What we are doing this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 5.2.24

For Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are learning how to use the short division written method to solve calculations.  We will also be using place value charts alongside this method. We will then be dividing a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number where exchanges will be introduced.  What do you do if the number you are dividing by does not divide exactly into the first digit? This will be followed by Lilac Class dividing numbers with remainders.  We will be using place value charts and counters so that we can associate the remainder with the amount ‘left over’ and investigating what the remainder means.

In English this week in Lilac Class, we are writing a final ‘best’  copy for a display to showcase our fantastic writing we have been working on this term.  This piece of extended writing is based on the first chapter of Berlie Doherty’s Street Child entitled ‘The Shilling Pie’.

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 set on Thursday but do ensure that your child has read up to Chapter 4 of ‘Ollie and the Great Stink’.  I have also attached our Wider Curriculum Home Learning Matrix where there are optional activities.