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Weekly Update-12/7/24
Posted: Jul 12, 2024 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
In maths, we have been focusing on statistics this week. We have been looking at pictograms, bar charts and line graphs, interpreting and analysing the information, and asking questions about the data being presented. We also collected data together as a class which revolved around the favourite foods of children in the class. After collecting the data, the children presented it in the form of a bar chart, labelled it all and then asked and answered questions about the data being presented. Well done!
In reading, we have completed our class novel (The Cat Mummy) and this week we generated ideas about what a possible tenth chapter would be about, where it would be set, which characters would appear in it and whether there would be any sort of time gap. The ideas that the children came up with were lovely and then they titled it and wrote a summary all about it. We also did a really fun activity which involved the children ranking all of the class novels we have read this year, from favourite to least favourite, with a reason about why they have ranked it in that position and a lovely image associated with that book to go with it. We had lots of different opinions for the ranking order and good reasoning to go with those opinions. Well done!
In science, we are continuing our unit of work on magnets. This week, the children have been experimenting with how powerful different types of magnets are and also testing out different materials to identify whether they are or aren't magnetic. It really surprised the children to learn that not all metals are magnetic e.g aluminium. It was lovely to see the children working well together in their pairs and using good scientific vocabulary to explain their findings.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)