During Literacy time , we have been learning how to write clear, organised and detailed instructions. To help us write our first set of instructions, we made our own Play-Doh.  Then we used our skills to create some instructions to make some cool magical potions! We had shape shifting, love, and smart potions. Miss Lees isn't too sure where we would find some of our ingredients. We all now know the main elements needed in instructional writing - time connectives, bossy verbs, interesting adjectives and numbered steps. 

As well as instructional writing, we have started writing for enjoyment whilst focusing on writing in paragraphs. Miss Lees has been teaching us the 'burger' method when structuring our own paragraphs. This is a really helpful way to remember how to use these in our writing! We are really good at writing in paragraphs.

Finally, in grammar, we have been looking at synonyms and antonyms. To learn more about synonyms we made 'Synonym Buns' for some words. On the inside of the bun was a word, e.g., pretty, and around the swirl was words which also mean pretty (beautiful, gorgeous etc.). Similarly, we deepened our understanding of antonyms through making some 'Antonym' bugs! We are confident with both of these now. We have also been revising contractions and how to use them properly, e.g., I'd = I would.  

We have been learning about the order of the months of the year. We also learned a trick using our fist to learn how many days are in the months of the year. Then, we use a calendar to help plan different events and look at how the months are structures. Sometimes it is a leap year so there are more days. We were also surprised that the 1st of every month is not always a Monday! 

Written by Aurora and Fatima

Our group have been learning how to times and divide decimal numbers by 10, 100, and 1000. To do this you need to know place value and weather you need to move the numbers left or right. We have also been learning to find factors and multiples of numbers. To learn about factors we made some factor bugs - a factor is one of two or more numbers that divides into a number without a remainder or a number which can be times by another to make a number. A multiple is any number that is in the times table, e.g., 0,2,4,6,8 are multiples of 2!

Written by Molly and Thomas

We have been learning how write numbers to 10,000 and beyond in words. We were also learning more about meters and centimetres. A meter has 100cm. We used this to help us convert between cm and m - for example 7m is 700cm or 67m is 6,700cm. Our group are also very good at estimating the length of things. To finish off we also had a little revision of fraction and how to find a fraction of a number. 

Written by Grace and Maria