Term 3 – Week 3

What a busy week!

In English we have read more of our class book Edward Tulane. As readers we wanted to understand our main character more so we thought of some questions and hot seated our friends to find out more.

We then identified features of a diary ahead of writing our own. We used our rubrics to find as many features as possible in a WAGOLL and annotated it to secure our knowledge.

As scientists we learned that bones have a hard outer layer (compact bone) and a spongy inner centre (spongy bone). Bones need to be light so that they don’t weigh us down but they need to be strong and robust so that they don’t constantly break when we move. We learned that the inner structure of the bone looks like honeycomb. The many spaces within spongy bone lets it absorb shock, or sudden pressure.

We tested these theories by placing toilet roll inner tubes into a honeycomb structure. On its own, we can squash the tubes but once they were in a honeycomb structure, they could hold more weight…us… without breaking!

This week in Maths we took our learning further and understood the connection between multiplication and division. We have learnt how to divide 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers with and without exchanging. We used partitioning and part whole models to help our learning.

In our enquiry we have been learning about map work and using an eight-point compass. We have been describing the location of counties.

As geographers we understood which significant cities are found in the UK we used maps and atlases to help locate these and some of our major waterways with clues.

As linguists we learnt about specific rooms in our houses. We played a game of ‘ où est Madame Hodder?’ (Where is Mrs Hodder?) and designed our dream houses using our new French knowledge.

As artists we explored different patterns and created our own in preparation to use our printing techniques later in the term.