Spellings: 

instrument,  inspired, inspect ,impressed ,internet, interval, interactive, interrupt, heel (foot- noun), heal (to cure -verb)

Maths - Doodle Maths and Tables - 15 mins per day 

We have started our new and exciting English class reader - The Boy at the back of the Classroom.  Today, we have drawn up the main characters and learnt about the dangers of rumours.

In Maths, we are getting comfortable with long multiplication - ask us how to answer 56 x 3.

This half term we are learning about sound and how vibrations are created and travel to our ears.

Have a lovely long restful weekend.

Homework 

Maths - Doodle maths and tables - assignments and practice 

Reading - Read regularly so you can do your AR quiz

Spellings - shun - tion - position, direction, imagination, relation, pollution, reflection, solution, potion, attention, introduction

Homework 

Reading - read daily and make sure you do your AR quiz at school

Spelling - "zur" spelt "sure" treasure, closure, measure, pleasure, Asian, "zhun" spelt "sion" division, television, occasion, confusion, revision 

Maths  - doodle maths and doodle tables 3 times a week. Doodle maths assignments have been set

Spellings:  excellent, greatest, occasionally, unlabelled, opening, happily, certainly, though, opposite, Doris's

Maths - Doodle Maths and Times Tables - 10 minutes daily

Reading - one more week to meet AR targets.

We have had an imaginative week drafting our version of fantasy story.  Already, we have challenged ourselves to use imaginative vocabulary and English features.  Next week, we will be editing our drafts and then publishing these stories in a class book.

In Maths, we have been practising how to generate a calculation from a word problem.  We have looked in detail which operations to use and how to find the quickest method to answer a question.

During today's Festival of Light, we created our own krathong, a 'floating basket', that is used in Buddhism to celebrate and thank the river gods. Our homemade krathong was made by the whole class and includes own wishes for the world.  We also made lanterns that are floated up to the sky during this festival.

Spellings

Class - excellent, traveller, regretted, opened, beginning, tin opener, listened, propellers, labelled, gardener  

Group - than, that, them, then, there, think, thing, their

Spellings -  incorrect, incapable, invisible, inexpensive, incomplete, insane, infinite, inconsiderate, inconvenient, incredible

DoodleMaths and DoodleTimes - 10 mins daily

Reading - 20m mins daily

We have had such fun practising for our performance and we are looking forward to our shows next week.

In Maths, we have learnt how to round to 10 and 100s.  Please ask your child about the method they use to round 2345.

In English, we have written a balanced argument to the question - Is Chaya a hero.  There have been lots of discussion around the events in the story so far.

In Science, we have started writing our investigation and will have to wait 9 days before we can gather the results to our Eggsperiment.