Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-28/11/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have been writing multiple stanzas for our Winter themed poems. The children have been using a range of expanded noun phrases, similes, alliteration and rhyming words within their poems.
In maths, we have been focusing on fluency, reasoning and problem solving for the 7x tables and 11x tables. The children have been working really hard throughout these lessons and are making great progress.
In art, the children have been completing their own self portraits in pen, which have moustaches on them. The moustaches on them relate to the artist that we were looking at this lesson, which was Salvador Dali. The children worked extremely hard on these and produced some lovely pieces.
In science, as part of our unit on States of Matter, the children conducted an experiment to see how different temperatures of water would affect the amount of time it would take for ice to melt. The children worked extremely well in their groups in order to conduct the experiment as accurately and as fairly as possible. When comparing the results from different groups, it was fantastic to see just how close the results were, which demonstrated how accurately they had conducted the experiment.
In computing, we have continued our work on stop motion animation. This week the children were animating different Roman characters onto a background of the colosseum. Understanding what needs to be still, what needs to move and how to make the characters move as fluidly as possible, the children worked in pairs to create their animations after making a basic storyboard with a start, middle and end. They used the onion skinning feature to help them produce the best animations possible. Some children were challenged further by making different body parts move as well e.g an arm with a sword.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-21/11/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our writing, we have been focusing on Winter themed similes, sentences with rhyming words in and the use of alliteration. the children have really enjoyed it and come up with some tremendous ideas. they are now very eager to begin planning and rafting their poems.
In maths, we have continued our work on multiplication and division. We have focused on fluency, reasoning and problem solving involving the 3, 6 and 9x tables. It's been lovely to see the children increasing in confidence and this has really been noticed with children who have progressed onto the next level for their times table challenge sheets and with children achieving their highest MTC scores to date.
In history, we have focused on the fall and decline of Roman Britain, which the children found really interesting and it prompted some excellent discussions.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-15/11/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in English, we have started our unit of work on poetry. We have been looking at multiple Christmas themed poems and focusing on identifying things from the poems that apply to the different senses. The children have really enjoyed it and have come up with some great ideas.
In maths, we have started our unit of work on multiplication and division, with the focus being on fluency for the 3 and 6x tables, and then moving onto reasoning and problem solving.
In science, as part of our unit on States of Matter, the children were practising and testing out different equipment which they will be using as part of their experiment next week.
In computing, as part of our animation unit, the children made their own stop motion animations using whiteboards, pens and iPads. They learnt about onion skinning as well, and how useful it is when creating a stop motion animation. Here is an example of one below.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou