One of the comprehension skills we've been developing has been our ability to use a dictionary to find the meaning of words. We started by enhancing our knowledge of which section of the alphabet we find the different letters in, so we could open the dictionary closer to the word we're looking for. Then we practised putting different groups of letters, and words in alphabetical order, before applying that knowledge to find different words in the dictionary.

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, for homework we created something linked to our favourite book characters. We then used these to stimulate conversation with our classmates about our favourite books. We shared what they were about, our favourite characters, and what we loved so much about the books we chose.

Some children have been exploring the concept of capacity, seeing how much different objects around the classroom could hold and how, for example, 100ml looks in different shapes of container. Having developed their understanding of what different volumes looked like they then applied that to make their estimations more accurate. 

Other children were developing their ability to estimate how heavy different objects are. They explored what different everyday items weigh and the different scales they could use to weigh them, before gathering various items from around the classroom and comparing their own estimations with the correct weights, continuing to increase their ability to estimate.