What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 16.1.23

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are finishing our work about comparing and ordering fractions greater than 1.  We will then be learning about how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator representing calculations using bar models.  Lilac Class are then moving onto adding fractions with different denominators and finding out why denominators have to be the same to solve a calculation.  We will be learning what a common denominator is and how to find a common denominator

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are drafting our viewpoint narrative. This piece of extended writing is based on the first chapter of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘The Shilling Pie’. This week we are using our plans and brilliant vocabulary that we created during our brainstorming session as a basis for our narrative, written from the viewpoint of the main character, Jim Jarvis.   

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapters 2 ‘The Stickman’ and Chapter 3 ‘Rosie and Judd’. We will be discussing whether Mr Spink was right to force the family to leave their lodgings because they could not pay their rent and why the children were scared of the workhouse.

In RE, we are continuing with our examination of texts from Exodus 1:8-14 and 1:22.  We will be highlighting key phrases from the Old Testament and explaining what each passage is about. Lilac Class are going to match key vocabulary such as oppressed, persecute, justice, injustice, freedom and salvation to parts of these passages that are about the persecution of the Israelites by the Egyptians.  We will be answering the question ‘Why were the Jewish people persecuted by the Egyptians?’ looking for evidence in the Exodus texts.

For Time and Place, we continuing with our use of primary and secondary sources to find out information about Queen Victoria.  We will be finding out for example, answers to the following:  What sort of person was she?  How did she feel when she became Queen?  What was her childhood like?  How long did she reign?  We will be examining her character in more depth and what she represented to the British people.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are grouping materials according to their properties. and explaining the uses of different materials and comparing and sorting them.  We are learning about what certain terms mean such as flexible, reflexive, transparent and translucent.