This week in Ock Class: w/e 28th Feb

Dear parents and carers,

In our English lessons this week we have started working on writing a balanced argument. We have researched what features a balanced argument needs to have and also been thinking about the opposing opinions about children's screen use, in order to write our balanced argument about this subject. We've just started sentence stacking the introduction, and we'll continuing with this next week.

In maths this week we have focused on fractions, including counting in fraction sequences and ordering fractions (both less than and greater than a whole). We'll be continuing with this next week.

In our science lesson this week we looked at dissolving- what it is and how it works. The children have planned their own experiments about dissolving, which we'll be carrying out next week. I've also promised them some explosive reactions in an upcoming science lesson- watch this space for more details!

This week's spellings are all words that break the "i before e, except after c" rule:
ancient
science
species
efficient
deficient
glacier
scientists
sufficient
emergencies
inefficient

Mrs B

Three things to ask your child this week:

1. How do you find an equivalent fraction?
2. What does a balanced argument need to have?
3. What happens when sugar dissolves into a cup of tea?