Blog by Tag: Sharks

In Writing, we have amazed Miss Cooke and Mrs Lawton with our alternative perspective narratives. We have been practising our skills writing as Eddie, the bully from the camp in ‘Wonder’. We have focused on including direct and indirect speech to move the action forwards and develop…

In our Writing lessons, we have been reading about the events at camp from our class text, ‘Wonder’. We learnt how Amos, Miles and Henry showed courage to defend Auggie, and showed our understanding through answering comprehension questions and writing a social media post as one of the…

In our Writing lessons this week, we have culminated our learning into writing a formal letter. This is addressed to Mr Tushman from the novel Wonder, and the children wrote as the character Jack Will. We used techniques re-visited over the past few lessons, including subjunctive form, perfect…

To celebrate World Book Day, we used a pencil to express ourselves through drawing and words the same way Malala Yousafzai and Benjamin Zephaniah did. We performed our poetry to the class.

We have written formal letters in our English lessons, practicing the skill of using formal language…

We are ending our half term by looking at statistics, specifically pie charts. We have consolidated our ability to read and interpret pie charts before working with percentages and even drawing our own!

We are writing a third person narrative describing the events of Wonder.

In our Science…

We have written an internal monologue from Auggie’s perspective, detailing the internal conflict he experienced during Halloween.

We have learnt about the radius, diameters and circumference of circles this week. We showed great understanding in this topic and were determined to get to…

We have practised a number of skills, including expanded noun phrases, to add further detail to our internal monologues. This is inspired by our class text, ‘Wonder’.

We showed our understanding of the four quadrants through a carousel of activities.

In Maths, we have consolidated our…

In our Maths lessons, we have worked practically to show our understanding of scale factors and enlarging shapes.

In English, we have read more of our class text ‘Wonder’ and discussed how Auggie felt before and after the events of Halloween, where his best friend betrays him. This is in…

We are writing a first person narrative as a character from Wonder, describing when they met Auggie for the first time.

In Maths, we have learnt about percentage of amounts and finding missing numbers,

In Science, we investigated refraction by making drawings face opposite directions and…

In our Writing lessons, we have been practicing writing a first person retell as Auggie, using key skills such as adverbs and prepositions to add detail and meaning.

In Maths, we are moving into learning about percentages and their relationship with fractions and decimals.

In History, we…

We started to read our new class text, Wonder. We learnt about the protagonist and researched the condition which led to him being ‘born differently’.

In Maths, we have consolidated our knowledge of working with decimals in preparation for linking this with fractions and percentages. Anjy…

We wrote a narrative re-tell of the Christmas Truce. Melody particularly impressed us with her work, including her editing and uplevelling.

In Maths this week, we multiplied and divided decimal numbers using written method.

We produced some seasonal art to take home to our families. We hope…