English
This week we have continued to use the story ‘Stone Age boy’ as part of our English unit (alongside our history topic – Stone Age to the Iron Age). It is a story about a boy who trips over and bangs his head. When he comes to he realises he has been transported back into the Stone Age. In this strange world he meets a girl who introduces him to the Stone Age way of life. Throughout the whole book there is no dialogue.
Last week the children created their own speech bubbles to go with the pictures and then turned these into direct speech. E.g. “Where have you come from?” asked the boy. We also learnt the term inverted commas (which is the new grammatical terminology for speech marks in the new curriculum).
This week we have been using the pictures to create detailed descriptions of what is happening in the book. We spent lots of time thinking of wow words to describe how things were done. E.g. Instead of walked we could use stumbled, tiptoed, edged, crept etc.
Here is an example that one group came up with.
In the distance the boy caught a glimpse of a mysterious girl… He stumbled towards her over the uneven, sandy ground. They both stared at each other. Cautiously, he leaned forward and so did the girl. She looked very strange. Was that dear skin that she was wearing? It looked beautiful. It was as brown as a chestnut and as white as snow.
Then they nervously crept closer and closer and closer.
By Alexa, Anna, Edward and Tommy.
Maths
In maths this week we have been focusing on partitioning to help add together 2 and 3 digit numbers. Partitioning is breaking the numbers up into hundreds, tens and units. This makes them easier to add. E.g. 421 + 365
400 + 300 = 700
20 + 60 = 80
1 + 5 = 6
Once the hundreds, tens and units have been added the answers can then be put back together.
700 + 80 + 6 = 786
Harvest
We have also spent some time sketching fruit and vegetables ready to share for our Harvest festival. The children carefully inspected the markings on the fruit and tried to draw exactly what they could see rather than what they thought it should look like. The results were fantastic so I will try and attach some examples to next week’s blog.
Miss Hustwayte
