Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update-6/12/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been doing a range of assessments. Everyone worked very hard on these and the results are very promising.
In writing, the children have completed writing their four individual stanzas for their Winter themed poems and completed their first draft of the entire poem. The children have worked very hard on these and I’ve really enjoyed reading them.
In maths, we have continued with multiplication and division, and this week, we have been looking at the 12x table, focusing on fluency, reasoning and problem-solving lessons.
In our reading, we are extremely close to completing our class novel, The Thieves of Ostia, which the children have absolutely loved reading. This week, the children finally found out who the culprit was behind all the murders that have taken place and learnt about the reasons as to why this character committed these crimes. It was lovely to see the children connect the clues that have been left throughout the book and make accurate predictions about they thought it was. We shall be completing the book over the last two weeks of term and as the children have enjoyed the book so much, they are requesting to read the sequel novel as part of our story time book after Christmas.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update-06/12/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
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Weekly Update-28/11/24
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, we have been writing multiple stanzas for our Winter themed poems. The children have been using a range of expanded noun phrases, similes, alliteration and rhyming words within their poems.
In maths, we have been focusing on fluency, reasoning and problem solving for the 7x tables and 11x tables. The children have been working really hard throughout these lessons and are making great progress.
In art, the children have been completing their own self portraits in pen, which have moustaches on them. The moustaches on them relate to the artist that we were looking at this lesson, which was Salvador Dali. The children worked extremely hard on these and produced some lovely pieces.
In science, as part of our unit on States of Matter, the children conducted an experiment to see how different temperatures of water would affect the amount of time it would take for ice to melt. The children worked extremely well in their groups in order to conduct the experiment as accurately and as fairly as possible. When comparing the results from different groups, it was fantastic to see just how close the results were, which demonstrated how accurately they had conducted the experiment.
In computing, we have continued our work on stop motion animation. This week the children were animating different Roman characters onto a background of the colosseum. Understanding what needs to be still, what needs to move and how to make the characters move as fluidly as possible, the children worked in pairs to create their animations after making a basic storyboard with a start, middle and end. They used the onion skinning feature to help them produce the best animations possible. Some children were challenged further by making different body parts move as well e.g an arm with a sword.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)