What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 5.9.22

In Maths this week 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 ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies.  Our writing task will be to write a back story about the main character.  Who is she?  What do we know about her?  How do you think the environment is affecting the character? How did keeping her promise make her character change?  For our Whole Class Guided Reading 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’ 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 nature frieze as part of our work about ‘The Promise’.