What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 15.1.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are subtracting from a mixed number and subtracting two mixed numbers using partitioning.  We will then move onto our new block of learning ‘Multiplication and Division’.  Lilac Class are initially extending the formal written method covered in Year 4.  We will be using place value counters on place value charts to model the structure of the formal method.  We will also be multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number using the area model.  We are using this method before the formal written method building on our knowledge of arrays. 

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 Chapter 2 of Street Child,  ‘The Stickman’.  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 will be finishing off our work on primary and secondary sources identifying 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?  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. 

In Design and the Arts we are creating Victorian samplers using thread and binka.  We will be learning to use a variety of stiches with different coloured thread.  We are basing these on our plans we designed last week.