What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 6.2.23

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are starting our new block of learning entitled ‘Multiplication and Division’.  We will be multiplying up to a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number using a formal written method.  We will then move onto using the ‘area model’ that is represented using base 10 and partitioning. After using this model, we will be multiplying 3- and 4- digit numbers by remembering to use the zero place holder when multiplying by the tens digit.  Lilac Class will also be exchanging when using the formal written method.  

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are planning a description of a workhouse using our Street Child text, other texts, BBC documentaries and photographs for stimulus and ideas.  This will be written in the first person from the perspective of someone who is living in the workhouse during the Victorian period.  

For Whole Class Guided Reading Lilac Class are reading Chapters 6 and 7 of Berlie Doherty’s ‘Street Child’ entitled ‘Tip’ and ‘The Wild Thing’.  Examples of our inference questions, where we read between the lines are: ‘Why do you think Jim couldn’t tell the boys apart from each other?’  ‘How is Jim’s school different to schools today?’  ‘Do you think the schoolmaster likes Tip? Justify your answer with evidence from the text’.

In RE, we are writing ‘conscience alleys’ for Moses and the Pharaoh.  We will be learning about the Plagues of Egypt and why they took place.  Lilac Class are exploring why Moses and the Pharaoh are both experiencing a dilemma, what these were and why the men were torn. 

For Time and Place, Lilac Class are continuing to find out about what the main inventions of the Victorian period were and how they have shaped our lives today.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are testing materials for their level of conductivity and will be finding out whether they are electrical insulators or electrical conductors.  For Design and the Arts, we are continuing with our samplers using binka and thread and listening to the music of the English Victorian composers Edward Elgar, Ethel Smyth and Frederick Delius.  How could we describe their music?  What instruments can we hear and how are they played?  What dynamics can we hear?

As it is half term there will be no Homework.  Your child could carry on reading ‘Ollie and the Great Stink’ and/or work on the activities of the Wider Curriculum Home Learning Matrix that I have attached this week.