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Weekly Update-9/6/23
Posted: Jun 8, 2023 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, in our maths work, we have been focusing on money, which has involved converting between pounds and pence, ordering money in ascending and descending order and comparing different amounts. The children have been working really hard, using different strategies with confidence and making rapid progress throughout the week.
In our writing, we are building up towards writing our own alternative story for Stone Age Boy. One of our lessons this week involved describing different characters from the Stone Age who appear in Stone Age Boy. The children were tasked with creating sentences that describe those characters using powerful expanded noun phrases, good conjunctions and to include a relative clause within their sentences. I have to say that the children did a fantastic job with their sentences and provided great description and some super relative clauses to add extra information. I really enjoyed reading those pieces of work :)
In science, our unit of work this half term will revolve around plants. Our first lesson focused on identifying the different parts of a plant and understanding what the role of each part is. The children then made their own mini leaflet which included their own drawing, with the different sections labelled and an explanation about the role of each part. The children produced some lovely and informative pieces of work and it was also great for the class to be able to look closely at the different parts of a plant in person (because they are all growing their own sunflowers) which helped to support their learning, although the sunflowers are not fully grown yet.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)