What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 24.1.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be continuing our work about square and cube numbers and why they are called this, looking again at number patterns and arrays.  Lilac Class are then moving onto multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000.  We will be looking at numbers in a place value grid and discussing the number places to the left move when you multiply by different multiples of 10.   

In English this week, we are finishing off our first draft of 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).  In pairs, Lilac Class looked carefully at this chapter and highlighted particular words and phrases that the author used that we wanted to ‘magpie’ (steal) for our own writing.  We then also used a thesaurus to develop our vocabulary further. For Guided Reading this week, Lilac Class will be reading Chapters 6 and 7 of Street Child. We are developing our inference skills by examining what we are not told in the text about what Jim is feeling and thinking and why he behaves the way he does: we are ‘thinking out of the box’.

In RE, we are learning about Moses and the Burning Bush on Mount Horeb.  Lilac Class are considering what Moses must have felt and why.  We will also be thinking about why God chose Moses to free the Hebrew people and what we can learn from Moses when living our own lives. 

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class are continuing to learn 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, Lilac Class are going to write their prediction or hypothesis about what the results of an insulation experiment will be and why.  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 learning about the 19^th Century Victorian landscape painters who used watercolours and the Arts and Crafts Movement.