This week we have been writing diary entries as if we were a child living in Chembakolli village. Our challenge was to write more extensively, using adverbs and adjectives to add detail and using time words/phrases and prepositions to help us vary our sentence starters and organise our ideas sequentially. We hope you will be able to see the effort we put into our writing when you come to open afternoon and parents’ evening.
Later in the week, we read a traditional Indian folk story called ‘The Tiger Child’. We looked at the features of this type of story and learnt that it would have been passed down and told from generation to generation. We had a go at re-telling the story using a range of conjunctions and time phrases to link our ideas and adding detail to interest the listener. We are now in the process of planning stories with a similar structure and setting which we will write next week.
In maths we have been developing strategies for tackling word problems: we can use ‘RUCSAC’ to help us. Read (the problem), Underline (the key words), Choose (the correct operation), Solve, Answer, Check. Try giving us some word problems so we can use RUCSAC to solve them.
In science we have been exploring what happens to different materials when they are bent, twisted, squashed or stretched.
We look forward to seeing you all at parents’ evening next week.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Lucas, Mrs Marsh and Mrs Scott
