Book Week and Maths Problem Solving Week. Week ending: 3.3.17

What a busy week we have had!

It has been great fun celebrating Book Week! Our focus has been fantasy so we designed our own fantasy settings and made a character head band. We then became authors as we wrote our own fantasy stories.

On Wednesday we went over the the Juniors and met the author Jeremy Strong. He was very funny and told us how he gets his ideas for his story writing. He writes his stories in his shed at the bottom of his garden.


For Maths Problem Solving Week we have been focusing on multiplication. We have used arrays and mental calculations to help us problem solve. We have spoken lots about using the most efficient strategy for us. 

Multiplication can be done in any order, this means it is commutative. 

For example:

3 x 5 = 15
5 x 3 = 15

An array for 5 x 3 would look like this

1*****
2*****
3*****

In Science we tested and timed how long it took different sized parachutes to reach the ground. We recorded our data in a table. 

Congratulations to Leyton who will be spending the weekend with Snowy our Learning Owl. Leyton always has a positive attitude towards his learning and is eager to challenge himself. 

Well done to Oliver.C who is our Star of the Week for taking responsibility for his learning. 

Don't forget to let your class teacher know if your grown ups will be attending Curriculum Hour on Tuesday evening 7.30 - 8.30.

Home Learning- research the history of the push bike. Record in your own way. 

Have a good weekend!