Miss Walker, Miss Mitchell and Miss Allett

Our class crew is Sirius and we learnt that our star is part of the Canis Major. Our Star is know as the 'dog star' the classroom door is now full of dogs we have coloured and facts about our star. 

Sirius Crew are wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and have enjoyed their last week of term getting involved in lots of activities, including Christmas quizzes, craft activities and so much more.   

TERM 4

This term has a book study as a focus. The book we are looking at is Wonder by R. J. Palacio.

In English is where we will be carrying out our book study using guided reading time to read the book as a class and in small groups. Allowing use to use English lesson to explore the book in detail getting to know the character and their thoughts and feelings as well as identifying different themes and being able to analyse different sections of the book. 

In Science we are looking at sound and light and how they work. We will be exploring how our ears work and how we can hear sounds, through lots of fun and noisy experiments. Before moving on to looking at light and how we can control it and how our eyes allow us to see. 

In Maths we are going to be looking at converting different units of measure in order to work out area and perimeter. Before moving on to the beginnings of fractions decimals and percentages. Pupils work in smaller groups for maths to allow for lots of focused learning, 

Our non-core subjects for next term we will be Citizenship where we will be looking at the difference between law, rights and responsibilities. In Geography we are exploring the local area through map work, field work and a trip to Uphill Lincoln as part of the topic of tourism. Computing we are looking at coding and using Dash and Dot the robots to help use with our data programming. We will also be carrying on working through our French topics developing the basics of French to interact and have conversations in French.

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