What we are doing this week in Lilac Class

WB: 21.2.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are calculating the area of rectangles.  We will firstly build on our previous knowledge in Year 4 by counting squares to find the area.  Then we will move on to using a formula to find the area of rectangles.  The formula is Area = length X width. 

In English this week, we are continuing to examine in detail Chapters 4 and 5 of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child.  These chapters are about life in the workhouse and we will be using this text as a basis for our own description of a setting.  This will then feed into our ‘Workhouse Poems’. We will be reading poems that have been written about the Victorian workhouse, examining photographs and watching children’s BBC documentaries about life in the workhouse to enrich the quality of our writing. In Guided Reading, we are reading chapters 12 and 13.  Our focus will be inference, looking carefully at what the text does not directly tell us about the characters and why they behave hte way they do. For example, ‘What was the real reason people’s boot-laces often break when they are standing in queues?’

In RE, Lilac Class are starting a new unit of learning:  Salvation.  Our Big Question is ‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’  We are outlining the timeline of the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible and explaining how Incarnation and Salvation fit within it.  We will be explaining what Christians mean when they say that Jesus’s death was a sacrifice, using theological terms. 

For our Topic this week, Lilac Class are finding out more about the important inventions and inventors during the Victorian era. We will be looking at photographs and drawing on what we learnt during our ‘Drama Hut’ workshop about the Victorians.  In Science, Lilac Class are continuing to investigate the question:  What conditions cause more solid to dissolve?  We are carrying out a fair and reliable test to find out how force and temperature affect the amount of solid that dissolves in water.  In Art, we are starting to create Victorian samplers using binka and a selection of coloured thread.