What we are learning this week in Lilac Class for the week beginning 23.9.24

This week in school it is Assessment Week so coverage will be affected, a little! 

In Maths this week in Lilac Class, we are comparing and ordering numbers to 100,000 and 1000,000 and learning about the difference between ascending and descending order. We will then be moving on to rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.  Lilac Class will think about the multiples of 10, 100 and 1,000 and which multiple on the number line a number is closest to.  Which place value column should you look at to round the number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000?

In English this week, we are levelling up and improving our Space Poems inspired by the work of Pie Corbett. We are checking that we have examples of features of poetry writing such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia and personification in our poems.

For our Whole Class Guided Reading our text is ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis and we are reading Chapter Four this week.  Lilac Class are focusing on their inference skills, looking beyond the actual text and thinking about why the Queen believes Edmund is an idiot and why she wants him to bring his siblings.  We are also exploring why Edmund does not want to go and get his siblings and bring them to the Queen. 

In RE this week, Father John will be leading the session about what the Bible says about God.  Lilac Class are exploring in depth texts from the Bible (A Psalm of David, Isaiah 6:1-6 and John 4:7-12) focusing on key vocabulary.  We will be thinking about what specific parts of the texts mean and are telling us about God. 

For our Time and Place we are examining a timeline of the Ancient Mayan Civilisation dating from 5,000BC to 900AD. We will be learning about the developments that took place, starting from the Mayans being hunter-gatherers in the rainforests and volcanic mountains, through to their development of writing and then to the decline of their major cities.  

For ICT, we are experimenting with search engines and making use of a web search to find specific information.  We will be comparing results from different search engines and be able to explain why we should search trustworthy websites and not share any personal information online. 

For Science in Lilac Class, we are describing the movement of the planets relative to the Sun.  We are finding out what planets are in the Solar System.  What is each planet’s position from the Sun? How far away is each planet from the Sun?  How long does it take for each planet to orbit the Sun?  What is the temperature of each planet? 

For Music, Lilac Class will be composing ‘Moonscapes’.  We will be working in groups and will record our ideas in the form of a graphic score.  Lilac Class will be using a range of dynamics that we heard when listening to Gustav Holst’s Venus and Mars from The Planets Suite.  We will be performing our compositions to one another and as a class we will be discussing the structure and dynamics used.