The World Cup has begun and we’re here for it!!!
We’ve had all sorts of World Cup related activities going on in school and it all began with an assembly last week where we were given Germany as our class team to follow and learn a little more about.
In Reading this week, we’ve been finding out all about the tournament and its history. We participated in quizzes, penalty shootouts, crossbar challenges, flag designing and goal celebrations to immerse ourselves in the text. On Friday we answered a range of retrieval, inference and sequence questions all about it to share our understanding. We even have a sticker book which the children are adding to each week, whenever they score 100% on a reading quiz.
In English, we planned and drafted the opening paragraph to a brand new piece of writing – a persuasive letter. We pretended that Mrs Hewitt-Best had declared that we weren’t able to even think about the World Cup in school, so we have to write a reply to her to explain why it would be positive for us to celebrate it in class and lessons as part of our learning. We have begun to think about our key arguments, involving sport and exercise, teamwork and geography that could be used to convince the reader.
In maths we have begun to work more closely with decimals and are looking more carefully into adding and subtracting with them. If you’d like to know more about decimals you can click HERE.
In Science this week, we learned about flowering plants and how they reproduce. We looked at the different parts of the flower and we able to identify them and explain a little about their function and purpose.
In our topic, Why do we remember the Maya? we learned about who the Mays were and where they lived. We used atlases and maps to locate major city states and even made our own city state. From this, we began to make inferences about what type of people they were.
The children have been learning the words to the songs for Shakespeare Rocks, to provide support to the stars in Year 6 – tickets for the performances will be available from next week – a letter will be coming home on Monday.
PUPILS OF THE WEEK
In 2HB – Scarlett, for working brilliantly with enthusiasm, this week.
In 2DJ – Eddie, for always wanting to know more and ask questions in class.
Both of our children are wonderful role-models in school.
IMPORTANT INFO…
Please note, our PE days are now TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY.
Homework and new spellings will be handed out on Monday and collected in the following Monday*.
