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Weekly Update 10/1/25
Posted: Jan 10, 2025 by: Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have started reading our new book called Kidnap in the Caribbean by Lauren St John. The children have made predictions about what the story will be about based on the front cover of the book and we have read the first six chapters of the book. The children have also completed vocabulary work and retrieval and inference work based on those six chapters. It’s lovely to see how excited they are about the book already.
In our writing, we have started working on our diary writing unit of work. The children will be writing diaries based on a true story of two survivors of the Mt St Helens 1980 eruption. We have looked at the features of a diary entry, read the story about the two survivors, done freeze frames based on the emotions of these survivors at different points in the story and we have focused on identifying and using time conjunctions in our own sentences which relate to the story. I was really impressed with the sentences that the children came up with.
In maths, we have focused on understanding what factors are, identifying factors of numbers, using factor pairs and multiplying by 10. The children have made great progress with this.
In science, we have started our unit of work on sound, with the focus being on vibrations for the first part. The children learnt about how sounds are made, which parts of instruments create the sound and what sound can travel through. The second part of the lesson focused on ears. We looked at the different parts of the ear and what the role of each part was in relation to sounds that are created. The children really enjoyed the two part lesson and were so keen to show off their knowledge at the end!
Finally, well done to everyone who has been in all week. Even though the week has been made trickier due to the weather, your attitude and behaviour towards your learning has been amazing!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou