It has been another very busy week in the Puffins class. We have thought about partitioning and adding on 10’s in Maths, written character descriptions and thought about the difference between direct and indirect speech in English, and even begun to think about the houses that the Maya lived in.  Read on to find out more…

In English this week we began the week by creating instructions for the famous Maya game of Pok-ta-Pok.  The children thought about the type of vocabulary that this genre uses and how they could make these instructions as detailed as possible. We have also begun thinking about the main character of ‘The Rain Player’ and how we could describe him.  Our week ended on us focusing on improving our understanding of characters and adding more description to them through vocabulary.

In Maths this week Year 4 have begun flexibly partitioning numbers to 10,000 as well as thinking about how using number lines up to 10, 000 can help them. Can you explain this True or False question to your grown up?

In Year 5 we have been looking at reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000 as well as finding 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 more or less than a given number.  Can you explain this True or False question to your grown up?

In our Topic lessons this week we used our knowledge of maps and grid references to locate the co-ordinates of Maya cities.  We thought about the countries that the Ancient Maya people lived in as well.  Their houses were our next focus, we learnt about how they were made and described them in detail. 

Computing involved us thinking about online safety, we completed a quiz on what we currently know about online safety.  Can you explain the safest password you can have to your grown up?

Year 4 had a brilliant first swimming lesson and Year 5 worked very hard in their first Music lesson. 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Stay safe

Mrs Karamucki