What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 21.11.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our work about multiplying whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000, looking carefully at a place value and Gattegno chart to support learning and find out what happens to the movement of the digits in the calculation.  We will then be moving onto dividing whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1,000.  We will find out that dividing by 10 twice is the same as dividing by 100 and that dividing by 10 3 times is the same as dividing by 1,000. We are learning that multiplication and division are the inverse operations. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our new piece of extended writing entitled ‘Come to Belize!’ We have watched travel site videos and read information on travel websites about visiting Belize on holiday and why you should visit it. As a whole class we have ‘Magpied’ language used and brain stormed phrases and words that are examples of persuasive writing.  For example, holiday makers can visit the lost cities of the Ancient Mayans, explore the tropical rainforests and swim in the Great Blue Hole.  For our Whole Class Guided Reading our text is ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis and we are reading Chapter Eleven this week.  We will again be developing our inference skills by answering such questions as ‘Why does the Queen agree to give Edmund some food?’ and ‘Why is the Queen furious at the mention of Father Christmas?’  We will also be exploring the intention of the author by explaining how C.S Lewis switches from Winter to Spring and the effect this has on the reader.  In RE, we are thinking about what the Messiah would think of our world today and what he would think was positive and negative and why. What might he not like and not stand for?  How might he use the internet?  What might he teach us?  What might he be pleased to see?   

For Time and Place, we are continuing with our translating of some Mayan writing.  We will be considering what the Mayan writing system consisted of and how words were constructed. For Science in Lilac Class, we will be learning about the effects of air resistance by investigating the best parachute to slow a person down. We will be explaining how air resistance affects moving objects by planning and conducting an investigation.  In Art, will be painting our Mayan pottery based on original Mayan artefacts.  We will be using the colours, patterns and designs of the Mayan craftsman.