We have been working hard on rounding and compensating with both addition and subtraction. Subtraction is proving to me a lot more difficult than addition. Confidence definitely needs to be built here! We will have one more day of this strategy on Tuesday before we move onto another one. Basic facts progress is going well, lots of people moving up, which is great to see!
Last week in literacy we have been creating word banks to display for great descriptive words. We went through the alphabet so that we had words for almost all letters and they are accessible for us when we are writing if we need some ideas. We then looked at trying to choose words that created a specific mood, so we were given 3 very similar sentences which had missing words in them and we had to insert descriptive words that would be appropriate for that mood. The moods were sad, calm an excited. Share with someone at home the sentences you created. Spelling this week was a tricky one to make sure you were choosing the correct pattern for the word. We looked at growing the words, rhyming, alliteration and creating sentences. Please make sure you are practising the words at home.
We were exploring animals in danger in different parts of the world. We were given a country and then in pairs we looked up animals that were endangered from that place. We the had to write down information about them and then we are going to create maps of the different countries pin pointing where the animals are from. Note taking is going to be on the agenda for this term as it is a real skill being able to identify which bits of information are the relevant and important parts.
On Friday we had a look at exploring stereotypes and discrimination. We had a really great discussion about this and there were lots of great points that the children were making. Share with someone at home what we chatted about and what task we had to do.
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