Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-24/2/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have started reading our new class novel, which is called Kidnap in the Caribbean by Lauren St John, and it is part of her Laura Marlin mystery series.
In maths, we have been focusing on division with remainders using the bus stop method and doing the inverse by using short multiplication to check our answers. I've even really impressed with how much effort the children have been putting in to be able to use the method effectively and be able to check their answers by using the inverse.
The children have also started to work on their World Book Day shirt designs.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-10/2/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been focusing on using short multiplication. It's so wonderful to see how much they've progressed with their times tables and seeing it applied when using the short multiplication method.
We have also completed our unit of work on persuasive writing, which eventually led to the children creating their onw persuasive leaflet about online safety.
As part of our topic lesson on earthquakes and tsunamis, the children created a safety poster about what you should and shouldn't do.
Continuing with the theme of online safety, the children have also created some lovely posters to raise awareness about it.
The children have also finished painting their model volcanoes and have erupted them this week, it was a lot of fun!
I hope you all have a lovely rest and I'll see you all after the half term break,
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou
Weekly Update-3/2/23
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
We've had another busy week. In maths, we have been focusing on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. We have discussed what is happening to numbers when we do this and we have focused on using our maths mats with our place value grids to show which way the numbers move and by how many places to the left or right. The children understood this concept quite quickly and it has really supported them with their work throughout the week. We have also started to look at some word problems that involve a combination of multiplying and dividing by 10 or 100 and the children have started to give some great mathematical explanations about how they have worked it out and also used their maths mats to PROVE that their calculations are correct. Well done everyone!
We are currently focusing on persuasive writing and looking at all the different features that are required to create a piece of writing that can successfully persuade. We have been looking at rhetorical questions, emotive language, exaggeration, alliteration and repetition. During our lesson on exaggeration, we discussed what it means to exaggerate, why people might do it, how it is effective in a persuasive piece of writing. As part of this lesson, and after looking and discussing some examples on the board, the children were tasked with creating their own sentence which used exaggeration. They were lots of super examples and the children enjoyed creating them.
As part of our science topic, we have been looking at what soil is made of, the properties of different soils and we have been working on creating our own compost bins, which the children have really enjoyed doing. Each bin also has several worms within each one and we have been discussing what role the worms will have and how it is beneficial.
Finally, we have also been creating our own papier mache volcanoes, which we will be painting and then erupting. The children worked really hard on these and are looking forward to painting and erupting them.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)