What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 23.1.23

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are adding a fraction to a mixed number, exploring various methods, for example by using partitioning and pictorial representations. We are also looking at how we can convert to improper fractions and then adding the fractions together, as an alternative method.  Lilac Class are then moving onto subtracting fractions using partitioning and bar models. 

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are improving and levelling up 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 focusing on developing our exploration of Jim’s character and the setting of the chapter.  We will be using our plans and brilliant vocabulary that we have created.   

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapter 3 ‘Rosie and Judd’. We will be developing our inference skills, finding evidence from the text that Emily and Lizzie are concerned about going to the workhouse.  We will also be analysing phrases and thinking about what they mean.  For example, ‘There’s no work left in you, Annie Jarvis.’

In RE, we are investigating what key words we could use to explain how a Hebrew would feel and experience.  This is an activity to consolidate our work about the meaning of our key vocabulary – persecute, oppression, justice, injustice, freedom and salvation.

For Time and Place, we are considering and identifying the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution on the population of Great Britain and how people’s lives were either changed for the better or for the worst.  We are going to be thinking about ‘historical bias’ – some statements about the industrial Revolution on the population could be both negative or positive depending on an historian’s point of view.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are designing an experiment to find out which material is the best insulator foil, wool, clingfilm or newspaper.  This week we are making our predictions, thinking about whether our experiment is fair and why and writing up our method and results.