What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 24.4.23

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we will be rounding to the nearest whole number using number lines to support our understanding and we will then be rounding a decimal to 1 decimal place.  Lilac Class will be moving onto understanding percentages and learning that ‘per cent’ relates to ‘number of parts per 100’.  If the whole is split into 100 equal parts, then each part is worth 1%. Lilac Class are then exploring percentages by comparing them to fractions and decimals.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are levelling up our sea poetry for a class book for our reading area.  We have read a range of poetry, for example selected poems from Under the Moon and Over the Sea edited by John Agard and Grace Nichols.  We have also analysed these poems focusing on examples of personification (where the sea has taken on human characteristics). We have used the poems as stimulus for our own poetry writing. 

Our new Whole Class Guided Reading text is Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill. This week we are reading pages 7-12 developing our retrieval and inference skills.  Lilac Class will be exploring what character a member of Shackleton’s crew should have by thinking about what a ‘good temperament’ is and why this would have been important. We will also be considering why the ship was called Endurance and what this word means.

For RE in Lilac Class, we will continue learning about the Five Pillars of Islam and thinking about the ‘pillars’ that hold us up in our lives.  For Time and Place in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our labelling of a world atlas identifying significant position of latitude and longitude as well as the seas and oceans of the world.  For Science in Lilac Class, we are continuing with our learning about how flowering plants reproduce and the difference between insect and wind pollinated plants.  We will be categorising a selection of plants based on their characteristics.  For Design and the Arts, we are singing songs about the sea and accompanying them with pitched and unpitched percussion.  Lilac Class will be learning traditional musical notation, for example crotchets, quavers, minims and semibreves.