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Weekly Update 11/3/22
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we finished the final chapter of Grandpa Chatterji, which was called The Poppy Field. We've really enjoyed reading it as class and doing lots of fantastic reading, writing and topic related work around it. One of the reading activities we have done revolved around the children writing their own blurb for the story and then designing their own cover for it. They really enjoyed this lesson, they wrote persuasive blurbs which would really get the reader interested, but did not give too much away about the story. They also produced some beautiful alternative designs. As a class, they have enjoyed the book so much, that we have agreed to read the the two sequel books as part of our story time reading.
In science, we have continued our topic on living things and their habitats. This week we were identifying and classifying different living things and we were generating questions using a classification key. The children all really enjoyed making their own classification keys. Here are some examples below.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-4/3/22
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
In maths, we have been focusing on identifying unit and non-unit fractions and also focusing on how to calculate equivalent fractions. They've been working very hard, they've been using accurate mathematical vocabulary related to fractions and produced some great work, which has shown a huge increase in confidence, particularly with working out equivalent fractions through multiplication and division.
We have also celebrated World Book Day. The children came in some absolutely wonderful costumes to represent characters from some of their favourite books. We did lots of fun reading themed activities, we had a parade in the hall where they got to show off their costumes and they also got to choose a book to take home as part of our book swap.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-18/2/22
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we started reading the fourth chapter of Grandpa Chatterji (this is my favourite chapter) and the children have absolutely loved it. We've all been hoping that Grandpa Chatterji and Grandpa Leicester would eventually meet and this chapter finally delivers that. It's such a lovely chapter, which made us all smile and giggle. The class have been so engaged with it, we've had wonderful discussions, they've demonstrated how good their scanning and inference skills have become and it has inspired the children to produce some brilliant writing.
In maths, we have continued our work on perimeter and area, which the children have really enjoyed doing and they've shown a lot of confidence with.
As part of our topic work, the focus was around Fairtrade. We had some absolutely brilliant discussions about it, the children shared some fantastic opinions, asked important questions and understood just how important this is. As part of the lesson, the children played a role playing game. A selection of children were the farmers and a selection were the buyers for the supermarkets. The idea of the game was to get the sellers to make sure that they set an absolute minimum price that they could sell for, in order to be able to cover their costs, but also see if they could negotiate for a bit more, in order to have extra money for things like education and medicine for their families. For the buyers, the aim was to get them to understand that they have to pay a fair price for what they are buying, they can't try and get it for a ridiculously cheap price because it's unfair and wrong to do that. The children absolutely loved the game and negotiated with each other really well, but most importantly, they understood why it's so important for the farmers (sellers) to get a fair price and what that can do for them and their families.
I hope you all have a lovely week off, make sure to look after yourselves and stay safe :)
Mr Kyriacou :)