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Term 3 Week 2

What we are doing in Lilac Class for the wb. 17.1.22

What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 17.1.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be learning more about common factors and putting numbers in the correct place in a Venn Diagram.  We will then be learning about and sorting prime and composite numbers.  We will then start to learn about square and cube numbers and why they are called this, looking again at number patterns and arrays.  

In English this week, drawing on our role play and planning from last week, we will start to draft our version of Chapter 1 ‘The Shilling Pie’ from Berlie Doherty’s Street Child.  We are writing a ‘viewpoint narrative’; this is an exploration of Jim’s character (the protagonist), his feelings and emotions exploring how he interacts with his environment (the setting).  For Guided Reading this week, Lilac Class will be reading Chapters 4 and 5 and are examining Jim’s response to the workhouse.

In RE, we are finishing off our work about the passages from Exodus 1:8-4 and 1:22 and thinking about why God’s people needed freedom and justice.  Lilac Class are learning about the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt and exploring what oppressed, persecute, justice, freedom and salvation mean. We will then be imaging what the life of a Hebrew slave would be like and why they needed salvation.   

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class are finding out about the Industrial Revolution and what it was.  We will be thinking about the negative and positive effects it had on the population of Great Britain.  In Science, we are going to conduct an experiment about insulation.  We are going to fill 4 mugs with boiling water and cover each one with a different material – either newspaper, cling film, wool and foil. Using a thermometer, we will measure the temperature of each mug every 15 minutes for an hour to see which material is the best insulator.  In Art, we are continuing with our docklands frieze of 19th century Victorian London and will also be learning about the 19th Century Victorian landscape painters who used watercolours.