What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 12.12.22

In Maths this week in Lilac Class we are continuing with using diagrams to support converting an improper fraction to a mixed number.  We will then move onto converting a mixed number into an improper fraction where again we are using pictorial representation and our knowledge of multiplication and division.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are finishing off our argument in the form of a letter. We are writing to the Prime Minister of Belize about environmental issues and some endangered species living in Belize, for example the Mesoamerican River Turtle, the Bromeliad Tree Frog, the Brown Pelican and the Ocellated Turkey.  What can his country do to save these animals? 

For our Whole Class Guided Reading we are reading Chapters 16 and 17 this week of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. These are the final chapters of our guided reading text. We are explaining how the author C.S. Lewis makes Chapter 16 uplifting and in the final Chapter answering why the author may have given Edmund retribution. 

In RE, we are finishing off re-visiting our Big Question ‘Was Jesus the Messiah?’ drawing on the knowledge we have gathered throughout this unit.  What does the Messiah mean?  What examples from the texts that we studied are evidence that Jesus was to be the Messiah?

For Time and Place, we are we finishing off our work about locating major cities in North and South America and finding out where Belize is in relation to these continents.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are finding out that levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.   We will also learn that if a gear gives you more force, it must give you less speed at the same time.  If it gives you more speed, it has to give you less force. That’s why when you’re going uphill in a low gear, you have to pedal much faster to go the same distance. In Art, we are continuing with our close observation work of peepers using soft pencils. 

There will be no Homework for the Christmas Holiday.  However, there will be the rest of our e-book ‘The Time-Lock Adventure’ on Purple Mash to read.  I will also attach our Learning Curriculum Matrix with optional activities that your child might want to do over the holiday.