This half term we are focusing on descriptive writing. We are using The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as our stimulus.
We are contrasting the characters and settings of Shmuel and Bruno using:
implicit language
emotive language
figurative language
powerful adjectives, verbs and adverbs
After The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas we are writing a newspaper report of a fictional event based in our local area using WW2 as a stimulus.
In Maths this half term we are learning about:
adding and subtracting fractions
adding and subtracting mixed numbers
adding and subtracting mixed numbers with different denominators
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Finding fractions of an amount
Finding a whole from a given fraction
Multiplying and dividing with decimals