction and why. 

 For RE in Lilac Class, we are learning about why Shahadah (the first Pillar of Islam) is important for Muslims.  Lilac Class will read the story of Bilal and be exploring what was important to him and why and what we would stand up for with such bravery.  For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are investigating the features and journey of a river.  Lilac Class will be answering such questions as ‘What is a young river?’, ‘How does erosion cause meanders?’ and ‘What is a tributary?’  For Science in Lilac Class, we are investigating how a plant can be reproduced artificially and what ‘cloning’ a plant means.  As a class we will look carefully at a geranium plant that Dr Charles has brought in from her garden.  We will decide where the best place on the plant will be to take a cutting and observe the growth of our cutting over the coming weeks. 

In ICT, Lilac Class are creating vector drawing by combining shapes and coloured shapes using Google Drawings, experimenting with the shape and line tools.  In French, we are looking at French calendars and learning the French words for the days of the week and the months of the year.

For Design and the Arts, we are singing songs about the sea and accompanying them with pitched and unpitched percussion.  Lilac Class will be learning traditional musical notation, for example crotchets, quavers, minims and semibreves. For Design and the Arts, we are using our sketches of our school garden as a basis for painting using the techniques of the artist Annie Soudain. 

There will be no homework set for the half-term break.  However, please ensure your child is up-to-date with their reading of A Tiger’s Path on Purple Mash.