Oak Week beginning 26th January 2025

The play rehearsals are in full swing for the Year 5's, we are busy getting all the props and costumes sorted so that these elements will make their performances even better. We are learning the words to the songs and practicing our dance steps too. 

Whilst we have been rehearsing, the Year 4's have been busy learning about a range of different animals and birds and practising their skills to write cohesive paragraphs. This week we have ensured that they include easy to understand noun phrases, pronouns and prepositional phrases. They have written some great work and have really worked hard to improve their skills.

In Guided Reading lessons we have been having a poetry focus looking at how the vocabulary of a poem is used for effect. We have looked at some traditional and modern poems and this week focussed on two written by Shel Silverstein that both used antonyms. We looked at how the use of opposites helped to create humour in the poems and surprise the reader. We had a go at writing our own antonyms and widened our knowledge of new words at the same time. We had great fun doing choral reading to read the poem using different voices for the characters in the poem called Zebra question - we had to discover a voice that a zebra would speak in!

We have managed to sync up our Maths learning for a few weeks and we are both working on formal written methods for multiplication. The Year 5's have been extending their skills to learn how to multiply 2 digits but 2 digits otherwise known as long multiplication. They have been concentrating really well in lessons to grasp the steps they go through to complete these calculations. Year 4's have been applying their times tables skills a lot recently, making them more aware of those they need to practice. Please encourage them to keep practising their MTC skills as often as possible at home. 

In art this week we have been looking at how to use water colours to create different tints and shades of a base colour and then produce a rolling hills picture using different tints and shades of green. Check the gallery for some images of the work they produced this week and last too.